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(...) Pardon my inexperience. I am neither a program designer, nor a person with any business logic whatsoever...perhaps I should have footnoted these factss before sticking my idea out here. I think that 90% of the users of a would-be (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) Whoops. Talking in shorthand tripped me up. In system-architect-speak "business" logic is the actual desired work effort of the program (contrasted with non business logic which is the infrastructure or other code that you have to do in order (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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In lugnet.db.brictionary, Dave Lovelace writes: [SNIP] (...) Well, not so fast. All ideas are welcome here. Maybe a larger perspective might help. I understand the frustration of an ignoramus coming to LEGO parts naming and numbering. I've been (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) Lar, I've been experimenting with a method for OID construction which takes a pseudorandom 32-bit integer, converts it to a 40-bit integer by adding 8 bits of CRC, then converts that an to 8-byte base-32 ASCII representation using the 32 (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Quick answer: yes. Long answer: Almost certainly. There are some tradeoffs that you've made. A big one is around the human readability of the key. Ask yourself, how often do humans inspect these, and how fast can you convert back to 40bit (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Just to save others the effort -- "wolog" occurs 3 times on Hotbot and 28 times in Alta Vista. The best interpretation in this context appears to be an abbreviation for "without loss of generality". - Robert Munafo (URL) LEGO: TC+++(8480) SW++ (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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(...) Thank you for the kind words, John...and the insights. I am a two-month old "newbie" and have very little to offer gods of thinking such as yourself, and also of course the other geniuses involved in this discussion, other than simple hero (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) Not so fast, my humble friend... Just because it isn't used as the database key or as the "unique definitive" part number doesn't mean your part numbers have no merit. I supported your suggestion because I felt it was appropriate to include a (...) (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) If you didn't already know that.... you have to ask yourself... do you feel lucky? huh, do ya? ... <slap> whoops. wrong thread. you have to ask yourself, are you geeky enough to be on this group? <grins, ducks and runs> (25 years ago, 26-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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In lugnet.db.brictionary, Dave Lovelace writes: [SNIP] (...) ...you are all truly brilliant, and obviously experienced, (...) Please don't let Lar here this! His head is quite large enough already.... :^) as evah, John C. (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) c /here/hear/ ... but who's here to notice? (...) Swelled heads typically occur when new facts are uttered. Nothing was by Dave that I didn't already know to be true about myself so there's no danger of (additional) swelling. But seriously, I (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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(...) Har! No, really...you brains good and my bad and me grammar good too! I got exactly what I wanted...a flurry of responses, in a simple endeavor to find out if the best and brightest have come up with any solutions to a part search and (...) (25 years ago, 27-Aug-99, to lugnet.db.brictionary)
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Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote (...) Come on Larry, even *I* had to check hotbot to find that out. And I thought it was only 27 times on Alta Vista. Moz (25 years ago, 28-Aug-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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