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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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| | | | | OID generation (was: Re: wishing upon a star) —Todd Lehman
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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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| | | | | | Re: OID generation (was: Re: wishing upon a star) —Larry Pieniazek
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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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| | | | | | Re: OID generation (was: Re: wishing upon a star) —Robert Munafo
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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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| | | | | | Re: OID generation (was: Re: wishing upon a star) —Larry Pieniazek
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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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| | | | | | Re: OID generation (was: Re: wishing upon a star) —Chris Moseley
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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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