Colliwinks

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by Colliwinks 12y ago
Contactless is supported in the UK as well (usually up to a £20 minimum), but isn't nearly as widely supported as chip +pin, and I certainly don't know anyone who uses it regularly.
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by Colliwinks 12y ago
Google "Design"
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by Colliwinks 12y ago
> We all know that this goes against the beliefs of 90% of programmers and engineers Based on what? Within the bubble of hackernews, that's maybe true, but there are (evidently) a very large % of engineers who are either indifferent
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by Colliwinks 13y ago
Should have printed it out as images via ReCaptcha
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by Colliwinks 13y ago
Because they get no immediate return from profit (from dividends), but the value of the stock still increases (hopefully moreso if they are reinvesting more of their profit into future growth).
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by Colliwinks 13y ago
Exactly: "Promotions" is not "Spam". There is already a spam folder, so these should go straight in there, if anywhere. How does this fit in with the CAN-SPAM act? "Unsubscribe compliance A visible and operabl
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by Colliwinks 13y ago
The people targeted by phishing attacks have no idea what those terms mean.
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by Colliwinks 13y ago
Genuine? This seems so forced and fake it's quite painful. No person ever would reply "Fat with a protruding chin" when asked to describe their face.
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by Colliwinks 13y ago
And I'm amazed that this hasn't caught on in the US yet. Last time I vistited, I was horrified when they swiped the magnetic strip and asked me to sign for it - felt like I'd jumped back in time.
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by Colliwinks 13y ago
Excellent writeup here [1] of the use of DirectX over OpenGL in games. OpenGL is far from the rosy open source alternative. [1] http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/60544/why-do-...
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by Colliwinks 13y ago
Did it implement RFC 2324?
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by Colliwinks 13y ago
Not everyone has an iPhone. Young children do/should not have smartphones. Paper does not require constant updates, maintenance and bugfixes. Paper is cheaper. People want to play physical games without the distraction of devices. People do
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by Colliwinks 14y ago
"Sharing is not broken" "Share this on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, Reddit, LinkedIn, SlashDot, Myspace, Technorati, Friendfeed, Messenger, or Stumbleupon."
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by Colliwinks 14y ago
"Cause" is not a valid contraction for "Because." Looks fairly out of place in text.
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by Colliwinks 14y ago
Or the regular police would suffice, in this case.
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by Colliwinks 14y ago
The point is that it's very easy for a company to measure the metrics they should care about (i.e. quality and quantity of work output) rather than making random correlations. An IQ test is also a good proxy for an IQ test: but there would
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by Colliwinks 14y ago
Atos Origin announced abandoning internal emails a couple of years ago: http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/atos-orgin-to-abandon-i... At a quick glance, couldn't find anything more up to date about their progress.
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by Colliwinks 14y ago
What is meant by a 'language' is actually fairly well defined mathematically: That is something that can be described by a number of grammars. These in turn can be categorised (see the Chomsky Hierarchy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choms
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by Colliwinks 14y ago
Tool icons on the left need text (or at least a hover-over). Currently it's a complete mystery what they do, and users don't like clicking on mystery commands.
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by Colliwinks 14y ago
Facebook's mobile apps have to use the Facebook API, which is notoriously terrible. Facebook have no reason to devote resources to this, as they don't want third party implementations dragging people away from their ad revenue. Similarly, t
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by Colliwinks 14y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_irregular_verbs Is possibly a better indication. Many other languages also has irregular verbs, but I think the number of extra rules and variations that English employs there are a bit more dr
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by Colliwinks 14y ago
Sounds like p4merge.
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by Colliwinks 14y ago
Web "Apps"
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by Colliwinks 14y ago
Simon Marlow's original letter where he mentions this is directly below Simon PJ's reply in the original link.
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by Colliwinks 14y ago
I am amazed that their 'huge revelation' was that perhaps they shouldn't be doing huge amounts of dynamic image generation client side. Is the point of this article "we managed to get charts into email"? In places there is a bit too much su
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by Colliwinks 14y ago
"Nobody in England" Or Scotland, where he's from.