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by DharmaPolice 7y ago
The British government wish for Chinese firms to spend money on British goods/services, for Chinese tourists to come to Britain and spend money and for the Chinese government to enforce more intellectual property rights which benefit B
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by DharmaPolice 7y ago
Yes, but the problem is that in most of the scenarios that get discussed it's not flirting but one person making advances and not noticing (or caring) that the person is actively feeling uncomfortable. The rule of thumb is sort of in l
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by DharmaPolice 7y ago
>we, as software developers, have grown so accustomed to a fundamentally unfair work environment that we no longer question it. Compared to a physician or a university professor a software developer might have a low level of autonomy (in
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by DharmaPolice 9y ago
>Gay people don't choose to be gay Out of interest, if tomorrow it was somehow proved beyond doubt that being gay was a choice, would this make discrimination OK?
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by DharmaPolice 10y ago
>Are those actual arguments? Well I'm not attempting to convince anyone of anything so no, not really. Merely my observations on a topic I find interesting. There are many things where I think there is a correct answer worth campaig
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by DharmaPolice 10y ago
In my mind (in the context of local file systems) the terms are basically the same although folders are usually objects that end users interact with. If someone says the "c:\windows\system32" folder or "/etc" folder
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by DharmaPolice 10y ago
Wikipedia says that the Steorn thing was a paid advertisement. That's a little different to what's going on here.
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by DharmaPolice 12y ago
While an idea like this sounds appealing it seems to assume all emails you get are a bother (either because they're irrelevant or because they're asking you to do something). I get useful emails all the time (or at least, emails t
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by DharmaPolice 13y ago
As someone who regularly has to write SQL in 7 different dialects I much prefer VARCHAR to TEXT as the former is handled much more consistently across platforms. A TEXT column in MS SQL Server is an entirely different proposition to a VARCH
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by DharmaPolice 13y ago
If the data is age adjusted it would be interesting to know if the Florida figures are influenced by retirees moving there.
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by DharmaPolice 13y ago
While the guy's behaviour was blatantly inappropriate for a professional meeting I'd hesitate to say he was harassing her in the active sense. That has different connotations to me anyway. Still, if he can't resist unprofessi
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by DharmaPolice 13y ago
>Before seeing your message, I've never really right-clicked on anything. Really? I find myself using the right-click context menu all the time; "Open Link in New Window", "Save Image", "Copy" and (appr
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by DharmaPolice 13y ago
What metric are you using for third biggest? The national figures I've seen put the Guardian in a pretty lowly 10th place in terms of circulation. Even if you exclude most of the popular papers (i.e. tabloids) and look only at broadshe
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by DharmaPolice 13y ago
>If only this could happen for Browsers, too! It already happens to an extent. I work in an environment where we have very limited control over our desktops. Can't install software, can't use the command prompt, etc. IE7 is the
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by DharmaPolice 13y ago
Agree on the Dell Website, it's atrocious. Trying to get prices on servers a couple of months ago was agonisingly slow. Somehow managed to crash my browser repeatedly too (we're stuck on IE7 at work).
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by DharmaPolice 14y ago
Pride (or shame) in other people's actions seems irrational to me (unless you had some involvement). Why should I feel proud that I am from the same country as Isaac Newton? Or shame about the bombing of Dresden? I had nothing to do with ei
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by DharmaPolice 14y ago
The price of RAM is not the only (or main) barrier to getting more memory. My previous work desktop had 2GB of RAM. Getting it upgraded (from 1GB) took three months (after the upgrade had been approved by the budget holder). I was fortunate