DougBTX

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by DougBTX 15y ago
> arcane insertions into ones .bashrc Are there particular changes to .bashrc that you think are arcane, or do you mean that any change to .bashrc is arcane?
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by DougBTX 15y ago
I wonder if the anger could be redirected by the realisation that if they were running their own client software, they would be in control of the interface. To realise the dream of free software. But I suspect most of the "rage" will blow o
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by DougBTX 15y ago
Far fewer than that would know 1) which components are capacitors, 2) be able to tell which capacitor was broken.
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by DougBTX 15y ago
> The title is completely accurate. Accurate, but a half truth. The prize was for a 10% improvement, but before that solution was produced they had already improved by 8.4%. The headline makes it sound like the improvement from zero to
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by DougBTX 15y ago
> I now need to buy-in to the entire (framework) mindset to progress which slows things down That's interesting, that idea could be folded into the technical debt metaphor. So, by taking on a library or framework, I get a head start by
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by DougBTX 15y ago
Imagine an implementation of git fsck , which checks that all the files in the repository match their sha1 based file names. The less time it takes to hash each file, the faster overall checking time, so it is better to use a hash which is
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by DougBTX 15y ago
> fun and easy He said it was quick, not that it was fun or easy. That's probably what he was missing in the top post. What is it specifically that makes it fun and easy?
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by DougBTX 15y ago
I think he's talking about himself, not dumb readers.
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by DougBTX 15y ago
Sure, that's basically the point of WebM/Theora. The goal isn't to make a better video format, but to make one which allows free sharing of videos.
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by DougBTX 15y ago
You're right about not doing subpixel anti-aliasing. It would need to change the direction of the subpixel anti-aliasing on a switch from landscape to portrait, which would presumably lead to strange visual effects.
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by DougBTX 15y ago
> And privately designed/built/owned particle accelerators? It's definitely a new era. https://www.google.com/search?q=mass+spectrometer&tbm=sh... I guess it's just a question of power!
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by DougBTX 15y ago
Tricky tricky. Is it evil to release software that may not be used for evil?
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by DougBTX 15y ago
> more "respected/cool" By using "cool", I get the impression that you're thinking more about respect from people outside work, rather than those you are working with. I think the article was talking about respect from the people you wo
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by DougBTX 15y ago
My German isn't good enough to understand those articles, and I'm finding it a bit tricky to understand the Google translation. The jist I'm getting from those two pages is that the access provider isn't liable for what is transmitted if th
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by DougBTX 15y ago
There needs to be a cold sink since heat is just a variation on kinetic energy (small vibrations), and momentum needs to be conserved. The released photons have momentum too, and it looks like they get that from the heat (=vibrations) in th
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by DougBTX 15y ago
The idea of ISP protection is to say that some particular other person is responsible, instead of the ISP, so that they can get sued/fined/imprisoned instead. Looks like these guys were not tracking that.
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by DougBTX 15y ago
> people wouldn't care But which people? I'm sure those who use hammers every day care about how they are used and which ones are the best.
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by DougBTX 15y ago
Worth noting that this is in the UK, where there isn't an absolute right to remain silent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_silence_in_England_and...
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by DougBTX 15y ago
> I don't understand his criticism of the calendar. He's criticizing the case where the current date is April 30 and the calendar is still showing March 26, but not May 7, because you are on the April "page" still.
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by DougBTX 15y ago
He's quite clear that he considers GPL and permissive licenses as both non-evil choices, implying that Apple's preference for permissive licenses also isn't evil.
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by DougBTX 15y ago
Would these guys count as crossing the quantum physicist - marine biologist divide? http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100203131356.ht... I wouldn't be surprised if there are more people looking at the effects and applications o
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by DougBTX 15y ago
(4000+1.1 has a space and (4000+1 doesn't, not sure what that means.
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by DougBTX 15y ago
Why do you think there would be a performance aspect? The JavaScript generated by the CoffeeScript compiler looks just like well written JavaScript. (But without the comments, grumble grumble.)
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by DougBTX 15y ago
A: The only information websites had access to is your mobile number, which could not have been linked to any other identifying information we have about customers. But it is used for age verification and billing...
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by DougBTX 15y ago
Many of them will own iPhones, so they'll have first hand experience. Write about what you know and all that.
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by DougBTX 15y ago
I'd recommend talking to the rest of your team to work out a consensus. With git you'll need to agree on values for core.autocrlf and core.eol. Perhaps you can take advantage of the time of year to offer an olive branch?
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by DougBTX 15y ago
Better, since it is clear how to pass a function as an argument.
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by DougBTX 15y ago
we give users options to muck with data to their heart's content The answer there is probably to let the users pick their own tools too. If someone wants to chart data in your system for a PowerPoint presentation, the answer might be to g
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by DougBTX 15y ago
Yea, that IE8 bug is unfortunate. Here's an example of text-align: center and margin: auto side-by-side: http://jsfiddle.net/wH5Pd/ Try making the window narrower so that the html pane in the bottom right gets horizontal scroll bars. (In
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by DougBTX 15y ago
The latest browser which doesn't support margin:auto is IE5.5, and even there the text-align:center hack is a better option. There are cases where you might want to use negative margins, but for horizontally centering block level elements,

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