ElliotH

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by ElliotH 13y ago
Also http://metatalk.metafilter.com/ as an example of this working well.
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by ElliotH 13y ago
Really excited to hear about the new tools, and mobile support.
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by ElliotH 13y ago
It amazes me that legal costs aren't going to be definitely paid here. That alone makes this system almost impossible to appeal, pro-bono lawyers aren't likely to work on this issue after the first one or two high profile cases if
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by ElliotH 13y ago
Many clients do the PKS search for you. Using the website is always going to be suboptimal, you have to copy keys around. Way better to let your client of choice do it.
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by ElliotH 13y ago
I use rbenv because projects want different versions of ruby, and being able to switch without thinking is very helpful. It's not like I'm lacking up to date copies of Ruby on Arch either.
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by ElliotH 13y ago
I love how unsettling this is. I'm unconvinced that it will work well, and doubly unconvinced that anyone will use it, but surely all the most exciting ideas are ones that scare us a little?
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by ElliotH 13y ago
I did some work for my third year dissertation on performing exhaustive testing on floats. Worked well enough, but I was never convinced that it was an especially effective way of testing. If your test oracle is code itself, then it's
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by ElliotH 13y ago
Huh, I read lots of comment threads, but I can't say I've noticed anyone using kid gloves to each other around here. Any stories that had enough instances of this occurring that linking to it wouldn't be unfair?
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by ElliotH 13y ago
That's awesome, have you considered blogging about your setup?
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by ElliotH 13y ago
I read it as a jovial way of describing a real product.
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by ElliotH 13y ago
A problem I've noticed in my degree is that for a certain percentage of students Java just doesn't stick. I'm in my fourth year now and there are plenty of people who just can't program, because they've only been ta
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by ElliotH 13y ago
Mid 13 MacBook Air 11" ignores a short tap and turns off instantly at a longer press. I wonder if it's a machine thing or if it's a typing style thing?
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by ElliotH 13y ago
M-x package-refresh-contents M-x package-install <package name> That's with a blank .emacs file on Emacs 24 on a brand new user account I created just to test that for you. EDIT: (ofc the auto-installing my favourite packages stu
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by ElliotH 13y ago
Emacs has a package manager, it works fine. I particularly like that I can script it to install my packages on first run.
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by ElliotH 13y ago
That was my first thought. If all great thinkers recorded long pieces like this we'd build a great treasure trove of information.
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by ElliotH 13y ago
I don't disagree with you, but change takes time. Getting publications together in one place will be a great start (which is being helped by the public bodies transition).
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by ElliotH 13y ago
Actually the stuff GDS is doing starts from a clean slate and does away with much of what you are complaining about, in fact it is intended to fix a lot of it!
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Sydney Opera House to devs: build our app for free, wear patent pain(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by ElliotH 13y ago|1 comments
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by ElliotH 13y ago
Maybe ask for fewer, then ask for more permissions as you need them?
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by ElliotH 13y ago
If you live in the UK and you haven't been to Bletchley Park yet then you really should go. Seeing a Colossus running is an amazing thing that really isn't' captured by video.
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Introducing the Intel Galileo Development Board(intel.com)
77 points by ElliotH 13y ago|34 comments
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by ElliotH 13y ago
...or you could call it 14.04 (and Android 2.3, 4.1 etc etc) if you don't like easy to remember words. Let's face it 'Mavericks' and 'Blue' aren't much better.
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by ElliotH 13y ago
I don't see why he's helping incite the bizarre religious wars that have started up lately about Mir vs Wayland, Systemd vs Everyone, Unity vs Everyone. The great thing about a Linux system is we can choose the components we want.
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by ElliotH 13y ago
When I was in a boarding college we had wardrobe doors that were the perfect colour to set off the skin-tone filters.
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by ElliotH 13y ago
It actually doesn't matter if this particular account is true (I think it almost certainly is, but the point isn't worth arguing). Or any of the other niggles and counterpoints people are raising. We can just decide that the story
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by ElliotH 13y ago
Any OSS project would be killed dead by the use of stolen source code. There's a reason projects like Wine and ReactOS have to be so careful you know.
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by ElliotH 13y ago
Has anyone actually substantiated this 'vast majority' of coders who prefer an ergonomic design?
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by ElliotH 13y ago
I can't quite see the reason why you would lossily compress something when your machine's purpose is to duplicate things. Anyone got a reasonable reason for doing this?
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by ElliotH 13y ago
Was a cleverly chosen publication day to be honest. I wouldn't be surprised if there's other bad news that we haven't even heard about that was completely blanked off the news by baby discussion.
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by ElliotH 13y ago
The reason you're struggling is there has been no bill published yet. I'm fairly sure this is mostly political bluster, it'll be hard to know exactly what is required until they actually publish something real.

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