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by GlennS 14y ago
If you think Team America was made specifically to insult a culture then you may have missed the point of it. It has subtleties: a lot of the things that seem blatantly insulting are actually poking fun in the opposite direction.
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by GlennS 14y ago
I turned down UCL and KCL to go to Bristol, which is lower rated than both on this year's list. I can see why you would want to go to a university as high up this list as possible, because you want your degree to be from an institution that
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by GlennS 14y ago
In the case of Eclipse, I think you're missing that IBM is already the dominant contributor, and that indeed the project originated from them. So I doubt anyone is going to accuse Google of trying to purchase influence. But, it's an open so
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by GlennS 14y ago
I read Peopleware recently, and I think you've put it in the wrong category. It's short, to the point and quite readable.
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by GlennS 14y ago
If the company is effectively bankrupt, then your equity is worth nothing. That's the risk you take when you accept shares in a company as payment.
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by GlennS 14y ago
Well, at least one of those 2 million+ accounts is for my build server, who is not a particularly active committer, nor a paying customer. But for my main account, I'm quite happy to pay Github their not very many £s per month.
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by GlennS 14y ago
A nun, in the 1970s, in Zambia, is not going to have easy access to economics textbooks.
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by GlennS 14y ago
It's pretty naked snobbery. That's all.
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by GlennS 14y ago
It seems like when you submit material to the content ID system, the first thing it should do is check it against material that's already been registered. Conflicts found there need to be resolved before that material is used to automatical
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by GlennS 14y ago
I think it's often fine to pick up only a shallow understanding on your first time. Go away, try to use what you've learned, make all the silly beginner mistakes. Then, when you come back to the learning material again, you'll find it much
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by GlennS 14y ago
A cross-platform store is something that appeals to the consumer rather than the game developer I would think?
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by GlennS 14y ago
edX's software seems much higher quality than Coursera's at this point, so I can see why Berkeley would want to port their course to work on that platform as well. (My opinion based on having done the MITx Circuits & Electronics, and Ga
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by GlennS 14y ago
I agree, I didn't see anything wrong with the press release. The negative comments here are based on Oracle's long-term reputation. In the wake of the Sun acquisition, they've publicly mismanaged (Hudson) or outright destroyed (OpenSolaris)
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by GlennS 14y ago
I disagree completely. This is example of the PHP team working to fix a common criticism of their language: that it's full of inconsistencies. And when encountering push-back from users who depend on those inconsistencies, the developers ha
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by GlennS 14y ago
I was thinking something along these lines too. I would guess that people who make these sorts of mistakes when they're in test mode might not make them in a real-life situation When you're taking a test, you have the expectation that the p
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by GlennS 14y ago
Iran has sectarian differences with most of its neighbours: its Supreme Leader is a Shia cleric, whereas most countries in the Middle East are majority Sunni. So it isn't exactly surrounded by friends.
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by GlennS 14y ago
The problem with your article is this sentence: "digital sales via outlets such as Steam not taken into account for this total" Digital distribution dominates on the PC now, and if your figures don't take it into account, then your figures
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by GlennS 14y ago
Is this true? I was under the impression that Bertrand Russell was widely lauded as a man of integrity and clear thinking right across the whole political spectrum. Perhaps this is a USA/UK split, or perhaps just some oddity of my particula
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by GlennS 14y ago
And all I want to know is: will this version have input lag?
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by GlennS 14y ago
I always find it interesting when the Chinese government does this sort of thing, because it reveals something of their mindset. In particular, they include two quite different things in their list: 1. Human rights abuse by the government 2
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by GlennS 14y ago
Maybe mathematics papers would be improved by hypertext links to background topics or explanations of sub-problems at the places where they are needed?
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by GlennS 14y ago
It would certainly prevent me from recommending it to friends. Just too embarrassing.
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by GlennS 14y ago
It's a pretty impressive demo. It looks like it could be the mother of all scratchpads. It looks like it might have a bit of a scary learning curve though. I can certainly think of a lot of ideas of what I might try to implement with such a
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by GlennS 14y ago
Putting all of your SSH keys in a .SSH folder (inside your user directory) and setting up OpenSSH to look through those when you try to connect to something is exactly what installing Git on Windows does. This seems pretty friendly to me. I
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by GlennS 14y ago
I think it would really help you to have a play with command line Git, just to get a feel for what's going on. SSH keys aren't hard to learn and are useful enough to be worth the time spent. By all means switch to using the GUI after.
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by GlennS 14y ago
My feeling is that C# as a language is getting close to being full of features. Microsoft have done a really good job of adding things to it so far without turning it into a hodge-podge, but if they keep going at the same rate then it seems
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by GlennS 14y ago
I hadn't seen the John Cleese lecture before. It's definitely worth watching and having a think about. Thanks.
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by GlennS 14y ago
The era of the production line perhaps? Although, if this is true , then it begs the question what has changed that the most successful companies no longer bulk produce what is cheapest/most modular/has the most features? Because we clearly
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by GlennS 14y ago
I've had 50Mb/s for a few years now (UK). It doesn't protect your from network screw-ups, packet-loss or high latency, but it can still be really nice to have. It opens up the possibility of 'What shall we watch tonight? Oh we don't have th
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by GlennS 14y ago
As I understand it: the source will be freely available for you to download, modify and compile. But if you want some nice convenient binaries then there'll be a small charge. Seems reasonable: you pay for convenience.

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