J_McQuade

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by J_McQuade 17y ago
'emacs', please!
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
Dear Daily Telegraph, When an energy saving light-bulb is on, can you see? Good, now be quiet.
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
Actually, the Secretary of State for Justice has the power to grant a royal pardon, and notably exercised it just the other day: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conviction_of_Michael_Shields#R...
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
Good comment. Saying that algorithms are the secret to the success of Google and the like is like saying that tunnelling machines are what made the London Underground popular - not quite true. Obviously, once they'd had the idea for the Und
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
Oh, certainly - I was just (flippantly, I admit) pointing out that I'm fairly sick of hearing about programming methodology X or Y. I have nothing against the practices themselves, mind - just chalk it up as a friendly bout of HHOS.
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
The Most Important Agile Practice Of All? "Remember to shut up about Agile for a minute and write some damned code!"
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
Inevitable?
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
Seems dead to me - HN'd into in inoperability, perhaps? [edit] Just noticed it's been posted to reddit, too. Surely it didn't stand a chance!
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
A confusing thing: Many seem to say "Oh Ess" Whereas I say "Oss"
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
I REFUSE TO DO BUSINESS WITH ANYONE WHO DOESN'T BELIEVE EXACTLY THE SAME THINGS I DO REGARDING ANY ARBITRARY SUBJECT! Seriously, though, this sort of senseless group-think annoys me. It also seems to stem from some sort of misguided belief
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
But surely that's assuming it'll only work on Windows... ... oh, wait. Carry on.
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
As a typical cynical Brit, I think it'd be a good exercise to one day make a list of all the people to whom the UK technically owes an apology, but not to actually say sorry until we get an apology from everyone that we feel owes us one
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
Buying a tea infuser is one of the best things I've ever done - real leaf tea by the cup! Moroccan mint is my favourite at the moment, but I like to experiment, and can't help but think that in tea I've just found one more thing to be geeky
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
This could probably be generalised to "techthingvstechthing.com".
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
No, but the back button still works :]
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
How long before someone moans about it not performing tail call optimisation, do you reckon?
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
Nice reference to have around but, when I started using emacs, going through the help and writing up my own cheat sheet from it was one of the most useful things that I did!
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
Whatever we're using, there'll be plenty of tongue-in-cheek posts recalling the glory days of 'real programmers' implementing custom Hashtables in pure Java, no less, in order to avoid the synchronisation issues in their company's Enterpr
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
The tone reminds me exactly of the bit in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy where Slartibartfast calls Arthur Dent "late" in an effete attempt to sound sinister and threatening... ... but that's probably just me, though.
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
Marred only by the fact that half the people I know can't even get it to work.
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
I don't know - I find that telling yourself you're great just leads to ambiguity; I mean, what exactly are you great at? As an observation (and whether or not it's right), we tend to view the world in terms of people who 'are' great or pe
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
"Elbow-Grease and Gumption: The Secret That Self-Help Books Don't Want You To Know "
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
When I was 11 years old, my dad taught me to be a goalkeeper. I've now not touched a football since I was 15.
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
To be honest, I thought it was a joke to start with - look at what he compares it to! For 10bucks, I can get four iced espressos at Starbucks, eight bags of Swedish Fish, 9 soft serves from McDonald’s, or nine 99cent iPhone apps, etc., etc
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
Well, a close friend of mine helms a moderately well-known metal band (albums charted in Germany, high on the UK Rock Charts and on the Billboard Heatseeker charts in the US) and after two successful albums, a few large European tours and a
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
The title makes it sound like it was a 'nobody' suddenly using the 'net to strike gold - Amanda Palmer has a veritable army of uncommonly loyal fans, fans who would certainly pay far more than $25 for impromptu hand-designed T-Shirts from
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
A few scraps of paper and a pencil! There are countless books of logic puzzles around, or you could just brush up on your maths and prove a simple lemma or two, if that's your cup of tea.
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
This sort of debate annoys me - not so much because of the potentially fragile design on one side or the perhaps pedantic adherence to OOP principles on the other, but because I know that I could have things like pattern matching and a sc
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
Well, the proof is perfectly valid, as on some abstract level a computer == Turing machine == something you can reason about. If you can prove that your program works in the required way, then your proof holds. However, brute force solution
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by J_McQuade 17y ago
You think that's overdue - the Greek government still hasn't apologised to Socrates!

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