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by Luyt 15y ago
"... it helps to protect the innocent from highly offensive and illegal content," said a spokesman for BT." Here we have it again, the 'Think of the children' argument[1]. This time BT throws Usenet binaries on the filth heap and uses th
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by Luyt 15y ago
Yes and no. There are also situations where state inspectors can come into your bought house: building structural safety inspection, fire safety, pest control etc... It also depends on where you live, of course.
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by Luyt 15y ago
How is this: "... emphasize that the customer service team at airbnb.com has been wonderful..." reconcilable with this: "...My next call was to airbnb.com - I tried their "urgent" line, their email address, their general customer support
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by Luyt 15y ago
I think you're still designing for print, not the web. Your aversion to scrolling seems like a personal preference. Nothing wrong with that, but it doesn't mean everybody feels that way, or should be denied scrolling. In a distant past, boo
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by Luyt 15y ago
I scroll with ease through large wads of text using a simple gesture on the touchpad. I find it much more important that a long piece of text is broken up by scannable subheaders, than that it designed to avoid scrolling.
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by Luyt 15y ago
If I read this, I get the suspicion that that you have to be a lawyer to make money in the Valley, not a developer/founder.
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by Luyt 15y ago
Especially because he used to skydive too ;-)
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by Luyt 15y ago
$I $wish $they $would $get $rid $of $prefixing $every $variable $with $a $dollar $sign.
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by Luyt 15y ago
The more so because get() can also take a default value to return if the key is not present in the dict ;-)
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by Luyt 15y ago
Do you remember the flopped 'Green Dam' software[1] that was to be mandatory pre-installed on every PC sold in China? They're trying it again with this monitoring software. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Dam_Youth_Escort
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by Luyt 15y ago
With my left eye, I can't focus on objects closer than 12 inch. With my right eye, I can't focus on objects further than 26 inch. I have glasses to correct this, but without glasses I can comfortably use a computer at a 'sweet spot' distanc
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by Luyt 15y ago
esr also keeps a close eye on the developments in the mobile phone market. His latest blog post on this is at http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3493 , a short quote: "Nokia’s strategy, insofar as it’s actually had one since the tie-up with Micro
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by Luyt 15y ago
jwz wrote on this: http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html "This is, I think, the most common way for my bug reports to open source software projects to ever become closed. I report bugs; they go unread for a year, sometimes two; and then (surp
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by Luyt 15y ago
The exact Sudoku URLs mentioned in the article, just checked/updated: Ravi's article: http://ravimohan.blogspot.com/2007/04/learning-from-sudoku-s... Peter Norvig's solver: http://norvig.com/sudoku.html Ron Jeffries' attempts: http://x
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by Luyt 15y ago
I see two insurmountable problems with this solar tower, in this age of rising environmental concerns and increasing influence of environmental pressure groups: - The base of the tower covers a huge piece of land, which is now home to vario
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by Luyt 15y ago
The sun doesn't shine underground...
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by Luyt 15y ago
Brian Dunning did a Skeptoid episode about a related issue: 'Neanderthals in Present Day Asia' http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4040 A snippet: "Really quick history lesson on Neanderthals. They are not an ancestor of modern humans. Homo nea
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by Luyt 15y ago
While these are good ideas, I don't think someone would put them in practice. It'd make that person a very unpopular professor indeed, which will reflect in the student evaluations, and he can say goodbye to his yearly salary increase, and
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by Luyt 15y ago
Ah! I have another example like that. Sometimes people use the term 'quantum leap' to describe some huge change. As it turns out, a quantum leap is a very small change in the state of an electron, a very tiny event, nothing to write home ab
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by Luyt 15y ago
This grabbed my attention: Peter Vessenes: "I received one impressively long 14 point lavender comic sans missive which made me want to meet the person, but only in a public place." David O'Neill: "On that score, Comic Sans for editing c
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by Luyt 15y ago
I suspect that would not have been a problem. The water company guy rings at your friends door: Water Company Guy: "Just checking, we think there might be a burst pipe around here somewhere. Have you noticed some flooding?" Your friend: "No
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by Luyt 15y ago
Indeed, the server is smoking already. Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 15728640) (tried to allocate 122880 bytes) in /home/melvinmt/domains/melvinmt.com/public_html/wp-includes/nav-menu-template.php on line 224
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by Luyt 15y ago
Does he mean 'scripting' is something different than 'programming'? I don't see the difference. And why doesn't he just call it programming then? Because that's what it is.
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by Luyt 15y ago
No, I'm not trolling. I agree with you that Comic Sans is often used in wrong contexts (although the situation is becoming better). It's not wrong for programming either, in my opinion, see http://www.michielovertoom.com/incoming/comic-san
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by Luyt 15y ago
I dislike these boxes that slide into view when you reach the end of an article. It distracts the eye from the text, like any moving thing or animated GIF on the page. Just some static text below the article would be better, like 'Read othe
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by Luyt 15y ago
Thanks for the tip. There is also the Readability AddOn ( http://www.readability.com/addons ) but that somehow hides the comments at the bottom of the article. iReader does not.
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by Luyt 15y ago
Firefox. I don't think Safari lets me force fonts on all webpages. Firefox, in contrast, does offer this: uncheck the "Preferences/Content/Advanced/Allow pages to choose their own fonts" option. Layout of webpages should stay readable and
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by Luyt 15y ago
Oh, do not let the font distract you. Comic Sans is my all-time favourite; I use it as a default/standard font on all my machines (Windows, OSX, FreeBSD+KDE, Ubuntu etc...) You know what they say: beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I jus
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by Luyt 15y ago
Beating my old score is a win. Beating their scores is not Ayn Rand wrote: "A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others."
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by Luyt 15y ago
There is a strange layout error on Patrick's site. When I reach the end of the article, suddenly some kind of overlay pops up, and makes the text unreadable. See http://www.michielovertoom.com/incoming/kalzumeus.png for a screenshot.

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