Luyt

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by Luyt 16y ago
No one ever got fired for buying Méthode. http://www.eidosmedia.com/EN/Page/Uuid/1d3be57a-af49-11de-9d...
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Stackoverflow has a remarkable 'offline for maintenance' page(sstatic.net)
15 points by Luyt 16y ago|13 comments
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by Luyt 16y ago
POKE 53280,0 POKE 53281,0 That would make the background of the screen black on the C64. I really hated the default blue background (coming from the PET and S100 systems), but otherwise I very much liked the C64. I would always i
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by Luyt 16y ago
"At the beginning of 2009, our income from AdSense (our main source of income) halved overnight" Did you ever find out why this happened? I'm also curious which alternative way of income you eventually found.
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by Luyt 16y ago
Brian Dunning wrote a critical article on the Myers-Briggs Personality Test. It's at http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4221 "The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, called MBTI for short, more properly owes the bulk of its credit to the great Swiss
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by Luyt 16y ago
It seems to use ceramic balls which have the same function as cranks in an Otto motor, which is probably a weak spot (much wear and tear). Otherwise the idea is elegant; an actual working prototype might be nice to see.
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by Luyt 16y ago
I'm one of those few programmers who like to code with a proportional font. I have been declared mad as such, with the reasoning "you can't line up things with a proportional font". Well, guess what, I don't need to. I pay attention to co
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by Luyt 16y ago
I saw this fragment in the source code: case T_IRQ0: // Bochs generates spurious IDE1 interrupts. break; Evidence that they run their educational OS in a virtual machine.
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by Luyt 16y ago
I have the same with glossy screens, which have so become the fashion in the past years. Instead of the pixels, I see a mirror image of myself. I was in a big electronics shop yesterday and all laptops had glossy screens!
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by Luyt 16y ago
Suppose Vladimir has an incorporated business in Russia, comes to the USA with his laptop and does some work for a USA startup from his laptop VPNned to his home base in Russia. The bills are sent from his Russian business address. After a
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by Luyt 16y ago
Could I have a peek at your resume, please? (Your profile page doesn't list any website).
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by Luyt 16y ago
It's closed source. You can only download a linux binary for it. There seemed to be some Windows version, but it stopped working (deliberately sabotaged by Microsoft using Windows Update, according to the web site as a retaliation for comp
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by Luyt 16y ago
In FireFox, I enable the option View / Zoom / Zoom Text Only.
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by Luyt 16y ago
I think the best way to guarantee job security is to solve hard problems for the company you work for, and make it visible (i.e., communicate about it). This will gain respect from your peers and give you a reputation of being useful and v
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by Luyt 16y ago
ON ERROR GOTO REDMOND
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by Luyt 16y ago
I saw a video of a talk of DHH in which he expressed his love for Ruby; he also said that Ruby was/is his first language and he doesn't need any other languages. As a counterexample, he showed a snippet of a Python class and scoffed at the
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by Luyt 16y ago
Argh, I meant to upvote ig1's reply, but accidentally hit the arrow down... these arrows are so close together!
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PyCon 2011 Video: Advanced Network Architectures With ZeroMQ, by Zed Shaw(blip.tv)
111 points by Luyt 16y ago|14 comments
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by Luyt 16y ago
Unshortened URL: http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/12/hello-i-must-be-going/
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by Luyt 16y ago
or sizeof(dst), and not forgetting dst[sizeof(dst)-1]='\0';
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by Luyt 16y ago
Nope, they haven't burned bridges, they're just not as advertising themselves like for instance, some distro's of linux are doing that. FreeBSD is mostly consisting of people who value technical merit over anything else.
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by Luyt 16y ago
After a few reloads, I got this captcha: - 2 + 1 - 0 + 0 * 0 + 3 - 3 = ?
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by Luyt 16y ago
It's true: They all wear black shirts in front of a white background ;-) I like the multi-functional cover of the iPad2.
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by Luyt 16y ago
And I created this one: http://access-training-amsterdam.nl/xyzzy ...abandoned in the desert...
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by Luyt 16y ago
Brrrr, Reddit still scares me. And these 'Adobe Flash Updates' when I start a Windows machine don't reassure me either.
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by Luyt 16y ago
I suppose the 'Any Browser Campaign' ( http://www.anybrowser.org/campaign/ ) is not their cup of tea. ""Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before th
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by Luyt 16y ago
..."they struck gold with an SQL injection attack on HBGary Federal's content management system. [...] They quickly grabbed and decrypted user passwords from the website " A security firm cracked by scriptkiddie tricks? Storing passwords
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by Luyt 16y ago
"Update 06:39 UTC Two-thirds of Libyan routes came back to life at 6:01 UTC (8:01 local time), and the remainder were restored nine minutes later. At the moment, spot checks of Libyan domains and traceroutes into affected networks indicate
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by Luyt 16y ago
I use you every day. I use you more than email now. I hate email, by the way. Amazing how someone can use short emaciated 140-letter shoutings as a replacement for something as deep as email.
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by Luyt 16y ago
A refreshing alternative to the usual 'we need a rockstar/ninja/cowboy coder'. "...tremendous coding stamina which results in voluminous output... likes it from the back..."

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