McElroy

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by McElroy 11y ago
I for one do. They've diverged heavily since forking from OpenOffice. LibreOffice is a great project, I use it myself and I recommend it to all my friends and family.
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by McElroy 11y ago
At my place of work, we have a client relationship to a company like ours in a neighbouring country. They develop a software that is of much use to us so we pay a license to them for it. They are nice people but god damnit, there is one thi
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by McElroy 11y ago
I think your blog post was bad. First of all, they have really unobtrusive advertising so it's a non-issue to start with. Second of all, it's their money paying for the traffic so how they choose to respond to HTTP requests is up
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by McElroy 11y ago
Citation needed.
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Star Wars Wars: All 6 Films at Once(youtube.com)
3 points by McElroy 11y ago|0 comments
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by McElroy 11y ago
https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/FAQ.md#wil... makes me happy as that was the first concern I had when reading these news :)
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by McElroy 11y ago
This page makes Firefox on Android crash.
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by McElroy 11y ago
I've inspected such a machine thoroughly on one occasion and was able to determine that the machine switched the penny for a dummy before performing the flatten and stamp operation.
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by McElroy 11y ago
Password Safe seems interesting. Too bad it's hosted on Source Forge.
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by McElroy 11y ago
>His channel is a lot of fun. Checked it out and I agree. I have to wonder, though, if his money shrinking experiment is such a good idea. Isn't that sort of treatment of currency prohibited by law?
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by McElroy 11y ago
TIL it'l not so hard to make your own blackboard. http://thedecorologist.com/dont-use-chalkboard-and-magnetic-...
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by McElroy 11y ago
I did as they said at the bottom and gave them my e-mail and other personal details so I could download the eBook that they were giving free preview copies of - "Building Microservices". Unfortunately, they sent link to PDF only s
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Saving a Spleen with 3D Printing: Pre-Surgical Planning with Medical Models(embodi3d.com)
16 points by McElroy 11y ago|2 comments
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by McElroy 11y ago
I'm not sure I agree with you but still I found it a bit funny how many of the URLs in the ticket were http instead of https.
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by McElroy 11y ago
While try/catch is what is exposed to us as developers, the underlying implementation could very well be advanced.
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by McElroy 11y ago
I think they have two primary reasons for open sourcing it: 1. Being able to upstream more into LLVM means less maintenance of their internal forks. 2. The recent open sourcing of Microsoft .NET core parts.
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by McElroy 11y ago
>I am not sure how many of the commands have been converted There's a page [1] on the FreeBSD wiki with a list of converted and ongoing conversion. I don't know if the list is complete but the page was last modified 2015-05-22,
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by McElroy 11y ago
Great write-up. Sorry to see the post didn't draw many readers. If I was benevolent dictator of the HN front page, I'd put you there.
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by McElroy 11y ago
Also https://github.com/gogits/gogs which I run on my VPS and though I still rely on GitHub first and foremost (because GitHub is way better), it's good to have.
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by McElroy 11y ago
I bought a MacBook Pro once because I believed comments like this. Had lots of hardware trouble, boot problems, had to have it serviced multiple times. Never again. I'm just fortunate that I live in a country where consumer rights are
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by McElroy 11y ago
Is training of the Google AI the reason that reCAPTCHA is now showing pictures and asking users to select all images of a certain kind?