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by McP 14y ago
Single-item submenus inevitably occur at some point if the submenu is filled out programatically (as smackfu pointed out). A list of recently open files is a good example. While it's possible to move the single item into the parent menu, th
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by McP 14y ago
Really? Link please
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by McP 14y ago
Yep, I'm not too impressed when my 2010 MBP occasionally electrocutes me. Once through my earplugs which was particularly unpleasant.
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by McP 14y ago
This isn't being forced on anyone. Mobile operators are doing this voluntarily: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Mobile_partnerships
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by McP 14y ago
You don't have to be in the US: "(iv) a non-U.S. resident authorized in the country in which the member resides while participating in this Competition to perform services as an independent contractor."
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by McP 14y ago
It was a poor choice of name in that it gives no hint as to what the application might actually do. While on holiday and in need of some internet, a (highly intelligent) friend searched around the local town and could only found a Mac in a
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by McP 15y ago
At the age of 8 you lived alone in a separate house? All you described before seemed healthy, but now I understand why you get a reaction of horror when you describe your childhood because that is very odd
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by McP 15y ago
"One reader points out that this story is from the Daily Mail, and that it's prudent to wait for some more reputable news source to report the story"
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by McP 15y ago
Or, during the blackout period: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act
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by McP 15y ago
I was cooperatively-schooled (i.e. a small group of parents getting together and taking turns to home-school their children) in England. It was ensured that what we were taught complied with the essentials of the national curriculum (which
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by McP 15y ago
The patents were filed in the US: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec...
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by McP 15y ago
Source: http://css.dzone.com/articles/mozilla-rejects-native-code
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by McP 15y ago
If downvoting, an explanation of why you feel this article doesn't contribute towards negative attitudes towards Indian people would be appreciated. While the title refers to the place, not the people, the implication is the same.
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by McP 15y ago
Please change the racist title. Racism towards programmers from India is a problem and you're contributing to it.
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by McP 15y ago
The blur doesn't take distance into account at all, it simply blurs more at the top and bottom of the viewport. I don't blame the author though, depth-of-field blur is expensive to simulate accurately - look at any video game with DOF blur
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by McP 15y ago
You got unlucky. I suspect that on a different occasion with a different machine you'd never encounter anything that required reinstalling or FixIt or anything like that.
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by McP 15y ago
Writing a game engine is quite different to writing a set of bindings (which is basically all WebGL is). There isn't much scope for optimization so I wouldn't hold out hope for WebGL apps running much faster in future browsers.
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by McP 15y ago
Nanosafe batteries charge in 10 minutes http://www.nanobus.org/dotnetnuke/Technology/NanoSafe/tabid/...
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by McP 15y ago
Visit Europe some time. Universal health care clearly is viable.
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by McP 15y ago
You can mark as many preferences as you like. Alternative Vote is a misnomer, it's known as Instant Runoff Vote elsewhere, which better describes how it works.
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by McP 16y ago
Apple are very good at getting people to hand over their credit card details before they even intend to make an app store purchase. Then, when it comes to buying something via an Apple store it doesn't require filling in any annoying forms
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by McP 16y ago
I assumed he meant it was a security issue within the nations the interviewer was asking about, not the US.
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by McP 16y ago
There's more to it than that. Also, ssize_t is not standard C++, use ptrdiff_t instead.
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by McP 16y ago
31, Steve, Win7
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by McP 16y ago
I prefer Raymond Chen's take on exceptions: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/01/14/35294...
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by McP 16y ago
Not me, my dual-core i7 already runs quite hot enough!
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by McP 16y ago
For N >= 3000 C is significantly faster. My guess is the initial slowness is caused by OMP initialising.
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by McP 16y ago
Disable 3G and wireless on your Android phone and you won't see any ads :)
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by McP 16y ago
You mean like http://www.opensocial.org/ ?
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by McP 16y ago
My brother skipped paying a tiny amount like that - he received a letter from a debt collection agency demanding payment of the £20 bill, plus £100 payment for the cost of hiring a debt collection agency. He then payed immediately before it

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