NamTaf

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by NamTaf 10y ago
The hypocrisy comes from the broader 'internet enthusiast' groupthink that says anything Edge or IE must be worse and that MS is horrible for doing this, but in the same breath they give far less criticism to Google for doing this
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by NamTaf 10y ago
It's already back up and running according to ABC Aus.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
If you liked that, you probably really want to read this blog post by HN user patio11 regarding his experiences doing business in Japan. It touches on this salaryman culture in way more detail. http://www.kalzumeus.com/2014&
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by NamTaf 10y ago
"Basic fairness and equality is much more important to me than my paycheck size." That may be because your paycheque affords you a comfortable enough life on that front that you don't have to stress over it. As you said, it c
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Excellent! I've always needed a way to interact with the type of people who make Youtube comments! Seriously though, I get what they're trying to make a play at - the small communities that spring up around content creators based
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Yup. As soon as you're white/blacklisting you've lost at AI because you're assuming the rules never change, and if that's the case then why use a learning AI in the first place. I wonder how many fatalities it'
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by NamTaf 10y ago
You don't need to press end to enter end mode - holding down ctrl toggles it. So you can hold down ctrl and use arrow keys and, like it does with text, it will jump entire logical blocks - either continuous cells with content or contin
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Update to answer my question: my work PC had 'turn off all unnecessary animations (when possible)' ticked in the ease of access centre under the 'make your computer easie to use'. I don't know if this is by default.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
FYI your last point's equation is displaying wrongly - you need to put astericks either side of "Col2". HN parses text inside * as italics
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by NamTaf 10y ago
I really like the subtle animation on all updated cells as he types in a value. By default excel just updates it instantly but that makes it hard to see the scope of your change by eye. A quick scope through the options doesn't show wh
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by NamTaf 10y ago
He's efficient at doing some financial analysis and knows what to look at. It's logical that he was able to find good deals and then exploit them.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Stop using vlookup. Use index and match, either through named references as Joel does it or just manually even. It's more powerful, faster and less prone to failure because vlookup relies on an assumed order of sorting but most people
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Wang is an extremely common Chinese surname, yes. It's a romanisation of a couple of names which also sometimes become Wong and Ong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_(surname)
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by NamTaf 10y ago
I don't like his Vanguard example. He's pointing to exponential growth and saying that for two hand-picked points, it appears as if nothing had changed. That's sort of how exponential growth works. The growth in the most rece
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by NamTaf 10y ago
My friend posted a screenshot a couple of days ago of a system rejecting name input values that were considered rude or offensive. His last name? 'Wang'. He had to lie about his last name to progress the form.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
I spent 3 days off work a few weeks ago watching the Dota International and spent the whole time searching through my emails for 'account', 'registration', etc. trying to find everything I'd ever signed up to and fi
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by NamTaf 10y ago
How is sending people to Mars remotely legal? The astronauts undergoing this "mission" have virtually a 100% chance of dying and never making it back. How is a heart transplant remotely legal? The patient undergoing this "sur
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by NamTaf 10y ago
There's many younger people for which this isn't the norm.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
That's the antithesis of the world wide web because you've just centralised data storage, which makes someone 'own' the www.
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by NamTaf 10y ago
MMOs, and to an extent all multiplayer games, gain their complexity and replayability through PvP interaction (when I say 'v' I don't mean necessarily through conflict interaction, I mean also through cooperative interaction)
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by NamTaf 10y ago
There's a whole raft of other aspects. Temperature will affect traction, for example. Similarly, the pressure differential between the tyres and the atmosphere will change their performance similarly to pressurising tyres to a differen
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by NamTaf 10y ago
The game consists of 2 mechanics: 1) Collect everything 2) Battle gyms for arbitrary cred at the moment, both oppose each other because the maps people make to make #1 easier, make it easier for a subset of people to dominate #2 easier. By
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Cock! That's why it no longer works for me! It was so much easier when I was being lazy because it was a relatively big button I could just absent-mindedly mash when I was leaning on my desk with both of my hands. I'm the guy in t
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by NamTaf 10y ago
US banks seem so backwards in so many ways as an outside observer. Transferring money between accounts of different banks, the prevalence of contactless payments, digital communications as standard, even the fact that cheques still exist. T
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by NamTaf 10y ago
All of my credit card statements are paperless. I 2 different financial insttitutions. Ditto my bank statements from one of those two. The only paper statmeents I receive are for my mortgage account and its associated (empty) savings accoun
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by NamTaf 10y ago
If I'm understanding you correctly, you touch on the point that I (probably badly) tried to make - by slowly cooling it during heat treatment, you can post-weld treat it to remedy issues that the HAZ introduces. I'll try to explai
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by NamTaf 10y ago
This is an amusing statement given it seems like he's a bit of a Randian: https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/posts/c0a47/hi-my-name-is-g...
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by NamTaf 10y ago
There's a number of high-strength steels like this. Bisalloy [1] are an Australian group that produce Bisplate and SSAB [2] are a Swedish company that make similar products under the Weldox/Strenex/Hardox brands. As you menti
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by NamTaf 10y ago
Can confirm, any 'real world' engineering will use the NASA definition. The best way I've found to understand systems engineering is in how my org implements them - a project has a systems engineer and a project manager worki
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by NamTaf 10y ago
I've seen it for years on my Win7 install but yet to see it on my Win10 install, which I got in mid-to-late June. But yes, it's always frustrated me too and I don't know what's caused it. I suspect it's one of those

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