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by RossM 14y ago
I did not know that Apple's paper advert had been pushed back so late. I have seen a photo of one that appeared in the Guardian about a week ago [0] which as a reader I would skim over given the lack of branding and its similarity to advert
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by RossM 14y ago
I've just noticed that Backpack - a sort of personal notes and tasks tool - has vanished from their homepage and I can't find an announcement about it. Does anyone know why this is?
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by RossM 14y ago
Deut. (red/green) here; it looks fine to me. In my case, most colour-blindness issues arise from poorly contrasting colours - given that most of the Metro style is white text on a solid bright/dark (not pale) colour I don't see many issues.
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by RossM 14y ago
The last stream I had to install QuickTime, though I believe VLC can play it by opening the source URL (check the HTML).
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I was initially confused by this - it would have been a pretty big pivot for a picture-sharing startup.
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by RossM 14y ago
It was the equivalent of PowerTools(/Tweak/XP Toy? possibly had another name) for Windows XP in that it made many Gnome & Compiz tweaks one-click options, which given Ubuntu's easy-to-use focus went down well. Things like displaying cer
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by RossM 14y ago
A couple of issues in Chrome (stable): I can't type in or move the cursor between sub-fields on the phone controls. Where does your country-state data comes from? I've never seen a list so complete for countries outside the US!
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by RossM 14y ago
I built one of my final university projects on Pyramid (I wanted to use Python but at the time didn't like Django) and ended up regretting it. There weren't a lot of resources out there to work from - be it projects on github, blogs and I f
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by RossM 14y ago
Farnell (element14) have generally been very good with fulfilment of orders, RS not so much. Got my e14 in 5 weeks (ordered at release), RS one never came after months so cancelled it.
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by RossM 14y ago
Was under the impression the whole thing was - just didn't notice it at first and had a bit of a woah moment :)
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by RossM 14y ago
There appears to be a semi-persistent "Google" text - when I cleared out the 'G' it was recreated within 20 steps by the neighbouring 'o'. Can't possibly be organic can it? E: it seems to always appear like that; so probably not organic and
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by RossM 14y ago
I think that this is one of the instances it could work, especially with his audience. Hell, I'd buy it and my experience with anything Apple-related is zilch (thus I can't pay for it).
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by RossM 14y ago
Alternatively, a solution using Google Authenticator.[1] [1]: http://www.howtogeek.com/121650/how-to-secure-ssh-with-googl...
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Viewpoint: Steve Jobs is missed by Silicon Valley(bbc.co.uk)
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Todon't(codinghorror.com)
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by RossM 14y ago
Oddly enough, not blocked by SonicWall (at least in our config, which I would assume is fairly default-ish).
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by RossM 14y ago
Sorry, I meant to point out that there are two possible ISPs that the user might have trouble accessing it on. To my knowledge, no UK ISP blocks content by an automatic or specific filter, aside from the Pirate Bay of course.
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by RossM 14y ago
iPlayer shouldn't be assumed to be 'free' to use. The BBC is paid for by the UK license fee-payers (the majority of the population) - there's no reason why other countries should be able to access it. Not to say that I'd be against charging
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by RossM 14y ago
I could previously see 6/7 of the account's previous tweets (on a more-standard resolution than most devs are used to),, now I see 3. All for a blue-ish box.
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by RossM 14y ago
It works for me on a non-Virgin IP. It may be Virgin Media (home broadband), or Virgin Mobile (mobile internet) that blocks it.
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by RossM 14y ago
I'm a huge fan of drive-by commits. GitHub's web editor makes it really easy to correct a typo or add a two-line fix - and for many people that might be their first contribution to open-source, without the faff of downloading git etc.
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by RossM 14y ago
Cache link: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:blog.le... and link to the paper concerned: http://se.uni-hannover.de/pub/File/pdfpapers/Pham2012.pdf
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by RossM 14y ago
For clarity, the current and new ways to use bcrypt in PHP: // pre-5.5 $salt = substr(strtr(base64_encode(openssl_random_pseudo_bytes(16)), ['+' => '.']), 0, 22); $hash = crypt($password, '$2a$10$'.$salt); $match = cr
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by RossM 14y ago
> I have contacted the creator and informed him of the conflict. Seriously, there's more than a lack of tact there.
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by RossM 14y ago
I was quite surprised not to find a "I'm available, hire me!" tagline at the bottom, great points but I kept getting distracted from them.
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by RossM 14y ago
Most pages include a one-liner of changes, however I agree that full-page versioning would be useful.
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On the contrary, many believe it improved morale. We had the BBC playing 24 hours a day (working shifts atm) for the Olympics. During the day many of us would break for a few minutes to watch a Team GB athlete, but I definitely found myself
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by RossM 14y ago
I do feel entitled: entitled to the same access as others without an obvious reason. I don't feel entitled to receive media for free (and am certainly prepared to pay for easy access, i.e. Steam and Netflix) but I honestly don't see the rea
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by RossM 14y ago
The only real reason I have for considering pirating something is that "it isn't available in my country for months after it's aired elsewhere", so this is great news. Why on earth should I wait months before I can see it? I'm sure there's
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by RossM 14y ago
I have a small (~A4) whiteboard for this reason. This method of writing pseudo-code to outline a solution is what caused me to learn Python as I found I was pretty much drafting Python code. I've found I produce much more efficient (and les

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