SeanDav

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by SeanDav 14y ago
I had a quick look at your videos, especially the Javascript ones. My first impression is that your presentations are not as well organised as the the OP ones. For example, looking at the Javascript Classes and Inheritance Tutorial , you e
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Interesting. What reputable universities waive the MSc's pre-requisites based on life experience? Any in the UK? I think this is a great idea as I find myself in the same boat. Very experienced and can do the job but no paper to impress peo
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by SeanDav 14y ago
There is an interesting quote that goes something like this: "when your hairdresser starts talking about the market, it is time to get out of the market". Now I doubt your hairdress will be talking about bitcoins any time soon, they are t
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by SeanDav 14y ago
How well does Dart work with node.js? Should I even consider Dart if using node.js?
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by SeanDav 14y ago
That was the result of a study (in other words, science). Where is your proof that the study is invalid? Note that I am not saying that the result is fact, just that there is science to indicate that things are not as simple as they may app
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by SeanDav 14y ago
How is an expert on sleep saying something MIGHT be true now being classed as pseudo science and not to be taken seriously? Your rebuttal of this "pseudo science" is that you perceive that you personally need 8.5 hours sleep - now that sm
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by SeanDav 14y ago
I don't agree that there is any fundamental difference in functionality between callbacks and promises. Promises don't somehow magically make asynchronous code easy to write while leaving callbacks out in the cold. They have very similar s
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Interesting that the Government does not include Skype on that list. One can only assume that is because they already have Skype access.
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Charles Babbage had a working computer long before Turin. If he could have implemented it in transistors or even valves rather than mechanical relays how much further would we have been today? The way I see it, you don't need to understand
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by SeanDav 14y ago
O/T Pretty sure that the name 42 must come from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Anyone know differently?
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Don't agree here. You have to set a category, unless you are claiming that the Turing Universal Machine is a greater invention than the transistor, or penicillin or the wheel or fire or writing etc etc.
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Congratulations to Amazon for inventing the dumb terminal. Clearly this is an original idea. /sarcasm
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Basically, you are pretty much wrong with all your points, at least that which you ascribe to my motives and thoughts. You are trying to twist my meaning into something different and then judge me on that - Classic straw man argument. My po
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by SeanDav 14y ago
I am trying not to get personal here, but you are guilty of just the sort of discussion that I find both embarrassing and narrow minded. By narrow minded I mean you are deliberately cherry picking individual points out of context and trying
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by SeanDav 14y ago
In the light of what happened at PyCon with Adria Richards and the whole internet explosion of nastiness and short sightedness from all sides I actually don't quite know what to think about "Women in Tech" I saw so much hate that I was asha
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by SeanDav 14y ago
True but probably worth discussing again in light of "adriagate"
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Wow. Exactly what you feared happened to me. I tool a quick look at the link, couldn't see the point and promptly closed it. Sometimes, on a quiet day, some quite dubious content can reach the front page and I thought that this was a such a
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by SeanDav 14y ago
I feel a patent coming along for this awesome piece of original thinking... /sarcasm
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by SeanDav 14y ago
I don't believe this addresses the point the OP was trying to make. There is an algorithm or just a simple piece of code which does the distributing, what safeguards this algorithm? Another way of putting it is "who watches the watchers?".
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Besides search and gmail, I have no intention of ever using another Google offering again. I also now regularly back up up gmail using Thunderbird just in case Google does something stupid there as well.
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by SeanDav 14y ago
As I understand it, he was not censoring, but was concerned that the news was not real. Perhaps he could have posted a bit sooner to that effect but in the end it came out quite quickly.
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Just because you have good hearing and/or are incapable of focusing on something else does not make the conversation less private. A private conversation is one that is intended to occur only between the parties involved. Your being able to
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Since when did it become ok to vilify someone for a private conversation? A private conversation in a public area is still private. This woman was guilty of listening to a private conversation, taking some sort of offence and then going out
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by SeanDav 14y ago
Pretty much if you buy a diamond you are a victim of a rather successful campaign that De Beers have been running for decades in order to limit the availability of diamonds and create an artificial scarcity. De Beers should have been invest
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by SeanDav 14y ago
I agree very much with this. What I do is use "dummy" facebook, google, email etc accounts to log into sites that either require social logins or make it easy to try with social logins, but that I don't trust yet. I am generally suspicious
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by SeanDav 14y ago
I have very little knowledge in this domain, but why do so few of these demos ever have sound? Is there something lacking with canvas and sound/music?
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by SeanDav 14y ago
I see stuff like this (The original JSLinux, not the de-obfuscated one) and am simply in awe. Guys like Fabrice Bellard are on another level completely. Someday, I am going to have to produce an emulator, just to see how it is done and to t
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by SeanDav 14y ago
That is a brilliant story. Especially enjoyable because I don't live in SA anymore. Thanks for making me chuckle!
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by SeanDav 14y ago
I think that if Michael Dell or Steve Jobs were running that shop we wouldn't be seeing this message.
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by SeanDav 14y ago
You probably have javascript disabled. I use noscript to do this and got the same until I enabled JS for the site.

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