SeanDav

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by SeanDav 9y ago
> "Sad to hear this - last of a magnificent cohort of SF writers, for my money." This prompted me to look at how many of my favourite SF authors are still alive - and the vast majority are dead. I honestly think that the era
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From the article: > "By 2000 - about 50 years after the first computer program - productivity was picking up a bit." I think what made computers and productivity with computers really take off was down to 3 things: - The PC a
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> " I was sure the white men booked on the flight..." I agree, saying it was white men who were booked on the plane did sound a bit off to me, but also consider the environment she worked in: > "When venture capitali
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> "Just like how people would opt to not go to the cinema because they've pirated the film already." Overall movie attendances are down slightly and can largely be explained by other factors than piracy (ticket prices, c
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to Google: about 8 to 1...
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> "I'd just leave it up to the browser or even the monitor." As long as it is is easy to disable said behaviour. Case in Point: My rather fancy and expensive Dell monitors have got a so called intelligent powersave mode
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Absolutely true story: A friend of mine could make a golf ball do just about anything and was a wonder to watch. He was a scratch player or better (I don't recall his exact handicap). On paper, he was professional standard. He could si
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by SeanDav 9y ago
OO is just a tool, a powerful one at that. Like any tool, it can be abused, overused and incorrectly used - the classic comment that comes to mind is: "When the tool you have in your hand is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail...
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UK Politician Defends Brexit Team Gender Balance(bbc.co.uk)
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There is a great bit of anecdotal advice for situations like this: "When your hairdresser starts discussing it, it is time to get out..." https://blogs.cfainstitute.org/investor/2014/02/10/top-a
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Thanks for this insight. It certainly does not paint a pretty picture.
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I thought it was clear (since I quoted it) that I was responding to the claim that there are no English language proficiency tests as part of the UK Citizenship tests as not being correct. In some circumstances there are (e.g. Your degree
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> "The only tests are for lay of the land/law/society, not language proficiency." Not sure what your sources are, but as part of UK Citizen application, you absolutely have to do English language proficiency tests i
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I just don't understand medical care in the USA. Medical treatment seems enormously expensive, if you are not insured and you get ill, you die and yet getting insurance seems to be resisted (Obama-care). Would someone be able to explai
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by SeanDav 9y ago
OT: A bit of fun: In 1626, Manhattan was supposedly bought for equivalent of $24 (in beads). If invested at 5% Annual interest, compounded monthly, it would now be worth around $7 billion (assuming my online calculator is working correctly)
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by SeanDav 9y ago
Would love to try this out as my kids love Minecraft (when played at friend's houses) but: "Step 1 - Install Minecraft" I can't get Minecraft to work on my Windows laptop. Minecraft crashes after a few seconds with a Jav
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Without a "Major" sponsor, or a "Rails" type killer application, Perl 6, or indeed any language, will struggle to get significant traction. It is of course possible to gain slowly over time, but with numerous languages c
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Everyone remembers the first person to break the 4 minute mile "barrier". I bet only a fraction of those people know who the current world record holder is for the mile and what his time is (even though he would have left Roger Ba
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Charging devices.
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> "In order for someone to be transported into the future and die from the level of shock they’d experience, they have to go enough years ahead that a “die level of progress,” or a Die Progress Unit (DPU) has been achieved."
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For me, Amazon used to be synonymous with quality, convenience and peace of mind. That has now changed, it is now merely convenient and subject to increasing competition. This last year I cancelled my Amazon Prime and now using Amazon far l
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by SeanDav 9y ago
> "Would they also prosecute a person who told them one of their doors was left unlocked after-hours?" Perhaps not, but they probably would be tempted to prosecute someone who opened the door with a toothbrush and told them a
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by SeanDav 9y ago
Although deeply unfair, this is not unusual, there have been many reported cases of companies shooting the messenger. Unless the company concerned has a well documented and trusted bug bounty procedure, it can be very risky to report a bug
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Might as well convict a person based on tea leaves....
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Is this a USA solution only, or also applicable in UK, EU, Rest of World?
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> "It usually is though. Cooking times however don't tend to scale predictably (except for microwaves)." Not sure I agree. In my very limited experience, I have found that cooking times for microwaves do not scale predic
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Looks interesting, almost too good to be true! How viable is the Android path and is the plan to fully support Mobile features? Just trying to get an idea of where Mobile development fits into the scene.
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A car company says: "You can have any colour car you want as long as it is black..." I am sure there will be people defending the car company as really offering unlimited colours, but obviously they have to restrict it to black, b
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I doubt writing safe C/C++ code is as straightforward as the Parent post claims, otherwise people at Microsoft, Google and Mozilla must clearly be doing something wrong. They have the budget, the skills and the motivation to always pro
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The first thing I investigated was trying to repair just the screen, but no local company was willing to do that. I ended up paying about $500 including labour, using console from scrapped car.

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