VBprogrammer

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   by VBprogrammer 13y ago

   Or a hack which will never be removed from the code-base, depending on your point of view. I'm intrigued as to why changing to relative domains wasn't possible. If nothing else pushing ' http://www.theguardian.com&#
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   by VBprogrammer 13y ago

   I'd be willing to bet that the article was written on the 11th or even before that. The campaign started with a nearly impossible goal, unless Obama himself had come out to declare surrender, they were always going to be able to print
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   by VBprogrammer 13y ago

   I know bringing things from the real world into the digital realm often results in badly overstretched metaphors. Allow me this one; are your belongings really yours if you forget to lock the door?
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   by VBprogrammer 13y ago

   I'm pretty sure many more codebases have been lost through failures to secure internal networks by corporate IT departments than through vulnerabilities in cloud hosting providers.
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   by VBprogrammer 13y ago

   I'm not sure I fully understand your comment. My understanding of this is that even after the revised accounts the auditor was still unwilling to put his name on the line. The implication in my eyes is that the books are still in prett
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   by VBprogrammer 13y ago

   I don't have linkedin. I don't get any calls from recruiters. At least I hope that is the only reason.
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   by VBprogrammer 13y ago

   That is a sentiment I've often expressed in the phrase "I want to die before someone else has to wipe my arse."
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   by VBprogrammer 13y ago

   Not to mention that some people have a dog phobia.
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   by VBprogrammer 13y ago

   Just to add the end of that quote, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
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    by VBprogrammer 13y ago

    Yes, the that was a very simple example.
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    by VBprogrammer 13y ago

    Except where writing negative conditionals are clearer. For example turning: if(a) { if(b) { if (c) { // Do something. } } } Into: if(!a) { } elseif(!b) { } elseif(!c) { } else {
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    by VBprogrammer 13y ago

    That's pretty harmless in this case, the necessity of getting though it means they will have to find out what exactly it is. Perhaps 'hope' would have been a better choice of word.
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    by VBprogrammer 13y ago

    What age did you guys actively start searching out pornographic content? I'd bet for a big portion of the male population it is somewhere between 12-14. I admit things have changed considerably from my days of watching late night tv in
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    by VBprogrammer 13y ago

    Just to expand on that a little, turbo diesel engines are extremely common in Europe in even the smallest of cars. Diesel engines are particularly good candidates for turbo charging as diesel requires more air per unit of fuel to burn. Whil
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    by VBprogrammer 13y ago

    Not to mention that these things aren't cheap to develop in the first place. If you factored the R&D costs into the PS4 I'm sure that would add a significant amount.
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    by VBprogrammer 13y ago

    For me I think that is very close to the sweet-spot. Both for number of people I can put up with working in the same room with* and conveniently the size of a team which I find work best together. * Exaggerated a little, I'd probably d
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    by VBprogrammer 13y ago

    There is some really weird advice in that article. Hey Accountname! Thanks for registering on http://site.com ( Site world ) Your account is Accountname and the IP address this was created from was 2.3.4.5 on 11/10
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    by VBprogrammer 13y ago

    An interesting thought experiment would be to consider what you'd think of a female pick up artist.
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    by VBprogrammer 13y ago

    Thanks for pointing out the potential bias. I did find myself thinking some of the points were a little exaggerated. Everyone has come across code which no-one in the company wants to touch because it's too complex. However, that same
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    by VBprogrammer 13y ago

    The single biggest problem for autonomous cars is that they have to cope with rules and systems designed for idiot humans. If you exclude that driving is simply a problem of finding a reasonably continuous plane in roughly the direction you
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    by VBprogrammer 13y ago

    * If you anticipate your child being assigned 3 hours of homework in a typical evening, it is negligent to allow them to start that work at 8:00PM. Instead of allowing his daughter to watch episodes of Portlandia on her computer all af
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    by VBprogrammer 13y ago

    It would be great to speak to you 'offline', I think it would be really interesting to compare experiences. A few points which I hope you might find interesting. London taxies are pretty tall (6ft easily) and there is no chance of
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    by VBprogrammer 13y ago

    Would you really let that impact your decision as to whether to use a Scooter to get to work? It's too cliché to mention all of those people die going to work using other methods of transport. I ride a Motorcycle because I enjoy it. Ho
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    by VBprogrammer 13y ago

    I understand where you are coming from but personally I believe that asking a programmer to produce a small amount of code is certainly relevant. Don't get me wrong, it would be possible to pick nearly worthless questions which prove n
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    by VBprogrammer 13y ago

    That would seem premised on the idea that it is better to have someone barely capable in the position than to go without. In my own personal experience I'd rather be short handed than work with someone incompetent.
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    by VBprogrammer 13y ago

    My main objection to double space fonts is that if we wanted more space we could easily do it with the kerning tables. To physically have to type two spaces is stupid.
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    Personal names around the world(w3.org)

    5 points by VBprogrammer 13y ago|0 comments
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    by VBprogrammer 13y ago

    I hope that the servers running LibraOffice only have that job. LibraOffice has a pretty massive attack surface and its not the kind of thing I'd like to leave running on a server with another purpose while accepting documents from pre
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    by VBprogrammer 13y ago

    Emergency treatment is free literally for anybody regardless of length of stay. You have to be able to demonstrate that you are a normal resident in the UK intending to stay for at least 6 months to register with a GP (student / workin
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    by VBprogrammer 13y ago

    A friend is doing a PHD related to this subject. Quite an interesting video of her talking about it if you are interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCSzjExvbTQ Edit: Just realised Sarah's video is referenced at t