VBprogrammer

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   by VBprogrammer 16y ago

   Toilet paper, condoms and bin bags are another couple of things I recommend adding to your list of things not to scrimp on.
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   by VBprogrammer 16y ago

   I suspect you would however pay more for the beef sliced by the 'butcher' behind the counter than you might for the same meat from the shelf. Maybe not quite as universal as claimed by the OP but he definitely has a point.
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   by VBprogrammer 16y ago

   I don't think this is a very convincing argument. I don't think there have been many examples of people building games for the PC using the Wii controller. I suspect that the same goes for the Kinect. The vast majority of people buying this
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   by VBprogrammer 16y ago

   I should have said, it is set on weekdays.
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   by VBprogrammer 16y ago

   Anyone know what model of iPhone this affects? My iPhone 3GS went off at the correct time this morning. I use a radio alarm as well in anycase.
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   by VBprogrammer 16y ago

   Hold a live power cable while walking barefoot across wet grass and I doubt you'd live to tell the tail.
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   by VBprogrammer 16y ago

   It may be legal, but not in the sense that access to it is unrestricted. I can't think of a situation where it is possible for a black market to exist for a legal and unrestricted product. Not that I'm arguing for or against just enjoying s
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   by VBprogrammer 16y ago

   Living in the UK (I'm pretty sure we have one of the highest levels of CCTV monitoring in the world) and also having worked as a CCTV operator for a summer job (surprisingly fun), my opinion is that they are yet another tool their to keep h
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   by VBprogrammer 16y ago

   Not to mention potentially killing the next person to try to use it.
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    On a related subject. I accidentally mis-configured remote desktop on Ubuntu, I selected the 'configure network to automatically accept connections' which uses uPnP to open a port on your router (poorly named I think). Someone ran a port sc
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    Could Offer HN be added to the main navigation bar? Otherwise I fear it will quickly fade into obscurity.
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    I have carried a mobile phone practically every day since I was 18. If mobile / cell phones do cause cancer I'm not exactly sure what I could do about it. Every smoker in the world knows smoking is strongly linked with cancer, but they stil
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    I don't use Mercurial, but didn't they replace the last of the Python code quite recently?
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    Who ever thought of that little scheme should be applauded. That is opportunistic marketing at is very best. I don't think there is any real controversy, after all, they did need sunglasses and they didn't charge for them. I have to say I n
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    If I remember correctly BMWs have a high intensity brake light under emergency braking.
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    There is no problem with it being rate limited. Provided that rate is above the rate which a user could reasonably be using twitter at.
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    I'd laugh if those Indonesian guys had found a way of automating it themselves and spent their time doing something more useful!
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    There is something about the tone of what you just wrote that deeply annoys me. Had the boys father been a Christian leader would you have been concerned by what exactly that entails?
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    But he probably was going to music venues to listen to records without the appropriate public performance rights.
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    I don't know if this is a problem that applies to you but for quite some time I started getting bogged down in problems. I guess I was reaching the Journey Man stage of becoming a programmer and I wanted to start by creating the full archit
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    If you are ever asked to make a Pie Chart for general distribution please take this as a perfect example of what not to do. This is almost completely unreadable for 6-8% of the male population who suffer from colour-blindness (myself includ
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    Having spent most of this week trying to get my head round the terms of the National Bank of Greece rights offer I'm pretty sure Greece are cooking their books too.
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    Actually, he has come up with an ingenious way of avoiding scope creep...start off intending to do everything !
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    I wish more games had some kind of machine learning decide what was hard enough. There's nothing that feels quite is weak as picking one far from the hardest setting and still getting annihilated!
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    I think you're probably right. Probably best to keep up the illusion of furtiveness!
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    ...the real failure... Sorry.
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    My aversion to using the mouse comes from the main reason I stay proficient in Vim, to allow me to edit files remotely (yeah, sorry, I know that's clique).
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    He also didn't specify which platform he was targeting. A lot of the points pornel mention apply equally to GUI toolkits running on Windows or Linux. You sacrifice some control in order to get cross-platform compatibility (as you have to do
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    Exactly what I was going to point out. There really is no such thing as a perfect translation given that human translators will use there own interpretation and knowledge of both languages to try and approximate the same meaning.
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    I'm disinclined to believe this study purely on the basis that I've yet to meet an heavily overweight person who did not have a terrible diet to exercise ratio. I wonder how good the science behind it is!