VBprogrammer

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   by VBprogrammer 16y ago

   I think part of the problem is that for many people google is the internet. Even for me (pretty technically minded) if a few google searches doesn't find what I'm looking for it isn't on the internet, or might as well not be. I don't think
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   by VBprogrammer 16y ago

   I would sleep with my curtains open more often but I generally find the sodium street lights to be an annoyance when my eyes adjust to the almost darkness. At which point they get closed. I regularly go camping and have to agree with everyt
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   by VBprogrammer 16y ago

   Yes, but that does not mean it will be cleaner than, or even as clean as what we have now.
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   by VBprogrammer 16y ago

   Looking back at some of the things our grand parents expected us to have now, I would have to say predicting a lean green future seems a little foolish.
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   by VBprogrammer 16y ago

   Interesting, I certainly do get some of the effect but don't find it very pleasant to watch. Like when they float the subtitles right in format of you, it almost hurts my eyes.
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   by VBprogrammer 16y ago

   Unusually biased for the BBC. It quite simply makes good business sense. Living costs in most of Scotland are significantly lower than most parts of England, salaries are similarly lower. Edinburgh in particular has always had a strong stan
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   by VBprogrammer 16y ago

   Because America is the greatest country in the world people outside America couldn't possibly be happy with the way they do things?
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   by VBprogrammer 16y ago

   Surely if 77% of the population have something it is the 23% that have the disorder?!
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   by VBprogrammer 16y ago

   I did this with my university project source code. The only difficulty is that Gmail does not allow executables even within a zip file. You have to work pretty hard to avoid getting them into your repo.
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    One of the most interesting bugs I've seen was in a small Arm single board computer powered Lego robot. The robot would work fine for minutes at a time and then suddenly die. When used outside of the arena area it was designed for the probl
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    If you wish to use language like that in a way which does not enhance or support any point you are trying to make then please make your way to the comments section of digg or reddit. The rest of the grown-ups here don't need to hear it.
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    Whoever wrote that article has a serious sense of humour deficiency. Next he'll be telling us that Google need to grow up and stop having logos for holidays and events. It quite common for massive internet companies not to take themselves t
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    I feel this really should have been titled "Why My Free Plan Didn’t Work." Since free plans have and will continue to work for some people. I don't know about you but I doubt GitHub would have taken off had it been exclusively pay-ware. E
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    In the UK at-least, there is an automatic copyright entitlement granted on anything you write / create which is deemed copyright under the limits set out in law. "Copyright is an automatic right and arises whenever an individual or company
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    This is one of the questions asked at the end of the Google Tech talk video. The author responds that they licensed it to apple for a nominal fee. He also says that he got paid pretty well as a contractor for apple so didn't feel bad not ge
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    The article finally convinced me to install leechblock for Firefox. In my day job (finance - corporate actions related) we finished our busy season a month or so ago and I cannot remember the last time I sat down and coded something. 2 mont
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    Though I'll freely admit I don't have an authoritative source, I have heard in the past that 50mph was the approximate cross-over point between rolling resistance and aerodynamic resistance for a typical car. Of course this car isn't going
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    I realise that if you pulled all the warts of any language together into on document it isn't going to make particularly nice reading. With C++ it is a bit like a horror story!
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    Google's Mark Chu-Carroll devastated Chevrolet I think thats a bit strong. In reality reading the article convinces me more that the Volt is an extremely good idea since it is based on more realistic maths. But I agree with everythi
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    Actually in many democratic nations more than 50% (due to first past the post style voting) did not want the ruling faction in power. If an unelected government can achieve the same percentage of satisfaction (without violence of course) th
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    Not to mention the majority of light aircraft engines made in the last 40 years.
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    You know, strange as this may sound, the length of a human life is but nanoseconds when looked at on galactic scales, I think I could live with having life cut short with the trade off that I'd die knowing the answer to the question is ther
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    Journalism's duty is to sell newspapers. Anything else is a tertiary concern.
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    Nor does it tell you anything about the quality of the work produced. Sometimes a job half done is worse than a job never started!
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    I completely disagree with the example given in this blog. I don't have time to give a full explaination but I believe the google clean code talks gives a far better arguement than I ever could. On the general principle I agree that overeng
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    "myObject" is one of my pet peeves. I've seen and its relatives "myString" and "myNumber" in far too many published programming texts. In fact, its one of the many reasons I don't like vb.net, it actually has its own my name space!
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    The daily ritual of gettting out of bed and making a coffee is probably far more important that the stimulating effects to most people.
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    That's quite poetic considering your C is far from idiomatic. Surely manipulating pointers would be the expected way of doing this, and probably easier to optimise for the compiler.
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    I hate to drag this point up again, but the most advanced HTML5/Javascript demos are a poor imitation of what could be done on the desktop 10 years ago. My personal view is that the web is good at things which are inherently communication c
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    by VBprogrammer 16y ago

    Seems fine here in the UK.