ZoFreX

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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Personally I think shifting creation from centralised gatekeepers to smaller organisations and individuals is a social improvement, and a lot of what is driving the need for upstream is things like video chatting which again is a social nee
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
6 months later they fixed the problem: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/111279/remove-nofoll...
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
There's a plugin available for Visual Studio that does something like that: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/4a979842-b9aa-...
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Oh, I see what you mean now. Yeah, that seems odd.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I'm only speculating, but perhaps they literally copied it - BananaBread is under the BSD license.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
My mum's ex IBM, she worked in Cobol and Fortran and taught me to program. She doesn't know much modern stuff, so I can't really talk about my daily work with her, sadly. When I was at university, in 2006 there was an "IBM Mainframe Contest
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> I've seen zero chip readers in the US. I was in the US last summer for two weeks, and I saw several. Perhaps because I'm used to chip and pin? > in the EU Square Up is distributing free chip readers for android or iphone No they a
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> People are just greedy bandwidth whores these days. Not really. Having really fast broadband completely changes what is possible, and if we want to secure future economic growth for the internet, it's a great area to invest in. I have
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> Unfortunately it's expensive, on patent and that's an off label use. In the UK you can still get it prescribed for anxiety, and get it free on the NHS, so if you're wondering about betas it's worth checking what the situation is where
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I've played musical instruments and sung in front of hundreds of people, it's stressful but I'm confident I could code under the same circumstances. I have panic attacks if I feel too enclosed, particularly big crowds in small spaces. I wou
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Believe it or not but we have a similar problem with CDROM drives (let alone any drives coming after). You can't disable the cache on most, and on many that claim to, they lie. This slows down accurate ripping by a factor of 40X on some dri
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
It's more of an advertisement to people on creaky Java stacks that require a manual full app reload to pick up changes, and often do so... messily.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> Most people haven't got the time or the processor cycles to spare to run a separate VM Processor cycles? If I run Firefox inside a Windows VM on my MBP it's faster than the native version.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
That second one, from a basic analysis... it isn't really much different to a helicopter in its principle, given the size and spacing of the outer turbine blades. An obvious concern given the similarities to a helicopter is how well can som
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Sorry I've looked it up and it appears I was mistaken about the source of the infamous 1947 crash. The OXCART project did operate out of Area 51 though, and there were a number of crashes and cover ups - they were working on spy planes afte
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> The Roswell incident predates Angel/Blackbird by decades. Ugh, I've made a huge number of mistakes in my comment. Should have looked it up first. Angel is the U-2, not the A-12 like I thought, U-2 flew from 1955, already too late, A-1
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
The reporter didn't really use the car correctly, agreed. There were other factors involved as well though: the poor performance in bad weather conditions, the weather conditions, and Tesla not providing good customer support. If Elon wants
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
They declassified a lot of it a couple of years ago, I saw a good documentary on what was going on there. They had pictures of the crash site clean-up and everything (it was an Angel or Blackbird that crashed iirc, which does agree with the
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I find it funny that 2 out of 3 replies to your comment are explaining why it is impossible, and the third is a link to the company that made it work.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> unless there is going to be a huge breakthrough in battery technology really soon, EV's that run on batteries alone are not going to be a success for anything but short-distance commutes I don't think that's the only option, battery s
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
"Freedom of expression" (or freedom of speech) is not "Freedom from criticism or consequences", though.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> Then maybe try to fix that instead of complaining about bikinis in powerpoint presentations? Why can't we do both? Maybe the problems are related? It's wrong (although a common argument) to insist everyone be working on the single mos
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
My rule of thumb is that I only make "edgy" jokes in private, amongst people who I can be certain of the reasons why they are laughing. One might think that everyone is laughing for the same reasons you find the joke funny, but often they a
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
It's encouraging to see that, with polite feedback, many people change their deck to be less offensive. What I find interesting and scary is that some people will put far, far more effort into defending their choice than it would take to ch
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> but there should be room for jokes about genders somewhere, right? Why?
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
A possibly related concept which your comment reminded me of is "the half-life of facts": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4967344
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> How does this differ from debugging any other VM? You can run a plethora of languages on the JVM and get full debugging support - i.e. an application crash will show you where in your code things exploded, rather than showing you a
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
On what grounds are you torn? If you don't like the business model of Pepsi / Coca Cola etc, avoid their products. If you don't like what SodaStream does, avoid their products. No one is forcing you to choose?
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Vagrant[1] is great for this :) [1] http://www.vagrantup.com/
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Please try to keep comments constructive on Hacker News. Memes and other forms of joke regurgitation don't really fit in here.

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