ZoFreX

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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Putting a satellite in orbit is significantly more complex than sending someone straight up and down again.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I use Arq to backup files on my MacBook - it saves them to my S3 bucket, so even if everyone working on Arq dies (I sincerely hope they don't!) and their servers all explode, my backups are still intact on S3 - which is less likely to go do
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> assume that the volume control on your operating system controls the DAC rather than doing the stupid thing of digital volume reduction Is this a safe assumption though? As much as I consider myself knowledgeable in this area, this is
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Windows 7 is available through direct download, but the presentation / ease-to-buy wasn't as slick as this. Another cool thing it had was that you could upgrade the OS (e.g. from Pro to Ultimate) or activate a pirated version from the OS it
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
That's not trivial compared to magnetic stripe. I created a credit card reader with £2 of electronics, my laptop, and a freely available open-source program. (And I'm pretty dumb, so it's really easy)
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I would guess it was anti-dupe code, not anti-spam; the exact same comment is posted and visible further down.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
> Apple computers with HDDs do get unusably slow once they start swapping. So much so that it is usually impossible to terminate the memory-hungry application. I agree with the former but not the latter - avoiding swapping made a much b
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
It's the rest of the functionality of a smartphone that drains it sadly, not just the screen. If I turn off 3G and wifi on my SGS2, the battery life goes from around half a day to almost a week!
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
You could also use 10-fold cross validation[1] or similar where you rotate the training/validation sets. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-validation_%28statistics%...
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Regarding the second half, I find that problematic. Sometimes it's very clear to me that English is not someone's first language, and you can often tell what is by the mistakes they are making (for example, "I have been working here since 3
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
To use an old phrase, I work hard and I party hard. I massively enjoy both aspects of my life, and whenever it gets "out of balance" (not enough working or not enough fun) I begin to feel bad. Everyone has their own balance to find, but I a
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
This was a big one for me switching to GitHub and it is massively improved with this new update.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
The solution knocking around my head for this was a "sub-channel" for off-topic corrections to posts, so you can suggest a spelling or grammar alteration without a) cluttering the discussion or b) looking like a <nasty word> for cal
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I was drawn in by Mercurial, went to GitHub when I switched to Git (the only thing that was holding me back, frankly) but left my private repositories on BitBucket, still in Mercurial. I shall be converting them to git and committing to sti
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
The number one problem with passwords is that most websites are not storing them using current state-of-the-art methods that are freely available. Whether or not this is an improvement, it doesn't solve the actual problem - developers aren'
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
What about disabled employees? Do employee handbooks and HR materials have to be accessible to the visually impaired, for example?
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
It seems they have gotten wise to this recently, I've heard a few stories about them being quite nasty if you do this. Anecdotally, this was on my Facebook feed yesterday (NSFW language): http://i.imgur.com/buv06.png
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Oh, ok - this has changed since I last tried it. I still don't think it's brilliant that you can't have your software open on more than one machine (several years ago you could at least have Steam open on multiple computers if they had the
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I really don't feel this is a good fit. Steam is not particularly great software, it's just one of the best ways to get games onto your machine. It has a lot of competition in the general software market, and plus it doesn't really feel lik
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
That is up to the games - they can choose to hook into Steam's API for that DRM, or roll their own DRM (or both, thank you Ubisoft), or they can ship without any protection.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Absolutely not true. When I was working with Drupal 6, CCK and Views 2, I would use the GUI to try out new content types and views, but I would then export their definitions and put the code for them into a custom module, which was under ve
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Winamp was OK but crashed a little too often for me to be able to rely on it. DoubleTwist is, hands down, the worst music software I have installed on my laptop in recent memory (I can expand on this if you want, but my overall summary is:
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
It would be great partially because the existing sync solutions for Android are all a little bit wonky. I don't think it would necessarily be great for Apple, though - I'm considering purchasing an iPod to listen to music on to get that bet
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I don't want to get more women into programming. I want to end the endemic and prolific discrimination against women in programming. The lack is a symptom. I also find it very weird that an entire industry went from being female dominated t
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
I don't like the title. I realise it hasn't been editorialised, I don't like the original. There is nothing wrong about doing a u-turn.
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
But certification isn't new, and is still optional... I don't understand why developers are up in arms over it? Also, is it intrinsically bad? It's proving that the software you installed is from a particular publisher and hasn't been tampe
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Give me a giant codebase I've never seen before that started bad and turned into a spaghettified mess, and you'll have a very happy developer on your hands :)
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
As someone who worked on an internal NHS website I can affirm this. Rather than use the same CSS and HTML for a form no matter which page it appeared on, the original coders had re-written it from scratch every single time, with slight diff
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Off the top of my head: * A new, standardized document format that's trivial for hackers to open up and play with. * More stability across the board * New products added (OneNote is lovely for instance) * More stable rendering - gone are th
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by ZoFreX 14y ago
Then you might like Ribbon Hero 2 [1], an interactive tour / tutorial around Microsoft Office starring clippy! [1]: http://www.ribbonhero.com/news.html

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