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by alexfarran 17y ago
So I tied an onion to my belt. Which was the style at the time.
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by alexfarran 17y ago
Anyone else gettting unescaped \n in the results sometimes?
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by alexfarran 17y ago
I did. Also "how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"
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by alexfarran 17y ago
It was 50. Then it went up to 100.
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Twitter’s Response to #fixreplies: We Can’t(mashable.com)
9 points by alexfarran 17y ago|18 comments
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by alexfarran 17y ago
He starts speaking about the secret to high productivity at 45:45. It's 'Renegotiate Requirements'. Small tweaks in the requirements can reduce the amount of work dramatically. Don't be a hero, nobody really cares and you'll just wear yours
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by alexfarran 17y ago
It's a flash site cleverly rendered to look like an HTML site. To what end I don't know. I'm running flash player 10 on Ubuntu BTW. You can get it here http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/
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by alexfarran 17y ago
I've not read the book (yet) but I have read a couple of reviews and it sounds like Seligman appreciates that there is a time for pessimism as well as optimism. Here's one http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40033602 . "Unlike many self-h
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by alexfarran 17y ago
Well its a serious question. There's definitely value in the ideas of Seligman. But it requires skill to apply them in conversation the way Reg suggests without sounding overly deferential and false. Depersonalising criticism where appropri
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by alexfarran 17y ago
Funny. So what's the optimistic version of that comment? How about: I'm always interested in the thoughts of other programmers. This article is a bit longer than I have time for at the moment. Would anyone care to summarise?
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by alexfarran 17y ago
Would be nice if they could speed it up a little.
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by alexfarran 17y ago
Great addon. With a widescreen monitor there's a lot of space that could be doing something more useful. One feature that I'd like to see, in tabs generally but it makes particular sense here, is a way of intelligently abbreviating the titl
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by alexfarran 17y ago
It's her mind, she can do what she wants with it. She doesn't owe anyone for it.
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by alexfarran 18y ago
They're working on it http://groups.drupal.org/drupal7ux
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by alexfarran 18y ago
I think the point is that there are other rights besides copyright, the right to privacy for example, and that where they come into conflict copyright should not automatically supersede all other rights.
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by alexfarran 18y ago
Kind of like Squeak Smalltalk's method finder http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1916 And a reimplementation in Ruby http://www.nobugs.org/developer/ruby/method_finder.html
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by alexfarran 18y ago
Cool. Does that mean we can have a linux client now?
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by alexfarran 18y ago
There's going to be third Dirk Gently radio series bases on the Salmon of Doubt.
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by alexfarran 18y ago
Yeah but we talk about microsoft all the time anyway. Who else is it reaching?
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by alexfarran 18y ago
That's pretty much what happened http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-07-12/ He's not ruthless and uncaring enough to be a leader. A well aimed rock from Dogbert knocked out his moral compass allowing him to ascend effortlessly to hi
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by alexfarran 18y ago
I was there last night. At the launch you could buy L£22 for £20. Local traders are offering incentives, such as discounts if you pay in L£. It doesn't force anyone to spend their money locally, because you can always trade your L£ for st
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by alexfarran 18y ago
Sorry I've just listened to a clip of the voiceover artist Don LaFontaine (RIP) and couldn't help but read this in his voice - "And it's an aggressive move destined to put the company even more squarely in the crosshairs of its rival Micros
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by alexfarran 18y ago
I liked that they had the woman from Harvard Business school on at the end to offer an alternative point of view. In the end it was nothing but her word against his, but I was surprised he didn't have better answers to her counter examples
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by alexfarran 18y ago
>and they don't have a history of growing into new areas of revenue Depends how far back you look. Nokia used to make rubber boots.
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by alexfarran 18y ago
Actually 'deserts' is correct. It's pronounced the same way as 'desserts', but the two words are not related. 'Deserts' is what a person deserves.
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by alexfarran 18y ago
tl;dr - "Because people are stupid and wouldn't understand them." How patronising.
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by alexfarran 18y ago
Does that mantra come on a card with your iphone?
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by alexfarran 18y ago
I use this one https://launchpad.net/rescuetime-linux-uploader
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by alexfarran 18y ago
The hardware is open source too.
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by alexfarran 18y ago
IDEs can't read your code for you. So VeryLongIdentifiers should still be replaced with something that's easier to scan.

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