alexkus

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by alexkus 14y ago
Oh for side projects that small. I started my side project in about 1993. I lost it completely[1] some time around 2000 and decided to rewrite it starting in 2008. Since then I'm still only 20% of the way through it (I probably got to 60% b
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by alexkus 14y ago
If you satisfy the requirements listed above then yes. As an EU citizen (I assume you have a Spanish Passport) then you automatically have the right to permanently reside in the UK:- http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/eucitizens/documents-e
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by alexkus 14y ago
Very doubtful. 'EU Law' doesn't make all of the countries that make up the EU one homogenous blob where everything needs to work the same. EU Law provides many broad directives on how things should work in general, but the detail is country
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by alexkus 14y ago
1) is not a problem on BT Openzone/FON as the subscriber and open networks are kept separate:- quick google http://community.bt.com/t5/BB-Out-About/Liability-under-BT-F...
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by alexkus 14y ago
Feel free to remove/censor/hide my posted solution if you want to keep it going for a while longer. Mind you, there are almost certainly other solutions to this puzzle.
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by alexkus 14y ago
On a related note I used to be the person who got to go see customers who had problems with our software that the support desk couldn't solve. This often meant one or two day trips to glamourous industrial estates on the edge of various cit
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by alexkus 14y ago
In most fiber optic cable photons travel at about ~65% of c. The exact number depends on the refractive index of the fiber. For electricity: Paraphrasing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_electricity The 'Current' travels along a wir
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by alexkus 14y ago
Or $EDITOR inside a shared VNC session.
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Remote exploits for one. Imagine a web server that didn't wipe plaintext passwords or encryption keys from its memory after finishing with them. If the web server was remotely exploitable then it could be possible to obtain the contents of
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by alexkus 14y ago
IME it's not that binary. In our corporate environment we do enough to pass the tests, with one extra 'test' being a peer review which should take into account a list of criteria that aren't easy to check for automatically; house code style
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"These test suites are often 5-10 times larger than the actual submitted code, and it is difficult to imagine anybody outside of this type of environment spending so much extra time designing (and testing!) test suites with 100% coverage."
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Probably. Never underestimate the bureaucracy of a big corporate entity (specifically when it comes to having to pay money to fix something). Possible causes:- * General ineptitude * It's not something they monitor. * The main ww
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by alexkus 14y ago
"Are you sure the "rubber banding" isn't just normal race behavior?" Yes (I'm sure it isn't), zoom in on the bottom right hand corner of the track (turn 4), in reality the cars go from 320kph to 100kph in the breaking zone of this corner, o
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by alexkus 14y ago
The site is just listing the status of the few routers it is monitoring. It's not indicative of all traffic. Do you really think all traffic in/out of MD goes through a single (2 if you count DC) router? Put it another way, imagine you're m
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by alexkus 14y ago
Also note that one of the common reasons for failing Requirement 3.2 now includes a reference to using CurrentAppSimulator that wasn't in the one linked in the original article. I guess the OP just got stung by being an early adopter and th
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by alexkus 14y ago
No. "The app crashes" is the reason that it has failed on Requirement 3.2. A bit of googling gives this which contains the full text of Requirement 3.2:- http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/Hh92158...
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by alexkus 14y ago
There are plenty of commercial ITX motherboards with those specs, i.e. http://www.mini-itx.com/store/~DH61DLB3 or http://www.mini-itx.com/store/~Z68-ITX-A-E for dual gigabit LAN. Or am I missing something? (Ah, you probably want ARM rat
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by alexkus 14y ago
For now yes, but Twitter could do exactly the same thing at some point in the future; they need money too. Whatever rug you get comfy on can be pulled from under you at a moment's notice. IPOs/monetization/capitalism has far more power than
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by alexkus 14y ago
I'll put it on my to-do list (once I finish my to-do list app/site)...
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by alexkus 14y ago
Tesco and Sainsbury's have 1 or 2 hour delivery windows and different charges (£10 or under) depending on day and time of day. Tuesday/Wednesday evenings (7-9pm) tend to be free for orders over £100 with Sainsbury's. We tend to do monthly d
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by alexkus 14y ago
Bit late to this as I've been ill. If you try that encoding scheme with some random data you'll find it won't always fit. I took 1,000,000 random numbers between 0 and 99,999,999 and sorted them and calculated the deltas. Here's the distrib
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by alexkus 14y ago
Bit out of date that though (i.e. Sport on 302 has RVP still playing for Arsenal.) I'll miss it, I used to watch football scores updating on Teletext for many many years... And this reminds me of Mikefax on the BBC Micro that could be used
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by alexkus 14y ago
Many of the towns in MA were named after towns/cities/counties in the UK (Essex in particular); Braintree, Chelmsford, Billerica[y], etc. Indeed the counties of MA are mainly UK town/city names in the UK. It's only 3 out of the 14 that aren
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by alexkus 14y ago
Parkinson's law of triviality.
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OK, for a less abstract description, the site gives: "For each complex number c calculate the following: For all gaussian integers g like 1+1i, 2+2i, 3+3i... when calculating g/c which percentage results in a gaussian integer again? The hig
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by alexkus 14y ago
For those in the UK you need to read and understand the implications of Mansworth vs Jelley as it could save you a chunk of Capital Gains Tax (or allow you to carry forward a capital loss to offset future CGT).
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by alexkus 14y ago
I've used vi/vim for ~20 years (I have memories of using it in '92 when I had an Amiga B2000) and I've never installed a single extension/package/what-not. The corporate development environment I'm in means it's a huge amount of work to get
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by alexkus 14y ago
wget example.com/some_script.sh chmod +x some_script.sh ./some_script.sh is missing one very important step... wget example.com/some_script.sh chmod +x some_script.sh $EDITOR some_script.sh Only if it all looks sane/s
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Indeed, a JIT compiler will always be able to take advantage of something that isn't possible for something that is compiled once and set in stone. However, that's not to say that upfront compilation is doomed never to compete. Profiling C
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by alexkus 14y ago
Eh, what new item is it requesting from memory inside the branch? if (data[c] >= 128) sum += data[c]; Whether the condition evaluates to true or false it has already retreived the value from the data array in order to test it

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