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by allbutlost 15y ago
I know a guy (UK) who was able to retire after consulting for COBOL y2k compliance. I think big bucks were floating around back then at least, not sure about the current situation.
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by allbutlost 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3122000 And there was a whiff of astroturfing back then as well... Or perhaps I'm just being cynical
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by allbutlost 15y ago
Seems to be this acc. http://www.reddit.com/user/MarkDennehy/submitted/
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Groupon IPO on ice?(blogs.wsj.com)
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by allbutlost 15y ago
Go to your user page and enable showdead to see comments that have been killed. Some people may have been shadowbanned without realising it
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by allbutlost 15y ago
I actually think he is being facetious. It may be true to say "it's not android", but as far as they end-user is concerned it _is_ android. It's got the logos, came with an android sticker on the box. For that user, when it comes to purc
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by allbutlost 15y ago
Really nice idea! Should save me trawling through amazon reviews to see if the particular book I'm after is suitable for newcomers. heads up: http://bestintrobook.com/books/iphone+programming gives me an error, although http://bestintro
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by allbutlost 15y ago
The documentation website and inline testing of this api looks great, but here's hoping they keep the old api (as documented at apidocs.posterous.com) alive. They were kind enough to re-add location data to posts coming through the api on r
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by allbutlost 16y ago
input[type="reset"] { display: none } Should do it on most browsers.
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by allbutlost 16y ago
Using html5 (or 4) the meta tag doesn't need to be closed. Personally I prefer to do close or self-close tags anyway as I entered the game with xhtml, whose syntax I still prefer.
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by allbutlost 16y ago
Same, and I tried again with the same result a few times. Looks promising though - looking forward to giving it a try! [edit] tried on FF 3.6.13 and Chrome 10, snow leopard
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by allbutlost 16y ago
Without wanting to be too pedantic, I'd need to see a privacy policy before you get past the "A third-party service is requesting permission to access your Google Account." page. I'm also not 100% what the content of the email you send me w
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by allbutlost 16y ago
I've been running the beta for a couple of months now, testing sites I've been building on it as I go along. I can tentatively say that yes, it falls into the "all the rest" category for most common css/js issues that have plagued all its
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by allbutlost 16y ago
I can recommend djangy wholeheartedly, having been a happy beta user for a few weeks now. The guys are responsive & helpful and the service is great. As someone new to python & django, my main pain-point was deployment (haven't pic
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by allbutlost 16y ago
Fairly recent [1] stats seem to point to: hotmail: 360m+ active accounts yahoo: 275m+ active accounts Gmail in 3rd, followed by AOL webmail [2} Although yahoo! mail seems to have a more active user base as it's ahead on most
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by allbutlost 16y ago
Just ordered, been waiting for this one - I find it much easier following a book like this when it's printed and sitting beside my computer, not as a browser tab to be constantly switched back and forth. +1 for LCTHW from me (ps coupon code
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by allbutlost 16y ago
Just bought totalfinder - great work, it solves a lot of issues I had with finder.
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by allbutlost 16y ago
Ben Goldacre on badscience.net has a lot to say on this sibject, including a new related post today. http://www.badscience.net/2010/05/a-staggeringly-weak-interv...
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by allbutlost 17y ago
<!DOCTYPE html> easy to remember and triggers standards mode
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by allbutlost 17y ago
Campaign Monitor has an excellent UI, giving short client training sessions as a result. Built in .NET with jQuery