andrewaylett

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1411.
by andrewaylett 15y ago
If your sim is implemented in software, how do you take it out of your smartphone when it breaks or runs out of battery and put it in a different phone?
1412.
by andrewaylett 15y ago
You have to join (and pay) if you want to run your apps on hardware -- the free download only lets you run in the simulator.
1413.
by andrewaylett 15y ago
That's not strictly true: you'd still like to get reasonably quick feedback, especially if you're trying to make a release. It's also nice to be reasonably confident that your commit won't break the build, for which you should probably run
1414.
Ubuntu in your pocket(markshuttleworth.com)
10 points by andrewaylett 15y ago|0 comments
1415.
by andrewaylett 15y ago
If you're connecting from a *nix-y box, you may also be interested in sshuttle: https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle It gives you most of the benefits of VPN, without requiring tun/tap and without needing root on the remote box -- all you
1416.
by andrewaylett 15y ago
I use vim a lot, but I only really started using it for most of my work in a job I had after switching to Dvorak -- was primarily an Emacs user before that.
1417.
by andrewaylett 15y ago
Not a bad idea :). What I tend to do is make my default vhost show a page which explains what the server is and points the user to a more useful domain.
1418.
by andrewaylett 15y ago
Ubuntu already has a "proper" guest mode, only accessible when unlocked by a regular user, wiped clear each time and only providing access to the guest sandbox. It's available from the system menu, so two clicks to activate when logged in
1419.
by andrewaylett 15y ago
I had a friend at school who had phenomenal spatial awareness, but was dyslexic and had trouble with maths, while I find the maths relatively easy but only have good spatial awareness. Together, we could design and build things neither of
1420.
by andrewaylett 15y ago
I disagree -- in this case, you should consider storing local time and the Olson tz it's due to be in. Microsoft make the mistake of doing it your way in Outlook, meaning that everyone had to update their calendars when the US changed thei
1421.
by andrewaylett 15y ago
Contact lenses are good for certain issues with eyes, but not others -- at least around here, they're worn a lot more by short-sighted people than long-sighted people, and the article is definitely describing someone who's long-sighted. The
1422.
by andrewaylett 15y ago
You can, yes, but is it safe ? My understanding of the article is that you shouldn't do it, because it's liable to cause confusion -- it's not safe.
1423.
by andrewaylett 15y ago
You can do the same in Python, with named functions or lambdas: >>> def foo(x): ... def add(y): ... return x + y ... return add ... >>> bar = foo(10) >>> bar(5) 15
1424.
by andrewaylett 15y ago
"Do you know where we're going?" would be what most UK speakers would say, and "Do you know to where we are going?" would be an archaic variant which implies a location is requested rather than an action. The verb used is "to go"; the answ
1425.
by andrewaylett 15y ago
Have you tried MinTTY? It's based on PuTTY's terminal emulation code, and provides shells for Cygwin and MSys. http://mintty.googlecode.com/
1426.
by andrewaylett 15y ago
In France, before the Euro, things would be priced at 99 centimes, but the smallest coin was a 3 centime coin (worth about half a cent). This meant that when paying cash, some form of rounding was often necessary to give the correct change
1427.
by andrewaylett 15y ago
I find it hard to believe that some kind of agreement won't be reached, whether it'll be a sensible one or not, but it's certainly fair to say that there's a chance of disaster, and that a US default would be an awful lot worse than a Greek
1428.
Who defaults first: Greece or the US?(bbc.co.uk)
23 points by andrewaylett 15y ago|46 comments
1429.
by andrewaylett 15y ago
I map the points to numbers and give them that -- it winds up being exactly the same as telling people a PIN.
1430.
by andrewaylett 15y ago
I mostly agree with your second statement -- building GNU tools on a proprietary OS was pretty much the only way to get started, especially considering the ongoing state of HURD, although I wouldn't necessarily go so far as to call that "
1431.
by andrewaylett 16y ago
Where DVCS-Autosync uses XMPP, the current version of SparkleShare uses a public IRC channel: https://github.com/hbons/SparkleShare/wiki/Private-notificat...
1432.
by andrewaylett 16y ago
If you're using an Android phone, you can get a really nice graphical calculator app. Now called "Andy-83", you can probably guess which major semiconductor company asked its developer to change its name a few weeks ago... http://www.supw
1433.
by andrewaylett 16y ago
Why don't you just pull the changes onto your laptop from your desktop, rather than pushing to the server then pulling back?
1434.
by andrewaylett 16y ago
While using git and dropbox might appear to work most of the time, and shouldn't lose data, it's not an ideal pairing -- have a look at my answer to this stack overflow question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2199637/is-this-plain-stu