archangel_one

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by archangel_one 14y ago
I worry that I'm feeding a troll here, but... > I'm curious your target have access to Google.com during your "interview"? No, of course they don't. The idea is to see how well they think without being able to "just google it", so when
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by archangel_one 14y ago
Actually, it was the Elder Things that were in Antarctica. Cthulhu's in the Pacific somewhere.
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by archangel_one 14y ago
I disagree on "quite effectively"; they don't let me see quite a lot of content from work because they think I'm not in the UK, even though I physically am a licence payer in London. To add to the insanity though, I can't see this article
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by archangel_one 14y ago
...Really? I mean, it's pretty prevalent right here, but I am sitting in the Google office. I see significantly more iPhones on the Tube of a morning than Android phones. Do you think Android is more prevalent outside London, or have you ju
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by archangel_one 14y ago
I'd argue that the Mercator projection is not the right projection if you want to show the entire world. The distortion introduced over large areas is fairly extreme, and I think relative geographical sizes are fairly important for displayi
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by archangel_one 14y ago
Not having an Ethernet port would be a bit of a handicap for this kind of work.
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by archangel_one 14y ago
Text messages are normally limited to 160 English characters, or fewer from other languages. I thought that was actually where the Twitter limit came from originally.
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by archangel_one 14y ago
Why is innovation brought on by rapid iteration and public feedback a competitive advantage of Google's? Not only can anyone do it, but if anything I'd guess Google does less because there's more pressure to succeed at launch.
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by archangel_one 14y ago
I do think it'd be quite useful to have them, despite the jangling, in order to let myself back into my flat once I got back from my walk.
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by archangel_one 14y ago
Top Gear used a whole bunch of the songs from it over a season or two - I guess they bought the rights to use the soundtrack and wanted to get their money's worth ;-)
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by archangel_one 14y ago
FWIW, I've had one at work for a year now and I've had nearly none of the problems you've mentioned. It's fit into all USB ports I've tried, the contacts are still fine, it hasn't died, it doesn't seem fragile (or at least hasn't broken yet
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by archangel_one 14y ago
Because they're expected to be kept on a keychain which is commonly kept in one's pocket and which you'd rather not have filled up with chains and bulky cases?
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by archangel_one 14y ago
But isn't the point that the externality is in fact not that heavy? That implies that the process is at most 97% efficient, which is actually pretty damn good (of course, there'll be other inefficiencies, but nobody's complaining about th
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by archangel_one 14y ago
I've just upgraded this machine and lasted about three hours before I couldn't take Unity any more. Cinnamon is a really nice lightweight alternative which still makes a nice and (to me) sensible distinction between applications and instanc
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by archangel_one 14y ago
Yes, I've run afoul of the "download button" adverts before. I'm not surprised to see them on torrent sites etc, but it amazes me that some supposedly reputable download sites would allow such things.
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by archangel_one 14y ago
I don't think the web interfaces are the biggest difference between the two. If Dell was selling the same quality hardware as Apple without the thousand different models and home/business price segmentation BS, I could put up with their web
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by archangel_one 14y ago
> apt-get install build-essential vim-nox tmux sudo openssh-server That is quite a different level of user though to the things people "just know about" for Windows. Most people that consider themselves Windows power users don't have a
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by archangel_one 14y ago
> A locked work station can be shut down by what is essentially an unauthenticated user. This can also be achieved via the switch on the front of the workstation, but at least doing it through software is a bit more graceful. I've neede
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by archangel_one 14y ago
I would say yes, it's very easy to write inline anonymous functions which are very very nice for a primarily callback-driven model. I much prefer Python as a language overall, but I think writing code for "Node.py" would be an awful lot har
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by archangel_one 14y ago
There were certainly some issues early on (the thing with list MPs leaving their party but keeping their seat, for example) but I think those have been ironed out now? I feel like maybe there is too much power given to kingmakers, like the
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by archangel_one 14y ago
> The majority of OSX/iOS is open source Really? Large chunks of both are not, so how do you know it's the majority of it that is?
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by archangel_one 14y ago
Just FYI: this article is about C11, not C++11. It was easier in the past when their revisions came in different years ;-)
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by archangel_one 14y ago
Pretty much nobody but Ken Livingstone liked the bendy buses. Boris has a lot of faults, but criticising him for listening to his constituents seems a bit rough.
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by archangel_one 14y ago
Well, if everyone in the world spoke the same language (whatever it happens to be) then more or less everyone would be able to understand one another. It'd be easier to develop speech software with only one language's worth of idiosyncrasie
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by archangel_one 14y ago
Where? I can only see one instance of "touchpad" and it's referring to the laptop mouse replacement thingy, not the HP tablet - which ran WebOS, not Android, anyway.
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by archangel_one 14y ago
I'm no historian, but I don't think more wars would have been the problem - they had plenty of wars before their downfall. If anything I thought things got worse once they were expanding less, because they no longer had an influx of resourc
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by archangel_one 14y ago
I've read about that contributing to the fall of their empire before - I guess we'll never really know, but if it did then the impact of that element on human history must be massive. Wikipedia puts it out as an option: http://en.wikipedia
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by archangel_one 14y ago
It's not forced for all phones - it's only compulsory on prerelease devices. Presumably nobody would use such a device exclusively if they're on an urgent on-call rotation. I didn't read that much animosity into the post personally...
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by archangel_one 14y ago
See my reply to his sibling post; it's common to dogfood experimental builds, which I assume is what he meant rather than seeing that kind of thing in production builds.
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by archangel_one 14y ago
We do quite a bit of internal dogfooding when coming up to major releases - so yes, it's not uncommon to use an experimental build. You don't have to on a production phone, of course.

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