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by arctangent 14y ago
Never heard you speak before, jgrahamc. Enjoyed the video immensely.
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by arctangent 14y ago
"Good" and "evil" are relative concepts, not absolutes.
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by arctangent 14y ago
Waiting for the ketchup to come out is an important part of the experience.
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by arctangent 14y ago
That and using their size to rip off the designs of smaller companies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zynga#Intellectual_property_con...
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by arctangent 14y ago
Relevant news story about this from December 2011: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16306742 I think things have been fairly quiet for a few months pending this re-launch.
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by arctangent 14y ago
I'm an enthusiastic user of Pinboard but over the past few days I've been putting "permanent" bookmarks into Trello instead. This seems to be working out OK for me. By "permanent" I mean things which I know I will want to refer back to all
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by arctangent 14y ago
Equivalent code written in D would look much more like the Python code than this.
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by arctangent 14y ago
And more details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow-Face_illusion
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by arctangent 14y ago
I wonder if the scores for Q2 were skewed upwards due to a recent Stack Overflow question which illustrated the principle of sequential disk reads in a similar scenario. (SO is down right now, so I can neither find it nor tell when/whether
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by arctangent 14y ago
Neat project. More fun pool table shenanigans: http://www.obscuradigital.com/products/detail/cuelight/ IIRC Obscura were selling that for $100k+. If the current business model doesn't pan out then I guess GoCardless could always pivot int
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by arctangent 14y ago
Actually, "judgment" is the correct spelling in this context: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_(law)
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by arctangent 14y ago
I've always preferred to use "rocket surgery". ThinkGeek have a relevant t-shirt: http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/ea8c/
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by arctangent 14y ago
When I interviewed with the GOV.UK people in January it turned out that the seemingly good salary they were offering was actually about the same as I'm currently paid up here in Leeds. However, the pension element of the compensation was re
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by arctangent 14y ago
I respect your opinion about Civ5, but it's worth pointing out that it did recently get a very large expansion pack called "Gods & Kings" [1] which improved (IMHO) the dynamics of play quite a bit. I would have to concede that the AI is
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by arctangent 14y ago
This was put to an end by "Early Day Motion 1623: Top Hats and Parliamentary Procedure" [1] Quote: "That this House believes the procedure whereby honourable Members are required to wear a top hat or other suitable head covering during cert
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by arctangent 14y ago
UK government websites are required to achieve level "AA" WCAG compliance: http://coi.gov.uk/guidance.php?page=131
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by arctangent 14y ago
I find LibreOffice to be good enough for all my needs.
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by arctangent 14y ago
I understand this. But writing tests as you go means you can't introduce new functional code at the same pace. Although I think it's an unsolved problem, I lean heavily towards writing tests (and documentation) towards the end of a project.
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by arctangent 14y ago
This is what I was alluding to when I mentioned that it's not obvious when tests should be written. It simply isn't practical to write them as part of a quick prototype (or any other rapid iteration). But writing them at the end of a projec
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by arctangent 14y ago
Perhaps my choice of words could have been better... swap out "prototype" (a hyperbolic example) in favour of "iteration" in my second paragraph and see if it makes more sense. The central point I am trying to make is that it seems wasteful
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by arctangent 14y ago
I see unit testing (and especially TDD) as a barrier to agile development. If I'm cranking out a prototype to show a customer then I don't want to spend precious time writing tests for code that stands a good chance of being thrown away at
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by arctangent 14y ago
There is a useful tool to suggest the best times to post a new thread: http://hnpickup.appspot.com Is anyone aware of something similar which breaks this down by type of thread?
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by arctangent 14y ago
Thank you for providing me with this info. Edit: This goes equally to the other responses to my comment.
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by arctangent 14y ago
I can't comment on the methodology used to rank the universities, but I think it's interesting that a specialised (as opposed to "fully comprehensive") university has come out on top. MIT would probably not be a great choice of university f
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by arctangent 14y ago
It's great that you shared this with the internets, even if you were in a hurry. Now that you have some feedback on the article you can iterate :-)
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by arctangent 14y ago
> I am continually amazed at the capabilities of kids. Their ability to understand whats presented to them is astounding. One thing that children have going for them when it comes to learning is that they've not done very much learning,
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by arctangent 14y ago
> isn't an employee supposed to take direction from a manager? Well, yes. But the relationship should also benefit the employee. I'm not a great fan of managers in general, but I do recognise that they can play an important role in shie
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by arctangent 14y ago
It's fairly standard practice to provide a list of backwards incompatible changes (along with instructions on how to mend your code) when making changes to an API or a framework. Maybe these updates to the FB Graph API don't break anything?
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by arctangent 14y ago
> I will just declare the sales contract null and void if Apple continues to be unable to fix this issue. It’s quite simple and I have the right. I'm not suggesting that what you say is not true, but I am interested in learning more abo
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by arctangent 14y ago
Here in the UK, the Government Digital Service [1] are doing much the same thing. They're building a single site for all government services and publishing all their code on GitHub. [1] http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/

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