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by ashleyw 17y ago
The coke is diet, and the hot chocolate is only 30 kcals/mug, so I don't drink many kcals, easily less than 200kcals/day. But yes I used to be pretty overweight, but I've lost a hell of a lot in the last year. That's one of the reasons I st
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by ashleyw 17y ago
On the average day: • 2x extra strong coffees with sugar (still dislike it really, too sour, but it wakes me up.) • ~1-2 litres of Coke and/or other fizzy drinks (my addiction) • 1-2 Hot chocolate (at night) • ~4x litres of water, sometimes
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Speaking of which, I wonder how much time developers worldwide waste by having to manually click OK on alert windows to continue execution? I much prefer console.log();
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Yes, 26" Samsung, with: - Sky (which I really only watch BBC1+2, ITV and Channel 4 on at night) Xbox 360 (which I stream TV series' and movies off from my 24/7 Ubuntu box, and of course play games) Macbook Pro via DVI, which I stream iPlaye
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Clickables: Example account: http://simplestats.net/user/alanedwardes/ Homepage: http://simplestats.net/
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by ashleyw 17y ago
I really need to get a new computer, a 2006 MBP only has a 2GB limit! And I'm currently using 95% of it...as well as a 1.76GB swap. Though getting a new computer (Mac) is easier said than done, I definitely can't afford one anytime soon. Pu
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Peacekeeper: http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper As I said, it's very rough, but seems to be a good indication of where abouts browsers are in comparison to each other. Though, once you get to a certain point (around 2x IE7, I'd say
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Some rough figures: IE7: 0% (base, 1x) IE8: 24% faster (1.24x) FF3: 73% faster (1.73x) FF3.5: 183% faster (2.83x) Opera 10: 196% faster (2.96x) Chrome 2: 354% faster (4.54x) Safari 4: 427% faster (5.27x) Personally I use
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Is there any real reason for the body and html close tags (and head for that matter), other than to fit in with the rest of the syntax? Like something you'd want to put after the body, but still within the html tag? <html> &
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by ashleyw 17y ago
"You could even print it with a numeric keypad and make it dual-use." It already exists: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Wireless-Keyboard-Trackpad-...
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by ashleyw 17y ago
The photo is a little misleading, as it's from when she was around 3 years old. She is in fact aging physically (albeit slowly), just maintaining an infant size. This is her at 16: http://a.abcnews.com/images/2020/ht_DSC_0098_090619_ssh.jp
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Am I the only one who's a little disappointed by the fact that this has got to the top of the front page of HN? Just seems more Reddit-esque to me...
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Homosexuality was illegal in many parts of the world at the time, and it was believed to be morally incorrect by citizens (in most cases), just like how the majority of people see cannabis as a very harmful drug today. So if anything, it sh
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by ashleyw 17y ago
You should probably do it in US dollars rather than British sterling. Firstly because more people know dollars, but also because it's a higher number, which I'd think would attract more answers; £10 vs $16…only to Britons would they seem th
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by ashleyw 17y ago
"…case when you loose the ability…" How could I do it again?!
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Haha, yes — I just spent 2 minutes scratching my head wondering if it was another British word which America 'simplified', as I found it in the dictionary and thought you meant 'loose' was a common misspelling of 'lose'; Only to realize, ye
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Doesn't it loose one of the advantages of a JS version — the ability to lazy load, rather than loading all the full sized images on every page load?
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Sleep. I've pulled tons of all nighters…but I only do it if I honestly don't want/need sleep. I get far, far more done in 10 hours than I would in 20. Don't lengthen your working hours, optimize them.
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Not a web-app, but I saved a hell of a lot of time by ditching my digital clock and getting an analogue one instead. Not sure why exactly, I guess I just like seeing a pie chart on my wall…
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by ashleyw 17y ago
There's been a little war in Iraq. A war which practically nobody wants. Why the hell would anyone start another? Plus Kim Jong-il (and the military leaders) would have to be clinically insane to even dare launch a nuclear weapon at another
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by ashleyw 17y ago
I thought that, and I'd have believed it if it wasn't for them basically coping the text... However, to me it's irrelevant, the Twitvid.io guys were very stupid to assume nobody would launch a similar service on the .com domain…which was al
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by ashleyw 17y ago
May I ask, how much work went into it? (compared to what you'd imagine it'd have taken you to do from scratch, using jQuery or something?) Because it's the slickest web-app I've seen in…well, ever!
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by ashleyw 17y ago
It does soon ramp up, $1500+ month maybe? At that point, it could become worthwhile to just dedicate your own time to implement the feature. Not that I like the idea of that when this service seems to do the job well, but not many startups
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Definitely! I'd easily need 500 checks a month, and to me that isn't worth $20/mo.
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Ruby. It almost feels like I'm not programming, the syntax is simple and beautiful, and you can do a hell of a lot without much code (especially if you include the thousands of gems!) For web frameworks, Rails for me is still awesome. Merb
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by ashleyw 17y ago
http://f055.net/article/the-140-character-webapp-challenge/ Real apps which do stuff ...
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Nice site (could come in useful), however — why flash/flex?! It just seems so much slower than it could have been (especially since it's such a simple site, HTML + light javascript would have sufficed perfectly…and saved CPU cycles!), and t
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by ashleyw 17y ago
If I'm honest, I hope Google allows people to opt-in to having their data saved for longer. I don't believe Google is evil, and while I know they will make more money out of me by keeping my data for longer, I'm sure more of my data will he
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by ashleyw 17y ago
Wouldn't that just fix the problem for 7 days, to which the bots would use accounts they created the previous week?
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by ashleyw 17y ago
http://code.google.com/p/aza/source/browse/trunk/SocialHisto... It's one of those things which has questionable ethics…but honestly? A little awesome...

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