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by auxbuss 16y ago
Where do we report bugs? Seems I can reply to myself, but not to the commenter.
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by auxbuss 16y ago
parody != satire nor does parody => satire parody: an imitation of the style of a particular writer, artist, or genre with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. Thus, self-parody.
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Two years ago was far too late. As I said, perhaps if they had started this initiative earlier then who knows? We've had nearly 4 years of the iPhone now, and nearly 3 years of Android, so this was a slow move and a late one. I applaud the
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Yup, clearly a self-parody, starting with the self-mocking title. Making a point, or several, I think.
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by auxbuss 16y ago
It's a damning indictment of Symbian's failure that the HN crowd can't summon the energy to debate it. RIP Symbian. You served a purpose, but now it's time to die.
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Symbian is dead [0]. It has been for a while. And Nokia will be too unless it adopts a new strategy very quickly. The figures from the article make this crystal clear: "Symbian's global market share has gone from 51 percent in the second qu
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by auxbuss 16y ago
According to Google Translate <drum roll>: Mr. Matsumoto, Hi. This is Nate. Google translator, the incompetence which is vulgar. (Laughs) Make sure to email me directly. You can write in Japanese. I will help you. Sadly, no goats.
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by auxbuss 16y ago
It needs to identify more than US-style dates. Oddly, I tried: 27/9/10 -> 1/10/10 and got: BHX → AGP on Mon, Sep 27, AGP → BHX on Mon, Jan 10 So it looks like it's being worked on. It'd be good to have the output as 27 Sept & 1 Oct
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France Starts Reporting "Millions" of File-Sharers(torrentfreak.com)
3 points by auxbuss 16y ago|0 comments
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by auxbuss 16y ago
The difference with test-driven development and continuous integration is that everyone relies very heavily on the tests. So, there is no necessity to check the tests, you start from a position of knowing that the tests are complete. The NA
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Unit tests are "correct" by definition, because they represent the specification for the code that they test. You aim to encapsulate all the intended behaviour in your tests. Thus, when you encounter a bug, you start by creating a test that
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Indeed. I got to the statement: "The distros have killed Python." Said out loud, "here we go", and settled down for some classic Zed. Can't fault him on it, though.
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by auxbuss 16y ago
I was a keen astronomer as a kid, and later almost did my PhD in cosmology. So I know my way around the sky. Later I used to climb mountains. I was walking into the Himalya one time, in Nepal, sitting around drinking beers and observing the
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Here's a case where I want to look at what you've posted, and I can't because you want me to login via Facebook first. Anyway, have a great time, and I hope the vis is terrific.
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Terse != rude It might appear that way when your expectation is a reasoned response, but sometimes terse succinctly makes the point.
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Colors of the web(sciencehax.com)
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by auxbuss 16y ago
I think everyone is shocked when they first encounter the consumer market face to face. I know I was, and I know colleagues were too. You come to accept it, though, and not take it personally. Nor try to rationalise most of it. It's really
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by auxbuss 16y ago
You don't need a compelling web-site, you need a compelling reason for your customers to visit your web-site. I guess giving away something is a common choice. Once they are there, give them an opportunity to scratch their itches.
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Ten unlikely ideas that changed the world(newscientist.com)
35 points by auxbuss 16y ago|4 comments
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Digital sound was invented in 1937 decades before the technology to use it(newscientist.com)
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by auxbuss 16y ago
See I view "maintenance" as the key to a business. Nothing stands still. Everything is changing all the time. Except for those parts that you nailed once and for all, and that the rest of the world agrees you nailed, which is none of it. Ma
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Like most folk, I've heard of Drupal. But I'd not heard of Solr. I read it as "soir" and, not surprisingly, searching wasn't finding anything. Anyway, for those, like me, who haven't heard of Solr, here's a brief description and a couple of
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by auxbuss 16y ago
I can't tell you the number of times I've gone to purchase a product online and bailed when asked to create an account. This is basically the story's point. KISS in action. Maybe more: get out of my way. I was working with a travel sales' c
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Say to Ballmer? I'd tell him to move aside. Ballmer's a sales' guy. He is clearly a good sales' guy. But he's the wrong person to be determining strategy at Microsoft. I sometimes wonder what would have happened if Ballmer had gone to Sun,
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It's good to think - but not too much, scientists say(bbc.co.uk)
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by auxbuss 16y ago
If their intent is to woo Facebook users, then creating an interface familiar to Facebook users is not a bad approach. An interface can look similar superficially, while performing completely differently at the next level.
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by auxbuss 16y ago
You've not been following your TED. http://blog.ted.com/2010/09/15/how-to-sleep-jessa-gamble-on-... Lots of folk live happily on way less that eight hours. Whether the folk who mandate that they must have their eight hours are deluding th
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by auxbuss 16y ago
For Microsoft to in any way redeem itself, it must hit the target with IE9. Then it must correct IE8. Then it must fix IE7. And finally, it must correct or kill IE6. There would be many takers for the latter. There always has been. Anything
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by auxbuss 16y ago
If I could have up'd you +100 I would have. For all of us who, in the past, had to fight the unbelievable crap that was -- and for some poor souls still is -- IE6, view this link and savour the memories. Sleep well.
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by auxbuss 16y ago
Being new to the field, you've proved to be astute. Anyone who can do those things earnestly will do just fine. Historical note: there was a time when you could retain everything in the field, and it was around the time I was taking home mo

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