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by auxbuss 13y ago
Point of pedantry, but you never need commas at the start and end of parentheses. So, (illud) == (, illud). Also, (illud) == (illud, ), etc.
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by auxbuss 13y ago
Well, admittedly my phone isn't bleeding-edge, being a nexus 4, but it runs the latest version of Android and removal of Hangouts does make Messaging the SMS app.
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by auxbuss 13y ago
I'm not sure why you consider that a red herring. You can disable Hangouts and Android will fall back to the standard Messaging app.
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by auxbuss 13y ago
This is great advice, imo. The key being "most people want to help". The best sales guy I've yet known used to demand of me to "Just ask! People will tell you". It's true. Don't be a pushy ass, just ask, a
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by auxbuss 13y ago
Not at all, as the latest web framework benchmarks showed: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r8&hw=i7... (see rack-jruby, 86.3%) It's really a question of how and what you run. And yes, the J
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by auxbuss 13y ago
Here's a direct link to the pardon: http://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/997305/turing.pdf
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Alan Turing granted Royal pardon(pbs.twimg.com)
2 points by auxbuss 13y ago|1 comments
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by auxbuss 13y ago
I think jwr is attempting to wind-up Charlie, given his notoriety for tweeting his daily word counts and the degree of trauma that this has caused him; often doused by evening libations in a local hostelry. None of which is an excuse for hi
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by auxbuss 13y ago
From the Oxford English dictionary: undo - cause the downfall or ruin of.
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by auxbuss 13y ago
Salvatore (antirez) had a nice pithy response to that: oh, static systems are for people that don't have fast databases ;-) https://twitter.com/antirez/status/407184116275503104
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by auxbuss 13y ago
I tried this guy last year after a few recommendations. I loved the result I got. http://www.vonglitschka.com/5MinuteLogo/index.html There are a bunch of videos on his main site showing how he goes about the process, a
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Renault Introduces DRM For Cars(techdirt.com)
2 points by auxbuss 13y ago|0 comments
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by auxbuss 13y ago
Hey Paul, I worked there a couple of years ago -- 2 mins from the Copper Tower -- but came back to UK, reluctantly. I'd come back at the drop of a hat. I tried to get things going when I was there, particularly at the Málaga tech park.
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GCHQ data snooping has "destroyed trust in British tech"(pcpro.co.uk)
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by auxbuss 13y ago
I try to insist on a week in the office at the start of a gig -- I only take remote gigs, unless very short. That's never been a problem. (International gigs are an exception, naturally, but I let the client make the call.) That week i
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by auxbuss 13y ago
This isn't a celebrity death. It's Lou Reed. Music Hacker.
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by auxbuss 13y ago
Myth or Eno legend? Who knows? Here's an interesting backgrounder, though: http://www.richieunterberger.com/vumyth.html
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by auxbuss 13y ago
Leo is co-founder of Buffer.
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by auxbuss 13y ago
It works. I've used pgAdmin's ssh support for years. It can be used to connect to heroku instances also, which is useful.
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by auxbuss 13y ago
You might like to try http://devdocs.io/
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by auxbuss 13y ago
Broadening the terms adds a few percentage points, but less than I expected. (I added backbone too, for comparison.) https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=emberjs%2C%20angular...
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by auxbuss 13y ago
Nice works. Thanks. HN is a tough crowd, but means well. Great advice here.
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Wyden On NSA Spying: It's As Bad As Snowden Says(alternet.org)
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by auxbuss 13y ago
They also send a crawler to any urls that they've not "registered" before (by IP). About 30 secs after navigating to a new page their bot will crawl a visited page. robots.txt is not honoured. Something to consider when testi
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"If there's a watershed on the TV then why isn't there one for the internet?"(heraldscotland.com)
2 points by auxbuss 13y ago|1 comments
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by auxbuss 13y ago
DJ says the content will stay online[0]. [0] https://twitter.com/Codepope/status/358144985520025600
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by auxbuss 13y ago
I suspect the down votes are for lumping in Muslims with communists and dictators in a derogatory way. That's pretty offensive stuff.
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by auxbuss 13y ago
And Bloom is the protagonist of Ulysses. It's also Bloomsday today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomsday
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by auxbuss 13y ago
No, no. You nailed it succinctly and without bitterness. Well played!
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by auxbuss 13y ago
Facebook provides trivial value add to the user. Except for those wanting to view adverts. But there's no exclusivity in advertising, clearly. Facebook could provide value add, they could pivot, but they seem to be entrenched. It's a consta

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