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Windows Release Preview: The Sixth IE10 Platform Preview(blogs.msdn.com)
1 points by axefrog 14y ago|0 comments
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by axefrog 14y ago
so.cl is a research experiment focussing on academics; it's not meant to be a big new venture.
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by axefrog 14y ago
Would love to hear about it! Do you blog?
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by axefrog 14y ago
Really cool! Can I suggest allowing £/month as an option? Most places in Manchester rent by the month, so seeing prices displayed as a weekly value makes the rent a bit harder to quickly get a sense of.
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by axefrog 14y ago
Yeah I use it most days. I use Console2 though (open source console window replacement), which removes some of the physical limitations I'd otherwise have to put up with.
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by axefrog 14y ago
What I have trouble with is why that's valid when on the reverse side of the coin, one must literally buy Apple hardware to test in an Apple environment.
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by axefrog 14y ago
Your blinders are industrial grade. Developing for Windows is in fact a pleasure. MS have more love for their development community than you realise, and this is reflected in the tools and technology they provide. .Net is incredible. Really
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by axefrog 14y ago
True, though many of us feel very comfortable developing on Windows. Seems unfair that we should pay the Mac hardware tax just to test with Mac browsers when Apple could provide OSX on a VM, license-restricted for testing purposes or simila
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by axefrog 14y ago
Has it occurred to you that at least you're legally allowed to virtualise Windows+IE for web development testing? On the Windows side of things, devs aren't even allowed to virtualise MacOS! And you complain about lack of options for Mac
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by axefrog 14y ago
Yeah, they should be more like Apple and make it so you can install whatever you wan... oh wait...
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by axefrog 14y ago
^ This.
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by axefrog 14y ago
Oh come on. Microsoft is not some horrible uncle who did you a great wrong and needs "forgiving". It's a company. The people who work there come and go, change departments and so forth. Yeah, sure, the people who worked in the highest posit
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by axefrog 14y ago
I honestly think a lot of hacker types really do live in a bubble where they think it's still 2000, Microsoft is still the same evil company they were, Apple still can do no wrong, most people now use Macs "if they know what's good for them
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by axefrog 14y ago
Perhaps, but add to that all of the incidental trips to the store, to visit a friend, to go to the bank and so forth and it probably starts to level out a bit.
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by axefrog 14y ago
Your bus shows up on your doorstep on demand and will go wherever you want it to go? Your taxi will drive you for two hours to see your parents, then wait around for a few more hours to take you all to the beach and only charge you as thoug
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by axefrog 14y ago
Looks reasonably clean, though you can't get an aggregated list of invalid fields doing it this way. Instead, you'll have to discover your errors one by one, as you fix them.
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by axefrog 14y ago
Pressing tab is buggy. It assumes that tab means "indent" when in fact maybe you just want to insert a tab.
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Ukkonen's suffix tree algorithm explained in plain English(stackoverflow.com)
76 points by axefrog 15y ago|3 comments
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by axefrog 15y ago
Agreed. I think the author is focussing too much on semantics as opposed to intent, which is to filter. His over-emphasis of the word "lost" misleads us into thinking that the fact that we're searching suggests that we lost something to beg
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by axefrog 15y ago
The problem is that if you try to delegate responsibility for avoiding the scenario where the information is "lost" to begin with, you have to make sure that the process performing the searching and organizing knows what to look for at leas
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by axefrog 15y ago
I'd like to propose a ban on all programming tutorials which utilise screenshots of a given IDE's magic, visual tools as an integral, required step in the process. I develop with Visual Studio myself, but that doesn't mean everybody does an
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by axefrog 15y ago
I find it more likely that the harm done to your goal is not caused by public announcement of that goal, but rather announcing it is evidence that you aren't as committed to the goal as you are to other goals that you're better at sticking
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by axefrog 15y ago
Google doesn't just ban accounts for no reason. Sometimes accounts can be suspended due to false positives in their ToS violation detection algorithms, but there is a good reason this account was banned. Google does not like affiliate marke
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by axefrog 15y ago
It amazes me how many commenters here seem to be missing the point. The point is not to take these sites offline in a kind of "do what we want or you can't have our services" move, but to bring the issue to the attention of everyone who is
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by axefrog 15y ago
The flow of money is a very important point I think, and I think the global elite who are somewhat dependent on the existing world economic structure are going to ultimately see it forcibly evolved into something new over time. If nearly ev
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by axefrog 15y ago
That's the wildcard though isn't it? Some, such as yourself, decry this form of futurism because it is predicated on the assumption that energy will become more expensive. I personally think it will become cheaper and personally am open to
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by axefrog 15y ago
Maybe you need more practice ;) Seriously though, every now and again I've noticed some supermarkets upgrading to newer machines and invariably the newer machines are much less prone to these sorts of issues. In one supermarket where I some
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by axefrog 15y ago
The point though is to look at why the customer service is needed in the first place. The ultimate user experience is one that never requires the user to seek any support or assistance of any kind. Having human-driven help is of course impo
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by axefrog 15y ago
It's just a case of technological progress. I find these things (I live in the UK too) work for me 98% of the time and when they don't, you only need one store assistant amongst 8-10 self-service checkouts in a busy supermarket to assist cu
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by axefrog 15y ago
This is interesting because it is a great example of how technology is in the process of automating the world out of jobs. That is not a complaint mind you; it's simply an important indicator of the change taking place in the world at the m

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