bartl

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by bartl 13y ago
It's the "doing things" that I have least trouble with. It's the other things, the things that he does first, that I have trouble with.
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by bartl 13y ago
You can change that with a setting in the preferences.
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by bartl 13y ago
> [1,10,5,-15,-2,4].sort(); > [-15,-2,1,10,4,5] [1,10,5,-15,-2,4].sort(function(a,b){return a-b}) [-15, -2, 1, 4, 5, 10]
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by bartl 13y ago
This might be subject to a chargeback. After all, they "sold", and charged, you something without your consent, didn't they?
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by bartl 13y ago
What is this supposed to link to? What I see is "As civil war rages on in Syria, humanitarian suffering is reaching new catastrophic levels."
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by bartl 13y ago
What I don't get is that in the USA, figuring out a password to an email account is a crime punishable with years of jailtime (think of the Sarah Palin case) [1], but somehow, when the NSA does it to everyone in the world it's j
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by bartl 13y ago
And you move even further forward and turn around, it's back again: https://www.google.com/maps?ll=30.613617,34.803708&spn=0.001...
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by bartl 13y ago
And this response, which is quite typical for laypeople like myself, shows why the site put that footnote on that article. Apparently, the impact would be so hard that the rock heats up quite significantly.
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by bartl 13y ago
Re (1): I am a developer. I do several different things a day. It's an ideal moment, do do 1 short thing in between 2 different long tasks. It's a nice distraction, a time to empty your head. So, unless you're spending your whole day on one
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by bartl 13y ago
Why are we even looking at this...
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by bartl 14y ago
So your stolen laptop is in Teheran. Is that a reason to celebrate? I wouldn't think so. So, for a publicity stunt, this is quite poor.
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by bartl 14y ago
Didn't Google already write Google Apps and Google Maps in Java (or Go), and then compile it to Javascript? Because somebody at Google really doesn't like Javascript, and preferred to use something more "enterprisey".
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by bartl 14y ago
These are not strawpeople. These are sex jokes.
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by bartl 14y ago
Haha, that's funny... because the XMLHttpRequest thing, the main enabler of Ajax, is actually a Microsoft invention,or, should I say: "Microsoft did it first.": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLHttpRequest#History_and_supp...
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by bartl 14y ago
And some audiophiles would pay up to $500 for a wooden volume knob: http://boingboing.net/2005/11/07/astronomically-overp.html . I don't quite trust those people's judgement.
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by bartl 14y ago
I don't see how Apple's attitude here is any better than Microsoft's stand regarding browsers on Windows, a few years ago, and for which they got a huge fine in Europe. If anything, Apple's attitude ("The company prevents its users from mak
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by bartl 14y ago
It's chess. You don't have to use this board to check every possible move, as any engine that knows the chess rules can verify if the result is indeed checkmate, without using this site's engine. But, basically you're right. If the bot is n
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by bartl 14y ago
Yeah, I wish browsers supported a tab mode where a tab can be open, but use no memory apart from URL and history, thus: no page content. A bit like how currently in Firefox a closed pinned tab is still visible in the browser tabs list, grey
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by bartl 14y ago
But!... But!... It's a parody! Fair use! Yeah, right.
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by bartl 14y ago
In Belgium, the domain name tv.be, which is the best name one can imagine for a TV guide site, has been renamed to yelo.be. I don't understand why people simply throw the best imaginable domain names away.
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by bartl 14y ago
I thought Javascript wasn't allowed to touch any files on the local filesystem?
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by bartl 14y ago
Yawn. JSON isn't valid Javascript, but it sure is a valid Javascript data structure. I often use code like echo "var d = ", json_encode($data), ";\n"; and be 100% sure I'm generating perfectly valid Javascript, no matter what is i
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by bartl 14y ago
It's not very "optional" if it's turned on by default.
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by bartl 14y ago
You're just fooling yourself if you believe that a photograph that is not lossily compressed would be sharp in every single detail. That's not how lenses (or our eyes) work.
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by bartl 14y ago
It depends on how you calculate the percentages. "Percents" are only useful as a tool for small numbers, say less than 10%: 90% is not far from 1/110%, so no matter how you calculate 10% loss or gain, you'll get numbers that don't stray too
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by bartl 14y ago
"Perfect" pitch isn't necessary, as slight deviations produce interesting sounds related to the "flanger" effect. It's the reason why pianos have more than one string per key: it is the intention that they are slightly detuned, or else yo
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by bartl 14y ago
>before you know it some people will demand features that are not supported by it Eh, what? Features don't matter. It's just the data that should be portable. If one platform supports "dynamic playlists" (which is just the equivalent of
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by bartl 14y ago
The problem is that `bindparam` binds by reference, and `foreach` reuses the same variable for `$value`, with the same reference, in the loop? Then the solution could be to use `&$value` instead. Untested: foreach( $bind_params as
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by bartl 14y ago
And according to the article the video was 29 seconds long. Very short if someone wants to argue that the intention was to post the song...
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by bartl 14y ago
It may last up to 3 billion years... unless the glass gets scratched. Oopsie.

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