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by bartl 16y ago
"You can use it to create an <iframe> of sorts that simply loads pre-built HTML files into a div, but that's not all that exciting. If you use something like PHP to process and load data, you can start to make some very cool applica
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by bartl 16y ago
Wow,talk about trivial. Virtual currency already has existed for a long time already, even outside the world of computers. For example, the small change bank cards you can charge and pay with (like Proton in Belgium, http://www.atosworldli
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by bartl 16y ago
>I’ve been looking for a junior java developer with about 3 years of experience who knows java and sql. That’s it. Maybe that is the problem? Good programmers will never stick to just one tool. But if they know more than just Java, they
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by bartl 16y ago
Nah... I think just everything has already been invented, so there's no more need to start new projects... ;-)
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by bartl 16y ago
So his problem is, basically, that his software is too good...?
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by bartl 16y ago
Use "SQLite Database Browser" ( http://sqlitebrowser.sourceforge.net/ ) (free) or the Firefox Add-On "SQLite Manager" ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5817/ ) (also free) to open sqlite3 files.
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by bartl 16y ago
Why is the performance of PNG so disappointing? The WebP sample image from the article (top image) is shown here as a PNG of 234kB...
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by bartl 16y ago
Maybe I'm overlooking it, but I don't see why the link is to this page. The name "Oracle" isn't even mentioned there.
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by bartl 16y ago
>I don't have any experience with their audio file (MP3, AAC, etc) fingerprinting I do, via the desktop program [Picard]( http://musicbrainz.org/doc/PicardDownload ). It really works well for properly tagging mp3 files (and renaming fil
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by bartl 16y ago
He's not dropping out of Stanford. FTA: >Aboukhadijeh will continue to attend Stanford while he works at the company.
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by bartl 16y ago
>Interestingly enough, the ambitious Aboukhadijeh was a software engineer intern at Facebook when he created Youtube Instant. Ouch. Does that mean Facebook own the rights? Because IT staff are not much more than slaves in our world: any
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by bartl 16y ago
Yes. That's why it's a game, and not a serious programming practice.
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by bartl 16y ago
The problem with requiring an update to something like Python may break other programs. Not everything in Python (or Perl) is backward compatible.
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by bartl 16y ago
Paypal assumes too much. And they're getting away with it. Another recent case (just one month ago) that got a lot of attention was that PayPal froze the account of Burning Man, for no good reason at all: http://boingboing.net/2010/08/11
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by bartl 16y ago
I wonder why they're not saying anything about title case (Like the Title of This Post). Man!
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by bartl 16y ago
I have been on the other side. I'd like to think of myself as an excellent programmer, but occasionally I'm hard to motivate myself. The main reasons for that is that the job is boring, and the feeling of getting nowhere, being stuck. The t
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by bartl 16y ago
>Looks like something that crawled out of 70's Star Trek episode. My first thought when I saw that picture was: "He looks like a Ferengi ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferengi) .
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by bartl 16y ago
My calculation ($35 + half that) comes to a figure of about $50.
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by bartl 16y ago
From what I heard (I could be wrong), here in Belgium it is only illegal to be a contractor with only one customer; for the exact same reason as you state here: because such a contractor is actually a disguised employee and thus unfair comp
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by bartl 16y ago
So, China is the reason why IE6 won't die? I don't buy it.
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by bartl 16y ago
> 1px off is wrong. But if you have to judge by a (scaled) screenshot of 300x400 pixels, you can't even be sure of what you see.
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by bartl 16y ago
I too wouldn't move the text area towards the keyboard, but the other way around: position the keyboard just underneath the text area.
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by bartl 16y ago
Firebug is a good interactive console to play with Javascript inside the browser.
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by bartl 16y ago
They get you to put names on faces in pictures.
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by bartl 16y ago
> Does this imply, that the Killer App™ cannot be produced with Objective-C and without built-in interpreters? The requirement for natively written code for the iPhone seems to mainly serve to prevent easy porting to other smartphones.
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by bartl 16y ago
That is easy to guess. If a 3rd part builds a killer app for a smart phone, running on the iPhone, they can very easily port it to Android. So the killer app becomes a killer app for the smart phone, but not for the iPhone.
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by bartl 16y ago
It doesn't do it by default, it's plain white as usual. You have to be logged in into Google to have a "different background", thus, any background at all.
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by bartl 16y ago
I think it might be so that you can type in your password on any keyboard. Some special characters may be missing on some keyboards, or they may need to be typed in differently, depending on your locale.
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by bartl 16y ago
By coincidence (though I don't think it is coincidence) Jeff Atwood's latest blog post at Coding Horror, "The Vast and Endless Sea" ( http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/06/the-vast-and-endles... ) is about the same thing: how offering lo
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by bartl 16y ago
Facebook is not an alternative. More and more people refuse to use it.

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