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Google Blocks Gmail's Mail Fetcher(googlesystem.blogspot.co.uk)
2 points by bdfh42 14y ago|0 comments
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Reality Check: The chance that one of your "learn more ROR" projects endures and becomes so popular that you outgrow the environment is slim indeed. If you are very lucky and it happens (and I hope it will) then you will be too busy running
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by bdfh42 14y ago
If you are in the UK you will need to go to Amazon.co.uk and then search for the title. Still available at zero cost. Any idea why this "Chinese wall" exists for Kindle? I can buy print books from Amazon.com (sometimes technical books are c
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by bdfh42 14y ago
I am not at all sure that HN is the correct site to report problems with other web sites and services.
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Me - I went to the Old Reader - running very well. http://theoldreader.com
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by bdfh42 14y ago
OK - crazy idea - start an on-line university in your country. Beg some server time from a cloud supplier. Ask proffs in USA, UK etc to donate course material (for CS based courses ask HN users to create course material). Once things get st
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by bdfh42 14y ago
The best way to arrange to study in the USA or Europe is to have lots of money to pay fees, living expenses etc. Short of that it is difficult. In most of Europe it would be difficult to get a visa to study if you also intended to work (act
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Is there an established body of scientific work supporting parts of traditional Chinese medicine? I have always felt that the connection between a tiger's toenails (or whatever) and any known disease a bit thin but this could be just ignora
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Well I have had my genes for quite some years and my parents had them before then - oh and they got them from my grandparents. Just how long does it take before a patent expires? Or is this prior art?
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Just getting a database error at the moment - so perhaps some sort of update might be appropriate ;) hell is popularity.
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Clipping agencies used to have to buy the newspapers they read through to find articles about their clients. It seems fair to expect a similar relationship when the news goes electronic. This use is very different to a short quote - properl
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by bdfh42 14y ago
To quote the post "Transferring power and data wirelessly to displays as described in the patent is currently infeasible" So you can get a patent on something you actually have not invented? Just something you would like to invent - or perh
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by bdfh42 14y ago
But the change was not (as far as I understand it) retrospective. So what notification did you feel entitled to?
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by bdfh42 14y ago
And back in the 70s we used hand punches to encode EBCDIC characters onto an 80 column punch card to make minor corrections to our COBOL programs. After a while you could punch out a new card in very short order as your hands grew used to t
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Why do people make such a fuss about changes in something that is free? In this case the changes did not apply to pre-existing free set-ups - just new ones. You are entitled to complain about contract changes when you are a party to that co
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by bdfh42 14y ago
I think the question misunderstands the nature of the task. The HN page is a list with each list entry having a similar structure being made up on a number of components (like an up vote facility). the HTML table seems to fit the requiremen
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by bdfh42 14y ago
I have the feeling I am going to pass on so called smart watches. I had a digital watch back in the 70s when they were way cool but in time learned the value of a watch with hands - read with the shortest glance and just think, the display
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Not surprised - my daughter brought herself an excellent Android 7" tablet for £40.00 a month or so ago. Fantastic bargain that has given her a lot of pleasure. If it was not pink I might buy one for myself. If someone can sell these at a p
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Correct - no idea why people get confused. Closures are when you want "This this in that" and vanilla anonymous functions when you want "That this in that" ;)
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Looks to me that Amazon are serious about the cloud and their hosting/database products. Amazon are good at making a business out of affordable margins. Google are keen to engage with early adopters and see where that engagement takes them
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by bdfh42 14y ago
1. Blogging was too much effort 2. Not having everyone's mobile number to send SMS messages to the world 3. The need to be heard - even with nothing to say 4. Provides a tenuous form of contact with celebrity.
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Tesla loses appeal over Jeremy Clarkson review(guardian.co.uk)
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Programming's not for you? How about thinking? Be empowered.(hanselman.com)
4 points by bdfh42 14y ago|0 comments
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Sorry mate - as you did not seem outraged at such censorship (perhaps just grudgingly used to it) I sort of lumped you in with the sorts of people that thought it was OK. My sincere apologies - no deliberate offence was intended to you - al
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Holy crap - do you mean that penis is a "rude" word in your part of the world - when did correct and accurate English become rude? The mind truly boggles. How about vagina? Or does the female population of (I assume the USA) not have one? T
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by bdfh42 14y ago
The word is penis and that is the (very correct) word used in the article headline. Roughly half of us have one so there is no need to be mamby pamby about it. Here in the UK we have members of parliament and they are all - OK maybe that is
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Very clever - lots of points for the builders of such a thing as I am sure it was not that easy but the big question would remain - why? It sounds a mess - you don't even get to code in (quote) "low level" HTML5. I think I will pass.
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by bdfh42 14y ago
Going to sound silly but - a pencil every time. Just seems a better match to the mind flow. Very zen.
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Focusing on the work, not the methodology(blog.learningbyshipping.com)
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by bdfh42 14y ago
I am sure the bullet points have meaning - it is just that I can't fathom what they are. Secondary Sales? Check the alignment? Both seem to be the key issues but fail the comprehension test from where I am sitting.

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