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751.
by billpg 9y ago
Yes! We should use PNG files for icons rather than Microsoft's proprietary format. What?
752.
by billpg 9y ago
What could someone evil do with a recording of me saying "Yes"? I have a YouTube channel and I've probably said that word in a few of them.
753.
by billpg 9y ago
Would you please tell my brain. Every time it sees that name it insists on going "Daylight come and I wanna go home."
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ADVENTURES IN VIDEO GAMES (by Tom Russell)(hollandspiele.com)
2 points by billpg 9y ago|0 comments
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by billpg 9y ago
Ah, you would have joined shortly after I left, so you may have been my replacement. Did they give you the email sending/receiving components too?
756.
by billpg 9y ago
In Cambridge, later moving to Bury StEdmunds? (If you don't know what I'm talking about, I thought you were someone I briefly used to work with. Sorry.)
757.
by billpg 9y ago
Even though I am not a Christian, I get every Sunday as a day off work.
758.
by billpg 9y ago
Thank you very much. I worked very hard on it.
759.
by billpg 9y ago
Cool, just as Brexit looks to be falling apart under its own incompetence.
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by billpg 9y ago
What if I wanted to delete the two files "@{g" and "*.bak}"?
761.
by billpg 9y ago
How much will it cost? (Your service, not hosting my own copy.) If its free, how will you pay for your costs? (Ads? Selling my data?)
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by billpg 9y ago
I wish Unix and co did it the Windows way - leave it to the invoked process to parse. I have an app that takes an SQL query on the command line and I have to remember I can't just type SELECT * because the shell thinks it knows what I
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by billpg 9y ago
I miss barrel power connectors. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coaxial_power_connector ) Standardize a physical size and electrical characteristics and we're done. You can plug one in the dark since there's
764.
by billpg 10y ago
So it'll be a self-hosted webmail service with a custom web server that runs locally?
765.
by billpg 10y ago
They still have trading floors? I thought all trades went electronically these days.
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What Killed Adobe Flash(daringfireball.net)
5 points by billpg 10y ago|1 comments
767.
by billpg 10y ago
I don't like it. http://www.thesunsetlounge.co.uk/Images/PoundedPound.jpg
768.
by billpg 10y ago
I once gave a phone number over the phone using Nine-er for 9. Operator thought I said "Nine Oh" (or 90).
769.
by billpg 10y ago
Like they ever would have gone away even if the vote was over 60% to remain. They'd have demanded a second referendum (and 3rd and 4th and 5th...) until they got the result they wanted.
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by billpg 10y ago
I'd make it an international certification.
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Is your API broken?(blog.hackensplat.com)
1 points by billpg 10y ago|0 comments
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by billpg 10y ago
Is there an ideal number of times for North Korea's missiles to work?
773.
by billpg 10y ago
But is it unfair?
774.
by billpg 10y ago
"12 hour clock or 24 hour clock?" "My clock has three hands. The angle of which two hands?"
775.
by billpg 10y ago
I wonder how the various online backup services would handle a request to delete the backup. In a ransom-ware situation, the bad guys might have the keys to a backup service. The existence of that backup would make it pointless to actually
776.
by billpg 10y ago
The "Disable Falsh" button is under Advanced Settings on Edge. Switched it off and I barely notice anything is missing these days.
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by billpg 10y ago
I deleted all members of the list. It is now sorted as per the first axiom. Goal achieved, job complete.
778.
by billpg 10y ago
Wasn't "{Field|Group|Record|Unit} Separator" meant to allow an alternative to using commas in CSV data?
779.
by billpg 10y ago
Don't most browsers have hooks for AV (and other plugins) to get into web traffic without having to mess with TLS?
780.
by billpg 10y ago
My pet gripe: Warning me about cookies as if they are malware.

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