billyjobob

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by billyjobob 14y ago
Your profile page behaves weirdly when viewed on iPad. The scrolling is jerky and clicking the title bar doesn't scroll to the top like it should.
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by billyjobob 14y ago
The funny thing about all the Gnome 3 complaints is that I felt exactly the same way about Gnome 2. I had the perfect Gnome 1 desktop configured and then Gnome 2 came along and removed every configuration option. That was about the same tim
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by billyjobob 14y ago
Startrek has huge resources, but not infinite. We (in western Europe and north America) reached a point of sufficient resources around 1970. Yet we still have homeless starving on our streets while the 1% who own 90% of the resources cru
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by billyjobob 14y ago
constant use of the word 'chap' in an attempt to sound like an upper class British public school boy is incredibly annoying. if the content is worth reading then it will stand on its own - it doesn't need to be livened up by speaking in the
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by billyjobob 14y ago
It says that they regret attempting to revoke the GPL (which goes with out saying, since they got huge negative publicity) but it doesn't seem to acknowledge that revoking the GPL is not possible. Therefore there is nothing to stop them try
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by billyjobob 14y ago
looks like the course lecturer was still an undergrad student at the time he lectured this course. I wonder if that is common at Stanford or whether he is a Doogie Howser style child prodigy.
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by billyjobob 14y ago
Does it allow you to easily encrypt a notebook yet? (There used to be some support for encrypting individual notes but it wasn't very good.) I don't feel happy about transitioning from storing personal stuff on my disk to storing it in the
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by billyjobob 14y ago
You may not be familiar with the history of nationalization in Britain. (Apologies if you are.) We used to have many nationalized industries. They didn't work very well, but their prices were cheap. The Tory party and the New Labour party
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by billyjobob 14y ago
This regex tests for RFC 822 compliance, but what if you get a user who has an email address that itself doesn't comply with the RFC?
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by billyjobob 14y ago
And it suddenly hits me that programming actually takes effort This post does very little to dispel the stereotype that girls can't code.
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by billyjobob 14y ago
The cycles are so much shorter now that what you were doing last year is antiquated, and what you were doing 5 years ago will get you fired. This isn't true in any other field of software development. Has the author not wondered why web d
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by billyjobob 14y ago
the first challenge that came up asked me to fix a JavaScript program. however, the logic of the program was fine; it merely contained a syntax error that was obvious if you know the peculiarities of JavaScript syntax but hard to spot if yo
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by billyjobob 14y ago
The profile pic is not very flattering but there is also a better cover picture: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=439926669386178&s... I think she's pretty typical for a 40 year old woman.
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Thompson: I view Linux as something that's not Microsoft—a backlash against Microsoft, no more and no less. I don't think it will be very successful in the long run. I've looked at the source and there are pieces that are good and pieces th