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by bshimmin 5y ago
"préciser" in English is "specify" in case that helps. (This has been a lovely thread!)
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by bshimmin 5y ago
I can't really think of Scottish poetry these days without remembering William McGonagall. Here's his incomparable "The Tay Bridge Disaster": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tay_Bridge_Disaster
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by bshimmin 5y ago
I was also a happy Demon user for some years from the mid-nineties... having your own hostname and IP address (which, weirdly, I can still remember) always felt so luxurious!
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by bshimmin 5y ago
It's funny how this advice - to use either Zen or A&A if you conceivably can - hasn't really changed for about twenty years. (I used A&A in London a decade ago and they were great, albeit a bit expensive.)
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by bshimmin 5y ago
I concur with your reasoning and I've also observed this phenomenon with "text" and "texted", in the sense of "to send an SMS", eg. "I texted her earlier but she never replied"; most people I kno
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by bshimmin 5y ago
If the only thing keeping you awake at the wheel is having the radio on, rather than driving you should be having a break (for some people, a coffee and a micro-nap will work wonders).
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by bshimmin 5y ago
I agree with you, though perhaps if you don't know what "CDP" stands for ("customer data platform"), you're maybe not in the market for one. The only company I've really heard of in this space is Segment,
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by bshimmin 5y ago
People used to use shell variables like this a lot in (to name one place) alt.sysadmin.recovery, such that the FAQ even mentions it: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sysadmin-recovery/ (section 1.3)... meaning people have
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by bshimmin 5y ago
It's a poor definition by itself (though it's hard to explain "source code" succinctly without also getting into terms like "compiling", all of which means very little to someone not familiar with software deve
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by bshimmin 5y ago
My 7-year-old came home recently with several maps with a continent on them marked, variously, either as "Australia" or "Oceania". My wife and I were both confused since we had been taught that this was called "Aus
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by bshimmin 5y ago
There's an example Beads web site here: https://github.com/magicmouse/beads-examples/tree/master/Exa... The index.beads and (I think!) corresponding index.html files are... quite something. I'm
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by bshimmin 5y ago
I can't wait to do JS-in-CSS-in-JS!
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by bshimmin 5y ago
It's a cliché and it's meaningless - it's not like you see "Made with hate" or "Made with indifference (but at least it covered my mortgage payments)".
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by bshimmin 5y ago
In case you never knew you wanted AppleScript in the browser, here it (sort of) is!
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by bshimmin 6y ago
"Scuppered" means to prevent from succeeding—also to sink a ship deliberately. I was quite interested to learn this, because I would always have used the word "scuttled" for the deliberate sinking of a ship.
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by bshimmin 6y ago
What a bizarre thing - that question is actually a thought experiment (or something) by the author of Twisted!
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by bshimmin 6y ago
I studied Latin and French from the age of 11. When I spent a year in Bologna as a student on the Erasmus scheme (studying Latin, in fact), I can assure you that my schoolboy French was the more useful of the two as a starting point for
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by bshimmin 6y ago
I have been here (it's not far from where I live): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah%27s_Ark_Zoo_Farm It's certainly an experience (and the animals don't seem too bothered about the whole creationism t
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by bshimmin 6y ago
Why can't the back-end of Topicbox do the JMAP stuff and then serve up some HTML? Beyond "because that's how we built it and it must be thus", it's quite hard to see why the front-end would need so much JavaScript
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by bshimmin 6y ago
I like to think James Bond is terrible at DIY and cooking, at least.
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by bshimmin 6y ago
I use GitHub and Bitbucket fairly extensively and I find Bitbucket painfully slow at times (eg. 7.38s to load a page just now with a whopping two open pull requests on it, whilst somehow transferring 8.8MB of crap; the equivalent page on Gi
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by bshimmin 6y ago
Richard Stallman's rider is well-known but might perhaps be new to one or two people here: https://github.com/ddol/rre-rms/blob/master/rider.txt (It's long - search for "parrot" for t
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by bshimmin 6y ago
I would attach a note of caution to this - having loved the book myself, I gave my mother (a lady not terribly well-versed in postmodern literature) a copy of Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore and it took her quite some time to f
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by bshimmin 6y ago
It won't ever take off because it's not universally applicable - no one wants to write a CRUD web app as a literate program, for example. Most developers don't want to write any more words than they really have to: just try
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by bshimmin 6y ago
Wouldn't you just end up with (for example) "Python-flavoured JSON", just like we have "GitHub-flavoured Markdown"? On the other hand, there is an RFC for JSON where there isn't for Markdown, so it ought to be
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by bshimmin 6y ago
Gosling Emacs was actually sold by UniPress in the early eighties, causing a lot of fuss and consternation.
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by bshimmin 6y ago
Obviously my comment wasn't at all substantive (and thus richly deserves the downvotes it has received!), and clearly my opinion on this piece of writing isn't a popular one either, but surely it's hard to argue that... &quot
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by bshimmin 6y ago
I offer no commentary on the actual content, but this is a truly horrible piece of writing - almost every sentence is clunky, poorly phrased, ungrammatical, or repetitive. I guess you don't need to be able to write decent prose to mak
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by bshimmin 6y ago
Are you trying to say you don't use a herb-mint facial mask as part of your morning routine?
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by bshimmin 6y ago
There was a learning curve at first but now most of the students are able to login to their correct classes at the right times which blows me away. The fact 5-year olds are able to more or less keep their own schedule and do assignments on

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