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by camtarn 17y ago
In the UK, a lot of sites just ask you for your postcode and house number. The postcode allows pretty much everything else to be looked up. I assume there's a fallback to full address in all of these sites, but I've never had to use it. It'
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by camtarn 17y ago
It's a pity people don't seem to be reading these. As a young coder, I find tales of the earlier ages of computing and electronics fascinating, and they serve as a good reminder that even today there are areas of computing where the philoso
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by camtarn 17y ago
There seem to be quite a lot of designers out there strongly opposed to 99designs and its ilk: http://www.no-spec.com/
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by camtarn 17y ago
Whenever I have to use Perl, I get to a point when I want a nested data structure. Then I remember that I have to use a completely different syntax to do so, and my head explodes. Who thought explicit and non-automatic references were a goo
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by camtarn 17y ago
There seems to be a difference in trucker culture between the US and UK - truckers in the UK don't seem to practise this technique. While there are some courteous and sensible UK truckers, most of them seem to be driving right up against th
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by camtarn 17y ago
I never thought I'd see a link about Falkirk on HN. I live just up the road from the Wheel :) It's pretty incredible to watch - there aren't many places where you can watch such a large piece of machinery in routine operation.
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by camtarn 17y ago
Unfortunately, JSLint objects strongly to using 'new foo()' without assigning the result to anything, which is a pain if you're using Prototype AJAX since firing off an AJAX request is done by calling 'new Ajax.Request(url, options)'. The o