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by cannam 10y ago
F-Zero GX I still play quite often (agonisingly badly, but at the moment I'm still a bit better at it than my kids are). I'd love to see another F-Zero. Also of course the two excellent Zelda games. What a fab console.
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by cannam 10y ago
I'm British and I didn't recognise either term. I had to head for Wikipedia to translate to British English ("central reservation").
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by cannam 10y ago
In my experience, trackpads that feel weird and unresponsive in Windows can be fine when running Linux. I think it's the OS and the drivers as much as the hardware. The Yoga I'm typing this on (with Linux) has the best trackpad I&
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by cannam 10y ago
Ah of course, that is quite widely used (e.g. Perl). If you already have that, I can see why you'd reuse the same token. (edit: ok, I see from other replies that it's not that simple)
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by cannam 10y ago
Good question, not one I have any tidy answer for. The fact that we have so many "more traditional" genres in the first place is a result of some progress or invention having happened in the past. Why should it stop? Novelty is so
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by cannam 10y ago
There must be some interesting reason why ".." and not the more common "..." - I wonder what?
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by cannam 10y ago
I like the theory (which I think I associate with Ambrose Field) that we recently came out of a period in which invention in music was tightly associated with technological capability. Most apparent in pop where, for example, each new wave
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by cannam 10y ago
I love the way this discussion has divided neatly into thirds: history of ringbuffers; digression on shoelaces; fragmentary, widely ignored, replies about everything else (this one included, I'm sure). I like this kind of article and e
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by cannam 10y ago
It's impossible to please everyone with rotary controls. If I read you correctly, you're asking for them to be controlled by actual rotary movement of the mouse. Many people dislike that (and I'm one of them) because it'
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by cannam 10y ago
Agreed on the Lumia 620, which despite its cheap materials was a lovely design. Perfect size, nice to hold, and the dual-layer back covers were fab.
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by cannam 10y ago
My driving instructor (in the UK) came from Sweden. He thought automatics were much safer and reckoned everyone should drive one, especially in the city, but he didn't like teaching them because they were so boring.
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by cannam 10y ago
I set out to try the Desktop App Converter with some of my own apps the other day, on a laptop that had just been updated with the Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Trouble was, the laptop had Windows 10 Home Edition on it and the Desktop App
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by cannam 10y ago
Doesn't seem to exist, sadly, Android or otherwise. There are no good phones of that size any more and I can see no hint that any company will ever make one again. I have a Sony Xperia Z5 Compact. This is often recommended to people as
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by cannam 10y ago
The Research Machines 380Z ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/13/archaeologic_the_res... ) is the machine I'll always (happily) associate with CP/M. That article says "even in 1982, the 380Z
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by cannam 10y ago
Completely OT and I apologise, but I've just noticed that your "60%" doesn't use the percent sign but instead ℅, a symbol I'd never seen before that appears to be the abbreviation for "care of". I'm f
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by cannam 10y ago
"It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then on the morrow, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in
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by cannam 10y ago
Apropos of not much, I like the venerable Beyer DT250 for everyday use -- they're similar to the DT150 studio cans but with a velour kind of finish, that makes them comfier at home but not so suitable for passing around in the studio.
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by cannam 10y ago
Studio audio technicians are not so easily fooled. I'm sure the field has its fair share of peculiar magic, but it's not like home audio. People who spend thousands on exotic speakers in the name of "transparency" in the
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by cannam 10y ago
(replying to myself!) > I also genuinely like PowerShell To expand on this. As a Unix user with decades of experience writing shell, I find it easier to write a shell script than a PowerShell one for any given job. But I am a lot more co
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by cannam 10y ago
Joining in the "I agree, but..." > It doesn't even have a logical history. Despite having used it for many years, I still don't understand why when I type one command (eg make), and then another (eg out.exe), I have t
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by cannam 10y ago
Just looking at that page gave me an irresistible flashback to the legendary Elan Enterprise home computer: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/24/elan_flan_enterprise...
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by cannam 10y ago
and from Robert L Glass, Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering (2003, but I think a self-reference from Building Quality Software, 1992): "The data on the percentage of time spent in error removal has varied over the years, but t
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by cannam 10y ago
All very offtopic, but uploads on the Flickr site usually timeout on my home broadband these days. I fear they've been tweaking their servers for classier users than I am.
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by cannam 10y ago
> We should partner up and procrastinate together. "Displacement Activity Swap Shop" http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Displacement_20Activity_20Swa...
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by cannam 10y ago
Autumn 1992, in an undergraduate industrial placement, a module for approximating special functions (Zeta function, Bessel functions etc) in the REDUCE computer algebra system: https://sourceforge.net/p/reduce-algebra&#
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by cannam 10y ago
I'm in the same position. BT recently declared that they might install fibre to my street some time in 2017 though, so that's quite exciting.
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by cannam 10y ago
> The "listen" button here pronounces the words with an American accent I think that feature must be localised -- here it gives me a (female) voice with an English accent, and the two words sound quite different.
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by cannam 10y ago
Thank you for that link. I remember reading the "care as in character" thing years ago and just boggling at it -- who on earth makes character start with care ? (As a British person, I think the first syllable of character rhy
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Ask HN: What kind of shape are the derivatives of OpenSolaris in?
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by cannam 10y ago
My most uncomfortable interview experience (nearly 20 years ago) came about because of this problem. I was working in a job I enjoyed, but that didn't pay well. The money had started to become a problem and I started looking for someth

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