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by choult 13y ago
Point of interest, it's actually "Referer" - a misspelling that dates back to the original HTTP RFC 1945. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer
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We’re Just Making Movies(wehaveembarked.com)
1 points by choult 13y ago|0 comments
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by choult 13y ago
Humour must really be on the decline :P To the downvoters: ah well :)
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by choult 13y ago
For those not finding Zuckerberg in the dictionary, he founded Facebook.
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by choult 13y ago
I suspect the true reason there is no programmer's union is because we don't need one yet - the supply/demand balance is massively weighted in our favor and so we have no general need for the kind of protection and collective
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by choult 13y ago
The Minister of Health doesn't go around stating that every schoolchild should learn how to operate on people...
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by choult 13y ago
I wonder how many bug reports Gizmodo.com is going to have...
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Tory Boss of Government Coding Education Initiative Can't Code(politicalscrapbook.net)
90 points by choult 13y ago|89 comments
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by choult 13y ago
I would always recommend asking up front - but if in doubt, I find it's better to start off smart and dress down later.
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by choult 13y ago
If I wore a suit today, out of the blue, I would get a dozen people ask me if I was going to a job interview...
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‘American Idol’ Will Let Fans Cast Ballots via Google, In First for TV(variety.com)
1 points by choult 13y ago|0 comments
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by choult 13y ago
Clearly, then, you're not a true cynic until you understand how transistors work at the quantum level...
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by choult 13y ago
Reading, UK - DataSift - http://datasift.com We are a provider of social media data on the firehose scale - we are one of only a small number of companies who are reselling the Twitter firehose; we also provide a number of sourc
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by choult 13y ago
Why is our drinking water so dirty? Oh yeah. It isn't. Regulation can solve many more ills than it can cause.
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by choult 13y ago
Those IP laws are the same things that underpin the GPL and other Open Source licenses. Granted, trademarks can sometimes be silly, copyright terms far too long and software patents ridiculous but at heart they do provide some very strong
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by choult 13y ago
Not sure that that is so strange when you consider tea might appear more often due to a fairly well-known n-grame including its delivery container...
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by choult 13y ago
Set us straight then; expand your responses with your own knowledge of primary sources. Enlighten us.
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German cows cause methane blast in Rasdorf(bbc.co.uk)
6 points by choult 13y ago|1 comments
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by choult 13y ago
There's more to this than just the anti-protest laws - what kind of protests do you think they were trying to prevent in the first place?
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by choult 13y ago
Yet gambling is rarely an investment...
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by choult 13y ago
While an interesting observation, and good to be backed up with fact/analysis, it's not particularly surprising - as companies grow and mature, their character changes and attract a different sort of employee. Gone, perhaps, are t
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by choult 13y ago
Having just gotten back to the UK after my first trip to SF I can see why people like it - it's got a great buzz, and the culture is varied and attractive. My biggest concern - though it might just be because I was downtown, or that I&
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Pentagon Papers leaker Ellsburg discovers being surveilled pre-leak on Reddit(reddit.com)
4 points by choult 13y ago|0 comments
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US nuclear launch officers suspended for 'cheating'(m.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by choult 13y ago|0 comments
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Facebook to enter the online newspaper market with 'Paper'(independent.co.uk)
2 points by choult 13y ago|0 comments
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by choult 13y ago
It's really quite hard to stop admiring the technical lengths the NSA has gone to to exceed their constitutional bounds - radar-powered devices for snooping is genius!
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by choult 13y ago
I'm all for standardizing core function names and deprecating outmoded items, but I was merely pointing out the problems inherent in doing so - there are pros and cons to all decisions, and a great deal are complicated greatly once the
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by choult 13y ago
The past five or so years have seen engineers of greater experience take interest in PHP's ecosystems and core; a greater maturity in PHP is emerging. I suspect we'll see bigger changes coming over the next five or ten years, but
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by choult 13y ago
Very true; I would be disappointed to discover that PHP is still using the same hashing function. However, changing the function names (especially some of the core ones) is fraught with backwards-compatibility issues - PHP code written 15 y
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by choult 13y ago
While it's true that the code in question was taken straight from nginx, if you bothered to read the NodeJS implementation (pre-fix, and referenced in my link) you would see that a secondary check against the full verb (that nginx perf

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