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by chris_j 16y ago
While it's not fair to define a new generation of computing by its isolation and exclusion of the previous generation, people have been taking a pop at the iPad because a PC (or a Mac) is required before your iPad will work. At all. I'm pre
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by chris_j 16y ago
Very funny. It's referring to a charity, of course, which is extremely well known in the UK (and in Ireland, if Wikipedia is to be believed). Here is the correct Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaritans_(charity) The charit
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by chris_j 16y ago
This article is pretty old (April 2010). Apple has loosened some of its restrictions in the meantime: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20015954-264.html
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by chris_j 16y ago
I knew nothing of the HTML 5 history API until I read this. I found this page in the Mozilla docs to be fairly informative: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/Manipulating_the_browse... I look forward to the day when this API is support
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by chris_j 16y ago
Absolutely. The advice given in the article is great for when you genuinely have a disagreement with someone but maybe less so for when someone is deliberately being a dick about it. For example, I wonder how this approach would work with s
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by chris_j 16y ago
I wasn't going to jump into this discussion but that isn't very fair. I don't use PHP myself and am not a fan of it but here are some reasons why I think it is popular: 1) It's very easy to get started with, even if you're not a great progr
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by chris_j 16y ago
It's slow for me too (Chrome on Linux) but I thought that was because I don't have hardware acceleration working on my Acer netbook. What hardware/OS are you using?
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by chris_j 16y ago
> And it would be the government saying you can't do something, not BMW or Colt handguns. I think this is a key point. Is it the government telling you that you can't do something (that is against the law) or a company using the law to
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by chris_j 16y ago
Anyone else see this? "redhat.com is temporarily unavailable. Please try back later." I was starting to wonder if the controversy surrounding this had taken their site down but the article is still there, a few screens down.
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> JAWS, in particular, is quite powerful, but pretty daunting to learn. Compounding the clunkiness of JAWS is that many apps and sites aren't built with screen reader usability in mind – even if the developers made a good effort to ensu
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by chris_j 16y ago
Thanks for the explanation. It makes a lot of sense that sourcing candidates is hard and that's where recruiters add value. I do it slightly ironic that you say that job boards are more or less useless and then you go on to say that it's re
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by chris_j 16y ago
OK, here's a question: why do companies use recruitment consultants? I've never heard a nice word said about them, certainly not in the tech/IT field. Not by people who work for companies hiring, not by jobs applicants. What value do they a
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by chris_j 16y ago
He posted a follow up with a LaTeX resume template here: http://www.toofishes.net/blog/latex-resume-follow-up/ I must confess that I don't understand it well but it has inspired me to actually try LaTeX for the first time. (EDIT - fixed d
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by chris_j 16y ago
This saying is (probably incorrectly) attributed to Voltaire: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." The question is, would I defend to the death your right to turn up at someone's funeral and d
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by chris_j 16y ago
Thanks, that makes sense and sounds similar to my experiences: Java 1.5 (I meant Java 5 :-) had been around for an awfully long time before I was able to use it at work. Of course, when we actually were able to move to Java 5, it felt like
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by chris_j 16y ago
> The predictions of Java's death seem to be based on a Java 1.3-1.4-style Java What do you mean by Java 1.3-1.4-style Java? Do you mean the specific language features used (for example, is everything different now you can use generics
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by chris_j 16y ago
Do you think that choosing a non-mainstream language is really the result of some sort of counter-culture vibe? Some desire to be different? I ask this because I am a fan of Python and Clojure. I got into both as a result of reading pg's es
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by chris_j 16y ago
+1 Mark Volkmann's tutorial. That's what got me started on learning Clojure. Of course, once I'd gone through that, I still waded through this book and got a lot of value from it: http://pragprog.com/titles/shcloj/programming-clojure (whi
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by chris_j 16y ago
It's not entirely clear what Elop means by "value transfer". My initial reading was that Microsoft would just be writing a big fat cheque to Nokia in exchange for Nokia using WP7. It sounds like it's actually something slightly more subtle
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by chris_j 16y ago
"Here's a challenge, then, for the internet: instead of spamming my Wikipedia talk page (which I don't really care about), why don't you work on fixing WP's notability guideline for programming languages?" Amen to that. Others have said it
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by chris_j 16y ago
No worries, I also notice that SO comes up in Google results quite a lot and that's generally how I access it as well so I also do a Google search for tech issues and then end up clicking on the SO link. Your post yesterday got me thinking
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by chris_j 16y ago
PS - I mentioned that for loops are implemented as a macro in Clojure. I should have said list comprehensions. Have a look at the clojure source here and search for "(defmacro for" to see what I mean. It's awesome to think that, if this had
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by chris_j 16y ago
The main difference between Lisp and other languages (including Haskell) is that Lisp is homoiconic. That is, a Lisp program is represented as a list, a data structure that can itself be manipulated by a Lisp program. This means that a Lisp
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by chris_j 16y ago
I know what you mean about searching for local vendors or buying something; my experience is that a Google search isn't great for either of those. I still find Google pretty useful for coding help, though, and personally I don't tend to go
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by chris_j 16y ago
It's more subtle than that. They don't think they are explosives. They are merely ensuring that no liquids are taken through security. If no liquids are taken through security then no liquid precursors to explosives are taken through securi
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by chris_j 16y ago
This article resonates very strongly with me. My job involves writing Java. Having really gotten into Python and Clojure over the past few years, as well as dabbling with Haskell, it really frustrates me when I have to write certain things
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by chris_j 16y ago
When I was 14 years old, I went through a growth spurt and often passed out when I got up too quickly. One day, I got out of bed in a hurry, passed and and came to lying next to a broken (UK) plug, with a very sore head. It appeared that I
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by chris_j 16y ago
Would you mind explaining it further? I took it to be from the perspective of the history of programming languages. It sounds like you think that Clojure can't be regarded as an important Lisp at this time because it's only been around for
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by chris_j 16y ago
Two things that seem somewhat contradictory are that on the one hand, pg would bet on increasingly efficient markets and would not bet on anything that restricts the flow of information. On the other hand, he thinks that the iPhone is so aw
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by chris_j 16y ago
If Apple do intend to launch a product called iTV then I imagine there will be trademark issues to resolve: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITV

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