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by coroxout 12y ago
I remember a definite pre-millennial spike in such jokes so I went looking. Never heard it before (it's on youtube so I have now), but track 2 of this album from 1984 might win the prize: http://www.discogs.com/Daniel-A
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by coroxout 12y ago
That small slip annoyed me too. Long s does not appear at the end of words or in capital letters (at least not that I can currently recall), which is why it would not appear in the title (the capital letter of "School" or the word
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by coroxout 12y ago
I just started doing Slimming World, which I guess is much the same as WW but with a different points allocation scheme. (Rice/pasta/potatoes are basically "free" as long as they are not cooked in oil; a third of each me
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by coroxout 12y ago
Congratulations. Looking forward to the blog posts too. What was the learning curve like starting work on a game with your respective backgrounds? Not to add to the learning curve but if you have any plans for an Android version I'd be
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by coroxout 12y ago
Not good if the alarm drains the battery though.
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by coroxout 12y ago
"Most hotels offer free WiFi" This may be true in the US but I don't think it's necessarily true in Europe. Too many hotels in the UK/Ireland claim to offer "internet access" which turns out to mean no wif
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by coroxout 12y ago
Less of a problem than described in this article, and now fixed, but rather incongruous nonetheless: a couple of years ago (as far as I could make out) Google maps editing was available in some territories and not in others. Consequently th
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by coroxout 13y ago
Wow. I've been wondering what happened to Jeffrey Lim, and here he is with a blog and everything. By the way, it's exciting that Lim plans to open the original assembler source to IT, but anyone interested in an open source, fully
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by coroxout 13y ago
I very much agree with this. I'm a woman and at age 13 I was, if not actually "hacking", at least teaching myself to code simple games/graphics. However, "delivering solid product" is a very big leap from that.
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by coroxout 13y ago
Granted that applying a layperson's understanding of a DSM category to people I've never met from a completely alien culture is a pointless and possibly crass task, but reading through this I was thinking of avoidant personality d
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by coroxout 13y ago
I absolutely agree with your last paragraph: seek help. However, I find "just because someone says they are depressed doesn't make them so. And that belittles people who really are depressed" a dangerous attitude with regards to that. When
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by coroxout 14y ago
Interesting. And Jevons himself was a pretty interesting guy, from a hacker's point of view: he built the "Logic Piano", a mechanical calculating device for Boolean logic statements, which effectively generated truth tables: http://www.rut
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by coroxout 14y ago
I was amazed when I went to Germany and saw working, clean ticket machines at every tram and bus stop. I'm from the UK and there is no way they would've gone a month here without being smashed or crudely tagged. Anyway, interesting technolo
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by coroxout 14y ago
OK, this is brilliant. Well done, whoever made it. I wonder if it's intended to be solved by hand or by scripting. I'm having fun doing the former, but making very slow progress, I have to admit...
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by coroxout 14y ago
Yes. I'd like to think that men, especially more introverted guys like the stereotypical hacker, might choose their wives and girlfriends because they liked them as people - real people, with a personality and thoughts and ideas they find i
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by coroxout 14y ago
Same here. No-image Google cache version here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:QFxSoJi...
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by coroxout 14y ago
I just finished Udacity's CS101 course and the lack of deadlines was good for me. I started it months ago and only found time to finish it over my Christmas break, because just watching the videos took me a whole evening per section, and th
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by coroxout 14y ago
I try to do this when learning a new language/framework from tutorials and ebooks, but it hadn't occurred to me to do it when using other people's plugins or finding answers to code problems online. I like the idea a lot.
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by coroxout 14y ago
Looks interesting - I've enrolled. Thanks for the post.
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by coroxout 14y ago
Thank you! I'd never heard of sox and it looks potentially useful and a lot of fun to play around with.
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by coroxout 14y ago
I can filter out people talking (as long as they're not listing numbers when I'm also doing numerical work) but get driven insane by little noises like repeated sniffing, foot-drumming, or even one coworker with a particularly squeaky scrol
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by coroxout 14y ago
For an idea of scale, this page includes a photo of Maurice Wilkes next to the mercury delay lines of EDSAC: http://amturing.acm.org/info/wilkes_1001395.cfm The tubes are 5 feet long (the whole tank is about 6' including the transducers a
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by coroxout 14y ago
I find girl/boy toy segregation sad too, but I'm a woman and when I was 4 my first post-Duplo Lego sets were the early 80s "Lego Fabuland" series: anthropomorphic animal minifigs in gingerbread-looking houses with furniture and cookers and
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by coroxout 14y ago
I love the new interface but the infinite scroll made me a bit nervous - I didn't expect my computer to be able to handle hundreds of multimedia canvas tags on the page at once. But I just scrolled through several months (200+ mixes) of the
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by coroxout 14y ago
I've often thought that it would be good if the (otherwise excellent) Chrome task manager included an indication of which tabs were currently generating sound. It's very annoying when an advert or a forgotten youtube embed suddenly starts m
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by coroxout 14y ago
This seems to simulate the pressure due to the weight of the bricks, but I wonder how much the height comes down by if you factor in the extra pressure you have to put on the top brick to get it to clip on. Does this add non-negligibly to t
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The story of Glitch: Why this odd MMO is shutting down(gamasutra.com)
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by coroxout 14y ago
I'm glad to hear this is still coming along because I was interested in it and forgot to fund for a very stupid reason (I clicked "Fund" and then forgot to hit "confirm"). I've been sporadically checking the website, which has no news for n
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by coroxout 14y ago
When I first started at my current job it was 20 hours a week. I'd work 9-2pm 4 days a week. When I was made full-time (37.5 hours) I remember noticing that I wasn't really getting any more done - more replying to emails, sure, but the actu
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by coroxout 14y ago
Agreed. I recently saw a thread on Slashdot (which I hardly ever read these days) started by someone who'd got a bit burnt out and whose skills were by his own admission out of date, asking how to get himself back into the game. It got a lo

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