cpcallen

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by cpcallen 8y ago
AHH, if only I lived in the countryside, rather than in a London suburb where my maximum ADSL speed has for at least the last decade been barely better than a T1 downstream, and hardly better than dialup upstream!
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by cpcallen 8y ago
Aaand... they're gone.
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by cpcallen 8y ago
Also: extremely limited availability of the require isotopes. Even NASA has had to redesign missions to use solar instead because their supply was running out.
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by cpcallen 8y ago
Aperture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aperture_(software) I would happily pay for an update that fixed outstanding bugs and ensured compatibility with future versions of macOS. It would be nice to have some new featu
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by cpcallen 8y ago
My impression is that it is not so much that management wants to stop leaks (though I'm sure they do) as it is that the vast majority of rank-and-file employees want the leaking to stop because past leaks have so very badly damaged the
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by cpcallen 8y ago
If this were in the United Kingdom, the local council would insist the building be torn down.
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by cpcallen 8y ago
My 2007 UK contract contained a non-compete clause. Actually, this was in the confidentiality and IP assignment agreement, which was separate from the main employment contract, and as it happened I only ever signed the latter. But you are
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by cpcallen 8y ago
As a Brit, I find it slightly depressing that the author dismisses out of hand the possibility of classifying vehicles based on their registration (licence plate) for being too invasive - because of course in London this is the norm (and we
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by cpcallen 8y ago
Differential synchronisation works very well indeed for plain text, but as Neil himself has pointed out, it doesn't necessarily work well for tree-structured data (like XML or JSON) because there's no guarantee that the combinatio
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by cpcallen 8y ago
To me, QT 4.0 was the beginning of the end of good UI design at Apple - when the design stopped being done by HCI engineers and started being done by graphic designers instead. Unfortunately there are no other major players doing any better
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by cpcallen 8y ago
You mean the one where the pause button sits in the middle of the screen while the video is playing, and almost nothing you do will make it go away?
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by cpcallen 8y ago
Wow, that is pretty shitty. Given the number of times over the years that I've had to wipe all Google cookies and site data to fix issues with offline mode in Google Docs, this does not bode well for being able to use Chrome successfu
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by cpcallen 8y ago
https://youtu.be/oM51OMn3Kdk
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by cpcallen 9y ago
My issue is that it isn't customizable enough. Like: * I can't customize what's shown on the touchbar when the screen is locked. * I can't pin ESC and the volume/mute keys to their respective (previous physical) pos
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by cpcallen 9y ago
I believe dgquintas is describing the standard engineering workstation at Google .
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by cpcallen 9y ago
I am still waiting for this feature in the UK, but European courts keep blocking it. It pisses me off: I should be able to opt-in if I want to.
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by cpcallen 9y ago
I wish this were really as true as the author suggests. Unfortunately about two years ago Google turned off the backends that deliver public transport directions for older versions of Maps (in particular, the version that runs on Gingerbre
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by cpcallen 9y ago
I think your numbers might be off. From https://www.livestrong.com/article/543411-how-much-curcumin-... : "Turmeric contains approximately 2 percent curcumin by weight, so a tablespoon of turmeric, which weighs 6
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by cpcallen 9y ago
I've been using UC Browser on my Nexus One for about a year. It has two killer features: - It can be installed (unlike Chrome, which never ran on Gingerbread, and Firefox, which I tried before but can now no longer reinstall). - It r
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by cpcallen 9y ago
I'm still using my 2009 Nexus One. It is painfully slow, and won't run any modern apps, and I've tried to find a suitable replacement several times but it seems a shame to throw away a perfectly good phone and I just haven&#
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by cpcallen 9y ago
Hilarious that they are blurring out details of the tilt joint in the first flight video.
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by cpcallen 9y ago
Not sure what your point is. Perhaps you are too young to have experienced only having access to the internet via a shared UNIX system which in turn was only accessible by serial terminal?
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by cpcallen 9y ago
On the one hand, I can definitely understand all the "nope" in this thread. On the other hand, I wonder why the camera is a required part of this system.
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by cpcallen 9y ago
You can pry gcc out of my cold, dead hands when your fancy type-safe high level languages will let me do things like: * Fork a running program to enable analysis or serialisation of program state without blocking, or * Use mmap to allocate
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by cpcallen 10y ago
Presumably (given the height lost in the inadvertent dive, and the fact that only one of pilots was returning from the toilet at the time of the incident) this was not during takeoff or landing.
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by cpcallen 10y ago
Cute - but totally the opposite of what I want. Can you make a site that makes Pinterest (and Facebook!) look like HN, reducing each post to a clear, informative headline, so I can quickly scan 25+ posts without having to scroll, and click
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by cpcallen 10y ago
Google isn't distributing the extension. Chrome is uninstalling a manually-installed extension. This situation is somewhat akin to OS X uninstalling Spotify.
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by cpcallen 10y ago
It amuses me that the Win3mu logo appears to be using an italic version of the font Chicago, the original Mac system font...
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by cpcallen 10y ago
I wouldn't think it would be too hard to use a gyro-stabilized gimbal to keep the antennae pointing in the right direction. Most drone quadcopters used for aerial filming already do this.
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by cpcallen 10y ago
The reason is that the UK is best buddies with Ireland, while Cyprus and Malta are members of the Commonwealth and so their citizens get the same privileges as all other Commonwealth citizens (including the right to vote in UK parliamentary

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