cssmoo

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by cssmoo 12y ago
My mother still has a 486 with wordperfect on it. Fortunately it's not connected to the Internet. I'm rather surprised the disk has lasted as long as it has :)
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by cssmoo 12y ago
Depends what you do with them. Mine is fine for what I do and is probably fine for 80% of people out there.
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by cssmoo 12y ago
This is the sort of reason I stopped buying Apple products. Whilst they use ground-breaking advanced engineering, thermal design and materials and all that marketing garb, I feel merely like the pilot of an experimental aircraft about to tu
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by cssmoo 12y ago
I think you misunderstand the difference between causality and correlation. The nurture is where the causality chain starts.
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by cssmoo 12y ago
Well that's a meta argument if their ever was one and a good point. Let me summarise at a more abstract level; people are eager to differentiate from others because to be honest we're pretty boring and uninterestif, myself include
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by cssmoo 12y ago
Actually its ensuring that all the show stopping bugs that IE has don't take our app out or make it unusable. Unfortunately clients don't upgrade their browsers if cost is involved.
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by cssmoo 12y ago
Maybe but it certainly is linked to epic levels of smugness and superiority complexes on the part of the parents and healthcare system. At least here in the UK. My oldest is quite intelligent. We've had "I bet she was breast fed
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by cssmoo 12y ago
I don't know why you were down voted. We have to support Ie7,8,9,10,11 and 11 for metro in and out of compatibility mode across three fucking platforms due to control styling differences. Now we have Spartan and whatever shtcrock will
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by cssmoo 12y ago
Yet a million feedbacks go unanswered... I'm getting the "old Microsoft feeling again" i.e. prescriptive features rather than what the end user wants. Edit: please back your down votes with some kind of discussion.
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by cssmoo 12y ago
An old one but this is more of a worry: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4396831.stm Plus it's pretty difficult to reissue a biometric ID if it is compromised.
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by cssmoo 12y ago
I did that :) I've set my work address to home. The following morning it tells me I have a 23 minute commute to McDonalds again. I'm going to reset the device tonight.
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by cssmoo 12y ago
I think you're right. It's not coincidental that after Mr Postman delivered it and I set it up, I immediately went and had lunch in McDonalds. It appears that it doesn't understand that I could possibly work from home and wen
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by cssmoo 12y ago
100% failure rate here. It is convinced I work at McDonalds despite setting my work address to home. At least I always know how far I am away from a Big Mac.
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by cssmoo 12y ago
Can't say I've experienced that. It always seems to decline into the size of a celebrity's arse. Even one of my friends, an ex-physicist and current private jet pilot has nothing to say past the size of an arse. I just go and
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by cssmoo 12y ago
I use GMail. However remember if you pay for it via Apps, the terms are different so that is worth bearing in mind.
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by cssmoo 12y ago
I think that's a "few and far between" position. I've done the contract circuit and the permanent circuit around the UK for 20 years and it's been a rough ride. You're lucky if you find an ethical company that
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by cssmoo 12y ago
That's pretty good advice and not how I'd considered that sort of thing before. Thanks for posting.
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by cssmoo 12y ago
On that basis you're only giving a shit about their goals for the money. If that went away, which it occasionally does from experience, does your care persist? Nope. I've learned not to get attached to anything unless I'm in
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by cssmoo 12y ago
I couldn't agree more with this. I've developed the same approach to work. In fact I go out of my way to avoid doing any work where possible now and balance everything in favour of, for lack of a better analogy, collecting slack.
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by cssmoo 12y ago
I started with onenote but it shot my notebook. I never got on with evernote. I tried a number of open source ones but settled on google keep for quick notes and google docs for longer ones. Mainly because they have good sharing and concurr
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by cssmoo 12y ago
That'd just have coffee rings and skid marks from that odd black shit that comes off the bottom of mice all over it. Cone to think of it if you spilled something, game over.
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by cssmoo 12y ago
I just googled one of those and my word that's a mile more horrible! I'd rather have used a typewriter than one of those ones.
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by cssmoo 12y ago
Yes. Horrible keyboard. As in really bad. Having used my cousin's ZX, I was glad I was brought up on Acorn kit..
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by cssmoo 12y ago
We run exactly that setup. Apache on the front end proxying and doing SSL for a mish-mash of Java EE, .Net and native apache modules. There's very little latency added, it allows centralised logging and TBH apache is a ton more reliabl
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by cssmoo 12y ago
I operate a "if you can't be bothered to structure your thoughts in a well-written email, you can bugger off" process. Meetings Thursday is a no go area for me. This works well once everyone understands it. Unfortunately for
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by cssmoo 12y ago
Similar in UK. I clock £15/month on giffgaff ($22) and get 5Gb data, 500 mins calls to anywhere, free giffgaff/giffgaff and never pay for an SMS to anyone. Never even use half of it up even when my cruddy ISP goes down and I have
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by cssmoo 12y ago
Thanks - that's really helpful and a lot easier to navigate through. Also prices are a little higher by the looks which is more fun :)
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by cssmoo 12y ago
I got to $95 in (about 200 cards which was cool) and got bored. Resuming at the weekend as I've made a big spreadsheet of it all.
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by cssmoo 12y ago
This. ANY error and it goes in the bin regardless of tech.
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by cssmoo 12y ago
Considering spinning rust used to fail catastrophically, sometimes very quickly, I'm really not bothered. Plan for the worst, hope for the best. In fact my personal advice is to plan to lose everything since your last backup. If you ca

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