cubicle67

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by cubicle67 14y ago
Slightly off topic - since I cancelled my PayPal account they've refused to process any credit card payments using the card that was linked to my PayPal account, which happens to be my only credit card. This means that I'm unable to purchas
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by cubicle67 14y ago
oh hell yeah, absolutely. This sort of code is not uncommon at all but is pretty much incomprehensible (let alone maintainable) for anyone beyond the original implementer
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by cubicle67 14y ago
I've know my wife for the last 18 or 19 years and it was written before that, so I haven't seen the original. I have seen him debugging code in the evenings though. This consisted of printing out the entire programme (in the DBase sense a "
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by cubicle67 14y ago
[update: I've got hold of some of the code. Here's a copy of one of the programmes http://pastie.org/4615158 ] I have an awesome story that i think I've told before, but I'll tell it again anyway :) My father-in-law is a pharmasist. back i
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by cubicle67 14y ago
this is true, but they have felt increasingly thiner on content over time. I understand John's reasoning behind having an iPhone only event, but my concern is that there's simply too little material - we have the 6th generation of a device
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by cubicle67 14y ago
ok, so Apple have an entire event devoted to the iPhone. How on earth are they going to fill the time? Here's the new iPhone* It's a bit thinner and lighter than before. the battery runs a bit longer. it has a bit better camera and it runs
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by cubicle67 14y ago
an excellent company I used to use for hosting (who were later swallowed by by a not so excellent company) had a great solution to this. You'd log into your account and from there you could generate a single use token that you'd read to the
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by cubicle67 14y ago
My bank and a few other companies I deal with require some sort of pin/password in order to speak to someone over the phone. When I call, the conversation usually goes something like "Hello Mr 67, before we start I'll need your pin"
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by cubicle67 14y ago
the weakness with 2-factor auth is that almost all of us with a smartphone use that phone for email. And that phone is the same one google sends the sms to...
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by cubicle67 14y ago
Yes, you might be right about the volume. I was looking at the buttons here [1] but the volume one looked more like a round push button than a dial. I guess it could be a dial As to the ring around the number, well I'm more confused going b
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by cubicle67 14y ago
Normally I enjoy this sort of thing, but this I'm not taking to. As commented by others, it looks like it was designed by someone who drives very little First up, the speedo is not only about the number, but also the position of the needle.
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by cubicle67 14y ago
If he were a modern programmer he would hate Rails oooh, them's fightin' words... If languages were music, Rails would be something gloriously bombastic like Dream Theater's live performance of Six Degrees on their Score album. C would be
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by cubicle67 14y ago
the slight irony here being this was something you could do with heroku when they launched in 2007
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by cubicle67 14y ago
iOS6 is still in Beta. be nice to see Apple haul Facebook through the hot coals (?) for this. anyone else think Apple and Facebook make interesting partners? They're both doing their best to get users into their own domains to the exclusion
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by cubicle67 14y ago
I don't downvote often, but I've downvoted your comment here because it's just sanctimonious empathy-free wankery that adds nothing at all to the conversation.
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by cubicle67 14y ago
for anyone like me who had no idea what 5by5 was, it seems like it's a talk show that Gruber was part of, then he left to do another, or something like that. meh was unable to find reference to said shenanigans though, which was disappointi
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by cubicle67 14y ago
interestingly, here in Australia an electric kettle is one of the required basics of any kitchen. Even the cheapest nastiest hotel room will contain a toaster and an electric kettle
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by cubicle67 14y ago
Given the last statement, it appears the marketing has done something right No, the engineers etc have done something right. His intrigue is despite the marketing effort, not because of it
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by cubicle67 14y ago
which redirects to http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/pixelsense/default.aspx I see the old Surface is now known as the Samsung SUR40
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by cubicle67 14y ago
no flash here and it (yt link) played fine edit: no flash or silverlight, and yet both the MS video and the youtube one play fine
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by cubicle67 14y ago
My experience with the Win8 preview looks ok. click on something, which launches an app. cool, but now how do I get back. spent probably 10 minuted getting increasingly frustrated at not being able to exit back to the home screen (or whatev
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by cubicle67 14y ago
Now here's a case where having points visible would help those not-in-the-know to see what those-who-are-in-the-know think of the he said/she said between DigitalSea and hartror above Given you can't see points, hartror is correct, and he
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by cubicle67 14y ago
Have you seen Codea (nee Codify)? It implements what looks like the standard keyboard with an extra row on top containing things like parenthesis, quotes, tab and left/right cursor keys. Screenshot here http://www.twolivesleft.com/Codea/Ta
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by cubicle67 14y ago
or aid your getaway? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064505/
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by cubicle67 14y ago
I'd argue that method_missing isn't metaprogramming at all. What about ActiveRecord (Rails' default ORM)? That makes great use of code-writing-code to generate a ton of methods on your class all based on db fields.
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by cubicle67 14y ago
not sure what makes code "real" or not to you, but I used this as a very simple example of "code that writes code" that probably all Ruby users have used, possibly without thinking about what it's doing and yes, pretty much all code we writ
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by cubicle67 14y ago
Ruby's attr_accessor is a great example of this. When you add the line attr_accessor :age a bit of nifty metaprogramming kicks in and generates the following getter/setter methods in your class def age= value @age = val
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by cubicle67 14y ago
It's not really HBO's fault that Game of Thrones is pirated so much interestingly, Game of Thrones, Season Two, is available on iTunes here in Australia and follows only 10 days after US release. We pay rather more here than in the US, bu
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by cubicle67 14y ago
this could be solved by requiring a minimum cursor movement before the value changes. If you want only a small change, you need to move it beyond the trigger limit, then back again the same idea would help with getting exactly 100 or 0 valu
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by cubicle67 14y ago
http://imgur.com/Tb5GM

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