danellis

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by danellis 12y ago
The empty catch block of BASIC.
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by danellis 12y ago
Growing up in the 80s, that's how a lot of books taught us BASIC, because they catered to a lowest-common-denominator implementation. Fortunately, I was using BBC BASIC, with functions, procedures and REPEAT-UNTIL (and later WHILE and
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by danellis 12y ago
> a company that doesn't give me those two sentences is acting like I owe them my time. Have a word with yourself!
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by danellis 12y ago
As far as I know, they're not selling anything yet and they're not in a position to take your money. Do you honestly not think that when they have something to sell they'll have a marketing strategy?
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by danellis 12y ago
Give you a reason for what? You're all acting like this company owes you an explanation of what it does.
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by danellis 12y ago
No. Obviously. It's a trap. Also, doesn't this make forgery absolutely trivial?
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by danellis 12y ago
So they have speed limit information? It would be handy if you could have that information on the navigation screen, maybe even with a warning when you exceed it.
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by danellis 12y ago
Browsers don't implement CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc either, but that hasn't hindered those projects.
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by danellis 12y ago
I haven't seen the commit in question, but it seems like there's a balancing act here between gender neutrality and avoiding awkward phrasing. It's just an unfortunate fact of English that being gender neutral all the time le
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by danellis 12y ago
And the BBC Micro, responsible for a generation of computer literate school children in the UK.
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by danellis 12y ago
Yes, it's possible. Just pass -static to gcc, for example.
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by danellis 12y ago
Can you give examples of the most important ones? Are there any that are technical rather than philosophical?
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by danellis 12y ago
What data are you POSTing?
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by danellis 12y ago
I think it's cool because people are dancing and smiling and having fun, even interacting with each other a little more. If it increases safety, that's just a bonus.
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by danellis 12y ago
Can Blender Cycles use this? Looks like there was talk about it in 2012/3, but nothing recently.
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by danellis 12y ago
> do we really want all our UI experiences everywhere to look exactly the same (with perhaps color variance only)? For the most part, yes. We want them to behave exactly the same way, too, and use the same metaphors. > Material Design
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by danellis 12y ago
Oh, that surprises me. What are the figures on that?
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by danellis 12y ago
The cards look really nice. Too bad they're not selling those and their shelf.
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by danellis 12y ago
Putting them inline with the story is bad. Doing so in a way that just repeats the preceding paragraph is terrible. Seriously, read it for yourself all the way through and ask yourself if that's a comfortable flow.
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by danellis 12y ago
Or, the simpler explanation, loads of people applied for the job, and she was statistically unlikely to get it regardless of her applicability.
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by danellis 12y ago
Not so much for "Linux in the living room, though", as gilgoomesh said. > Long time GNU/Linux user since 1995. What of it?
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by danellis 12y ago
You're talking about GNU, not Linux. Linux is the kernel space.
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by danellis 12y ago
40k? Why is everything so bloated these days? The last 6502 machine I had only had 32k in total.
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by danellis 12y ago
This visualization always bothered me. The marbles 'stick' to the surface, but only because of the gravity pulling them from underneath. In the absence of gravity, marbles coming in from the outside could just continue in a straig
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by danellis 12y ago
Now that's what I call a panty raid!
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by danellis 12y ago
As someone who knows next to nothing about Tumblr, why?
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by danellis 12y ago
You say that like there's some doubt about it. It's satire.
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by danellis 12y ago
It's okay, there's nothing important based in Scunthorpe anyway.
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by danellis 12y ago
Where's the affordance in those? They don't look any different to badges.
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by danellis 12y ago
Looks like they did a lot of other things at the same time (like not creating app-wide singletons up-front). It would have been nice to see numbers just for rendering.

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