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by darrenf 7y ago
No, it was Personal HomePage tools. It was written in C. Rasmus even explicitly said you didn't need Perl when he first announced it on Usenet, here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/comp.infosystems.www.
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by darrenf 7y ago
Five years ago there were reports of "the Surbiton hum", precisely where I live – that is, I reside in exactly the part of Surbiton where the hum is most audible, to those who can discern it. Reports started in a local forum and m
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by darrenf 7y ago
Do you mean steganography? Stenography is writing in shorthand (or typing on a stenotype, like court reporters do).
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by darrenf 7y ago
My gf and I started a project to spend a day in each borough of London, a couple of years ago. Originally we were aiming to complete it in one or two years, but life got in the way; it's paused at 16 out of 33 right now. I'm a bor
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by darrenf 7y ago
> I trust that Netflix will update its app because I pay them every month I pay each month for the WWE Network, yet last week the app stopped working, with a "no longer supported" message, on my 2013 Samsung TV.
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by darrenf 7y ago
Interesting, thanks. I have virtually zero JS experience so didn't know that, and were I to try and pick it up this would've been a surprise to me - I naively assumed it would use the same terminology as the RFC and the libraries
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by darrenf 7y ago
To the OP: I would suggest normalising the protocol. Your examples show that you retain the case from the raw data: "protocol": "HTTP" "protocol": "https" As it stands, users will end up
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by darrenf 7y ago
10,000 combinations aren't required. The child stops when the answer is right. And if they've ever noticed one or two digits when watching the parent unlock the iPad for them to use, it drops to 1,000 or 100 max.
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by darrenf 7y ago
> It is easy to see the scheduled type of aircraft when you book tickets That's as maybe, but is far from guaranteed to remain as-is - and how many people maintain an ExpertFlyer membership and enter their itinerary for aircraft cha
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by darrenf 7y ago
Surely tasks are performed by and assigned to roles, not individuals (who just happen to be in those roles at some moment in time). If a role disappears, e.g. in redundancy, then the role's tasks are evaluated for either transfer to
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by darrenf 8y ago
My high school (years 1987-90) was crazily well equipped – we actually had two rooms full of BBC Micros and gasp an Archimedes. What's more, they were networked so we could chat to each other ... in between political simulation games
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by darrenf 8y ago
On the link from [2] it says: > We split the resulting product 80-20 (me-you) as co-founders. I found it confusing that there was no [2] in the body of the post, only the footnote list.
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by darrenf 8y ago
Is 4-5mph really considered leisurely? I thought the average was around 3mph, I know I feel like I've done proper exercise if I keep 3.5-4mph up for over 30 minutes.
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by darrenf 8y ago
Looks great; been searching for something to rewrite a 6yo side-project with and this looks just about perfect. Small wrinkle: I spotted a broken link on the "deployment" page - "Bigger applications with multiple files"
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by darrenf 8y ago
"Cattle class" is a kinda faux-pejorative term for economy/coach/whatever the cheapest cabin is in some mode of transport.
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by darrenf 8y ago
In the last 6 years I've twice done circuits of Europe by train - sleepers (mostly) in 2013 when we hit 28 countries in 18 days, and an anniversary reprise of sorts last summer which took in a mere 16 countries in 10 days. As much as I
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by darrenf 8y ago
I couldn't name a "runaway hit/killer app", but my gf and I get plenty of use from our Echo(s). Nothing we couldn't or didn't do prior to getting them, but we genuinely find the voice interface often wins out o
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by darrenf 8y ago
Stayed in the Hotel Euler (not mentioned on the page) when I visited Basel. In the restaurant were no pictures of or anything related to Leonhard, at least not that I saw, but plenty of owls ( eulen ).
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by darrenf 8y ago
They also used to have first class on a daily 747 between London and Moscow, around 4 hours. (I'm not sure if they still do, but they did in 2014 and 2015 because I flew it both years!). Not to mention the cash cow East Coast USA desti
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by darrenf 8y ago
It's not true to say "never", at least as far as intra-Europe is concerned, due to a mixture of fifth-freedom flights and a handful of other anomalies. e.g. Emirates put a long-haul 777-300 in business class between Larnaca a
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by darrenf 8y ago
Came here to post a much less eloquent version of the same thing. Any proclamation that one way of travelling is objectively better or more worthy (of... what?) than another leaves a very bad taste in my mouth. I've visited between 61
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by darrenf 8y ago
I'm not sure what population has to do with it. The headline and the PDF itself talk about the rate of death — the text refers to deaths per 100,000 throughout.
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by darrenf 8y ago
Likewise. At the time my folks could just about stretch to a ZX81 plus 16k RAM Pack[0], but not a wobble stopper[1] - so we fashioned one out of corrugated cardboard and gaffer tape. A few years later I scored an upgrade to the ZX Spectrum+
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by darrenf 8y ago
It does indeed. Good catch :)
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by darrenf 8y ago
My first reaction was to wonder why `tr` was required at all - neither conversion struck me as necessary. These days both `sort` and `uniq` can do case-insensitivity: sort -f | uniq -ic So I just allow the shell to do word splittin
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by darrenf 8y ago
And there really needs to be some pronunciation guidance on 'scone(s)' [0-3] [0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/food-and-drink/news/survey-revea... [1] https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/
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by darrenf 8y ago
As well as the fact that their neighbours drove on the right, the argument was made that switching sides would reduce accidents due to Swedes mostly owning left-hand drive cars. There were fewer accidents initially, but things returned to h
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by darrenf 8y ago
> Garry's Inn Actually Gray's Inn.
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by darrenf 8y ago
Right - though that's solvable with xargs: $ echo "0005" | xargs printf '%d\n' 5 That said, my suggestion doesn't work anyway since the leading 0 marks it as octal, d'oh (as mentioned elsewher
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by darrenf 8y ago
Why even use awk rather than the shell's (well, bash's) builtin printf? $ printf '%d\n' "0005" 5

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