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by donalm 3y ago
“I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too” https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/queen-elizabeth-speech-...
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by donalm 7y ago
If the carnivore wants food, something will have to eat the plants.
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by donalm 12y ago
Here's the site for the new system - http://www.eircode.ie/
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by donalm 14y ago
Another advantage of Mercator is that if you display the map from latitudes of about -85 degrees to +85 degrees you end up with a perfect square, which makes chopping the map into tiles nice and easy.
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by donalm 14y ago
I hope this results in them improving Simplenote. I find it pretty buggy.
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by donalm 14y ago
The problem with just turning cookies off (in the UK anyway) is that with the new cookie law every second site now has an annoying message telling you about their cookie policy and you are now going to see it on every page. Some are even mo
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by donalm 15y ago
You could use it to test if the value has been changed.
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by donalm 16y ago
That's because Ireland has low corporation tax (12.5%) so multinational companies export their profits there and artificially inflate the GDP.
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by donalm 16y ago
Its two negation operators. The first returns false is the object exists and true if it doesn't and the second flips that around. So you get true if the object exists and false otherwise.
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by donalm 17y ago
Flot requires excanvas.js to simulate the canvas in IE. Internally excanvas.js uses VML.
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by donalm 17y ago
Try The Art of Travel.
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by donalm 17y ago
Not completely useless... Its pretty handy for disabling javascript, changing forms from POST to GET, viewing form fields and trying different browser window sizes. Otherwise though it does have a lot of pointless options.
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by donalm 17y ago
Not really... They send you a letter asking you to pay and you send it back saying you don't have a TV. That's all I had to do. They'll probably ask me again in a few years, I suppose.
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by donalm 17y ago
The main reason that SGML allowed closing tags to be optional was that it was 80s technology and storage was expensive. To omit tags you needed a DTD that allowed the parser to infer where the close tags should go. Enforcing the use of clos