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by dr42 14y ago
But it's red on green or green on red, not differentiation between the two? I have r/g color blindness, I can't see red berries against green foliage, but I can tell red from green easily.
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by dr42 14y ago
That's because world history in America is much the same as the world series - fully encompassing of the whole world, with countries as far afield as.... Canada :) I should have mentioned I grew up and went to school in England, and learnin
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by dr42 14y ago
This sounds very fishy. Imaging and scaning software, along with printer drivers have built in currency detectors to prevent this.
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by dr42 14y ago
Few know? That's part of every grammar school boys education. Or was, in my day. Newton sending a couple of dozen men off to Tyburn to be hanged, drawn and quartered was quite memorable.
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by dr42 14y ago
I liked it until I clicked the Modest demo and it said my iPad needs Flash installed :( Wouldn't that be a not-so-great idea for an iOS centric audience?
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by dr42 14y ago
How exactly is this brilliant? There are way more distractions living in a car, like basic needs, keeping warm, going to the bathroom, changing clothes, internet, charging the laptop, being moved on by the police etc etc. a nice quiet off
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by dr42 14y ago
that's just one point of view, there were also a lot of very cool Soviet era designs, like the Lomo camera, for example.
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by dr42 14y ago
Have you seen the sales of SharePoint? Engineers always think that companies are engineering driven, when in fact mostly they are sales driven. If SharePoint sells well, then its not substandard, even if you don't like its architecture.
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by dr42 14y ago
The USSR doesn't exist anymore, and this slur on Russians is a little disingenuous, they did, for example manage to get the first man and first woman into space before anyone else. Talented engineers don't only work at startups, most of t
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by dr42 14y ago
Not even remotely true about penicillin, I'm pretty sure that when Flemming discovered penicillin, since he was a biologist and a pharmacologist he had a pretty good idea of its practical application. x-rays, maybe, but even electricity im
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by dr42 14y ago
The Sun kicks out gobs of x-rays, you're already being exposed to x-rays. One week in the sun is about the same as a chest x-ray.
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by dr42 14y ago
I'd hazard a guess that this had less to do with java and more to do with your lack of c experience. collections in c is a solved problem, there are numerous libraries (glib, for example) out there that are all similar to Java's collections
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by dr42 14y ago
while it might seem like a reasonable response, it's just not true. I don't see anything wrong with making the pricing page similar to 37signals, but it's not the case that this is "like every other site out there"
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by dr42 14y ago
I was about to add that I would have expected more from the IEEE, but then I looked, and they actually have an accurate title. The word iPad doesn't appear anywhere in the article. Whomever retitled this, might want to consider reading th
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by dr42 14y ago
isn't that google? q=weather 94107
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by dr42 14y ago
You're only talking about all the trivial stuff, the IT setup, getting drivers to work with different hardware. This is the just the same on windows, except it has a much broader support for more hardware. Of course things like config files
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by dr42 14y ago
Since by 4 most kids know the alphabet I wonder what the long term implications are of learning algebra first. Maybe letters won't feel like parts of words, but instead she'll look at them as problems to solve. I wonder what the big rush is
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by dr42 14y ago
While our perception of time night be subjective, as you suggest, the distances involved are not. Even if it only feels like a few moments, the universe doesn't much care how we feel, or what we perceive.
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by dr42 14y ago
Files will never go away. It all depends on the abstraction level that you view the term 'file'. Humans are files, a self contained unit of information (with built in copy semantics!) they have meta data (hair color, eye color, height, age
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by dr42 14y ago
A reasonable argument can be made that responding to reviews has helped improve yelp. While some slice of humanity exhibit those article mentioned qualities, there's also a review process that goes on the person reading the review. When I r
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by dr42 14y ago
Just because you built visitor counters doesn't mean the language can't do a whole lot more. You're whole criticism seems more leveled at your early jobs, rather than the language.
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by dr42 14y ago
Re pascal, that really was a language that had unpredictable order of evaluation. Not to mention its issues with forward declarations leading to infinite recursion. Fortunately i have relegated pascal to the attic of my mind. These days I s
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by dr42 14y ago
I learned programming 25 years ago, assembly, pascal and c. Over the years I've learned and used Java, php and python. PHP is only a cage if you let it be. PHP has all the tools you need to build anything. I prefer python any day, but I don
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by dr42 14y ago
"a string is not a number" Well then use ===, but when a string contains numbers then php will do the type conversion for you. It's a convenience. It may not work correctly by your definition but it's pretty intuitive and useful the way it
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by dr42 14y ago
"it could disrupt photography by making it easier than ever for beginners to take good photos." These cameras do not help beginners, or anyone else take good photos. In much the same way that instagram doesn't. Sure, it might be a fad, like
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by dr42 14y ago
This may appear 'retarded' until you understand how type conversion works. Then those examples are perfectly logical and expected. PHP has === if you want to disable the type conversion in the conditional operator.
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by dr42 14y ago
Haha, this is so not true! Using php has nothing to do with setting up apache. You're mistakenly associating solutions with the language. It's like saying you can only write enterprise apps in java, or only write machine learning apps in py
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by dr42 14y ago
One thing that might help is that even when safari closes a tab, if you tap and hold the + button you will see a list of closed tabs and you can reopen any that were closed.
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by dr42 14y ago
It was similar to compuserv (CIS) back then.
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by dr42 14y ago
"Unfortunately, the "cool kids" part gives you away." I am unsure of your intention here, but I think you are just not getting this at all. If you are assuming I am a cool kid then you are mistaken. I am a 42 year old software architect at

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