drakeandrews

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by drakeandrews 12y ago
You ideally need both. A good GPS to tell you where you are, and a good map (and the sense and skill to read it) to tell you how to get somewhere else. My father once said a GPS is just a device to remind you how lost you are.
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
There were either walls on either side of the trench, or the planet was a barren rock to begin with.
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
Correction: FOBS put warheads in low earth polar orbit.
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
At least in the UK, Jack is a fairly common shortening of Jacqueline. The only way of determining a users gender is asking them directly, and if a person wishes to enter different values into different systems, all the more power to them.
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
Unless you're really, really bad at drinking, having a beer is not physically forcing others around you to drink. If you start smoking, then everyone else around you has to deal with the smoke. I'm told that using vaporisers remov
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
That example would surely be better as: something = myfunc(d['x']) if 'x' in d else None
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
The facebook app has its own camera app, if memory serves, that has some facebook specific features.
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
Pretty sure if all the miners stopped mining, bitcoin would be dead in the water, unless there is a secondary transaction mechanism that doesn't rely on miners.
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
HN hides the reply button on some comments that it deems might start flame wars (or similar). If you click the link link, that will let you reply from there.
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
How about when someone doesn't support treating animals well. Or values your apple more than your life? Or decides they have this million tonnes of toxic gunk and decides that instead of paying someone who knows how to deal with it he&
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
#2: I happen to believe that people should be entitled to education, healthcare, safety and respect. #3: There are certainly bad jobs. Jobs where the employer does not pay, abuses their workforce etc. #5: Debt you cannot afford? Sure. But s
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
Perhaps not if you buy your tickets last minute, but if you book 2-3 weeks in advance and pay more than ~£20 you're being robbed.
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
In a lot of cases (at least in the UK), it could fall under gross misconduct, for which your employer is allowed to terminate you on the spot. Of course, you can then take them to an employment tribunal who will then deliberate on if this w
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
I presume by allocating memory yourself. It does mention that if you don't use the GC, it is removed from the final program.
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
Does it fade out songs when you pause them? If so, where can I download it and where can I donate to whoever wrote it?
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
iPhone only, no chip and pin, won't work with any cash machine in the UK, no apparent protection against people skimming random cards (I'm suddenly very suspicious of anyone putting my card anywhere near an iPhone) AND it stores a
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
I like the idea, but you can't deduce name from email address, or at least not often enough to use it even to prefill the field in the form.
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
You're right. At a guess, as collisions appear to be perfectly elastic particles inside a clump are trying to move and instead of their shifting being dampened, it's causing the whole structure to begin to rotate which causes more
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
This is because each "atom" is of a considerable size to the larger clumps and imparts its excess momentum as angular momentum when it joins a clump. "Atoms" that are rotating around a clump in the opposite direction ten
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
I'm reimplementing the SQLite virtual machine in RPython, in the hopes that RPython's tracing JIT will speed up query execution. RPython (the toolkit behind PyPy) is cool because it allows you to build a JIT-enabled virtual machin
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
And digital literacy (for the want of a better term) doesn't necessarily require knowing how to code.
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
Unless we discover gravity is bound to the speed of light too.
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
Yes. A million times yes. About a month ago now, my laptop's windows install decided to take a dive so I reinstalled windows and took it as an opportunity to dual boot ubuntu as well. Ubuntu worked out of the box. I'm still findin
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
Functional Fusion Reacters! Strategic Functional Warheads! Functional Containment Disasters[1]! This is fun. [1] This is tongue in cheek.
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
I was thinking about this recently too and was wondering if one could perhaps set up a service where you would hire a set of ghost writers to rewrite and manually sanitise all of the applications etc. for a job opening for a company (ideall
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
Outside the Americas, you'll get a whole load of funny looks when you call them legos. It's like pointing out a field of sheeps.
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
There is always pubmed[1]. [1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
"Passenger Service Agents" are on some, not all trains. And on about a third of the trains they are on, they are manually operating the train at full speed (generally for "diagnostic" (read as sanctioned joyriding) purpo
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
It's not technically a LD entry (I spent far too long on non-game bits and forgot to actually add a game) but I'm quite proud of it and resolve to finish the damn thing eventually. Warning, Chrome(+WebGL) only, hideously unoptomis
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by drakeandrews 13y ago
I'd be very wary about carrying a book of flashpaper in my pocket.

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