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by dtf 17y ago
Absolutely. I've lost count of the hours I've wasted setting up dev environments.
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by dtf 17y ago
Heather Brooke fought long and hard to break the story, but in the end the Telegraph obviously had deeper pockets. But you have to give the Telegraph credit for the way they reported it - Labour one week, Tories the next - with both parties
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by dtf 17y ago
"I suggest all gays are put on a remote island somewhere and left for a generation - after which, theoretically there should be none left!" We can marginalize bigots, but sometimes it's better just to expose them as the idiots they are. N
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by dtf 17y ago
It's the sad case of the amateur statistician, who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches.
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by dtf 17y ago
Odd to see Microsoft's PR guys get it (quick, sincere apology minus any defensive legalese), while the injured party, a startup, doesn't.
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by dtf 17y ago
Ahh... fond memories. Bamboozle was an infuriating multiple choice "interactive" gameshow, a bit like Who Wants To Be A Millionaire. There was even, for a while, a late night adult section called Teletext After Hours - I particularly rememb
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by dtf 17y ago
The naïve ray-tracing algorithm that you can sketch on a napkin and write in 20 lines of Haskell? Practical ray tracers - those used for real-world applications such as rendering movies - have much in common with game engines. Both are larg
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by dtf 17y ago
What I've never understood is why those who have complained bitterly about Mono being included in distributions seem to keep their mouths shut when it comes to Samba and multimedia - both arguably worse in terms of "patent minefields", and
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by dtf 17y ago
Yes, but it's a step to put in place the technology and legal framework to casually snoop on the entire population. I don't feel this is about piracy in the long run, but about our governments fear that control of the internet - increasingl
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by dtf 17y ago
Interesting that comment about atomicity of consumption. A similar thing happened to the music industry, who relied for so long on the ability to shift a lacklustre album on the back of a popular single. There were loud complaints from up h
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by dtf 17y ago
Dan Bull did a nice response to this bill, an open letter to Lord Mandelson in a musical style: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_P4lJD_OPI
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by dtf 17y ago
I seem to remember reading, maybe about a year ago, of some movement trying to promote the practice of supplementing scientific papers with reproducible experiments and derivations - ie source code and data. Perhaps it was just in the field
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by dtf 17y ago
"...after writing my column I’ve received a few emails from readers who have themselves made the switch from finance to manufacturing." Isn't it tradition for those bored of making mega-money in the City to retire into "manufacturing" -
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by dtf 17y ago
How does Erlang fare with Unicode in practice?
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by dtf 17y ago
Well it is The Reg. They pride themselves on tabloid-style headlines. I love the Prof's style though, his quotes are awesome: "The fact that I'm missing lower limbs is an opportunity." "There are no disabled people, only disabled tec
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by dtf 17y ago
Maybe one thing that could help cut domestic energy consumption in the UK is the introduction of decent real-time meters. Getting a massive bill through the post once every three months doesn't really help you understand where your money's
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by dtf 17y ago
Being the UK, I would imagine we're talking about cheddar, which occupies the lion's share of UK cheese production. Give me a good cheddar (Montgomery's is excellent), a nice bottle of wine, packet of biscuits and the complete series of The
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by dtf 17y ago
The article doesn't take that tack; the subtitle does. I'd blame the sub-editor (probably also responsible for the [sic] next to the US spelling of pedophile) rather than the author.
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by dtf 17y ago
Funny, I read "old school" as a kinder euphemism for shoddy (with all due respect to Sid's brilliance as a designer and hacker). Sometimes great people write crap, unmaintainable code. I've known several types like this in the industries I'
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by dtf 17y ago
Metacrawler has been running longer than Google. Strange we could go back to using these kind of search engines.
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by dtf 17y ago
The author is British, and I think some of these points make sense in the context of the UK. You should see how screwed our privatized rail industry is - itself a kind of "natural monopoly". True capitalism would have the government stop su
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by dtf 17y ago
About bloody time! I'm amazed it's taken them this long to do something about that awful photo uploader, when photos are surely one of their killer apps. The number of (unanswered) complaints on their forum about this issue must run into te
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by dtf 17y ago
Of course, the flip-side is that anyone will be able to publish a book and most people will know how to steal them. Neither of which make for great prices. Still, interesting times.
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by dtf 17y ago
Is this what Aaron Swartz got into trouble with the FBI for trying to help set up? (freeing the contents of the PACER database.)
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by dtf 17y ago
Could they really do this? HTTPS is pretty much vital to a major part of the economy now. I find it hard to see how they could word anything other than a blanket encryption ban in a manner which would prevent surreptitious use of the remain
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by dtf 17y ago
It's certainly fun. Love the little touch of the white noise when tuning between tweets.
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by dtf 17y ago
I understand your point, although I would say that the speed limit is rather more directly related to harm to others. My view is that young people will refuse to be lectured on the dangers of drugs by politicians who themselves enjoyed drug
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by dtf 17y ago
Funny that The Times are running anti-prohibition articles during this whole furore about the sacking of David Nutt. They can't be a happy bunch at the Home Office this weekend.
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by dtf 17y ago
The Release charity in the UK has a campaign called "Nice People Take Drugs", which aims to change drug policy to harm reduction and remove the stigma associated with drug use. One of their promotional tools is a deck of cards, each featuri
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by dtf 17y ago
I've been very impressed with Firefox on the Mac, as I find Safari terribly buggy and unresponsive. It should really use the Camifox (Camino) theme as default though.

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