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by dtf 17y ago
To be fair to Google, they did nothing until ordered by a US court. Is there any more you can ask?
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by dtf 17y ago
Although a core part of Gmail's business case is the context-sensitive ads - they really do read every mail you receive and send.
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by dtf 17y ago
I'd love to know how this compares with the going rates for other architectures. I assume Macs are at a premium, but by how much?
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by dtf 17y ago
Bemoans Lily, "You don't start out in music with the Ferraris. Instead you get a huge debt from your record company, which you spend years working your arse off to repay. When you manage to get a contract, all those pretty videos and poste
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by dtf 17y ago
Fascinating. And the first I've heard of Turkey being taxed as chicken.
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by dtf 17y ago
Funny, SGI used to use racy colours for all their boxen too. Yesterday's announcement of the plain-Jane Octane III was such a disappointment in that respect.
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by dtf 17y ago
I note there's a co-credit on the graphic for the Shuttleworth Foundation. Anyone know their involvement?
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by dtf 17y ago
Great story. Thanks for sharing the details of how things progressed. It's incredible how much pull BBC News online has.
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by dtf 17y ago
Reminds me of another great challenge to conventional wisdom: potato farmer and marathon newbie Cliff Young winning the 1983 Sydney-to-Melbourne ultra marathon in overalls and a pair of gumboots: http://www.elitefeet.com/the-legend-of-clif
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by dtf 17y ago
For Firefox: 1. Double-click/highlight any word or phrase on a website 2. ^C 3. ^K 4. ^V 5. Alt-Enter (for results in a new tab)
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by dtf 17y ago
Sounded like an interesting proposition. Would it be possible to do this and use Disqus?
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by dtf 17y ago
When a man meets a pretty woman, he is what we call 'reproductively focused'. I guess this is the scientific term for horny.
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by dtf 17y ago
Here's some useful marketing intelligence: http://www.food.gov.uk/healthiereating/advertisingtochildren... Probably best to target the merely overweight than the hopelessly obese. In which case Russia (or perhaps more urgently my native E
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by dtf 17y ago
That book corrupted me. I've never had an innocent conversation with a salesperson since.
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by dtf 17y ago
I called whats-her-face on the phone, told her what a heartless cold messed-up psycho bitch-who-can-never-hold-onto-a-man she was, and hung up while delivering an ancient Anglo-Saxon invective with gusto. I don't think he's quite over her
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by dtf 17y ago
I think Google writes some of their web services in C++. Some things just need to be fast. Blogs and CMS's probably don't. Is there anything wrong with having a choice?
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by dtf 17y ago
There's nothing more tense than a showdown between a stand-up comedian and their heckler. It's like a being in the saloon in one of those Western movies when a some tike speaks out of turn to the local gunslinger.
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by dtf 17y ago
The client was doing for charity. Which, as I'm sure many people know from experience, gives them carte blanche to be arseholes.
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by dtf 17y ago
That's a great joke - in fact I've never heard it before. But, at the risk of being a spoilsport, the OP is not completely absurd, and neither is the original version of this joke. Googling, I found two common versions of this joke. The fir
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by dtf 17y ago
This isn't the first time I've seen a Facebook is dying article either. Perhaps someone's hoping for an application of the Thomas theorem.
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by dtf 17y ago
"How I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics." I've never heard this before, but I'll never forget it now. There are some more great Pólya quotes on his Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedi
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by dtf 17y ago
Yes, D shows a great deal of promise. Maybe I'm short-sighted, but at the moment it's the only language I can see being a viable replacement for what C++ does well. D was invented by Walter Bright, after he had written a C++ compiler (and s
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by dtf 17y ago
I've found Python/C++ (via boost::python) to be a fantastic combo. There's also luabind which does similar lua/C++ two-step.
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by dtf 17y ago
D's great for at least two reasons: 1) it set out to be a no-compromise systems programming language 2) it's being designed by people with an deep and intimate knowledge of C++ (Walter Bright wrote a C++ compiler - no mean feat, and Alexand
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by dtf 17y ago
I think the Doom engine was written in C (and assembler), but the level-editing tools were in Objective-C. Again, the right tool for the right job - Objective-C's dynamic dispatch greatly helps user interface programming compared to bare C,
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by dtf 17y ago
C++ hits a certain sweet spot. In some cases - whether you like it or not - it's just the right tool for the job. Two examples I can think of are: * VM implementations (I mentioned Factor, but also HotSpot, Microsoft's CLR, SquirrelFish, Tr
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by dtf 17y ago
I guess he's not a systems programmer. What language did Slava Pestov turn to when he recently re-wrote Factor's VM? C++ programmers: we do the dirty work so you don't have to.
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by dtf 17y ago
Maemo (pronounced mime-oh) - it's a bit more of a traditional Linux platform than Android, built on Debian and Gnome. The browser is based on Mozilla.
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by dtf 17y ago
MediaCoder is a really great piece of freeware encoding software on Windows. The author is quite clearly trying to understand and help out with the licensing problems and instead comes up against the free software Spanish inquisition: h
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by dtf 17y ago
I have to say that Number 3 ("be inspired": check your RSS feeds for 30 minutes each morning before you start work) is an absolute disaster for me - especially if accompanied by a cup of coffee. Sends my neurons flying about in completely t

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