duncans

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by duncans 10y ago
Yes, I remember Adlestrop ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/10821831/Adlestrop-a-lost...
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by duncans 10y ago
Isn't there an option in Control Panel "Change what happens when I press the power button"?
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by duncans 11y ago
FYI: The term I search for when needing something along these lines is "JSON prettify"
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by duncans 11y ago
There was me thinking this would be about some crazy new overclocking technique ...
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by duncans 11y ago
And we've been able to at least read the source for a while officially at http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#System.Web and unofficially since forever via Reflector etc.
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by duncans 11y ago
It's what FT Labs fastclick tries to mitigate - try it for yourself: http://ftlabs.github.io/fastclick/examples/layer.html
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by duncans 11y ago
Following this iOS Content Blocker furore, a CloudFlare-type service could be an ideal place from which to inject and serve ads; as opposed to the client-perf-sapping script tags the industry has been using so far.
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by duncans 11y ago
Thankfully they're not sanitising inputs but correctly encoding outputs.
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by duncans 11y ago
I think you mean ASP.NET 5
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by duncans 11y ago
Similar tool for Windows: http://timesnapper.com by @secretGeek
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by duncans 11y ago
Had mine for 3 years now. It's looking cracked/scratched, but still works just fine. Not bad for £25; I'll buy a new one in a heartbeat if/when it breaks.
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Why I Love Basic Auth(rdegges.com)
13 points by duncans 12y ago|1 comments
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by duncans 12y ago
Visual Studio uses MSBuild. csproj/vbproj files are MSBuild files. MSBuild will take an SLN file as an argument and do the same as Visual Studio would do with it when you load it and click build.
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by duncans 12y ago
It wasn't by Joel, this is a post on his forum.
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by duncans 12y ago
Mistakes happen. When you're pen-tested for the first time (by a decent pen-tester) you go through the 5 Stages of Grief with the stuff they find.
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by duncans 12y ago
works over https https://www.bugbountypayments.com Wonder if it's intentional, i.e.: If you are truly L337 then you'd work it out eventually, or it's some sort of HSTS type-thing.
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by duncans 12y ago
My kids love Show Me What You're Made Of on CBBC (BBC channel for school-kids aged 6-12) > "Five children travel across the world to live and work alongside the people who make the everyday items they take for granted." h
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by duncans 12y ago
Sheet JS is quite amazing, but another, simple approach to consider is based around the fact when you copy a range from Excel, it's plain-text clipboard format is tab-separated values. Get the users to copy their data and paste it into
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by duncans 12y ago
> it did actually change things for the better {{Citation needed}}
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by duncans 12y ago
10 lines of code = 10 issues. 500 lines of code = "looks fine." Code reviews. https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/397664295875805184
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by duncans 12y ago
Spoon used to offer these back in the day, they were brilliant. Unfortunately and perhaps not surprisingly they got taken down after about 6 months.
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by duncans 12y ago
Look into Cloudflare. They can act as a kind of reverse proxy to keep static stuff online. Obviously doesn't help if the transactional part of the site/database goes down, but end users will see a friendly message rather than it t
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by duncans 12y ago
If there was one thing the author was right about it was MSSQL's poor CSV support. BCP doesn't handle escaping special characters in CSV (e.g. commas, quotes, tabs if you using tabs as delimiter).
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by duncans 12y ago
I develop against MSSQL most of the time and have tinkered with Postgres a bit was agreeing with most of the points, until I got to: > "but MS SQL Server does have a bizarre failure mode which I have witnessed more than once: its tr
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by duncans 12y ago
Bear in mind Microsoft will happily sell you Linux VMs running in Azure.
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by duncans 12y ago
FYI: it's "circling the drain"
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by duncans 12y ago
If you're using Adobe Reader: File > Properties > Fonts > Fonts Used in this Document
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by duncans 12y ago
Nitpick: they should have been encoding the output not sanitising.
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by duncans 12y ago
Have you submitted a pull request? There's plenty of accessibility related-stuff in Bootstrap so I think they care about it.
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by duncans 12y ago
So it's basically a very simplified Luma Camera (acquired by Instagram a year ago) with a speed slider? http://vimeo.com/lumacam

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