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by egwor 10y ago
> Traditionally, the US had been the only place to get any form of quality IT. The training programs and college degrees are more established. Not sure that I agree with that! Compare to the UK, I don't think this is at all true. Co
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by egwor 10y ago
This is semi-humorous and semi-serious. If so few users actually use edge then hackers won't bother trying to target it. I suspect that most people use Chrome over Edge, and the use of Edge is very small. Could this be true? Example st
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by egwor 10y ago
1/ Cancelling a dialogue box 2/ vi 3/ Force Quit
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by egwor 10y ago
I think that in this day and age we ought to have a way to share knowledge so that we aren't repeating the same (completed) research unknowingly . In maths it is thought to be beneficial to come up with a diferent proof of the same th
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by egwor 10y ago
Have you seen Revolut? It allows you to spend money/convert between currencies very easily and the charges are minimal
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by egwor 10y ago
Using insider information is illegal. If you mean insider information then this is total nonsense. Sure, there are a few that do illegal things (and inevitably get caught since there is so much monitoring going on).
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by egwor 10y ago
that includes the persons DOB. I wonder what would happen if the individual had used the wrong DOB when creating the request. Could (should?) yahoo say 'That doesn't match our records' and require a new request?
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by egwor 10y ago
I'm not sure how it works; does that insurance still cover you after the event? And if you have made a stupid mistake(not defending or even giving a view about Fred here) you are personally liable, aren't you?
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by egwor 10y ago
If they get sued then potentially yes. Think about Fred Goodwin, ex leader at RBS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Goodwin I think there are legal cases coming against him that would need to be paid for, and it is
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by egwor 10y ago
A few things to consider: * it tends to be harder to write good C++ code than Java. For example we think that an average person can write better java code than C++ code because java is simpler to get going with. We also think that the avera
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by egwor 11y ago
I could see how this might be cool for concerts or for news (figure out where everyone is looking at) or for herding cattle. I think it is a bit weird tracking people's normal activities.
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by egwor 11y ago
There always seem to be pairs (as in yin and yang), so could something like anti-gravitons exist too?
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by egwor 11y ago
Yeah, that's what the amazon review details. The ground is miswired.
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by egwor 11y ago
Except they're going to sell the adapter for $30. It is just a rip off. From the sounds of things (ho ho), there's no improved sound quality or usability...
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by egwor 11y ago
If it's a requirement to be within X performance then yes.
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by egwor 11y ago
According to the fortune web site, the fortunate 500 only covers companies that "are incorporated and operate in the US." I think it was probably cheaper and easier to do this in the past, but now regulatory and tax reasons make i
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by egwor 11y ago
I once worked somewhere where we never switched an old machine off. It was 15 years old and would cost £15K to replace. They were recommended to never switch it off - on the basis that it was most likely to fail on power up.
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by egwor 11y ago
my airport time machine backup often hangs and I have to restart the machine (via airport utility). I wonder... is there a way to tell it to restart via a similar type of command?
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by egwor 11y ago
Have you tried accu weather? I typically find them to be most accurate, and don't bother with the bbc's.
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by egwor 11y ago
Considering they seem to be moving towards giving everything away I wonder how likely this is....
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by egwor 11y ago
Bizarrely I'm much happier signing in on web sites using my slightly anonymous twitter account than anything else. Maybe this is where twitter can expand?
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by egwor 11y ago
I guess not needing an id just makes it easier. It's always a pain having to provide two forms of proof of address
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by egwor 11y ago
don't forget your torch!
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by egwor 11y ago
I use IntelliJ for my java development. It has a lot of analysis built in (whilst you're writing code). I'm not sure if there are that many static analysis checks (Findbugs etc) that are missing outside of those real time checks?
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by egwor 11y ago
What's wrong with putty? I've been happily using it for a few years. What have I been missing out on?!
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by egwor 11y ago
This could be used as a way to make sure a web 2.0 app hasn't got some error and lost some content... e.g. some pane is empty
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by egwor 11y ago
I don't think anyone would object if you added a 'Please donate' plash screen or had a page that advertised your other apps (get them to click anywhere on the screen but the donate button to continue to app. Delaying loading
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by egwor 11y ago
I just went through and installed GPGTools for mac mail, and installed the key into facebook with no issues. (Well I copied just the 'random' set of numbers and the fb site told me to include a bit more of the header/footer o
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by egwor 11y ago
A lot of the other points in the article are "headline grabbing". That's a rather disappointing article. I'd have liked to have seen a deeper analysis of the arguments used. It seems to be a skim-read summary of all of t
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by egwor 11y ago
You're clearly know a lot about this topic. Not everyone else is quite as up to speed and the article was a rather interesting view from a learner's perspective. No one expected it to be perfect, and it was particularly well consi

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