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by epo 15y ago
It's probably a humour piece. The trouble is that many foreigners tend to take it at face value because it panders to racist stereotypes they hold about the British.
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by epo 16y ago
Fair enough, if so then compare Android with iOS and the Android userbase with the iOS userbase, i.e. the iPad, iPod Touch. The fandroids in topics like this one are delusional and seemingly motivated by anti-Apple hatred. Reminds me of all
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by epo 16y ago
It's not so much "tolerated" as just a form of abusive willy-waving that powerful people can get away with. If Linus behaved like that in real life with real people he'd likely get punched in the mouth, repeatedly. It's amusing to read him
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by epo 16y ago
It wouldn't matter if www.foo.bar and foo.bar both resolved to the target, all too often the www. prefix is the only one that works. Get that sorted then worry about deprecating the prefix.
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by epo 16y ago
Alternative link albeit with censored headline http://vimeo.com/22053820
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by epo 16y ago
All of this may be true, 6 years is a long time and if he takes your guidance he should plan to spend time with a sports psychologist early on and get spectated match practice as early as feasible (say after 4 years). It's doable, very, ver
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by epo 16y ago
I'm not a US citizen and all I see is obfuscated content reminiscent of rot-13. Am I being slow this morning?
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Media's ageing audiences(economist.com)
1 points by epo 16y ago|0 comments
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by epo 16y ago
The article headline has been fixed but the page title hasn't.
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by epo 16y ago
It may sometimes be the right question, it all depends on what the enquirer wants to with the data. This comment is just an exercise in answering a question that no one asked, I fail to see why it merited any upvotes.
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by epo 16y ago
You are correct that being introverted and a social recluse are not the same thing. Extroversion is the characteristic of being outgoing and comfortable in social interactions. It has nothing to do with speaking publicly which is more abo
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by epo 16y ago
Hilarious as in slightly amusing perhaps. tldr; disappointing book with too much froth and not enough content, rather like their dreadful coffee
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by epo 16y ago
"Testing" a web app when it is not your job to do so is self evidently a suspicious act, just like walking down a line of cars testing the door handles to see if any have been left unlocked would be a suspicious act.
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by epo 16y ago
I remember believing (though without any supporting evidence) that this was one reason why SmallTalk couldn't possibly catch on commercially. The system was so mutable that any kind of support was impossible, there as no way the support per
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by epo 16y ago
What justification? If someone can't cope with a buying process then they shouldn't buy, it is no excuse for stealing. This is as asinine as seeing a long queue at a supermarket and declaring this is "justification" for walking out with the
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by epo 16y ago
A very partial and wildly selective subset based on an about.com article. Lame. EDIT gave this a point in error, wish I hadn't.
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by epo 16y ago
Many years ago I did a CS degree as a 4 year "sandwich" course which involved 1 years industrial experience. My college had to pre-approve my choice of employer/employment and required regular reports (EDIT I know, I wrote one of them). I w
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by epo 16y ago
Yet another know-it-all blaming the victim. There is no magic immunity which accrues from being 18, the kid knew what he was doing and wilfully committed criminal acts.
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by epo 16y ago
More anti-Apple whining and double standards. Funny how when people commit theft by avoiding paying for recorded content like music and films the claim is that the world has changed and the studios and record companies should adapt their bu
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by epo 16y ago
I presume you are talking about the iPhone app store. Apple did it because they can. For their money vendors get development tools, marketing and distribution assistance plus, of course, access to the marketplace. Its the same with supermar
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by epo 16y ago
The point of a resume is to generate sufficient interest to get talking, ideally an interview but even a screening phone call is better than being ignored. For someone who's interest is in working in design and development this is a very di
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by epo 16y ago
Typo in first sign-up input box, should be "Your" name.
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by epo 16y ago
Also useful for reopening a window should you close it, the back button is awfully near to close window on a mac.
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by epo 16y ago
They're using the company name as a collective noun or as shorthand for "people at company X or product Y", makes sense to me (a Brit).
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by epo 16y ago
Actually this is exactly why people borrow money from banks. The trick, of course, is to know that your income will at some point rise to cover the cost of borrowings.
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The piece of paper that fooled Hitler(bbc.co.uk)
169 points by epo 16y ago|50 comments
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by epo 16y ago
Somewhat Pixar-ish, like a crowd of cartoon characters dashing off stage to be replaced by a new bunch. Will get irritating very quickly.
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Depression link to processed food(news.bbc.co.uk)
31 points by epo 16y ago|13 comments
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by epo 16y ago
Don't be so simplistic, that's like saying that stealing a car isn't theft because it is just driving and anyway you are just moving it somewhere else. The economic consequences of copying are a deprival of revenue, that is tantamount to th
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by epo 16y ago
There is a difference between antisocial and asocial, it is the difference between being hostile or antagonistic to others as opposed to simply ignoring or ahunning them. Equally, people confuse being insecure and attention-seeking with bei

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