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by fendale 18y ago
The use of the @ symbol may well be a good idea to split out the dates and separate remindable things from non-remindable.
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by fendale 18y ago
There is some good advice coming up in this thread. A few people are suggesting email is not the correct medium, so I need to explain more what it is I am trying to achieve. My app is sort of like 'I Want Sandy' (I started working on this
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by fendale 18y ago
Auto complete would be a good option, however I want people to be able to send the commands in emails (with the option on the web page too). Having started scanning about NLP, I can tell its a big area, and I don't think I want to invest l
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Ask HN: Best way to implement natural language commands for todo's, reminder etc
11 points by fendale 18y ago|25 comments
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by fendale 18y ago
Interestingly, the ruby on rails podcast just released has a interview with one of the maglev developers.. Sounds like they are making good progress!
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by fendale 18y ago
What happened the to great potential offer by Maglev and Avi Bryant's presentation a while back about putting Ruby on the smalltalk VM? Was that all just vapour ware? I have not heard a peep about in since!
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by fendale 18y ago
I am from Northern Ireland and everytime I phone a call centre/hotel/whatever that is answered by someone doesn't live in the UK, I find it almost impossible to get them to hear 'two' - they always think I am saying three. In my mind I am
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by fendale 18y ago
> A related problem is that you can't right click links to open them in their own tab That is THE most annoying thing a web developer can do to a user if you ask me!
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by fendale 18y ago
I believe Leo Laporte sits on a ball all day when doing all those podcasts and twit live shows he does ... I don't get it - how does it help your posture? Can you not sit slouched over on a ball as easy as a normal chair? Maybe I should t
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by fendale 18y ago
Oh come on - writing a resume is not that hard! Its two pages max, and while I agree its the most tedious undesirable task in the world, 3 or 4 hours spent on it will sort it once and for all. Then all you have to do is update it every 3
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by fendale 18y ago
Being that for any job, you are supposed to tailor your CV to the position, is that not the time to omit the section that mentions your Engineering degree and relevant work experience if you know you are going to be over qualified? I guess
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by fendale 18y ago
Oz is boring? Im stuck in the UK and would love to be back in Oz because the UK is boring (and the weather is terrible)! My theory is that no matter where you live, it becomes normal (aka boring) after a few years.
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by fendale 18y ago
Sounds like webkit2png is the best bet, but its OS X only which is no good if you want to run it on a webserver. The alternative is khtml2png, which will run on a linux webserver, but it looks like its going require a lot of messing about w
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by fendale 18y ago
I would prefer something I can install on my own server as opposed to a service. That site is all in German, but it looks like its webservice that captures the images for you - am I correct?
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Ask YC: Is there a utility that takes thumbnail style 'screenshots' of webpages?
5 points by fendale 18y ago|5 comments
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by fendale 18y ago
Hear, hear indeed - It was 11pm after a long day when I wrote that, but I won't make the same mistake again, lol!
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by fendale 18y ago
Here here - In our project, its packed with generic features - most of them haven't be used ever and were released ages ago. Often they really complicate the application with lookup tables and weird logic that never sees the light of day,
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by fendale 18y ago
I was having a conversation about communication skills with a few colleagues just today. I work with a lot of off-shore people based in India, and yes most of them are just code monkeys. While their English is generally (but not always) ex
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by fendale 18y ago
I have been watching this Phorm business for some time now - While I am disappointed that the EU are letting them continue on with it, at least they have stated that companies involved must obtain consent and provide useful information abou
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Code comments are not for tracking code changes(sodonnell.wordpress.com)
2 points by fendale 18y ago|1 comments
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by fendale 18y ago
I just gave that app a try there - I like it. I second (or third now!) that I don't like the meaningless words. Makes it much harder to type them I reckon, and some of the words seem to be real words, but with missing letters, so you find
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by fendale 18y ago
The thing that got me excited about StackOver flow was that it was announced just a few days after I spent days attempting to dredge information out of those Bulletin board type forums where there are 100's of non threaded replies/discussio
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by fendale 18y ago
Good points. I do a lot of swimming and soccer playing for general overall fitness - would like to do some upper body work, but just cannot motive myself to do a full range of exercises (takes to long and I find them too boring!) ... so
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by fendale 18y ago
Have you followed the 100 pushup program? 100 push ups in a row is no easy task, I would love to be able to do it ... might take this challenge on and see how it goes!
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by fendale 18y ago
I think the major point was that, yes an experience developer can make a good accurate quote, but it needs the requirements to be nailed down and in fine detail before that quote really means anything. Being that most clients probably don'
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by fendale 18y ago
+1 for that - I am dreading the day that people are able to talk on their phones on the plane. Cue massive increase in 'air rage' when it happens!
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by fendale 18y ago
Its even turned on in MySQL if you are using innodb tables too!
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by fendale 18y ago
If I read this correctly, does this article say that an Update statement is blocking selects? Does SQL Server really work like this? My expertise is in Oracle - readers don't block writers and writers don't block readers. Infact writers d
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by fendale 18y ago
I gave up on this article before I got to the 'meat' as it was too waffley ... anyway, to lose weight my best advice is to: * avoid fizzy drink as much as possible * avoid crisps (do americans call them chips?) * go easy on fried and fast
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by fendale 18y ago
I don't fully agree with what you are saying. A self signed certificate DOES provide 100% cryptographic security, in that nobody sniffing on the the wire, or whatever open wi-fi I happen to be using can see my data. Securing the connection

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