fian

22 ms·

181.
by fian 11y ago
Some sub-cultures of Australian society use: "youse" as the plural for "you" when addressing more than one person. For example: "Youse guys are late". Here there is a double plural "youse" and &quot
182.
by fian 11y ago
Like the JVM?
183.
by fian 11y ago
The flipside to the dud deal you claim these solar owning householders get is that they are not paying their full share for the grid connectivity that they need to sell their excess electricity into. The majority of the cost of retail elect
184.
by fian 11y ago
Java 8 (SE) with Swing. Of the few other UI toolkits I have tried, Swing has proven the most flexible in terms of resizable layouts. I have dabbled with some web dev (html,css, javascript). It all seems hacky compared to working with Swing
185.
by fian 11y ago
They also have very flat land and an amenable climate in the Netherlands. Cycling becomes significantly harder in hilly or windy (read coastal) locations. I live somewhere generally considered "flat" as there are no mountains, how
186.
by fian 11y ago
Yep, have similar problems with ballpoints and soft-leaded pencil. At the moment I am mostly using Artline 200 Fine 0.4mm pens. These are not ballpoints and the think ink lines dry fast, so the text is hard to smudge. They are not without
187.
by fian 11y ago
Fremantle Doctor?
188.
by fian 11y ago
I've had good service from the Dell XPS 15z I am typing this on. It is now over 3 years old. I set it up to dual boot Win 7 and Kubuntu. I kept Win7 originally for gaming. I think I booted to Win 7 1 in the past year. There is even
189.
by fian 11y ago
It sounds like the issue to less to do with the hours worked and more to do with timely delivery. Does this person know what the are expected to deliver on any given day/week/month? If not, they may think they are delivering acce
190.
by fian 11y ago
The fact that these people were returned to their respective countries allows for them to speak of their experiences. People who were not returned (ie disappeared) are not able to speak of their experiences, so you would never know it happe
191.
by fian 11y ago
Generally you do a Root Cause Analysis post-event, not a Fault Tree Analysis. Fault Trees are typically used to determine the probability of a bad thing (fault) occurring. This probability is used to populate a Risk Matrix (Probability vs
192.
by fian 11y ago
So, if the Supreme Court rules that APIs are copyrightable, then wouldn't that mean that someone could use AWS with some, for example, Java code generation tools that created classes with method names comprised of randomly selected wor
193.
by fian 11y ago
The performance difference for 32-bit vs 64-bit JVMs can be significant for some workloads. I develop a desktop engineering simulation application in Java. The simulation time for the same code running the same model on a 64-bit JRE is oft
194.
by fian 11y ago
Generally, adding fairings and other modifications to improve aerodynamics also increases the side-on area susceptible to crosswinds. For uprights the rider is seated such that the centre or mass is relatively high compared to the faired&#x
195.
by fian 12y ago
I have seen this taken further into the personality types: Starter - someone who can solve design problems and pump out new features Journeyman - someone who can be given a spec and turn out solid, maintainable code. This kind of developer
196.
by fian 12y ago
I am employed to develop and maintain a desktop application for simulation and modelling with the engineering discipline. The application has been in development for over 16 years. At inception a web application was totally out of the que
197.
by fian 12y ago
Some of the early Kryptonite models were susceptible to the "Bic pen" attack.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LahDQ2ZQ3e0 No need for anything fancy like a hydraulis jack or liquid nitrogen.
198.
by fian 12y ago
Flat works well for small groups and for growing/sustainable businesses. When a downturn occurs and staff count needs to be reduced, how is that handled in the transparent, everyone-can-look-into-everything organisation described in t
199.
by fian 12y ago
June 21 is the longest day only for the northern hemisphere. The southern hemisphere would therefore celebrate giraffes on the (or about) the 21st Dec. Also, from a cursory search, giraffes occur both north and south of the equator in Afri
200.
by fian 12y ago
I have a Dell XPS 15z which came with Windows 7. I installed Kubuntu on it dual-boot. The only time I boot into Windows is to do my tax (Aus Tax Office tool was Windows only for a long time - that might have changed now though). Not quite
201.
by fian 12y ago
Do you consume a lot of caffeine? Honestly curious. I find myself in the same state you report when I consume a lot (>2 cups) of strong coffee per day. New ideas spawn at a great rate and I feel frustrated that I can't pursue them
202.
by fian 13y ago
A sand groper is a small insect: <p> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandgroper_%28insect%29 <p> A "sand groper" is also slang for a Western Australian. As a "sand groper", I have never he
203.
by fian 13y ago
The receipt scan idea is an app I have wanted for ages, though I don't think OCR is good enough to handle all the cryptic abbreviated product names on a standard super market receipt. It would be cleaner if the printed receipt include
204.
by fian 13y ago
Were you using a Class 10 SD card? The preinstalled SD cards you could buy with Raspbian from places like element14 are really slow. Swap in a class 10 and XMBC becomes much more responsive.
205.
by fian 13y ago
Interesting. When we set this up we looked at maybe adding an automated build (transform) step on commit via our CI (Jenkins) server. While the software developers are comfortable learning and using Markdown or other markup syntaxes, I eve
206.
by fian 13y ago
At work we are trialling Lyx + Subversion for collaborative creation of developer documentation. The stored data is in a text + markup format which allows for easy diffing. Lyx being a layer over Latex means we can easily transform into a
207.
by fian 13y ago
Only those that come by boat. Many many more asylum seekers come by plane which is not such a problem. Detaining boat people is meant to deter others risking their lives the same way.
208.
by fian 13y ago
The Nullabor plain in Australia? Wishful thinking from a Perthite sigh
209.
by fian 13y ago
Uninterrupted time is definitely a factor. The other factor is when you are supporting a deployed application, you will receive bug reports that require "urgent" attention so end up working late to identify it and either resolve it or detai
210.
by fian 13y ago
I guess the difference is that this guy is making the recipe available so you can tweak it to your requirements. Ensure or other prepackaged products are a predefined set ratio, which may not be optimal for all consumers. For example, highl

More ›