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by frobozz 15y ago
This is already possible, until recently, my commute was 1.5 hours (each way) in which I would normally sleep or read, and occasionally watch TV. It wasn't a big deal, but I wouldn't have wanted to go much further, and there's no way I'd h
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by frobozz 15y ago
I think that the advice "Don't hit send until the next morning" is sound not only for post-booze emailing, but for anything done late in the day. Driving whilst overly tired (for example) is known to pose similar risks to driving under the
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by frobozz 15y ago
If your habit is what I think it is, I have the opposite habit - I never use sudo until it tells me I've tried to do something I'm not allowed to do - even if I know it's not going to let me. Then I use "sudo !!"
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by frobozz 15y ago
If I were Lee, I'd be scratching my head wondering exactly what it is he's asking of me. If I were Sam, I'd wonder why he's decided to dick me about without apology, explanation or reward, then spend the next three paragraphs apologising to
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by frobozz 15y ago
Thanks. This is the critical nugget of information missing from the course information pages (unless I'm just lacking in observation skills).
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by frobozz 15y ago
What kind of time commitment does it require?
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by frobozz 15y ago
Pi took me a couple of goes, and when I drew a somewhat narrow ampersand, it gave me a few erroneous results. Both were successful, and put the desired character at the top of the list. All the others worked first time. It would be excelle
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by frobozz 15y ago
If you can show that something is being stolen, then yes. If, on the other hand, no stealing is going on, then no. The problem I have with the "piracy is theft" thing is that I think its use makes it harder to convince people who counter w
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by frobozz 15y ago
This is why I used the words "typically" and "rarely" above, but I'd still argue that your identity wasn't the thing that was stolen from you, rather that they used your identity to steal something, either from you or someone else. Not bein
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by frobozz 15y ago
> "what if I slander you"... An even more important example - What if I open up a competing business with better advertising and greater value for money? That deprives others of revenue, but is neither criminally nor civilly illegal, a
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by frobozz 15y ago
The trouble with the term identity theft is that there typically _is_ actual stealing going on, but that it's not actually your identity that is being stolen. Identity thieves don't normally just go around introducing themselves to stranger
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by frobozz 15y ago
Inconsistency across browsers was one of the things that inspired the development of the various js libraries we use today, including jQuery. Despite the existence of standards (even standards with comprehensive test cases), they are neede
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by frobozz 15y ago
Agreed, I'd hate to write an application of appreciable size without cut-paste. I currently hate an application that I'm likely to end up working on that was authored with a generous helping of copy-paste.
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by frobozz 15y ago
Surely 4 is impossible. Email is both consumption and production. Listening to music is just consumption. By the crudest estimate, that means that any email device must have an interface that is twice as complicated as an ipod. The jokey
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by frobozz 15y ago
I don't think you determine a passing result correctly. I made several attempts as "Lesson 8: Take a While", all fulfilling the brief, and all telling me "Oops, try again". I wasn't even being particularly perverse on all of them. In fact,
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by frobozz 15y ago
I don't think the Internet has had any detrimental effect on the quality of my ideas, but it certainly has had a detrimental effect on my ability to execute them. When I wrote my MA dissertation, I suffered from the problem that I would wri
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by frobozz 15y ago
How do you guarantee the answer? What hold do you have over the ladies that makes them answer? If someone is only going to pay me a dollar for something, I'm not likely to do it were it not something I'd do for free anyway. This is the poi
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by frobozz 15y ago
$1 seems like a frightfully trivial amount of money to receive for a well-considered answer. See: "Pay enough, or don't pay at all." http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2011/05/pay-enoug...
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by frobozz 15y ago
In IE, yes. I work with an exceptionally complex ext.js application (not develop, I'm just a user of it). In IE you can click a button, make a cup of tea, and come back to see it finish working. In Chrome and Firefox, there's nothing wro
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by frobozz 15y ago
As others have said, summer is the problem. Even in the fairly chilly parts of the world where people live, one typically doesn't need to heat ones home in the summer. At least not much, and only on unseasonably cold days. However, peop
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by frobozz 15y ago
The comment you cite (which is new since my comment above) confirms my point that it might be what he thinks, but not what he says. The comment continues: "I probably wasn't very clear on my feelings though."
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by frobozz 15y ago
This is a very good point. After all, it is just a game, not a banking application, and a pretty simple game at that.
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by frobozz 15y ago
That's probably what's in the authors mind, but not what's in the article. The author is not just suggesting that client side verification is bad in itself, but stating that position quite precisely. "Why client-side verification is bad.."
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by frobozz 15y ago
This attitude throws the baby out with the bathwater. Client-side verification is Good, it saves bandwidth and reduces annoyance to the user. Client-side verification without also checking on the server is bad. Given the example of a word
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by frobozz 15y ago
Another odd thing about this effort, is that it solves a problem that doesn't exist any more. The TFL Journey planner will take you from anywhere in London to anywhere else in London using the most appropriate route; Google directions inclu
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by frobozz 15y ago
On the very local scale, this map seems to work (the relationship between Leicester Square and its 4 neighbouring stations looks about right). On a larger scale, it doesn't seem to work. I looked at a few journeys I regularly take on foot:
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by frobozz 15y ago
IMHO, geographic accuracy is an all-or-nothing feature of a network diagram. If it doesn't help you decide between walking or riding, then it should optimise for riding. This map lacks Beck's clean, diagrammatic style without really adding
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by frobozz 15y ago
Could you give some examples? In Zone 1, the stops are so frequent that the number of stops is normally far more significant than the distance between them; and in the outer zones, you rarely have a choice anyway.
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by frobozz 15y ago
They are completely different to me as well, which is why I don't record rumpy-pumpy on runkeeper, or wear my HRM/Cadence/GPS watch for it. They are evidently not completely different to the users of fitbit who are telling the world about i
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by frobozz 15y ago
When I saw the headline, I wondered how the machine determined that you were having sex, rather than just doing (for example) pressups, squat thrusts and crunches (possibly in close proximity to another user doing similar exercise). It wou

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