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by frobozz 16y ago
This is a good tip. In the past, I've often found myself paralysed by indecision first thing in the morning. I started leaving myself specific, simple tasks the night before, so that I could get something done first thing in the morning.
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by frobozz 16y ago
Or is it? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300836
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by frobozz 16y ago
Possibly Technischen Zeichen - That would go well as a contrast to Kunstzeichen.
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by frobozz 16y ago
Every time this subject comes up, a pack of vociferous compulsory commenters come out and start shouting about how desperately unprofessional it is not to write comments. I imagine, also, that a fair collection of idiots also start using it
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by frobozz 16y ago
No, I've suffered VSS, but that is quite rightly positioned at the bottom of the love/hate scale (IIRC. They've taken the image down). Perforce had just under 4 hearts out of 5, with Mercurial and Git being just over 4 out of 5.
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by frobozz 16y ago
I'm surprised at how loved perforce is. Whenever I have to do anything on a perforce repository I think, "Oh no, not this again!"
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by frobozz 16y ago
The claim is a stretch, even in areas of high internet penetration. It might be a shield, in the same way as a sheet of cardboard is a shield. You can hold it up in front of someone pointing a gun at you, it might make them miss your vita
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by frobozz 16y ago
I think it's a high density thing. Same lessons in Western Europe.
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by frobozz 16y ago
Not so long ago, a certain fruitily named computer manufacturer decided to distribute music, and were sued by an older, and similarly fruitily named record company for not only violating their trademarks, but violating a specific agreemen
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by frobozz 16y ago
I disagree with your point that "most of the code are hypotheses to be tested by the market". Most "pieces of software" might be, but I contend that most of the code in most software is under-the-hood stuff that objectively either works or
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by frobozz 16y ago
We're (almost) always in a bubble. The important question is "when will this bubble pop and the next one start".
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by frobozz 16y ago
Actionscript is an ECMAScript dialect.
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by frobozz 16y ago
Completely different to standards-compliance, yes. However it is exactly the same thing as GMail's alphanumeric only rule. To reiterate - the mailbox names that a email provider will provide are subject to the naming conventions defined by
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by frobozz 16y ago
1) Regarding the kinds of mailbox names an email provider will provide you with, it's up to the provider. My employer, for example, only lets us have firstname.surname, With the addition of a single digit in case more than one employee has
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by frobozz 16y ago
Hope is all you have, if email is the black box wilderness you describe. You rely on hope regardless of whether or not your email address contains "super-special characters". My whole point is that there is a standard for an email address,
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by frobozz 16y ago
But how can I be considered to be "asking for it" if I put a dot, hyphen or number in my email address, when millions of email addresses have them; the standard permits them; and many institutional policies create emails with them by defaul
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by frobozz 16y ago
That's not the issue at hand - the grandparent comment advocates that you shouldn't even expect a service to accept RFC-Compliant addresses. Validating against the RFC is more, not less permissive than the position held by the grandparent
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by frobozz 16y ago
How can other people work out what you mean by a 'legit' email address? Are hyphens allowed? What about dots, underscores or numbers? Do any of those count as "super-special characters"? Just like "+", they are all permitted in standards-
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by frobozz 16y ago
I've just reread your original post, and now I understand what you mean by "doubting". When I first read it, I thought you were discounting it because it was so different, now I see that it is one of your options.
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by frobozz 16y ago
I don't understand your misgivings about lisp. Particularly since you are citing PragProg as your inspiration for this question. One good reason to learn a language is because it is radically different to the languages you currently know.
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by frobozz 16y ago
And people are 86.3% more likely to believe a statistic if it has a decimal point in it.
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by frobozz 16y ago
All of the options are about present and future, there is nothing about the past. My situation is that I used to be involved in startups, but I'm now all corporate. If I had to choose from the list, then both "interested in working for a st
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by frobozz 16y ago
Various countries manage this without requiring the customer to keep themselves up-to-date with local tax laws. The sticker price is the actual price paid (including tax), but the receipt shows the itemised pre-tax price, with tax added on
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by frobozz 16y ago
There is a difference between playing the lottery, and playing regularly. If a reputable organisation held a one-off lottery, in which you stand a very slim chance of winning £5M, for a £1 stake, then (morals and poverty notwithstanding) th
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by frobozz 16y ago
I can't see how this experiment will work. By making this announcement, Kane has skewed the results in favour of the free model. The "control" group will consist almost entirely of keen early adopters and well-wishers, with a handful of pe
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by frobozz 16y ago
The author also fails to grasp the fact that if "Everyone-everyone!" (including "accomplished professionals") follows a given convention, then that convention must be correct, because that is what convention is . Prescriptivists are univer
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by frobozz 16y ago
reCAPTCHA only knows what one of the words should be, so you only have to get one of the two words right. The other word is being transcribed by crowdsourcing.
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by frobozz 16y ago
Part of the point of reCAPTCHA is to crowdsource the digitisation of printed content that conventional OCR couldn't manage. This is why you occasionally end up with strange things like fractions and foreign characters, that you don't know h
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by frobozz 16y ago
Unless your $7K expenditure calculation includes putting away quite a bit of savings (Which, unless there's a massive early repayment fine on your loans, it shouldn't), you'll also need to pretty much halve that optimistic 4% to ensure that
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by frobozz 16y ago
Dictionary definitions only reflect the actual meaning of words in conventional use by the speakers of the language. If the OED were prescriptive, then the definition of success would simply be "outcome", whether positive or not, as that is

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