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931.
by gmac 11y ago
The thing is, building a billion dollar business doesn't require 1000x the work or entail 1000x the stress of building a million dollar one The key thing is, a billion dollars is nothing like 1000x better than a million. In fact, I s
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Vendor prefixes are fucking batshit crazy (2012)(quirksmode.org)
2 points by gmac 11y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 11y ago
I take it as more positive than normative. In other words: here is a description of how it turns out I get (certain) things done; and not: here is a recipe for getting things done. (It occurred to me to post it this morning because I spent
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Structured Procrastination: Do Less, Deceive Yourself, and Succeed Long-Term(structuredprocrastination.com)
323 points by gmac 11y ago|79 comments
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by gmac 11y ago
Agreed, this is awful. Presumably it means that adding comments can slow your code down , which I would otherwise have thought a completely laughable suggestion.
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by gmac 11y ago
No — 'humiliating U-turn' on the front pages is very much a political problem, and could lead to early entrenchment of positions.
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by gmac 11y ago
Also, although transparency always sounds wonderful, negotiating a treaty in the open is potentially very difficult: the media are liable to trumpet a 'humiliating U-turn!' any time someone ends up negotiating to a new position, e
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by gmac 11y ago
I did the test but found it entirely un-illuminating. I got '19' where '0' is perfect, but I have no idea where that puts me in the distribution (top 10%? bottom 10%? bang on the median?).
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by gmac 11y ago
I suspect the marginal impact might be pretty high in certain cases. For example, it looks to me as if on iOS you can only be identified down to (browser * iPhone model * iOS version * timezone). I'd venture a big majority of iPhone us
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How your phone's battery life can be used to invade your privacy(theguardian.com)
22 points by gmac 11y ago|5 comments
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Excel_to_code – Converts some Excel spreadsheets to C(github.com)
92 points by gmac 11y ago|59 comments
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by gmac 11y ago
A friend wrote this: a project that converts Excel sheets to C or Ruby. https://github.com/tamc/excel_to_code
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by gmac 11y ago
... and accept nonsensical SQL queries, returning whatever it feels like.
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by gmac 11y ago
I'm not a security expert, but I don't use any 'continuous scan' anti-virus on my Mac because I strongly suspect it would make the system more vulnerable, not less. See, for example, https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com
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The Apple Watch review(anandtech.com)
3 points by gmac 11y ago|0 comments
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Adopting Objective-C Generics(miqu.me)
20 points by gmac 11y ago|17 comments
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London man arrested for recharging iPhone on Overground train(arstechnica.co.uk)
8 points by gmac 11y ago|2 comments
948.
by gmac 11y ago
For English, this is absolutely true. (I believe some other languages are, at least officially, less fluid -- such as French, policed by the Academie Francaise). And it does turn out, it seems, that 'burglarize' is legit (and I fa
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by gmac 11y ago
The verb is (traditionally) to burgle. When I see 'burglarize' I can't help wondering where it will all end. burgle -> burglar -> burglarize -> burglarizer -> burglarizerize -> burglarizerizer -> ... ? (Yes,
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by gmac 11y ago
Here are two big reasons: (1) The IT department controls what's on your PC. (2) You have no idea how computers work.
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by gmac 11y ago
It looks like some non-stick thing, which I won't allow in my kitchen. For reasons of style/principle, or because Teflon and aluminium are associated with possible health risks? I use a mix of steel and non-stick ceramic pans —
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New exploit leaves most Macs vulnerable to permanent backdooring(arstechnica.co.uk)
12 points by gmac 11y ago|0 comments
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by gmac 11y ago
In the past, at least, that installation-time check for an exact model was not-very-well hidden in a Perl script on the DVD.
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by gmac 11y ago
Agreed on the greatness of Eneloop: I've used these in my Bluetooth keyboard and mouse for a few years now, and they also do a very neat USB-powered charger. (Other brands do low self-discharge MiMH batteries too -- e.g. Duracell -- bu
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by gmac 11y ago
+1 but for Roald Dahl in Italian.
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by gmac 11y ago
Good point, but I find there are 3 obstacles to this. 1) Many shoes (and most jeans too) don't fit me in whatever size — either the fit is more complicated than a simple scalar, and/or sometimes I'd need a size somewhere betw
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by gmac 11y ago
In the UK supermarket deliveries are well established. My family gets 2 or 3 Ocado deliveries a week (they have a Prime equivalent where you pay £11 a month to get free deliveries on orders over £40, within a one-hour time slot, usually ava
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by gmac 11y ago
Historically, Linode. Good performance, and decent value. More recently, Heroku. Expensive, but I love being able to leave the sysadmin to someone else.
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by gmac 11y ago
Suggestion: allow use of extended regexps too (I have a quick JS function to enable this, which you can regard as public domain: http://blog.mackerron.com/2010/08/08/extended-multi-line-js-... ).
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by gmac 11y ago
I had exactly the same problem with a site I made for a friend's wedding. It included a short message from the bride and groom ending with 'xxx' — i.e. kiss kiss kiss. Vodafone UK (at least) blocked it as porn.

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