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by gpvos 14y ago
What worried me most is that SSDs with the apparently current 22nm size have only 2k/3k write cycles, where older ones had 10k. Seems a bit low to me.
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by gpvos 14y ago
The only major breakage has not been in the language, but in the .NET framework libraries; and then mostly in ASP.NET. Between 1.1 and 2.0, quite a few things broke there. Upgrading was no fun at all.
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by gpvos 14y ago
True. In fact, for every field X, most X engineers don't want patents to apply to field X.
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by gpvos 14y ago
That's not strange. Corporations are not people, and their rights should be different from people. In some ways they may be less restricted, in some ways more restricted. Free speech is for real people. As the saying goes, I'll believe corp
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by gpvos 14y ago
While the writer dismisses the term "strategic dynamism", he acknowledges the actual problem that the Board of Visitors tries to address: the imposed large budget cuts make it necessary that entire subjects/departments have to go, instead o
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by gpvos 14y ago
Same here with the Universiteit van Amsterdam (www.uva.nl); and I guess there are more...
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by gpvos 14y ago
This is a pity. I have a really nice and unobtrusive SVG Opera clock widget in the corner of my screen, which starts and runs completely separately from Opera. I understand that this is not possible anymore with extensions. I really hope I
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by gpvos 14y ago
I switched to Firefox a year or so ago, because Opera (both on Windows and Mac) became too unstable for me with 150+ tabs open. Since then, I have become accustomed to some Firefox extensions, mainly NoScript and RequestPolicy. Also, Firefo
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by gpvos 14y ago
I assumed that "criminal defendant" referred to MU/DotCom, but then I find myself unable to parse the sentence into something meaningful. Can anyone explain please?
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by gpvos 14y ago
> Other relatively strong euro-area nations, such as the Netherlands, would probably pause before following Germany’s lead. This would probably be true for most of these countries; however, the Netherlands would probably just adopt the
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by gpvos 14y ago
It says that in the name.
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by gpvos 14y ago
I don't think that that follows in any way from the article. But the idea is interesting. Care to explain or give references?
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by gpvos 14y ago
Things are pretty bad when even on the most well-known platform, with a fairly straightforward implementation of two's complement integers, the answers are not intuitive.
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by gpvos 14y ago
Hmm, I may have misunderstood adavies42 slightly here; I thought (s)he meant what would happen if a motion of no confidence were ignored, which has never happened and would be quite a shock. When a motion of no confidence is passed by parli
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by gpvos 14y ago
Not sure; it has never happened yet and it would certainly get ugly, so she might. She does usually step in at a few other places, though. We're getting off-topic here; for a very nice but not yet complete overview, see http://www.quirksmo
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by gpvos 14y ago
These are motions, which are not binding, and the government can ignore them if it wishes, although it may then have a political problem and parliament might send it home with a "motion of distrust", which the government cannot ignore. Howe
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by gpvos 14y ago
To be precise, 2012-12 is valid and refers to a month. There is indeed no ambiguity.
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by gpvos 14y ago
If you're sending or storing local dates and times, it may actually be better to use the local time (as ISO 8601 does) with the (Olson tz) name of the time zone it's in, instead of the time zone offset as in ISO 8601. This is more resilie
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by gpvos 14y ago
The intent is to enable users to "opt out of tracking by websites they do not visit, including analytics services, advertising networks, and social platforms". So you can have an analytics package on your site and do everything you mention,
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by gpvos 15y ago
Actually, in 1991.
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by gpvos 15y ago
#1 does not apply. If your balance goes below zero, you start paying interest. It's a pretty high rate (12-18% or so), but nothing that will get you into trouble as long as you top it up within a week or even a month. There are no other ove
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by gpvos 15y ago
Can't navigate the presentation because I disabled the arrow keys with a user script the day Google hijacked them. I hope this trend of interfering with standard browser functions ends soon.