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by jeffbr13 10y ago
Changing the pointing device from default touch mode to PS/2 mouse in Machine>Settings>System fixed that for me. Seems to be the default for Ubuntu machines in recent versions.
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by jeffbr13 10y ago
Distinguishing between work requiring a heads-down approach and work that can be sped up by collaboration (shared understanding, parallelisable tasks) needs to be learned and school's a good a place to get started on that as any.
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by jeffbr13 10y ago
> Bonus points if they also troll people into thinking it's fluff for the first two-and-a-half episodes and try to break their minds. You might like Space Dandy. Japanese again, but they really play around with continuity expectatio
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by jeffbr13 10y ago
"lots of records that never made it to CD" is a great phrase! Of course we're still stuck using the lingo created at the start of the recording industry boom of the twentieth century, much as we're likely to continue say
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
We definitely need better filtering on incoming feeds so we don't inundate our attention-spans. But Facebook's curation algorithms are one-size-fits-all. While that might work for a general search engine looking for information in
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
They use some track-recognition technology to generate tracklists and then remunerate copyright holders from the advertising income, I believe.
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
At my company we have a bunch of content that's only archived on SoundCloud. The main barrier I've had to backing up original uploads (only available through the web interface) is the terrible reliability of all the AJAX calls. Ev
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
No need! A LinkedIn account with a recruiter-visible email address will result in these sorts of unsolicited emails with no subscription fees at all.
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
Isn't arbitrarily-long nesting or matching any sort of palindrome, where you count up and down, the classic case of something you should never do with a regex, because they're finite automata? People don't build parsers bec
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
The UK government built a bunch of "new towns" in England in the '50s and '60s, to take pressure off the housing situation in London at the time. The biggest is Milton Keynes, near Bletchley Park. It's a bit soulles
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
Author says that the BPG version is re-encoded from the MP4, so lower quality is to be expected. Looking at the linked comparison tool[1], it seems that while BPG and WebP both have fewer artefacts than JPEG at a given file-size, BPG seems
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
IntelliJ seems to be their 'master' IDE with plugins providing the functionality of PyCharm, Webstorm etc. It's reflected in the license cost, but I'm using it on a mixed Python, JS, PHP without too many issues except SD
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
Every new scientist having to learn the heuristics to judge a high-quality paper from its metadata seems like a local maxima in fighting spam, and something that makes the profession harder to get into. The community would be forced to deve
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
No you can't, unless you're a registry or can convince one to lease you a domain-name for an unlimited amount of time. In practice you rent a domain name annually, and they get put back in the rental pool not long after the renter
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
London, UK | ONSITE | Full time | Frontend web dev Boiler Room is the world’s leading community of underground music fans. We live-stream DJ sets and live gigs from music hubs such as London, Berlin, New York, Paris, LA and >60 other cit
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
Blockchains are necessary for Bitcoin, but Bitcoin is not necessary for blockchains. "The Blockchain" (big B) is the original blockchain (small b) used for Bitcoin, but it's only one possible implementation. It's like sa
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
Large soundsystems for clubs and festivals have an entire culture of their own[1], heavily associated with the dub and reggae music scenes. Many are hand-built and maintained by a core group of people who travel with them and operate them o
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
In front of a green-screen, if the halos around his hair are anything to go by.
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
There's the LifeHacker workspace show-and-tell group on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/groups/lifehacker-workspace-showandte...
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
> “This Watchman publication is what physicists call a singularity. There has been nothing like it before now, and there never will be again,” says Daniel Menaker, a former editor at Random House You'd think someone in the business
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
Notice the hijacking of the term "living wage", rather than calling it what it is, a bump to minimum wage. A cynical political move, and completely in character for this Conservative government.
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
Ah, but wouldn't Google want to keep it's investments in sectors that it believes will grow, even if they're competing with them, a la Microsoft & Apple[1]? [1]: http://arstechnica.com/information-technolo
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
Apparently, squatting has recently (2012) been made into a criminal offence in England, meaning a criminal record if convicted, so... not worth it. Squatting used to be a ~fairly~ normal thing in England, going by impressions from my youth,
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
relevant: THEY'RE MADE OUT OF MEAT < http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html>
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
> The great tragedy is that since 9/11 Sikhs have often been mistaken for afgans/arabs wearing turbans & discriminated against. The greater tragedy is discrimination against Arabs based on racism and faulty heuristics for w
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
> … but nobody wants only an ideally secure system Indeed! The ideally secure system would be one which doesn't exist/doesn't have ANY interface, much like the perfect computer which doesn't perform any IO with the re
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
Amethyst tiling window manager is even better, as you can get the computer to move your windows for you! [1]: http://ianyh.com/amethyst/
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
> This can't be farther from the truth.. "our" design aesthetic is not on a basis of trying to save bandwidth. No, it's more to do with 'democratising' app design, and cutting the expense of (good) designers
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
Are you being optimistic or pessimistic? It's only been 15-20 years since 56kb dialup was the norm, and Tesla are doing pretty well at the moment.
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
tl;dr - Neo4j for the Micrsoft platform: The following prerequisites are required to follow this manual and develop GE applications: Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8 (or above). Visual Studio 2012 and 2013. Windows Pow

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