josephcooney

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by josephcooney 10y ago
The type of people that make expensive purchases (and therefore probably have more money) might be a more attractive target to criminals.
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by josephcooney 10y ago
Wow. IOCCC spins my head yet again.
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by josephcooney 10y ago
Yep. My subconscious often gives me very interesting "left field" type problem solving/troubleshooting advice during my programming dreams.
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by josephcooney 10y ago
I bought it from O'Reilly....it came with mobi and epub versions. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920041528.do
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by josephcooney 10y ago
I initially parsed the name as 'scaphoid', one of the carpal bones. I thought they were making a joke about reducing typing...turns out I just can't read properly.
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by josephcooney 10y ago
While you're technically correct, ROTOR hadn't received any updates for a long time, and the source was licensed in such a was as to make sure anyone who could benefit from it running on *NIX platforms was heavily incentivized not
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by josephcooney 10y ago
Not really. If dropbox is compromised and they get your .kdbx file they've still got to be able to break that (unless you use the same password for dropbox and your kdbx file....which is not a good idea).
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by josephcooney 10y ago
Everyone's public transport system looks shabby compared to Tokyo.
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by josephcooney 10y ago
The horrible syntax of Powershell isn't something I can look past.
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by josephcooney 10y ago
Gympie Gympie plant is also not nice. http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-enviro...
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by josephcooney 10y ago
Never was the cultural differences between the windows and OSX platforms more striking than when looking at the PowerPro page http://powerpro.cresadu.com/xfeatures.htm and the HammerSpoon page http://www.hammersp
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by josephcooney 10y ago
> [I] have never been 'prey' to another creature while playing in the bus Survivor bias, mate.
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Software Requirements and Hindsight Bias(jcooney.net)
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by josephcooney 10y ago
> They have not won anything for a while Back to back FA Cups in 2013-14 and 2014-15? I think the rest of your analysis is pretty valid however.
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by josephcooney 10y ago
Peter Thiel doesn't think so. See "competition is for losers" et. al. http://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-l...
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by josephcooney 10y ago
Like https://github.com/canvg/canvg (which AFAIK doesn't do hit testing like 'real' SVG, but is a promising start).
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by josephcooney 10y ago
All the author did was say it wasn't a concern for them. Nowhere did they say it didn't matter.
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by josephcooney 10y ago
What happens after I send my Note 7 back, and get a new one with the problem corrected? Will I still be banned on Australian airlines?
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by josephcooney 10y ago
The gender-neutral honorific, apparently.
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by josephcooney 10y ago
You say "some speakers" and "a number of speakers". I read the article by Mx Kas Perch. Is there anyone else? I guess regarding the search for facts/reasons/examples - I guess we're interested in trying to
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by josephcooney 10y ago
Yep. That's the one. Thanks.
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by josephcooney 10y ago
I seem to recall someone used Microsoft's AutoSummarize feature to reduce and reduce classical works of literature to a few lines. The results were pretty hilarious, but I can't find it now.
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by josephcooney 10y ago
From a version number point of view maybe, but to say 'it works' is pretty charitable. CLR versions vs framework version confusion - "oh, you've got a .NET 3.5 app, you need CLR version 2.0". ASP.NET version vs fram
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by josephcooney 10y ago
Ooops, I see you beat me to it.
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by josephcooney 10y ago
clientsfromhell is filled with stories like this http://clientsfromhell.net/
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by josephcooney 10y ago
The flip-side: Specialization is for insects.
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by josephcooney 10y ago
Agree re: scrolling - it would have been difficult/impossible to get across the behaviour of the app in the is regard without hijacking.
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by josephcooney 10y ago
Except that the U.S. is considered to have a well-enough developed system of on-shore tax havens to not require going to Panama.
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by josephcooney 10y ago
If they guy who invented them calls them a mistake then maybe they are, or were at least to him.
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by josephcooney 10y ago
Well played, sir/ma'am. You make an excellent point.

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