jrabone

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by jrabone 13y ago
It is ABSOLUTELY open for debate, and part of the clue is in the question "if she works just as fast" ie. the cutting rate is constant. Then, it is ambiguous since the SIZE of the pieces is not mentioned. It's not the teacher's fault, per s
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by jrabone 13y ago
Scaring baby programmers. Oh, and lots of scientific computing is done in Fortran - eg. the sorts of work my brother does on atomic structure as a computational chemist at ITU, running on grid or supercomputers. On the flip side, there's lo
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by jrabone 13y ago
But you're missing out on the all the fun of managing your own DKIM & ADSP DNS records! And debugging mobile device SSL issues. And Courier-IMAP IDLE support for various broken IMAP clients. Not to mention Outlook's amusing approach to
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by jrabone 13y ago
You suppose correct; obviously that might change, but for now it's the case that in 20 years of email not one single legitimate message has had a non-7 bit ASCII subject line, whereas there's always plenty of ⋎Іǎḡɾǎ, ѵἲàɠṝà and ѷἰẫǧʀẫ to go
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by jrabone 13y ago
You can't confuse acetylene or nitrogen, old or new style; acetylene uses maroon for the whole bottle, nitrogen uses black for the shoulder only. Also the cylinders are quite different shapes. Also the colours are for "the room is on fire,
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by jrabone 13y ago
Chrome on Windows 7 with ABP here - had to disable ABP to be able to log in.
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by jrabone 13y ago
(Some parts of) Amazon used to do a similar thing for new hires - use the recommendations system to make up a personalised "book bomb". Of course recs is pretty good at "give people something cool they might not have yet" but sometimes it d
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by jrabone 13y ago
True. There are also some ingenious "solutions" out there - like my DECT phone for example. The interface takes time and date (with NO year field) in one menu, and day-of-week in a different menu on the base station... (if it's got a look-u
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by jrabone 13y ago
Every generation of coders has its retirement policy. Just think where we'd be if every large company was agile, responsive, and kept their code up to date. We cannot afford to let the big banks, governments and healthcare companies keep up
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by jrabone 13y ago
I run a mail server for my own company and my immediate friends and family. I hope you aren't planning on using one of the many ESPs to do your actual delivery; increasingly I am blacklisting them (and by ASN) since despite any claims to th
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by jrabone 13y ago
You leave that bug alone, that's my retirement policy that is.
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by jrabone 13y ago
Strawman. And anyway plenty of software developers (and other engineers) won't work on armaments.
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by jrabone 13y ago
Gas bottle colour codes and fire extinguisher colour codes are two distinct namespaces... Here's a handy chart: http://www.ior.org.uk/ior_/images/pdf/se/New%20Colour%20ID%2...
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by jrabone 13y ago
Or CTRL+SHIFT+C to comment and uncomment a selection using single line comments. Or switch to block selection mode, make a multi-row zero-column selection and type // I love Eclipse.
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by jrabone 13y ago
These repeated break-ins should make consumer-grade hosting environments more secure. Not going to happen at the price points people are accustomed to - they'll simply become professional-grade hosting environments, with a price tag to ma
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by jrabone 13y ago
IIRC cobalt is not only scarce, it's also mostly mainly produced in the Congo and Zambia, and anywhere referred to as the "Democratic Republic of..." is probably not as politically stable as one might hope.
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by jrabone 13y ago
There are two ways to make a white LED; 1) put red, green and blue LEDs in the same package and either bring all the connections outside for an external balancing circuit (which also lets you do multicolour effect), or balance the currents
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by jrabone 13y ago
Given the JVM supports Unicode identifiers, and given the rich vein of mathematical operators therein, I always thought it would be fun to do the APL thing with Java. Scala went a (very) little way towards this, but I don't think anyone has
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by jrabone 13y ago
Twitter, like email, as a form of communication is basically worthless due to the lack of authentication and strong identity. At least with email there is enough (semi)publicly visible infrastructure that I can verify more of the message fl
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by jrabone 13y ago
Can't hear anyone else over the sound of the Ruby people...
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by jrabone 13y ago
Ill will with the Ruby community, maybe, but fuck 'em. As long as it's unique in the Maven namespace, I don't care and neither should they/you.
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by jrabone 13y ago
Christ, the responses on here are absolutely what you'd expect from anyone remotely connected with the Ruby "community" - or at least a bunch of people who don't have sufficient experience with Java to comment on whether a fluent API is an
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by jrabone 13y ago
Pardon the paranoia, but who else gets to see the little black book^H^H^H list of people who are skilled at practical crypto exploits?
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by jrabone 13y ago
I think in the event of a global apocalypse you'll be wanting this gentleman[1] first... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzyXMEpq4qw [1] Claude Paillard, http://paillard.claude.free.fr/
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by jrabone 13y ago
Also how they're ripened (I believe you can change the colour of the tomato skin without allowing it to ripen), and that our sense of taste is strongly linked to our sense of smell - once you've coated a lemon in wax, it stops smelling like
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by jrabone 13y ago
I'm rabidly anti-spam, to the extent of hosting and running my own mail server just so I have more control over my MX, and even I don't think that!
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by jrabone 13y ago
We'd also spell it "pædophile" just to make sure you understand Unicode...
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by jrabone 13y ago
Haha, the Rainbow was a skip-rescue, as was the PDP (which rain RSX-11M). Even came with the "orange wall" of manuals. Made a nice space heater, and we had fun running RS232 all over the house to attach terminals to it. Sadly it didn't have
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by jrabone 13y ago
It's pretty, but no DRC or back annotation support. It is a shame professional tools have to be so ugly.
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by jrabone 13y ago
Did you hate Eagle because you are used to something better (and presumably costing $000's), or because it's not like any other app? IME all EDA apps are weird, and I really like Eagle (although I don't use the auto router).

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