jsmcgd

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by jsmcgd 19y ago
I completely agree. Microsoft is being hypocritical.
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
I think the route to success with programming is much like maths, medicine or indeed any discipline, go for breadth first then depth. Don't spend all your time mastering one aspect, try to learn many different things at once even if you are
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
""" To Raikes, Google's challenge is an attack on Microsoft that is both misguided and arrogant. "The focus is on competitive self-interest; it's on trying to undermine Microsoft, rather than what customers want to do," said Raikes. In othe
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Personal private trains for Heathrow. Very sci-fi.(news.bbc.co.uk)
11 points by jsmcgd 19y ago|1 comments
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
Sorry, not relevant but since when does no one wear a necktie? Check out the picture in the link. I can now see the value of the tie; their general throat, neck, collar area looks a disgrace. You'd think with all the money they've just made
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
Most of what is gem-like about Emacs seems to be hidden.
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
I think he's probably literally psychopathic. I say this as someone reading who's been reading Wikipedia about the subject for about 5 minutes. My official diagnosis is that he is a Factor 1 psychopath exhibiting symptoms of Narcissistic P
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
I'm sure where incandescent bulbs are necessary allowances will be made.
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
Agreed. Fortunately I don't think they'll mind too much as the nation wide smoking ban was accepted with a kind of quiet inevitability. For right or wrong if the ends are largely supported, people will put up with the means (given they are
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
I don't think the article is supposed to be taken too seriously.
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Portal is the most subversive game ever(gamesradar.com)
27 points by jsmcgd 19y ago|18 comments
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
Its fine for the associated vendors to make a profit, there wouldn't be any conflict of interest there, but it would be bizarre / disappointing if the OLPC project was trying to make a profit from the XO (which I'm pretty sure it isn't). Wh
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
"The Pay by Touch saga is a cautionary tale about what can happen when investors allow an entrepreneur to have too much control, experts said." I would say its more a cautionary tale about investors giving an entrepreneur too much money. 60
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
Evolution knows only iterative programming and it has produced not only elegance but an appreciation of it.
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
Potential over-evaluation of some businesses in an industry is not tantamount to a bubble.
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
Talk about the 'bubble' has been going on for years now. Does this not indicate that it isn't actually a bubble? Is industry growth really of bubble proportions?
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
I've been a big fan of the book 'I am Legend' by Robert Matheson. I'm hoping the studios give the director of the film the same freedoms Ridley Scott now enjoys. Yet as much as I like Will Smith somehow I think this casting decision is omi
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
You could give the player the option to trade points for extra lives.
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
skyscanner.net is a pretty useful site. Compares flight prices for nearly everywhere. http://www.skyscanner.net/
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
I agree that the sites shown are prettier but I'd argue that they are much more of a visual work out. I think content is paramount, everything else is secondary. Anything that gets between you and the content begins to grate and should be r
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
Yeah, the rest of the article seems to contradict the beginning.
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
I think MVC suitability is dependent on the language used. MVC works well with imperative languages but isn't necessarily desirable if developing for example in a functional language.
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
I was thinking of something that persists between logging in.
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Which links have I already viewed?
3 points by jsmcgd 19y ago|3 comments
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
"Microsoft"
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
I'm scraping something together in Edinburgh.
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
Read some fiction. Really helps to stop thinking about things in your world.
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
Shit. For about a second and a half I honestly thought I was color-blind when I was looking for the green squares and I couldn't see them right away. Genuinely scared me. Obviously time for bed.
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
Everyone post how curvy your mom/mum is to see if we can verify this
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by jsmcgd 19y ago
I'm pretty scared of Russia these days. I don't think I'd want to do any business with them no matter how good the offer is.

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