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by kapitar 11mo ago
If you count the sections of your four fingers with your thumb, you can count up to 12 on one hand!
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by kapitar 11mo ago
Yes I suppose it's not! My time sense in recent decades is very fugitive :)
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by kapitar 11mo ago
Not a recent movie, but it was mentioned in Shooter, a Mark Wahlberg film from way back when
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by kapitar 1y ago
This is why (apart from being Irish) I drink a fair bit of tea throughout the day. Going to the kitchen, boiling water and letting it brew, gets me away from my desk and gives me an opportunity to start thinking out loud while I wait. Somet
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by kapitar 1y ago
Yes, it was called Active Desktop if memory serves.
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by kapitar 2y ago
Ah yes. I remember having to do something similar. My connection was via 3G on an old Sony Ericsson K750, which was acting as a Bluetooth modem. I think I did manage to get about 5k/s by placing it at various points around the room, bu
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by kapitar 2y ago
Presumably expressions of interest?
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by kapitar 2y ago
My dad got us an Atari 130 XE for Christmas back in the 80s. On Christmas day, it ran a program which asked for our names (my sister or I) and then printed out a personalised message and small game. Only years later did I really think about
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by kapitar 2y ago
I’m sorry to say that some of the gnarliest and most boneheaded codebases I worked on were ones where I was the ‘architect’. It was a startup environment and hectic, but I had total control over everything, more or less. Just to say that ha
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by kapitar 2y ago
This is one of the features I like most about F#, after some years experience with it. The project is structured with a specific file ordering, and there's no forward referencing. Similar within a file/module as well, most of the
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by kapitar 2y ago
Yes likewise! We had a mobile library (a big van would park up a few streets over every Tuesday) and I have very fond memories of their Tintin books. There's something about the 'album' format as well, you can fit a lot more