konad

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by konad 16y ago
I don't think she was being devious, I think she thought she had done the right thing.
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by konad 16y ago
Caffeine is a complex substance, its interaction with your body is going to have a personal element. Some of its properties: it is a diuretic, a vitamin C inhibitor, it increases your blood pressure. Anadin Extra is merely Anadin with added
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by konad 16y ago
ERIK SANDBERG-DIMENT's pretty good at predictions as noted in this article http://technologizer.com/2009/11/23/windows-laptops-theyll-n... December 25, 1984 "Windows failed, a doom I preannounce for the yet to be released Microsoft versio
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by konad 16y ago
The same PHP code has followed me round since 1999. From FreeBSD 4 to Linux to OpenBSD to FreeBSD 6 (but in a VM running on Linux). Early on in my career I was given a codebase that adhered to every lesson in How To Write Unmaintainable Cod
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by konad 16y ago
I'm on a whiskey diet, I've lost three days already. - Tommy Cooper
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by konad 16y ago
Security updates and product updates are mixed on Windows (or were I don't know now). They called them "Option Packs" back then which sounds like it just brings another keg to the party not plans to re-arrange the furniture.
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by konad 16y ago
> The hack used well-known security flaws in JavaScript [citation needed]
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by konad 16y ago
I see what you're saying but upgrading an OSS library is usually undertaken by somebody that thinks beforehand "I wonder if upgrading this will have any implications" whereas clicking "Express" on update.windows.com is billed as pain free,
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by konad 16y ago
Yep. That's why I bailed back in '99. You needed an MSDN subscription just so your apps could tread water. Phone rings "Hi, we upgraded our NT server and now your software is broken". Many hours later "Oh MS changed the DB connection pool
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by konad 16y ago
With the right payload, you won't know you've been affected via Twitter.
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by konad 16y ago
You're only supposed to have one NOSCRIPT tag per document
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by konad 16y ago
Kevin Rose isn't CEO any more
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by konad 16y ago
That's where PC-Mag gives better coverage. They are 56 bit HEXADECIMAL numbers, not just regular numbers.
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by konad 16y ago
Great and all but "Linux drivers are not documentation"! All of FOSS is not Linux.
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by konad 16y ago
Where to you get the idea that FB isn't profitable ? 2010 at least $1bn in revenue - http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/03/facebook-revenue-2010/ 2009 $700m in revenue - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/21/sources_say_facebook...
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by konad 16y ago
Have Discipline to go 100% not 95% Keep notes - I use blogger.com Write documentation - writing man pages has forced me to fix corner cases Having projects with real users - they are annoyingly good at finding errors Turn on -wall, keep cod
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by konad 16y ago
fyi phone numbers already have an HREF spec - RFC 3966 http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3966.txt <a href="tel:+44-555-5555">my phone number </a>
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by konad 16y ago
Not so unpopular in the UK http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7897...
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by konad 16y ago
How about being called Mr. Wanker or Mr. Tosser ?
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by konad 16y ago
Eating meat is barbaric, not civilised.
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by konad 16y ago
Nice try ITV.com Try detecting Privoxy (top banner) and NoScript (right tower) next time. http://imgur.com/42y4c
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by konad 16y ago
The Economist and I seem to have a different definition of "open".
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by konad 16y ago
> my opinion of Twitter is less positive how positive was it when they used GET ?
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by konad 16y ago
So, once again the police will ignore what the people what Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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by konad 16y ago
Not Quite Missile Command :) I know it pretty well as I'm friends with Bill Carlton - the guy that's tried to beat the Missile Command high score a few times. The game isn't as straight forward as you might think, there's a game crashing bu
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by konad 16y ago
An OS with a third party market for over the counter programs. Think Zuma and Bejewelled
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by konad 16y ago
wait until she buys "garden designer 5" from Wal-Mart
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by konad 16y ago
He's right. One should never anthropomorphise computers, they hate that!
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by konad 16y ago
I think it came from one of those network diagrams where you have : local server <> picture of a cloud <> remote user I now have to deal with management types who have read too many magazines wanting their data stored "in
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by konad 16y ago
Erlang came later

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