malbs

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by malbs 3y ago
Mate I've got a project whose first lines of code were struck back in the 80s in Turbo pascal. Your "continuously deprecated" argument doesn't hold a lot of water from where I sit... In terms of actual language features&
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by malbs 3y ago
The one negative I've found with Lazarus... And this is purely if you were someone coming from a Delphi background, or were planning on Lazarus being your "get out of jail free" card if [Embarcadero/(whoever owns it now)
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by malbs 8y ago
Fidonet as the original electronic mail package, Door Games (BRE, cross-bbs wars, wow), ANSI Art, damn, it was really fun. I loved my time dialing into the local BBS's. It was interesting watching some of the larger ones in my area tur
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by malbs 8y ago
Here's my 2 cents. Anyone who is telling you they have cracked the parimutuel pools, and "here's how to do it", is trying to sell you something else. Anyone who has actually cracked the parimutuel pools knows how they wo
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by malbs 8y ago
hah, how funny I almost copied your post word for word ;) What are you up to now Shaun? Are you still in Hobart?
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by malbs 8y ago
Betfair API is 100% free for customers with a lot of code examples in various languages. Tabcorps TABStudio - http://studio.tab.com.au/ (You need to register as a tabcorp customer but it's "free"). Its basica
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by malbs 8y ago
Here's my two cents I haven't so much fallen out of love with coding, but fallen out of love of shiney new things. The last truly "new" thing I jumped on was C#. At the time C# was first released, I was also playing arou
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by malbs 8y ago
so I just completed 4 months of fasting (I had a friendly wager going, where I had to lose 15kg in 16 weeks, or pay $2000) I did it via intermittent fasting (no breakfast, or lunch, black coffee/water only, and a normal dinner) Chart:
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by malbs 9y ago
I guess you could argue on the ethics due to the fact that these "smart" players are never contributing to the jackpot, and only playing when the payout is higher than the probability (an over), but you need the mugs in order to f
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by malbs 9y ago
You can do better if you cut a deal with the people you are buying the tickets through to split the commission, it can be an extra few % on your turnover. As alluded to early in the article, he was selling 300k in tickets per year, making 2
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by malbs 9y ago
I wish I'd taken my step-dad up on his offer and done an chippy apprenticeship when I was 17. Instead I flailed around, did some c programming, some web development, never went to uni. I even managed to get myself that first job as a s
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by malbs 10y ago
I was young and really wanted the job! It was easy to overlook the obvious
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by malbs 10y ago
Ahh FuckedCompany.com I remember when I sat in an interview for a position at marchFIRST in Melbourne, Australia. And when it came time in the interview for them to ask "Have you got any questions for us?" "Yeah, look this is
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by malbs 10y ago
a recommendation for mailinabox, I've been using it for about 6 months, very nice
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by malbs 10y ago
You're assuming they used a consultant. I doubt it.
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by malbs 10y ago
I bought Doom before I owned a PC. I bought the game, and sat it on my bedside while I saved up the money to buy a PC to play the game. I would go to the retail stores and install Doom on the demo PCs there just so I could play it. Finally
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by malbs 10y ago
I reckon you're talking about QuakeWorld. Because Quake on a 200+ ping was ice-skate-mode.
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by malbs 10y ago
We've had issues with the latest versions of kaspersky. A burst of network activity is almost guaranteed to crash a machine. It took us a while to isolate Kaspersky 10, and it's not even any particular component inside of Kaspersk
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by malbs 10y ago
I can't actually find the link, but he was some special panelist on a stream last year.. A lot of people were asking who the hell he was, and he was claiming at the time to be a researcher with a heavy involvement with bitcoin, and at
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by malbs 10y ago
Didn't they debunk this guy as a hack? /r/bitcoin pretty much destroyed him when he popped up last time
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by malbs 10y ago
No, Australia. Once you've hired someone, there's a process you need to go through in order to get rid of them - multiple warnings for breaking company policy, mediation, it depends on what the problems are. If they know their rig
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by malbs 10y ago
Just went through this process from the POV of employer. The risk of choosing the wrong person is so great, that it's often better to not choose anyone. If there is any doubt what-so-ever, it's better to not make a a hire, it can
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by malbs 11y ago
Thanks for the invite
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by malbs 11y ago
As far as I understand, their infrastructure is from the home/street to the exchanges. Major backhaul links are still done via individual ISPs, the net result of which is vastly differing NBN performance between providers.
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by malbs 11y ago
I can't edit my original post now, but if anyone is interested in further reading on the power situation here:- http://www.wattclarity.com.au/2016/03/some-thoughts-on-the-s...
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by malbs 11y ago
Solar isn't too bad. As soon as I can buy a couple of Tesla batteries (or equivalent) I'll probably look at getting solar... In the winter the days are short (but nothing like Scandinavian countries), and can go multiple days with
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by malbs 11y ago
Here in Tasmania we're not at the shut down stage yet, but it's something no one wants to talk about. They're not asking residents to shutdown yet, but if things continue the way they are, who knows. The major companies/
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by malbs 11y ago
The only entity that knows what you are downloading is the usenet provider you are paying to access usenet in the first place.
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by malbs 11y ago
SABnzbd has been a must-have piece of software for me for years. Thank you team! If people are interested in indexers, https://www.oznzb.com seems to be ok for finding a few files. Personally I use DOGnzb, but I don't belie
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by malbs 11y ago
Yes but Data is a fictional character written by a human.

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