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by mathw 9y ago
Coca-Cola lists caffeine as an ingredient in the UK. I don't know why caffeine was originally added - maybe for flavour, maybe for the stimulant effects, possibly because of having to not have cocaine in it anymore...
422.
by mathw 9y ago
At that point couldn't you just make a custom virus which kills the bacteria, so it happens in one step?
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by mathw 9y ago
There are a lot of comparisons here which don't make any sense. It's not the same people making HoloLens work (which may be overblown, since not many people have had heads-on time with one to report back) and making Skype so awful
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by mathw 9y ago
Ergonomic improvements are a major focus for the Rust team's 2017 roadmap, both in language changes and tooling. But they'll never sacrifice the core safety principles of the language to do it.
425.
by mathw 9y ago
Sure it's not cruft when they're images in your image library and you need to find them and understand them using said metadata. It's cruft when those assets are now embedded into your compiled, bundled, distributed software
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by mathw 9y ago
The Registry is the centralised configuration store which Windows introduced in Windows 95. Lots of people still don't like it.
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by mathw 9y ago
I think what was meant by "fresh-squeezed" is the not from concentrate kind. I certainly wouldn't describe juice from concentrate as "fresh-squeezed", because it's been squeezed, boiled to reduce its water cont
428.
by mathw 9y ago
Seems like an expensive investment on the off-chance that you might have guests who really can't handle not having any coffee when they're visiting a non-coffee-drinking household. My solution is the small jar of instant coffee I
429.
by mathw 9y ago
But they could have made a product which squeezes juice in precisely the same way but let you fill up with your own choice of chopped vegetables. They could have made a product which didn't have unnecessary WiFi connectivity and didn&#
430.
by mathw 9y ago
That kind of thing has been speculated on repeatedly. Nobody's really built a system to do it that's ever caught on, but there seem to be an increasing number of attempts as the online advertising model continues to collapse. I th
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by mathw 9y ago
If you're going to claim they're advocating violence against men you're going to have to cite your examples.
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by mathw 9y ago
I always get very suspicious when I see somebody talking about "extreme feminism". The feminist content I see in the Guardian is of the "we'd really like women to be treated equally to men" kind, which is perfectly
433.
by mathw 9y ago
It's the filtering which conforms to the wishes of the newspaper's editor, rather than the personal tracking profile of the individual reader. Hence why the various newspapers have known political positions - because their editors
434.
by mathw 9y ago
Those implicit conversion rules (largely inherited from C) are one of the bits of C++ that bit me the most when I was a primary C++ dev.
435.
by mathw 9y ago
I don't even have a clue what it does. I would expect some kind of hint after reading two screenfuls of content.
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by mathw 10y ago
Lynch's Dune shares some names of people and places, and some basic concepts with the book. Very little else. There's a lot of change for change's sake in it and most of that is in illogical ways (some of which are pointed ou
437.
by mathw 10y ago
That was before minification. I think that ship already sailed.
438.
by mathw 10y ago
Even if every single human on the planet had an account and actively used it I think they'd be questioning why Twitter wasn't growing any further.
439.
by mathw 10y ago
We need a supermarket battle arena!
440.
by mathw 10y ago
It astonishes me still that Android development is such an unpleasant experience. Surely Google have the capability to improve this, but they've stuck with an outdated version of Java, some really weirdly convoluted APIs and build syst
441.
by mathw 10y ago
I get a 404 on that link.
442.
by mathw 10y ago
Yup, that's the link that should have been posted. Phoronix added nothing useful to a fairly sparse article.
443.
by mathw 10y ago
It's all fine if the files you're sharing are in the Windows filesystem. If they're in the Linux filesystem the same restrictions still apply.
444.
by mathw 10y ago
That one confused me, I thought "It's not working" but you actually have to press "Run Code" just above the snippet. Rather atypical for this kind of showcase.
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by mathw 10y ago
Sadly it's really hard to convince corporate entities whose web products are used by other corporate entities that they don't still need to support IE8. Even more sadly, sometimes they really do still need to support IE8... Althou
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by mathw 10y ago
CSS Grid complements Flexbox by providing two-dimensional grid-based layout capabilities. Flexbox can only lay things out along one axis, and although you can do a lot of things that look a bit grid-like with it (usually involving multiple
447.
by mathw 10y ago
A bit. It's an improvement, but if you're writing Kotlin on the backend then Kotlin/JS starts to look tempting on the basis that it's the same language everywhere. Although using the same language in different environmen
448.
by mathw 10y ago
It is, but the problem with that is that they're doing it in JavaScript. Kotlin could offer better performance and certainly offers strong type safety throughout the stack, which I at least certainly believe gives a better programming
449.
by mathw 10y ago
Because I can't work anywhere. It may be theoretically possible but business in the UK is pretty traditional in a lot of ways and just won't consider anything else. Fortunately I live in the East Midlands, where there's a dev
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by mathw 10y ago
I drink loads of the stuff! Gorgeous. So happy about adult lactose tolerance genes and how I've got them.

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