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by mietek 14y ago
I'm hoping one day to find an explanation of what music really is; why do certain patterns of sounds appeal to us; why do we share a sense of melody, harmony, rhythm. Ideally, this explanation would ignore centuries of historical cruft, sta
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by mietek 14y ago
This was enabled for me by default, and I'm certain I've never seen that page before. I created my FB page in 2008.
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by mietek 14y ago
> its known Can you point to any references?
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by mietek 14y ago
FFM was never an option in the OS X window manage, outside Terminal.app, as it was fundamentally incompatible with the Classic event model, and I presume Carbon as well. There are some third-party hacks which attempt an imperfect emulation
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by mietek 14y ago
Quit spreading FUD. We know. We have a pretty good idea. We can look at what happened in Portugal since 2001: http://www.businessinsider.com/portugal-drug-policy-decrimin...
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by mietek 14y ago
What happened to this court case? Why isn't there a huge outcry about this?
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by mietek 14y ago
You would do well to assume the question isn't meant to be self-contradictory, and find a meaningful intepretation under this assumption. In this case, "before the others" could be extended to mean "before any other areas".
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by mietek 14y ago
SEEKING WORK — REMOTE preferred; based in Cambridge, UK — PART-TIME preferred I have ten years of experience in commercial software development, including high-performance messaging systems, real-time trading platforms and desktop applicati
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by mietek 14y ago
There is a great explanation of IO lists in Learn You Some Erlang [1], but in short — an IO list is functionally equivalent to a string builder, allowing you to accumulate individual strings in O(1) time. [1]: http://learnyousomeerlang.com
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by mietek 14y ago
I would argue Haskell is more powerful than Scala, and also more readable, for the most part. You can certainly find examples of unreadable Haskell, specifically in the vicinity of ivory towers — there must be something in the air up there
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by mietek 14y ago
You joke, but Scala's complexity is a very real problem. Specifically, abuse of implicits can make trying to understand Other People's Code quite the nightmare. Even reading the function type specifications in the official Scala docs is a
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by mietek 14y ago
Just how respectful and appropriate is it to make public claims about someone's character without giving evidence?
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by mietek 14y ago
No, this is not similar at all. An image of a tape reel is to recording audio as an icon of a floppy disk is to saving documents — a lazy visual shortcut, requiring a non-trivial semantic context. What is the percentage of humans alive toda
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by mietek 14y ago
Michael O'Church seems quite happy to share what went on. What's stopping you? Michael O'Church's arguments are internally consistent, and more persuasive than vague statements impugning his character.
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by mietek 14y ago
Indicating depth in a digital button is a clear affordance.
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by mietek 14y ago
I've been doing most of my grocery shopping for my past 2 years in the UK using Ocado: http://www.ocado.com The minimum order value can be a problem. With their £10/month subscription service, it drops from to £40. Ocado's customer servi
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by mietek 14y ago
Looks great! I'd love to use it the next time I'm looking for a flat. Unfortunately, by using Zoopla's listings, you still have the most annoying problem of showing flatshares and studios when looking for 1-bedroom flats.
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by mietek 14y ago
Hasn't the Roadster been sold out for quite a while now?
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by mietek 14y ago
This has been exactly my experience with HSBC. I moved to First Direct half a year ago, and so far, no fraud prevention Indians. Or Scots, for that matter.
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by mietek 14y ago
Looks OK: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=https%3A%2F%2...
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by mietek 14y ago
I still use my HSBC bank account from time to time, so I stand by what I said. In fact, I just checked this for you. Logging in to HSBC's web UI requires me to "Generate and enter the six digit security code", using my hardware token, which
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by mietek 14y ago
FYI: It's possible to open that popup in a new tab.
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by mietek 14y ago
FirstDirect is better than HSBC, while still being part of the HSBC group. Their phone service is a lot better, with lower time-to-human, and Scottish accents instead of Indian ones. Their web usability is still pretty bad, though. There's
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by mietek 14y ago
Probably because it sounds similar to a slur: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=pikey
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by mietek 14y ago
The difference is, in other programming languages you usually have a choice to use an integer number type.
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by mietek 14y ago
The hyphen problem is fixed in the most recent version! CHANGES FROM 0.8 TO 0.81 edited by Fabrizio Schiavi 2012-06 * dashrockets -> <- <= =========> 0% >=
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by mietek 14y ago
I like it, but it's too wide. My top font choice is PragmataPro: http://www.fsd.it/fonts/pragmatapro.htm Some sample screenshots from OS X: http://i.imgur.com/oxhSg.png (white background) http://i.imgur.com/M0ZJz.png (black backgroun
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by mietek 14y ago
Can I ask what's the name of your company? Or at least, what business you're in?
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by mietek 14y ago
And mine!
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by mietek 14y ago
Oh, high-larious. Especially "defriending every single friend". How is this non-malicious again? Is this undoable?

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