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by mtts 14y ago
PHP is itself a template engine. Bolting a template engine on top of that makes no sense whatsoever.
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by mtts 14y ago
You always need to move away from using Drupal for "highly customized web applications". Drupal is a CMS with something vaguely resembling a framework bolted on.
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by mtts 14y ago
It's not even always relevant in painting. The impressionists (who invented the hatred of black, AFAIK) were obsessed with painting light effects, so to them it was important. Their academic colleagues and to the painters that preceded them
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by mtts 14y ago
No they're not. They're a method for ensuring that what is meant to go into some field in some database actually ends up there and does not start doing things it should not be doing.
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by mtts 14y ago
It's probably a bit late, agreed, but it seems to me this problem is just as much the fault of the encoding itself as it is the fault of PHP : Turkish i and I may look like Western European i and I but they're entirely different characters.
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by mtts 14y ago
Yes. IE9 was an optional update.
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He probably didn't have a long term position. More likely he was hired through a job agency or on a 0 hour contract in which case yes, you can be (effectively) fired on the spot. Same for his supervisor. A lot of things stink about this sto
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by mtts 14y ago
I hear Blackberry is still going strong in Indonesia as well. Still, worldwide, they're doomed.
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by mtts 14y ago
And the great thing is that your country, being entirely surrounded by EU countries, has no choice but to implement all those "stupid regulations" as well as it won't be able to do business with its neighbours otherwise.
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by mtts 14y ago
My VISA ... I don't have a credit card Visa is a credit card, however. In Europe, it's often tacked onto a regular debit card, but it's a separate thing not everyone has.
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by mtts 14y ago
I was aware of that. But parent did raise an interesting point. Google Wallet isn't doing too great. Why?
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by mtts 14y ago
Credit cards are big in the US, maybe, but in the rest of the world not everyone has them.
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by mtts 14y ago
Google Wallet is actually fairly useless. To load it up you need a credit card. If you have a credit card, you could just as well, uhm, use a credit card.
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by mtts 14y ago
In earlier articles the "quality" of the song was in fact accounted for - if a song did better in the semi finals than its position within the network of countries giving each other points by default warranted, it was considered to be a bet
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by mtts 14y ago
* The great thing about Chrome is that it remembers your preferences across all your computers—I only needed to switch to Bing on my desktop, and there it was on my laptop, too. (Thank you, Google!)* Which is done by storing your preference
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by mtts 14y ago
Lisp's s-expression syntax was very much not intentional: IIRC McCarthy specifically wrote that he left implementation of the syntax as an excercise for the reader. As it turned out, very few readers chose to devise a syntax and instead wor
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by mtts 14y ago
Interesting take. I'm not a Lisp programmer either, just know enough about it to be dangerous, but it seems to me all programming languages, including Lisp implementations like CL and Scheme, are mere instantiations of Lisp, with (byte) c
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by mtts 14y ago
It's different this time.
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by mtts 14y ago
BeOS booted up in 10 to 15 seconds on a fairly run of the mill Celeron 333 back in the day :-)
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by mtts 14y ago
I think what this is referring to is that Unix is not especially designed to give priority to desktop processes. BeOS was.
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by mtts 14y ago
In principle you are correct. To an advertiser it's much more significant what it is you do when you're on the internet than who you do it with. So in that sense Google is much more valuable than Facebook. The problem is humans are social c
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by mtts 14y ago
Aside from some unfortunate smudginess here and there the end result is surprisingly good. It reminds me of 17th century texts I've seen: fairly wide, by modern standards, spaces between individual characters, and rounded serifs.
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by mtts 14y ago
For drawing Inkscape is a better tool, yes, but I did the drawing, both pencils and inks, on paper and then scanned the result for further processing which was mostly removing smudges and correcting mistakes: pixel based operations.
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by mtts 14y ago
Thanks for the compliment!
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by mtts 14y ago
> I used the GIMP as my primary art asset creation tool for several years. It was miserable. I used the Gimp for < spam > http://rommelhok.com/en < / spam > (48 pages worth of old fashioned adventure comics). Not for t
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by mtts 15y ago
In Gimp, however, if you save to a format that does not support layers when your image has layers, you get a warning. Likewise if you save to a lossy format like JPEG you get a warning. Every time. This works for me. YMMV.
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by mtts 15y ago
It's not as simple as that. If it's just Adobe WhateverIUse that breaks, sure, people will blame Adobe. But if it's Adobe WhateverIUse that breaks AND WordPerfect WhateverSomeoneElseUses and maybe also Borland SomethingSomeoneElseYetAgain u
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by mtts 15y ago
We're so enthusiastic about the possibilities the internet offers us that we want to do everything online now, even things we're hardwired to do irl. Inane chatter in real life causes your body to release hormones that make you feel good.
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by mtts 15y ago
I'd love for this to be true, but I think it isn't. An internet of stuff depends on raw materials being dirt cheap. Unfortunately, during the last five years or so the price of raw materials has started to increase, not decrease, and for re
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by mtts 15y ago
Happened to me at a small company as well. Actually it's probably more of a small company problem as "not my job" doesn't really work if there isn't anyone else to pass the job to.

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