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by nevdka 11y ago
Far‚ far too often. I work in a mailhouse‚ and clients will often send requirements in .docx files‚ and data in xlsx files‚ which ‘helpfully’ convert to Windows-1252. “O’Hea” seems to be the worst offender.
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by nevdka 11y ago
Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy
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by nevdka 12y ago
They would probably do both. A Johnny Walker label without the word 'Whisky' would still make people think of it as whisky.
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by nevdka 12y ago
Even using an insulated kettle, the water ends up in the same uninsulated cup. It seems the biggest efficiency comes form heating much less water in the first place. Given that a typical cup of tea will stay hot for several times longer tha
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by nevdka 12y ago
How many steps removed are you from starting a company with Paul Graham...
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by nevdka 12y ago
I work with perl every day, and couldn't disagree with you more. The language is flexible enough to be anywhere from damned ugly to blessedly beautiful. Much of the uglyiness can come from trying to write code for another language in p
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by nevdka 12y ago
The HDMI port on the back of your computer is purely an 'output' port. There is no circuitry there to read an input signal. Adding this to existing chips would make them more expensive, and most customers would never use this func
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by nevdka 12y ago
If your concern is job security, learn COBOL. If you want to become a better programmer, to be flexible enough to write whatever software needs to be written over the next couple of decades, then diversity is important. Learn a Lisp. Learn
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by nevdka 12y ago
I've done this before. I had a micro-HDMI to HDMI connector, and a HDMI to DVI connector to plug the phone into the projector. This was about 2 years ago, and I was using a 2 year old phone, IIRC. The experience sucked, but mostly beca
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by nevdka 12y ago
NUC and Brix are also more powerful. I could almost see myself carrying one of these around like I used to carry around a USB memory stick. Plug it into any monitor or TV and I've got a computer. Not sure what I would do about mouse a