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by notauser 16y ago
Maybe there could be an 'introduction to submitting patches to Python' tutorial with a VM that includes: - A Python implementation with some obvious and easy to find bugs (plus hints). - A checklist of the patch notes/emails that would be e
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by notauser 16y ago
Why not? It's your hardware and you can do what you want with it. Apple have never complained about people installing Linux on MacBooks. In fact back in the G4 days they turned a blind eye to Mac on Linux which let you virtualize OS X on to
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by notauser 16y ago
Yes. Web sockets are implemented on top of a HTTP verb, e.g.: {Regular HTTP handshake} {Socket negotiation} {Data sent over the open connection} Unless your browser also accepts incoming HTTP connections it won't be able to accept incoming
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by notauser 16y ago
How did you find the job? Did you go through an agency of some sort?
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by notauser 16y ago
Emigrating to Hong Kong should be pretty easy, their migration process is points based and most people with a Masters degree probably qualify. It's a great city so the WiFi wouldn't be the only attraction. Has anyone had any experience doin
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by notauser 16y ago
Obviously advice on the Internet about finding free WiFi is not terribly useful... but... For London free WiFi can be found at: - Starbucks (when you buy a £5 Starbucks card, but you get the £5 back as caffeine - and unlike the US there is
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by notauser 16y ago
That's going to depend a lot on what AMD have in their combined chip road map. Who apart from AMD could offer a single chip with laptop-class performance? Nvidia lack a CPU and Intel's graphics are not in the top tier (yet). If they could s
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by notauser 16y ago
The link actually shows that this (100k/mo) was the iPhone's best quarter to date. They sold more in Q1 2010 than they did in the quarter when the 3GS was introduced.
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by notauser 16y ago
People are still selling Android phones with version 1.6 on them, which won't run software requiring newer versions (which software won't show up in the marketplace at all, confusing users). This is the same for the App Store and firmware
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by notauser 16y ago
That's a very good point, but I'd say that mostly the interface philosophies co-exist reasonably well, even on one device. Because apps tend to be full screen it's not such a big deal to have them behave a little differently. The hard butto
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by notauser 16y ago
To pick one particular nit: The fabled Google Android? It is entirely the piece of junk one ought to expect from a development process driven by committees and steered by non-creative minds. And it appears that many would-be buyers know
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by notauser 16y ago
I think you underestimate what Comcast et al are trying to do to the Internet, with the help of various convenient politicians. Things like the .xxx proposal and opposition to net neutrality are steps towards the same kind of 'clean, curate
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by notauser 16y ago
In practice nearly all WiFi in London is on channels 1-11 because there are enough tourists who would otherwise complain. Some personal WiFi is on 13 because it buys you two-channel separation for free. (13 and 11 still conflict, but not as
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by notauser 16y ago
So does the US - the agency responsible is the FCC. In general regulating broadcast RF is a good thing, because it only takes one badly behaving device to spoil the air space for everyone. You might think that it would be possible to rely o
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by notauser 16y ago
They got it backwards. IIRC the max effective power on 2.4ghz is 200mW in the US and 100 mW in the EU. Changing the limit is a software/firmware configuration issue plus a little calibration with a signal meter so it won't have any impact o
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by notauser 16y ago
As a Canadian, I'm sure you realize that we apologize for everything, whether it's our fault or not. And this is a hang over from your British heritage. Sorry about that. :-)
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by notauser 16y ago
I can't remember seeing a tweet linked as a HN story, but this sentence long domain names get a lot of publicity every now and again. Successful strategies tend to get copied.
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by notauser 16y ago
Not to mention that gas stations in a small region (especially a small town) are playing their own game which will probably tend to equalize prices between the stations. I haven't seem gas stations with a 60c/gal(!) difference that are a
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by notauser 16y ago
There are two kinds of background processes in Android (unless it's changed since I last wrote an app, which is possible - that was for OS 1.5). This article is describing how the main app (the bit you see) functions. When it is swapped out
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by notauser 17y ago
This investor was an American (and a red-meat eating, cigar smoking, boot wearing Republican too, for what it's worth).
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by notauser 17y ago
Thanks. I actually read the investor update for that particular prospectus recently. Generally it seems to be working out, and as predicted the technology has very little to do with it. In fact one of the customers is proposing to license i
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by notauser 17y ago
You are right, that is pretty embarrassing. It slipped through when I did a template update and I have now fixed it. Thanks for the heads up.
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Is the iPhone a banana? (European court precendent)(theplanis.com)
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by notauser 17y ago
If anyone has more information about the London Javascript Group I'd be really interested. I thought the old one had died, and I haven't had any e-mail from the list in ages.
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by notauser 17y ago
What he actually said was that his consulting company told him not to use all of the process all of the time but rather to pick and chose the bits that were appropriate. I'm not saying that you are lying about your experience, or that I hav
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by notauser 17y ago
I generally prefer to get my reports by e-mail because I already have a filtering system in place for critical/urgent/useful/noise. It stops me sitting there hitting refresh on a web page to check my stats every 45 seconds. If you are using
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by notauser 17y ago
I know a woman who self identifies as 'African-American' because she was born and raised in Tanzania. Since she is 5'10" and blond this causes some problems.
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by notauser 17y ago
People probably don't realize how much they are blocking. You install ABP to get rid of Flash/animated ads... and accidentally end up killing off everything including the ones that aren't objectionable.
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by notauser 17y ago
2) Sure it does - just click on any add and blacklist the domain. Takes two seconds. (I'm actually surprised more sites haven't started responding by proxying ad content through their own servers to make it harder to block.)
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by notauser 17y ago
I deleted my AdBlock Plus easy list entry and started only manually blocking irritating ads. It turns out that only about 20 rules covered 99.5% of the _really_ annoying ads, whilst still leaving the OK ones. Adding those rules wasn't diffi

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