oldcynic

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by oldcynic 9y ago
> I think rather than teach young children how to hold spoons ... we should just teach improv skills I think there's an argument for a little of both, by way of giving them tools to fit in at multiple levels (classes, call it what y
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by oldcynic 9y ago
The fisherman feels shame and regret for having to turn to friends and family. Especially now his community is struggling as a result of having to bail out the finance sector. The banker is happy to be getting on with business as usual.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
They only got so high when Paypal was required as the default to sell on eBay. Before that fees were lower - half or even less. Add in the succession of anti-seller changes and eBay has become a rather toxic place for sellers. eg Refunds
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by oldcynic 9y ago
It should be so, but Mozilla demonstrated they feel the line can be as blurry as they wish by integrating Pocket a year or two back. That should have remained an entirely optional addon.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
So why aren't the doctors responsible for the over-prescription up in front of the ethics boards, then being struck off?
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Topical with the discussion that's just come up about editor latency: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16267202 I'm not looking at Apple here. It's everywhere. What seems to be missing is the continuation
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by oldcynic 9y ago
> TomTom explains that "lifetime" means the "useful life" of a device Not the lifetime they think it is, but the same "lifetime" that every manufacturer of products uses. It's not like you're goi
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by oldcynic 9y ago
I'd argue that NATO was far more the reason we did not have WW3 than nuclear capability and the power balance of MAD. Power balances tend to lead to arms races. After all even with nuclear weapons and power balance we still had Korea,
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Yes indeed. :) Most impressive, I think, is that it managed to be so fast and include smooth scrolling.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Nope, you just end up thinking that compactly as you type. When I learned C it was a given to code efficiently. Pointer manipulation and efficient structure packing was expected, and therefore taught. You'd rule out of an interview any
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Any competent C programmer shouldn't need any explanation of that simple example. Granted pointers, just like objects in more "modern" languages, take some while for new programmers a while to get their heads around.
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Suddenly the whole Uber prospect starts to sound like a dystopia I want no further part of and I'll take a cab or the bus! "Would you like a snack or beverage?" "No thanks" "sure? We have Red Bull, Coke,
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by oldcynic 9y ago
hooktube.com for the added bonus of avoiding the Google tracking on YT
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by oldcynic 9y ago
Minor Nit: IFF was released in Jan 85 [0], a few months before Amiga was released and several Amiga guys, including RJ, contributed to the spec. It was baked into the Amiga from the very start. So Commodore's Graphicraft was probably a
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by oldcynic 9y ago
OTP Auth [1] It adds intelligent features over Google auth, including encryption of the database, and lets you break down into folders - which makes it infinitely more usable than Authenticator once you've accumulated enough sites. I i
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by oldcynic 9y ago
People have been trying to disrupt programming since my earliest memories of computing in the 80s. There's been AI "solutions" aiming to simplify programming, or enable non-programmers to participate since then too. Memorably