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by omarqureshi 15y ago
agreed, that would be more beneficial than the actual fix - this could potentially just paper over the underlying problem.
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by omarqureshi 15y ago
Actually, British patent law used to be super fucking screwy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statute_of_Monopolies
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by omarqureshi 15y ago
Still though - someone will have to design, make and maintain the robots? Its still pretty gloomy, but until the time that robots can make better robots, there will still be a place for us.
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by omarqureshi 15y ago
Sorry, the video didnt make that clear - not even slightly.
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by omarqureshi 15y ago
Whilst I understand and really like the non-tied in aspect of it, I'd probably implement some sort of facebook/twitter/google account authentication alongside of it. Reason being is that, it too is just another authentication service that I
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by omarqureshi 15y ago
The lag is indeed not a feature, its due to the fact that Red Hat is an organisation with people whom are salaried, compared to the people who work on CentOS that do so for free.
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by omarqureshi 15y ago
Surely this matters very little if you only have one CSS file and JS file. Which if you use sprockets and precompile assets will be the case. It definitely was so in the past that if you didnt serve your assets in one file you had to use a
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by omarqureshi 16y ago
Mainly for complete beginners, but, learning Ruby and/or Rails is great and all, however, a lot of beginners tend to not understand the principles behind web development such as SQL or javascript or security or HTML. What really astounds me
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by omarqureshi 16y ago
There is a greater underlying issue here which seems to be missed. I have paid £x to use O2's (or in this case AT&T's) network, not only that but I also had to partially pay for the handset. O2 should not really give a damn about what d
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by omarqureshi 16y ago
Having tried this mod out about a year ago - there is a definite increase in sound quality. However, it does turn your headphones into the most annoying things ever for people who are in the same room as you as they too can hear, quite loud
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by omarqureshi 16y ago
probably a steaks and strippers thing
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by omarqureshi 16y ago
except its too expensive to make and will not be hitting mass market anytime soon. Nor were the Top Gear presenters allowed to drive it.
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by omarqureshi 16y ago
unfortunately - yes: http://validator.w3.org/images/valid_icons/valid-html40.gif It was used blindingly by most people regardless of whether the page was valid or whether it was used on HTML, normally alongside "Made on a Mac".
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by omarqureshi 16y ago
It may claim to be ACID compliant, however: If I have a varchar(2) and I insert 3 characters in that field - I should expect that to error, not warning and silently truncate (which isn't picked up if you are doing inserts on the application
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by omarqureshi 16y ago
Scholastic UKs website is predominantly a Rails frontend app (with the exception of many PHP minisites and one OpenACS site) all talking to an OpenACS / PG / iSeries backend. It truly is a monument to over 10+ years worth of web development
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by omarqureshi 16y ago
beat me to it :)
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by omarqureshi 16y ago
Wonder if there will be an underground chess playing movement, similar to street countdown - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R90QyIBJqrg
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Cookmarking(cookmarking.r10.railsrumble.com)
2 points by omarqureshi 16y ago|0 comments
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by omarqureshi 16y ago
I'm sure simple things like not looking in mirrors to just being completely stupid and pulling asshat manoeuvres cause more accidents than speeding In my time driving, I have never seen accidents caused by excessive speed but all the time b
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by omarqureshi 16y ago
It's a shame that Firaxis haven't given commitment to Civ V on the Mac .. yet - http://www.tuaw.com/2010/03/13/gdc-2010-civilization-v-proba...
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by omarqureshi 16y ago
Learn your facts sir, what he did at EPS was schooling.
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by omarqureshi 16y ago
mtw DaviN used to have like 90 apm and that was enough to school great players like Zacard. Sure, that was Warcraft 3, but apm isn't everything, it's what you do with it.
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by omarqureshi 16y ago
Have you seriously compared MySQLs documentation to Postgres? It has such mindblowingly retarded gems such as http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/connection-access.htm... . I mean people actually sat around and thought this was the best
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by omarqureshi 16y ago
Thing is with Blizzard games is that the performance suffers on a Mac, especially if you've had a chance to compare Warcraft 3 and the Starcraft 2 Beta on both Windows and OSX on the _same hardware_ Probably something to do with OpenGL vs D
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by omarqureshi 16y ago
One crazy bastards death threat does not represent what the entire Islamic community believes in, remember that there are crazy people from all religious backgrounds.
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by omarqureshi 17y ago
Haven't people learned anything from Doom?
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by omarqureshi 17y ago
No good in terms of a UX point of view, would have preferred either a breadcrumb showing me where I am along the side or every single field being listed at once.
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by omarqureshi 17y ago
Is the information on this statsheet available on a BSD license?