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by philbarr 13y ago
Oh right, I didn't know. So I guess the "ref" is for Amazon's own use. Wow did I lose karma for a simple mistake.
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by philbarr 13y ago
Forgive me for making an incorrect assumption. Why provide the amzn.com link instead of the normal amazon.com link then? And what is the ref= for?
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by philbarr 13y ago
You've set up something for Amazon links that adds your affiliate link on the end? I don't mind affiliate links, but that's pretty sneaky.
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by philbarr 13y ago
Yes, sorry. He actually meant: "You are not the only one who thinks that part of your job is making your boss look good." Kinda seems obvious now.
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by philbarr 13y ago
You absolutely are. Otherwise, what's the point in hiring you?
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by philbarr 13y ago
The calls I get always say they're from "Windows". "You mean Microsoft?" "No, Windows" "Microsoft Windows?" "Yes" "So you're from Microsoft then?" "No, Windows"
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by philbarr 13y ago
Unfortunately people do still use it. Including some online banking sites.
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by philbarr 13y ago
> You guys should really have a QA test bed with _all_ supported OS's and browsers and with _every_ releasable change regression test it through all of these OS's and browsers meticulously. You and what army? They could be doin
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by philbarr 13y ago
Could the restaurants require an account to be created, limit the number of reservations one account can make, and check that people aren't multi-accounting from the same ip address? The bots could get around this with proxies, but it
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by philbarr 13y ago
Yes, this is the way I remember. My wife quotes the rhyme and I annoy her by pointing out the following issues: 1 - 3 lines of the rhyme at the end are utterly pointless as it's much easier to just remember that leap years are actually
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by philbarr 13y ago
Me too, and once it's open just leave it open and just start and stop the actual app. No need to reopen the emulator each time.
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by philbarr 13y ago
You need to look at your copy again - missing words, and missing spaces galore on this page: http://www.apparly.com/providers . Even in the title! - Are you [a] provider.
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by philbarr 13y ago
Upvoted for judicious use of the phrase "brain-RAM". Me likey :).
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by philbarr 13y ago
I'm not in the US, but it's great that people are feeling passionate enough to get together and help each other out like this towards a worthy common cause. I know I'm dreaming, but I like to think that activities like this m
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by philbarr 13y ago
Yes, I would rather that instead of lists of patterns, people would focus on design principles , and just use the patterns as examples of theose principles in practice.
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by philbarr 13y ago
Obligatory Douglas Adams quote, from Thanks For All The Fish: "It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..." "You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?" "No," said Ford, who by this time was a little mo
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by philbarr 13y ago
I was waiting to see if there was one - you would think it would be shown if there was.
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by philbarr 13y ago
You'd still end up pumping quite a lot of carbon monoxide into your living space doing that, I think.
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by philbarr 13y ago
Lovely. And I love how he has basically centered his entire (living room?) around the one car and has a little ramp to edge it out into the world and everything. Especially because, I think, you don't want to turn the engine on, fill t
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by philbarr 13y ago
I think you'll find I work on full scale enterprise systems with lifetimes of 4 years - 30 years. It's about understanding the code you have now, and you can do that by looking through it.
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by philbarr 13y ago
"Version Control is not a backup system" I think it is. In fact, when working on personal projects that's the ONLY reason I use it. I don't understand why Linus gets his knickers in a twist about the commit message thing
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by philbarr 13y ago
Yes the example gives a much better idea of what's going on. Although I did have to create an account to look at it... Would be nice to have that accessible from the main page.
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by philbarr 13y ago
Probably more effective than the remote working conversations I'm having these days.
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by philbarr 13y ago
This looks interesting - although having never really considered using A/B testing on native apps before I did spend a few minutes looking around the site for examples of things to track. Maybe you could show an example project on the
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by philbarr 13y ago
Most "normal" people I know are really upset about this. I think it's an easy thing for people to grasp, "what?! America has been reading my emails and giving it to the UK government?! Bastards!"
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by philbarr 13y ago
Very nicely done! I was about to ask how you intend to monetise this, if at all, when I saw the link to the main FreeAgent site, clicked, and thought - hey, that looks pretty useful actually...
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by philbarr 13y ago
You mean: http://8tracks.com/tachedroof/the-only-study-mix-you-will-ev... The quote got included in your link
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by philbarr 13y ago
Hmm - doesn't seem to work for me in Chrome OR Firefox. Am I missing something?
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by philbarr 13y ago
Forgive me for being glib, but at least one good thing out of this is that a lot more teenagers will be inspired to become hackers. "So when did you first get into hacking Mr. Famous Hacker X?" "Well, I remember that, like a lot of the lads
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by philbarr 13y ago
I think I would go less with "legend" and more with "notorious twat". Can't stand that aggressive style of interviewing myself, especially because now every half-wit newsreader thinks they're the next Paxman by interrupting the interviewee

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