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91.
by points 16y ago
Yes, I have been talking about the UK for this thread. Perhaps I should have been clearer. Sockets do not exist in bathrooms in the UK.
92.
by points 16y ago
Sockets do not exist in bathrooms. If they do, they're special 'shaver' sockets purely for electric razors. Hairdryers are usually used in bedrooms. The last time I tripped over a cable was..... years ago. I can't even remember doing it. It
93.
by points 16y ago
I've also experienced UK drivers vs US drivers.... God I feel much safer here ;)
94.
by points 16y ago
Lamps seem very prevalent in the US. Why do most apartments I've been in not have ceiling lights? WTF? When I lived in the US I'd go in a room and spend a while finding 4 lamps and turning them on. Same in hotels. Also, when you decide to p
95.
by points 16y ago
True, but OTOH, if you stand on a US one, the pins will often get bent. Best thing is to avoid standing on plugs :)
96.
by points 16y ago
Those are all minor inconveniences compared with: * trip up a cable, and the plug falls out of the wall (Pulling a UK plug out required force. It will not pull out) Plus the cable exits a plug pointing downward, which means
97.
by points 16y ago
The last thing we want is to be 'in sync' with Europe. We're British. Not European.
98.
by points 16y ago
That's not really fair. Given a choice between US plugs (spark, fall out of sockets, flimsy, dangerous, bendy pins), and UK plugs (Built to last, don't spark, fused, solid) I know which I'd choose. There's also large advantages to having ea
99.
by points 16y ago
Has anyone not seen this already? It was posted on Reddit a few years ago. It's been posted on HN twice already, it's gone around twitter. Are you all new to the internet?
100.
by points 16y ago
How is it a dangerous platform? It's still installed everywhere, it still works, it's still useful. Nothing has really changed IMHO
101.
by points 16y ago
That "Manic Monday" by the Bangles was written by Prince. Oh also that "Monopoly" is an American invention (I assumed it was as British as the Queen).
102.
by points 16y ago
It's because they list out "Contact HMRC and register for PAYE" as taking 8 days, and they seem to think you can't actually trade before that's done. Which is idiotic. So the study is pretty inaccurate.
103.
by points 16y ago
This is very inaccurate. For example, starting a business in the UK takes an hour or so (Fill out a form online). But it's listed here as taking 13 days, and thus UK is ranked 16th for starting a business.
104.
by points 16y ago
How many 'ones complement' machines exist?
105.
by points 16y ago
This is number ONE on hacker news? Way to go seriously down hill guys. The only reason I can imagine anyone cares about mongrel2 is that it's written by a 'celeb'. Do we really need endless posts about this? It's a webserver. There's millio
106.
by points 16y ago
also curl is pretty good for doing anything HTTP related.
107.
by points 16y ago
no
108.
by points 16y ago
WTF Downmodded? Jeez whatever
109.
by points 16y ago
Personally I love driving. I hate being a passenger. I can see this being useful for some people, but not useful for me.
110.
by points 16y ago
You should watch "The Producers". The best way to sterilize some figure like Hitler, is to make fun of them and create comedy from them. Words don't mean much, nor does karma.
111.
by points 16y ago
...or people who can't do CAPTCHAs. I regularly have to retry CAPTCHAs 3 or 4 times because they are utterly illegible. Sometimes I just give up and move on. Maybe I'll build a bot to help me solve CAPTCHAs!
112.
by points 16y ago
I've been reverse engineering code for a living for 10 years or so, and writing assembly code for 20 or so. I don't have the time to provide examples I'm afraid, so take it or leave it ;)
113.
by points 16y ago
Reading this on Scribd, wrapped in 4 large adsense units is such a horrible user experience.
114.
by points 16y ago
You can't 2 finger scroll the main area. Which is a pain.
115.
by points 16y ago
You obviously haven't single stepped through the generated assembly from any modern compiler. Sure, some of it is reasonable stuff. But the majority is utter garbage. Fire up softice and try it. Any half decent assembly programmer would bea
116.
by points 16y ago
Using good (asm) to do evil (xml). Not cool :(
117.
by points 16y ago
Not realistic. The box moves smoothly and as fast as you move the mouse. Add some random pauses and glitches ;)
118.
by points 16y ago
> "JavaScript doesn't have blocks" I think what you mean to say is that Javascript doesn't have block scope for variables. It has blocks.
119.
by points 16y ago
I don't quite understand what you mean by 'returning from a script'. That doesn't make too much sense within Javascript itself, if it's a case of the last expression being considered the return value (I haven't used NodeJS), then you would
120.
by points 16y ago
var a = x:1 This is invalid. Stop guessing. Read the language spec. Best by far is "Definitive Javascript O'Reilly" {} is a block of statements. For example, {doSomething();doAnotherThing()} {} when used as an expression, i

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