prof_hobart

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by prof_hobart 10y ago
The UK doesn't feel that way either. The country is largely run by, and for, a small sliver of our society and does little to help vast swathes of it.
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
Hmm. A word with one letter difference from my house (in the English midlands) puts the address in the middle of mountains in western China. It's annoying enough when a parcel gets delivered to an address near me because the delivery d
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
Not as much of a nuisance as having all of your data corrupted.
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
You have to think about what they are trying to test. If it's "Do they know how to quickly find an answer to a known problem?", then your route is correct. If it's "Could they take a problem that hasn't been so
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
If no-one is prepared to pay for it, it's probably going to get destroyed at some point anyway. If something is absolutely critical to the running of your business, then at some point you need to at least consider paying for it.
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
Without basic maths, sure. But I've had a 30 year career in software development (covering everything from low level comms software in the 80s through to workflow automation software today) and I never got further than A level maths -
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
Like I say, I'm not disagreeing with the idea that "we will disrupt" on its own is no more use as a business case than "we will make wads of cash". What I am questioning is the idea that there's only one way
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
Although I agree that having a business plan that's based on nothing more than a concept of "being disruptive" is not much of a plan at all, I feel that in some parts, he's picking a strawman and arguing against that. He
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
Depends on how you look at it. The 200TB seems to be the data required to prove that none of the possible combinations works. If it had been temporary data to get to a simple proof of something, then I'd agree that this data was just a
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
Depends on what you're reading. If you're reading books with maps or photos (I read a lot of travelogues for example), it would make quite a difference.
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
Nope. Just done that, in a tree view. Took me to folder 2
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
"Every" is a big claim. No Pick/Basic[1] for a start, or Sculptor[2], as just two of the languages I've used in the past that haven't made it onto the list. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pic
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
You don't, and it can be embarrassing. I've seen it happen with a colleague. But what happened was embarrassment, not their life savings being wiped out.
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
It's a good sign of flexibility, but not a good sign of being a professional on a job. And it's something I see depressingly often with programmers - tackling problems that there's a fairly well known existing pattern for, bu
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
Just tried it on my Windows 7 and it's quite definitely going up one level, not back in history. If I've got a folder structure 1 | |--1.1 | |--1.2 And I click into 1.1 and then into 1.2, if I then press backspace I end up on
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
I thought the same thing, so I did a bit of digging. Turns out they put a bunch of tracking cookies on your machine without asking you (it is mentioned in the about page though), which seem rather naughty for an organisation promoting onlin
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
>, if you ever find yourself thinking, "I know, I'll use a design pattern" before writing any code, you're doing it wrong. Unless I'm misunderstanding him, I would disagree with this. When you're doing it wr
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
Not everyone has enough bandwidth in their lives to actively fix every broken free/open source project out there. Rather than being seen as attacks on a project, these sorts of comments are often just highlighting some things that whoe
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
That's great in theory, but how many people would be prepared to pay even more on top of their existing internet charges to fund this? I'm sure some would, but I also suspect most wouldn't. There's also the question of &
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
What would be paying for most of it? An awful lot of the content out there exists because there's money in it (or at least the hope of money). And most of what pays for that is ads.
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
Political affiliation isn't.
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
As a non-American, the bit that amazes me is "political affiliation .. and voting history". Really? Isn't voting meant to be a private thing?
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
> I'd argue that most of those are acting like FILO queues anyways, since you typically don't need random access to clothes in a washing machine/from the to-be-washed pile. Except in emergencies. But I regularly need stuf
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by prof_hobart 10y ago
Most people have several stores for clothes (wardrobe/closet, wash basket, washing machine, in a basket waiting to make it back to the wardrobe etc) and depending how organised you are, the clothes you need could be in any of those on
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
Have you ever contacted Amazon about the delivery firms that you've had issues with? I contacted them on 3 separate occasions about CityLink - they refused to leave parcels either in my porch or with a neighbour and their nearest colle
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
Sure. I can post some more details (such as scripts and photo) when I get home if you're interested. But at a high level, it's pretty straightforward, and there's also almost certainly far better ways of doing it. The key com
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
I don't know about his particular setup, but remote control lights do have their uses. I've got a couple of wifi-controlled Philips Hue lights. There isn't a simple "on" or "off" for these - they can be se
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
I may well be an exception, but I actually find it easier to read with wider columns. I don't like narrow columns being forced on me, and if line length bothers you, can't you just set your browser to the width you like?
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
If I'm reading it correctly, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) disagrees [1] > Most of the Member States provide the private and/or non-commercial use exception under their statutes. Only the response from Aus
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by prof_hobart 11y ago
>There can be little doubt that anyone seeing the image of Mickey Mouse (or even his silhouette), immediately thinks of Disney. Image probably, but the phrase "Mickey Mouse" has acquired a fairly common meaning (at least in the

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