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by quink 15y ago
Hang on... WTH??? The most popular virtualisation software out there that's full-featured and free to use... is shutting down their website for three days for planned maintenance? This is something that would have happened in 1993. Maybe. B
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by quink 15y ago
> I am a Physics (specifically Engineering Physics) major who works with programming, and yes, you will definitely be able to compete. Hell yes. It will mean that clueless recruitment agencies won't even bother contacting you or doing a
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by quink 15y ago
> Firefox is not a good citizen on any OS other than Windows. It's not a good citizen on Windows either. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=574973
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by quink 15y ago
> HTML5 completion date has been announced as 2020 CSS2.1 became a W3C Recommendation on 7 June 2011. People have been using the HTML5 doctype for years now, never mind quite a few of the features. Arguing that the W3C is slow to standa
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by quink 15y ago
Maybe he said this about IPv4 - it's still not applicable though. Either that, or he would have said the same thing about IPv4 twenty years ago.
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by quink 15y ago
Instead of remote controlling a 737 with, and not much more is needed theoretically client-side, a PC, he rebuilt the entire flight deck of one. I hardly see this as a letdown.
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by quink 15y ago
Bingo. And it doesn't need anything as heavy as Dart to provide some nicely syntactical and automated sugar. CoffeeScript is quite enough and maps one-to-one with the generated JavaScript. It would be nice to have Python-style operator over
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by quink 15y ago
> Application programmers, unless they’ve committed serious crimes, should not be forced to deal with [JavaScript etc.]. > We’re not out to take JavaScript away. We’re not that stupid. I personally if I could I would, but Google pro
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by quink 15y ago
Actually, there are a few. For example, QLD 4352. It's just a collective postcode that covers everything around Toowoomba that hasn't been given a postcode. Using the suburb name instead of 4352 is a whole lot more productive. http://maps.
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by quink 15y ago
> Chinese 'He', 'she' and 'it' in Chinese are pronounced the same. It's just in writing and from the context that the distinction is made clear. 她，他 and 它。tā, tā and tā.
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by quink 15y ago
Actually, and I quote: > expressly forbidden to [...] use in any database and/or application for the purposes of providing, updating or maintaining any publicly available postcode look up or finder functionality; You're not allowed to u
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by quink 15y ago
So... if I want the single letter 'B' by itself, it looks exactly the same as the letters A, C, D or E? In other words, 'DE' look exactly the same, without any reference, as 'AB', and there is a haphazard set of similar combinations? I'm no
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by quink 15y ago
> Don't forget Apple. You want a simple page you can open in your browser? Noooooo way, that's way too industry standard. Rather have something where you need to keep your configuration software up to date too! It even doesn't work on L
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by quink 15y ago
> Reset Router. The shitty crap $20 routers I've seen where plugging it out and in again makes them work again for about 40 seconds make me wish there was a button on them that'd give everyone in the company that pretends to have made t
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by quink 15y ago
> They should solve this problem by using the federal sales tax to round up/down. $1.25 + 5% = 5¢ of tax instead of 6.25¢. I see nothing but confusion there. $1.25 + $0.05 = $1.30. After rounding, $1.30. $1.25 + $0.0625 = $1.3125. After
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by quink 15y ago
> Now adobe wants 9% of your remaining revenue? For what, exactly? You forgot Adobe Flash Professional CS5.5 for $699. At 3 licenses at $50k in revenue, that'll put it quite a bit above 10%.
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by quink 15y ago
> Python's syntax and idiom is more esoteric. I know, but sometimes 'esoteric' is better for beginning programmers. Compare the lesson on ternary operators: some(blah) if 'a' in blah else blah (blah.indexOf('a') != -1) ? some(blah) : bl
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by quink 15y ago
> Does anyone have any idea why there would be this much code? It's the world's 3rd biggest website with hundreds of billions of views and dozens of millions of users, so maybe that's why. I think it's a credit to Python that a website
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by quink 15y ago
And because I just know the whole VM deprecated thing will come up, here's a pretty awesomely informative recent status: https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/254
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by quink 15y ago
I switched many years back now. One good thing is that I never got past hunt-and-peck with QWERTY, despite being quite fast. As I started learning Dvorak by doing touch-typing, an inevitability given a physical QWERTY layout, it now resides
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by quink 15y ago
No scanner on that market can detect things that are within a person other than a metal detector, a swab followed by spectographic analysis or an X-ray machine. The igniter in his mouth wasn't found, and it's not outside the realm of imagin
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by quink 15y ago
OK, this is the most shocking thing I've seen in a while... I've never seen anything so awesomely refuted. Even if you don't speak German, watch it. Basically, they do a scan of the man, who claims to be carrying a swiss army knife, and onl
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by quink 15y ago
Tagged this in delicious. Wondering if it'll show up with my tags... http://delicious.com/quink Can someone else tag it too with my tags and it might show up on their page...?
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by quink 15y ago
youtube.com doesn't have any obvious method of removing of past watched videos and is even more nefarious than Google will probably ever be (before March 1st, 2012 at least) about tracking visitors. Additionally, YouTube has become pretty m
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Google owns duck.com. Shouldn't it belong to DuckDuckGo?
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I don't know if this will work, didn't last time, but here goes: [Bing Cache]( http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?d=691260178405&w=1e1573b4... )
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by quink 15y ago
You, Mr. living in San Diego, are trying to get KWIK24, PBS Wikipedia LA, instead of KOSA13, PBS Wikipedia San Diego, aren't you? Well, unfortunately we know that you can't get it over 3G or 4G because you're outside the reception area and
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http://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=http%3a%2f%2fblog.hartleybr...
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by quink 15y ago
I pirated Paradox's Europa Universalis II when I was a poor student. I later pirated the first version of Europa Universalis III and Victoria, both of which I didn't much enjoy at the time, because they sucked at the time from a technical/g
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by quink 15y ago
Their business model is a different one. Instead of giving it away for free, and going for a million views and thus ad revenue, they're going for a hundred purchases by Fortune 500 companies. It's the reason there are books out there that c

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