radio4fan

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by radio4fan 13y ago
I (partly) got into Linux because I needed a cheap postscript printer: my (awesome but quickdraw-only) StyleWriter mangled everything QuarkXPress sent it. So an old 386 laptop, slackware (on floppies), ghostscript and some jiggery-pokery ga
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by radio4fan 13y ago
> You can not understate its importance! Challenge accepted! It's not important. ;-)
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by radio4fan 13y ago
French also uses informal. "... c'est à toi qu'appartiennent le règne"
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by radio4fan 13y ago
You've really never heard of VLC (admittedly hardly a startup, but certainly a project) or Feedly?
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by radio4fan 13y ago
> Iterm2... One of the most awesome features is it’s ability to trigger a full screen, semi-transparent console at the push of a hotkey. How did I not know about this? I'm almost looking forward to going to work tomorrow.
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by radio4fan 13y ago
Works fine in iTerm2 1.0.0.20140112
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by radio4fan 13y ago
Does for me. iTerm 2.0 Build 1.0.0.20140112 (latest version)
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by radio4fan 13y ago
Bizarrely, in the UK there is a law which mandates daily religious worship in all state-maintained schools: http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130401151655/htt... "Since the 1944 Education Act, re-enacted
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by radio4fan 13y ago
On the other hand, Barcelona is a great place for young people to live. I know plenty of people here in Barcelona who could earn much more in their home countries, but choose to live in Barcelona for the better quality of life. A web develo
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by radio4fan 13y ago
Because there are more than 70 carcinogenic compounds in tobacco.
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by radio4fan 13y ago
> When future arrived we just did not miss it. This might hold water were it not for the fact that pretty much all console unix tool users started off on Windows or Mac. > GUIs are more natural, it's much better then learning eac
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by radio4fan 13y ago
> It is well established that prices RyanAir advertises are not prices passengers pay. The prices on the website are exactly what you pay, as long as you pay by debit card and don't check luggage. Source: I live in Barcelona, and tr
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by radio4fan 13y ago
Former? Do you know something I don't? ;-)
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by radio4fan 13y ago
FTA: >I had a brief Twitter conversation with Anand Shimpi of Anandtech about this, and he was as perplexed as I was. Nobody could explain the technical basis for this vast difference in idle power management on the same hardware. None o
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by radio4fan 13y ago
The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form
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by radio4fan 13y ago
> Quite frankly I'm frightened to pass through UK ports now to visit family after reading about Schedule 7 powers. I'm not going to worry about it too much, myself. The statute is quite clear that you can only be questioned to
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by radio4fan 13y ago
>>> If he was working for the Guardian why didn't he ask for a lawyer from the Guardian? >> He was not technically entitled to a lawyer. The Guardian sent lawyers to the airport when they were told of his detention. The
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by radio4fan 13y ago
He was not technically entitled to a lawyer. The Guardian sent lawyers to the airport when they were told of his detention. The lawyers were not allowed to see him. As for the second question, who can say? I'd say it's worked out
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by radio4fan 13y ago
Canonical are a UK company. Not that that will help much.
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by radio4fan 13y ago
That's a perfectly valid opinion, but if you RTFA you'll find that the headline is poorly written: it's about sex-related content, not porn. Hookup apps and dildonics are not porn.
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by radio4fan 13y ago
Yeah, who here is interested in articles about startups, the internet giants, VC funding, etc?
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by radio4fan 13y ago
> So, you're not free to speak. But everywhere has some practical limits on free speech. It's a question of where the line is drawn. Shouting 'fire' in a crowded theatre, threatening the President, you get the picture
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by radio4fan 13y ago
> Don't agree with the humor and tact of this letter even though "it worked". Personally, in the UK, I would have written: "We refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram". The reply in questi
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by radio4fan 13y ago
It's reasonably straightforward au-pairing legally in the US. You just need to be represented by one of the officially sanctioned au pair agencies, and you get a J1 visa. So I guess they're miffed that girls are trying to cheat th
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by radio4fan 13y ago
The problem with that in this context is that they expect it to work if the user's clock isn't set accurately.
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by radio4fan 13y ago
Sure. 99.5 days of management busy-work, and 4 hours coding, testing and deploying.
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by radio4fan 13y ago
So it does. Well, in that case it's a piece of piss to implement as claudius says below.
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by radio4fan 13y ago
"The corporation also added that it would take around '100 staffing days to make the changes involved in switching to an independent clock'." I'd like to see how they're going to implement that without relying on the user's time settings in
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by radio4fan 13y ago
Man, you had me worried for a second. But I just googled '0% fat greek yogurt ingredients' and the top four brands (Fage, Total, Liberté and Chobani) contain only skimmed milk and bacterial cultures. Same with the brand I use here in Catalo
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by radio4fan 13y ago
Looks like the same concept as http://eatwith.com/ I'm going to my first eatWith event tomorrow night...

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