radio4fan

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by radio4fan 13y ago
I found it interesting and not at all bitter. The point was "Once they've bought it, promises don't matter", and there were two interesting stories that illustrate this point. /shrugs We all know yahoo are going to fuck up tumblr, and the p
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by radio4fan 13y ago
I don't see where TFA aruges that the food business in the EU is sorted, rather that many practices which are rightly illegal in the EU are legal in the US. Murder is illegal everywhere, but that's not to say it never happens.
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by radio4fan 14y ago
> at which point you start looking for property in France Good lord; you'd regret that. French bureaucracy is a hundred times worse than that in the UK. It's one of the biggest reasons I left France. And in French swimming pools you are
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by radio4fan 14y ago
That reminds me of the joke that convicted pedophiles always seem to have greasy hair, thick glasses and bad teeth. What is it about that look that children find so attractive? Yep, I'm probably going to regret not using a throwaway account
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by radio4fan 14y ago
The abstract is here: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/04/03/1219361110 ...on PNAS. /smirk
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by radio4fan 14y ago
Yep, I have to develop 'WordPress sites' sometimes and the only consistency is its awfulness. It's the PHP of PHP. Having a default username in the first place is incredibly poor practice. So many users stick to 'admin', making it just a ca
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by radio4fan 14y ago
I'm a one-man business doing web development. I get my work almost solely through contacts I made when I lived in London, though I left the UK in 2007. Sorry: probably not what you wanted to hear!
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by radio4fan 14y ago
42 here, and still loving it. I work from home, and can work anywhere in Europe, as much or as little as I want (within reason). I don't have to put up with meetings and bullshit bosses. Above all, I still love programming for its puzzle-so
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by radio4fan 14y ago
Nonsense. He knows it's terminal (it's spread all over the place), and if he chooses to live the rest of his life on his own terms and not enduring the significant side effects of chemo, then it's his choice and good luck to him. My grandmo
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by radio4fan 14y ago
> What's wrong with teabags? Depends on the brand, but the big UK brands (like PG) use some kind of plastic in the bags which doesn't compost.
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by radio4fan 14y ago
Tomatoes are great fun to grow (try Sungold -- fantastic little yellow cherry tomatoes that you can't otherwise buy). But if you're busy, have a go at chillis: no blight, no splitting, they tolerate under- and over-watering and poor soil, a
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by radio4fan 14y ago
Great post, and thanks for introducing me to the Open DNS Resolver Project. http://openresolverproject.org/
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by radio4fan 14y ago
Unless I'm missing some wit, that seems uncalled-for. And judging by her github profile, she's a good programmer by any reasonable definition.
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by radio4fan 14y ago
And the other is its ubiquity on cheap hosting.
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by radio4fan 14y ago
Indeed. I've been using the klip.me extension, which is great: http://www.klip.me/ Even better has been their Google Reader to Kindle service, which I've set up to send a daily chapterized kindle version of all the news blogs I follow. Oh
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by radio4fan 14y ago
An alternative view, according to the wiki page: > The nickname, urging a comparison to the classical image of "Venus," is now controversial. According to Christopher Witcombe, "the ironic identification of these figurines as 'Venus' pl
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by radio4fan 14y ago
Absolutely. It would be great it was true, but it's almost certainly not. Images like this are effectively Rorschach tests. Sure, they may look like xenofossils to astrobiologists, but there are no doubt people to whom they look like their
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by radio4fan 14y ago
I'm not seeing it in Spain either. Though going to http://google..co.uk does the trick.
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by radio4fan 14y ago
> Obesity is the result of a caloric surplus. Cavemen didn't have that luxury. No obese cavemen? How about a cavewoman? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf
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by radio4fan 14y ago
If the body digested everything with 100% efficiency and didn't produce waste, and also treated all 'calories' equally, then I'd agree that thermodynamics tells us everything we need to know. But even people coming from the complete opposit
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by radio4fan 14y ago
They're back in, due to popular demand: https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/commit/6ccf588a8e08a9f9...
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by radio4fan 14y ago
"My gut instinct is that the HUD will work on a mobile device and as the platform matures it will become better." I think you're right. Unity works great on a netbook, purely for consuming. Fine for a mobile device. There used to be a Ubunt
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by radio4fan 14y ago
I'll give you narcissist, but I don't think Jobs had any respect for anyone else or their opinions. This may have been a good or bad thing, according to taste.
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by radio4fan 14y ago
Thanks for that link. I love what he says about iteration: "I don't know for sure why the Microsoft solution is so clunky. It could be they just didn't do a good job of copying the Mac. More likely, they never tested and iterated. When Eric
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by radio4fan 14y ago
Wikipedia has this (and more) to say on POSIX: Not to be confused with Unix, Unix-like, or Linux. POSIX (pron.: /ˈpɒzɪks/ poz-iks), an acronym for "Portable Operating System Interface", is a family of standards specified by the IEEE for mai
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by radio4fan 14y ago
I thought it had been pretty well established that a minority of people can learn to code.
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by radio4fan 14y ago
I was once told by a typesetter that paragraphs have always been separated by indenting the first line. Then along came Microsoft Word, which inserted vertical space between paragraphs instead. Now most people think it's supposed to be that
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by radio4fan 14y ago
Yahoo (particularly when providing services for BT) silently delete some spam, even mail with a raw SA score < 1.5. And they don't respond to complaints, even from their own users. I've been running the same pukka mailing list for 12 ye
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by radio4fan 14y ago
Pah. I'm old enough to remember DOS users mocking mac users for using GUIs and mice.
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by radio4fan 14y ago
Looks quite nice. On a high-traffic site like this, I'm surprised they've not really addressed performance. Currently: Scripts at the top, not the bottom CSS not concatenated and minimized JS not minimized GZIP not enabled on the server Ico

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