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by ralph 18y ago
Was it Ian Fleming that said you should never start writing a sentence unless you know how it's going to end? It seems we're now in an age where sentences are started without knowing how they're going to start.
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by ralph 18y ago
Hi Colin, I referred to tarsnap and said it had a "good pedigree" on JWZ's blog. Yes, I was referring to your background and domain knowledge as FreeBSD Secuirity Officer. http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/007641.html#comment-...
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by ralph 18y ago
There was a syndicate at work when the UK lottery started. I persuaded them, well some of them, the rest went along with it without comprehending, that it's better to buy N tickets in one game than one ticket in each of N games. Further,
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by ralph 18y ago
They hate D&D on the systems you've seen them use. I've seen them use it for many years on an OS called RISC OS, written by Acorn, designers of the ARM chip. There, users loved it. Everything supported it on the desktop. You had `fi
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by ralph 18y ago
The last element of an array is foo[-1] regardless of it's length. :-) And try implementing a circular buffer using an array of N elements with 1-based indexing and then 0-based. Sorry in advance for the loss of hair due to the former.
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by ralph 18y ago
Sometimes, pv(1) doesn't help. For example, `tar cf - foo | bzip2 -9v >foo.tar.bz2'. You don't know the size of the data that needs to pass down the pipe. But I sometimes find watching tar(1) open the files to read is handy; `strace
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by ralph 18y ago
Excellent. Thanks very much. I've made them black and will now set about fixing some of the other poor colour decisions, e.g. the body of the top post of a thread being an unreadable gray which puts me off reading it through no fault of t
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by ralph 18y ago
pg, How about doing something about this complaint? At 31 votes, it's my highest scoring comment. :-) http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=460859
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by ralph 18y ago
True. Although are you aware you can select the text of the URL and, in Firefox 3, drag it up to the tab bar and either drop it on an existing tab, e.g. the current one, or drop it slightly to the right of the right-most tab to create a ne
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by ralph 18y ago
pg, please re-visit the decision to have the post's text in gray-on-gray. It's awful for long initial posts like this one. No doubt I'm not the only one that selects the text to get it the slightly better yellow-on-black. It makes me les
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by ralph 18y ago
It's .co.uk .de .fr and others too.
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by ralph 18y ago
In the U.K. we don't have air-con. It can be hard to sleep during the summer days.
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by ralph 18y ago
So a `DateTime = datetime' in the module would let newer code look more conventional?
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by ralph 18y ago
I think "vi foo" works just fine with vim-tiny. If it didn't, it would be vim-empty.
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by ralph 18y ago
Mine too. You take a single sheet and fold it. No tape. No paperclips.
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by ralph 18y ago
Don't think it is a dupe; it's the blog post that jeffbarr said he'd put up in response to a comment on that article you linked to that asked for the option to add a surcharge.
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by ralph 18y ago
Using floats without need adds noise to the code, e.g. the ".0"s in foo = 0.0; bar += 1.0, and makes the reader wonder why floats are being used. "What am I missing?"
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by ralph 18y ago
Sure, you can pick a job like that. But similarly, the voucher recipients could pick jobs that cripple the plumber financially.
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by ralph 18y ago
Yes there is, depending on the type of job he's hired for with the vouchers, and whether the voucher covers parts as well.
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by ralph 18y ago
Firefox 3 also doesn't clear what zoom setting you like for each site on Tools -> Clear Private Data. https://bugs.launchpad.net/firefox/+bug/288236
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by ralph 18y ago
I don't get it. Is the $50 only against his labour charges? If the customer pays nothing for the parts too, then he can't subsidise the scheme for long enough to start being paid one the coupons run about by his, now loyal, customers.
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by ralph 18y ago
Separate from the collective mind of Americans is the status of the US Dollar as a "reserve currency", i.e. one that people are happy to hold in times of trouble. If that goes then, given the USA is bankrupt, it'll be in trouble. It's onl
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by ralph 18y ago
That could have been put a little more politely. ;-)
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by ralph 18y ago
Overall, I like it. Would be nice not to use Flash for multiple file upload though. Some folks just don't have it. Allow an alternative for one file at a time. Or unpack an uploaded .zip?
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by ralph 18y ago
One where __ looks like two underscores and not a single line.
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by ralph 18y ago
Here in Europe, we have Huf Haus, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huf_Haus There's a Channel 4 programme called Grand Designs that featured a HH being built one week. Worth watching if you can find it somewhere.
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by ralph 18y ago
"So does every PDF reader." I don't think every PDF reader supports PostScript very well. Is that what you meant to say?
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by ralph 18y ago
http://www.bytemark.co.uk/ Sterling's cheap at the moment! "Darling, why don't we sell up in the UK, move to France, and buy a croissant." They've been doing virtual machines for years using User Mode Linux.
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by ralph 18y ago
Have a look at pdftk, in an Ubuntu repository near you. It can do many things with PDF files.
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by ralph 18y ago
Yes, I'd recommend Roundup. It has a good, easy, clean design.

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