richev

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by richev 9y ago
> Interface started out in late 2016 as an experiment to build a perfectly pixel–fitting font at a specific small size (11px.) Didn't Tahoma[1] achieve this back in 1995? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahom
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by richev 9y ago
Aside: If you're ever in the area, and have a spare day, visit that building! I went for a tour there years ago and it blew my mind. There's something unique about standing on a gantry looking down at an unpainted 747 being assemb
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by richev 9y ago
I can attest to that - you never know what doors you might want to walk through in the future that require a degree to open (or are a lot easier to open if you have a degree). Examples... 1) I moved from the UK to Australia last year. Havin
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by richev 9y ago
People who are deaf can still enjoy music...just crank the bass up. http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/deep-bass-sounds-musi...
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by richev 9y ago
What alternative do you propose?
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by richev 9y ago
Flip the logic in the middle there, and you'll be asking the right question.
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by richev 9y ago
Technically, hydropneumatic suspension[1]. Very expensive when it breaks (speaking from personal experience...) 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydropneumatic_suspension
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by richev 9y ago
I've used both, and like Paint.NET for more complex work, but both have too much UI clutter for the simple tasks I mentioned...
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by richev 9y ago
Sounds like Musk has been reading the 1997 book written by my old Cybernetics professor Kevin Warwick (aka Captain Cyborg)... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_the_Machines
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by richev 9y ago
Hardly an "upgrade" if functionality that people use gets removed...
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by richev 9y ago
It's slower to start than Paint (on this laptop at least), and I can't see any way to import an image using a scanner using it (one of my main use cases for Paint). And why on earth does the menu icon in Paint 3D look like a folde
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by richev 9y ago
Article needs editing for length and clarity.
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by richev 9y ago
> The sad thing about the FT is how expensive it is. Real journalism costs money, and ad revenues aren't what they used to be.
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by richev 9y ago
One of many reasons why I'm thankful I've been able to avoid working on software that has military applications. :-/
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by richev 9y ago
Or, you can just purchase the game to get rid of the apps.
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by richev 9y ago
I remember being in awe just at the parallax scrolling on Shadow of the Beast on a friend's Amiga. At home we still just had a lowly C64.
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by richev 9y ago
For a while I had a paid subscription to CIX ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIX ), which was pretty handy at times. It's worth noting that in the pre-web era the proliferation rate of new frameworks/language
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by richev 9y ago
...using the on-screen keyboard, or a physical one?
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by richev 9y ago
The real fun starts if you need to change the email address associated with your Microsoft account. Six months and multiple support calls later and I'm still receiving Azure billing information and Xbox newsletters at the old address.
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by richev 9y ago
It's being trialed in Sydney http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/the-new-opal-commuters-to-trial-sw...
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by richev 9y ago
I can't comment on the 457 requirements specifically, but I was granted a Skilled Independent visa (subclass 189) last year, as a "Developer Programmer". In lieu of a degree that would be considered at least a major in Comput
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by richev 10y ago
Painful on the eyes.
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by richev 10y ago
It's good English, but it's not transparent as to what future costs I might encounter if I start using the product while it's in beta, and want to continue using it in the future. I'm happy to pay to use good software, b
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by richev 10y ago
> Memo is free for teams of all sizes while in beta. Sounds ominous.
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by richev 10y ago
Because, at the point where the "sign up with Slack" button is placed, the proposition is not clear enough...
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by richev 10y ago
Build something that you yourself find useful (and that you can reasonably assume will be useful to other people too).
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by richev 10y ago
I'm not sure why the round-trip formatter is used in the C# example ( https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dwhawy9k(v=vs.110).... ). If you omit it then you get the hoped-for result of 0.3.
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Moonscape – The Apollo 11 Moonwalk in HD(moonscapemovie.blogspot.com)
2 points by richev 10y ago|0 comments
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by richev 10y ago
C# & WinForms
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by richev 10y ago
Good Guinness

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