rikkus

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   by rikkus 12y ago

   Not any more. Sorry. hic
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   by rikkus 12y ago

   Hi, I came up with the CD ripping idea and wrote the original implementation. I remember being dissatisfied with the existing programs that did the job, and preferring the idea of simply inserting the CD and then dragging and dropping the (
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   by rikkus 12y ago

   Chrome has Vimium, but I haven't used either enough to compare them. On laptop, I sometimes ctrl+shift+b to hide the Chrome toolbar.
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   by rikkus 12y ago

   I created an account but couldn't log in. As I've had the same happen before, I tried using only the first 32 characters of my password when logging in. That worked. Remember kids: Most software development isn't about puzzle
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   by rikkus 12y ago

   Could do with some explanation, e.g.: Set the sliders to a range around your own height and weight. You will be shown pictures of people who are within the height range, and have (at least at one time) had a weight within the weight range.
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   by rikkus 12y ago

   One tip I can give: As soon as you start getting closer to a normal number of hours of sleep, get some exercise. You'll feel so much better.
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   by rikkus 12y ago

   Same here, six week old daughter. Best feeling ever.
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   by rikkus 12y ago

   I spent 5 years learning and using vi (n perhaps a dozen different Unix-like OSes, so they were all different, meaning I could only use a core set of features. I then spent a few years working on Windows where I had Vim, but other editors I
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   by rikkus 12y ago

   I'm a vi user, having learned it when I had to admin dozens of flavours of *NIX in the 90s. I moved to Windows ten years ago for my day job, and had to use many editors which didn't support vi keybindings, so ended up learning to
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    by rikkus 12y ago

    Exactly. They know this - and have reported it - but in the next article, somehow everything's fine again and what the government say is fact.
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    by rikkus 12y ago

    Says the BBC: "The filters block pornographic websites, as well as pages promoting self-harm or drug taking." One of the major concerns raised about these filters at the time the government announced them was that they _also_ bloc
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    by rikkus 12y ago

    Half my code looks like this, these days: return products .Where(p => p.Type == ProductType.Bean) .OrderBy(p => p.Group) .ThenBy(p => p.Name) .Select(p => p.Name) ; Sometimes I
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    by rikkus 12y ago

    You haven't heard good things about Crashplan? I have heard of one incident (reported on the web) where someone's data was lost at Crashplan HQ. But no system is infallible. It's generally excellent. It Just Works, it's
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    by rikkus 12y ago

    I can think of two possibilities: 1. IE is honouring the ClearType tuning settings. 2. The default gammas are different.
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    by rikkus 12y ago

    Get off my filesystem!
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    by rikkus 12y ago

    I remember this from writing chat(8) scripts. Pretty nice little language!
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    by rikkus 12y ago

    Ah yes, I'd forgotten such a thing even existed. Added, thanks!
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    by rikkus 12y ago

    What do you use to get the 'pin' feature in your browser bar?
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    by rikkus 12y ago

    I didn't even know this, and I 'bought' it really early on. Thanks for letting me know - I've now signed up for the extra service!
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    by rikkus 12y ago

    Worldwide, but you link to the US page?
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    by rikkus 12y ago

    Do something for free and people start getting upset when you don't do it.
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    by rikkus 12y ago

    I can never remember if it's 3 or 4, and Alt, or Command, or Ctrl, or Shift, or a combination of, or...
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    by rikkus 12y ago

    Great, I love Ruby. But what do I do for debugging?
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    by rikkus 12y ago

    From the head moving and what they're saying about it, it's definitely this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K39Q9zvQoE
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    by rikkus 12y ago

    Google Sheets
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    by rikkus 12y ago

    This is what I wrote in their 'Contact' form, which returned an error: 'The form you submitted contained the following errors Missing Data.(DIFFERENT_IP) Return to Previous Page' I used your password checker here: http:
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    by rikkus 12y ago

    I've been giving up news slowly over the years. When I was young, news gave me information about the world. I learned about countries and cultures I would have had little knowledge of otherwise. I used to listen to the BBC World Servic
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    by rikkus 12y ago

    Argh!
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    by rikkus 12y ago

    Copy and paste didn't work too well on serial terminals. How far back was this 'dawn of time'?
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    by rikkus 12y ago

    This likely helps the problem, yes. It might not fix the underlying issues, but at least the unfortunate person's personal problems aren't compounded by losing a stable place to stay.