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by rikkus 11y ago
You will have people who depend on you to allow them to get on with what they do best. You will likely find that you don't write code any more, but have to trust others to do a good job - a better job than you might have done, even. Yo
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I didn't make the decision. Slack started to appear and I didn't know that IRCCloud had apps (which seem to have great reviews). If I had known, I would have suggested it as an alternative. As it was, I just kept quiet as Slack se
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by rikkus 11y ago
If directed acyclic is sufficient for your use case, you can use this approach, which has worked perfectly for me in the past: http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/22824/A-Model-to-Represe...
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They would also get the option to charge non UK residents for access. There must be good reason they don't do this but it would certainly mean UK residents could access content while abroad without having to pretend they were at home a
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by rikkus 11y ago
Is it possible to get what Slack provides using IRC? I mean the whole package, not just the text chat. Consider enterprise-friendliness, excellent mobile clients, zero-setup required (no separate keep-you-online relays), really easy integra
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by rikkus 11y ago
Yes I have an ipod and changed the font to thick and turned off the swoopy animations. You can do this via accessibility
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by rikkus 11y ago
Amusingly you can change something in accessibility that adds a 1 and a 0 to the switches. For some reason I'm still unclear... Does pressing it make it 1 because I can see the 1 to press, or is it now 1 (yes). Android by default has o
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by rikkus 11y ago
Powershell is a nice language. Here's map/filter/reduce. Golf welcome. @(1, 2, 3) ` | % { $_ + 1 } ` | ? { $_ -gt 2 } ` | Measure-Object -Sum | Select Sum You can write a generic reduce like this:
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by rikkus 11y ago
And this matches what I thought it meant. It doesn't make it useful to me in real life, though.
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Reasonable unless you want your forecast to be at all useful!
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I half-jokingly tell people that if they get their forecast from the BBC (via the Met), they should expect the inverse weather. I wonder if the BBC has checked the quality of the forecasts based on what actually happens? I use AccuWeather a
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by rikkus 11y ago
Just in case anyone, like me, read the headline and wanted to see the old 'Green Desk' feature on Brass Eye, I found it here: https://youtu.be/usTT3RuWu_g?t=4m44s
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by rikkus 11y ago
Just because a language supports OO doesn't mean that you are somehow trapped using only the OO paradigm. OO is a feature that gives you, amongst others, the possibility of expressing an inheritance relationship. Most code I write in C
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by rikkus 11y ago
Simplicity by leaving everything switched off by default, but still sendmail and BIND the default MTA and DNS server. I know OpenSMTPd has come in now, but I still never found out why djb's tools weren't first class citizens and d
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by rikkus 11y ago
Easy solution: square platters
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It doesn't matter about the memory and processing power. The hiccups are down the the OS, not the hardware.
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Any code available to play with? Looks very impressive!
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by rikkus 11y ago
Perhaps coincidentally, on BBC Four tonight a programme was shown which describes vellum (the material on which this manuscript was written) and the process behind creating it. A clip is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes
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by rikkus 11y ago
There are minor differences in spelling and vocabulary between British and US English, but there are also differences in grammar, so I consider en_US and en_GB to be quite different - enough that I always push for translations for applicati
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by rikkus 11y ago
I found this a while back and have been really enjoying it. http://www.synthesiagame.com With a laptop that folds flat, you can prop it on the music stand of your piano. Would be best with a touch screen, I think.
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by rikkus 11y ago
I just tried switching the lights in my house on and off and it changed in the right place on the globe, so yes.
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by rikkus 11y ago
I used to suffer from Alice In Wonderland Syndrome [1]. The first time I noticed symptoms was when I thought my CD player was broken because it was playing music slowly. I asked other people if it sounded slow to them and they didn't t
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by rikkus 11y ago
I was already slightly concerned about using getting a .cc domain for my email address, due to it being a 'lesser' TLD and thinking this sort of thing might happen. Are there ways to mitigate this risk in general, or is it somethi
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by rikkus 11y ago
Read all the books that are popular / recommended, so that you can see all the contradictions between them. Even the most sane-seeming books have plenty of superstition and unfounded advice. Even the most fad-ish books have some good s
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by rikkus 11y ago
The definition of charity seems to be giving money to those in need, but I prefer a less specific definition: Helping those in need. To do this, you can give money to 'charities', or you could perhaps try to help with systemic pro
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by rikkus 11y ago
It's a good point. With my current USB devices, I know that the short cable will charge my phone properly and the long one won't. I know that I've seen a 'charge only' cable. I'm not sure this will be fixed wit
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It depends. Lenovo's TN screens have historically been horrible, due to poor viewing angles (even when looking straight-on, you have to move your head to see properly).
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If he was allergic to anything, surely he wouldn't make the request?
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It looks like it could be very readable and quite beautiful, but it's difficult to tell when you haven't seen it rendered properly - the announcements about it have just shown a greyscale-aliased image, which isn't ideal. If
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by rikkus 11y ago
I haven't paid much attention to the way studios work recently, but people used to record using flat response headphones (which make music sound, well, flat - great for hearing everything but not pleasant for music) and mix using Yamah

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