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rjd
13y ago
So... is this XSLT reinvented? I'll admit it looks like it'd be a tonne nicer (less verbose and strict) than XSLT but it all looks very familiar to me... just add a client library and you have the same thing? Or am I missing something here?
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13y ago
To add to your fears I had catastrophic syncing issues last few. Stupidly enough I had turned off local backups thinking Google would be better. 10gb of design files gone. I still haven't worked out what happened but there where 5 computers
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13y ago
I found this extremely humorous (John Stewart Show on gun violence and politician motives): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T... @ 2:00 it speaks volumes about US politics ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=
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13y ago
I did some reading into this last year while I was stuck in bed sick and what I came across was it was to do more with light pressure than a frost line. The frostline has more to do with where water is likely to form than how a come to exis
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13y ago
Wait... He makes an active decision to work more aggressively and chooses sitting up straight as the method. ...Sure its not the fact he made the decision the first place and is sticking to it, rather than the sitting?
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13y ago
Anyone have an idea what the usage stats for instagram are these days? I've seen a massive drop off on Facebook. It's gone from my news feed more or less just being instragram pics... almsot everyone using it... down to about 3 regular peop
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13y ago
I for one totally hate the layout of iMessage, and skype ... which this seems to be a clone of. I always find myself with both iMessage and Skype having to always check I'm in the correct chat window, this layout to me doesn't automatically
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13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casper_(cat) Heres a similar ca story thats not anecdotal. I'm not at all surprised by the story growing up with working dogs on a rural farm. Dogs would constantly surprise you with the understanding of the w
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13y ago
Yeah, it was just the eutopian arrogance of the statement that ticked me right off. I watch those homeless people who can't even make it to the shelters and food banks due to substance abuse every other day from my desk. It hit a nerve with
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13y ago
Because my bullshit detector went off when he was claiming 100% coverage. If you can't see the fact he's grand standing I don't know what to say. In near perfect conditions its not achievable let alone when the odds are stacked against peop
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13y ago
Oh excellent, he's planning to cure poverty and hardship is he? I hate to break it to him but right now there are people who sleep on the picnic bench outside of the ISP I work for which streams free wifi to anyone near the office. In the c
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14y ago
I use one as I use multiple browsers, on multiple computers, at multiple locations, with varying permissions. The social discovery is quite neat in some of them as well. But yeah pay for one... you'd have to have a special need to pay for o
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14y ago
Not at all, in fact I have a smug satisfaction each time I read stuff these days. Years of listening to mindless defenses and personal attacks for pointing out the obvious fact "that they are just as bad as any other company" ...the taste o
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14y ago
And why not just by a Mac mini and thunderbolt expansion chasis? achieves the same goal doesn't it? e.g. http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/Thunderbolt/PCIe_Chassis/Merc... , http://www.magma.com/expressbox-3t , http://www.sonnettech.com/p
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14y ago
At a guess I'd say the whole place has really decent extractor fans as no one really seemed to be wearing much protective gear... and I assume there would be ample chemicals n the air. I'd also guess fans would do a lot for clearing dust as
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14y ago
No way am I merging my work accounts, my personal business accounts, and my junk email together. Especially with a company already proven to slap happy deleting accounts they don't like.
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14y ago
This happens to me all the time, my company hasn't allowed youtube (plus a swathe of other stuff). But youtube gets me annoyed the most. I usually get a hyped 'check this out' friend a friend on IM, then I have to spend what feels like an a
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14y ago
Whoops sorry, I did mean preprocessor as the other person guessed. I assume I was auto-corrected first time around and didn't notice.
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14y ago
Awesome thanks for this. Only thing I could recommend would be an extra column for any processor :)
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14y ago
Is anyone else entertained by the fact we finally have decent support for rounded corners for web design, and everyone is moving towards right angles? :)
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14y ago
Exactly, I remember one day throwing out (to good will) 20+ industry shirts, from events, vendors, prizes etc... because I reached an age where the social value wasn't there anymore, infact it became prohibiting towards being taken serious.
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14y ago
Thats fine, when you get several hundred emails a day you don't want push notifications. If its important it shouldn't be going to me via email, I mean thats why I have a phone.
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14y ago
Downloaded it, couldn't use it, wondered why a 3rd party needs push access servers for a mail client... became suspicious... deleted it... probably not reinstalling it.
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14y ago
... and people at work won't play online games?
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14y ago
Just full your account up with junk info, use a nickname, install ghostery, and sign up with site specific auth. I'm pretty sure Fucking in Austria has an extremely high Facebook population... I know ALOT of my friends say they come from th
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14y ago
Wheres the MSN Live/Skype/Xbox network?
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14y ago
Most of the Microsofts revenue comes from server side stuff anyway, 60% from memory(?), it'll be a good 5 years at least before that market dents. I don't think you'll see c# going away anytime soon. EDIT : couldn't find 2012 but heres 2011
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14y ago
I used to work with a guy who used to lock the door, anyone who showed up late had to knock on the window and get begged to be let in, it disturbed the meeting enough to chastised the late person with a disappointed frown or jibes from the
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14y ago
"majority of meetings helped management types feel more connected" ... isn't that technically there job? it might not be a need to feel, but a need to get information out of people they are struggling to get otherwise...
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14y ago
Its all good I definitely don't hold the place or the people to blame. I was living in Cookstown at the time traveling around meeting long lost relatives. I met more than a few good people, but also some of the worst (a few fisticuff incide
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