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by robododo 14y ago
Bizarre. I wonder if, in 10 years, WebKit will be viewed as the next IE6 when the latest/greatest HTML rendering engine comes along? What happened to standards compliance?
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by robododo 14y ago
I, unwittingly, nearly pulled the same scam with Dell about 10 years ago. I had a new notebook shipped to my house. It cost about $1600 new. The tracking information said it was delivered, so I hurried home to get it as I didn't want it on
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by robododo 14y ago
Maybe he knows where you can buy a good laptop for $300.
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by robododo 14y ago
For those not in the know, semiaccurate is not exactly reliable. They post just about any rumor, and get things wrong as much as right. Take this with a grain of salt, and file it into the "hrm, this might happen" category.
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by robododo 14y ago
Oh. Awesome. So when will Valve let me install their software with Ubuntu Software Center?
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by robododo 14y ago
So when will Steam let me add third party repositories for software? This is all FUD being spun up by Valve because they don't like competition for their app store.
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by robododo 14y ago
But... it does kind of look like a calculator.
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by robododo 14y ago
Wow, they need a new name. I came in here thinking they'd invented some sort of new electric forced induction mechanism [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercharger ]
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by robododo 14y ago
If you don't read the article, at least read my comment ;)
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by robododo 14y ago
Where did that come from... Did you read the article? "All devices will have a diagonal screen size between 10.1 and 11.6 inches, weigh between 520g and 1200g, and be between 8.35mm and 15mm thick. On the low end, 520g and 8.35mm would be c
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by robododo 14y ago
Speaking from anecdote, my relatively crappy, rural, public education in the USA was not like this. I'm guessing the article is written as hyperbole, not to paint a picture of the average US public school. Of course, it's been ~15 years sin
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by robododo 15y ago
When one's core beliefs have no basis in logic or objective reality, it's simple to maintain consistency. All that's needed is the invention of some new concept to explain the discrepancy. The world created in days -> but a "day" could
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by robododo 15y ago
Saying something's feasible if you throw the tests out just doesn't make sense to me. Without good automated, easy-to-run tests, you're going to blow more time fixing bugs and ad hoc testing in the long run. Thinking you save time by not te
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by robododo 15y ago
Then explain this. How am I typing this message FROM THE PAST?
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by robododo 15y ago
Was anyone else reminded of Catch-22? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Minderbinder "At the beginning of the novel, it [Milo's syndicate] is merely a system that gets fresh eggs to his mess hall by buying them in Sicily for one cent, sel
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by robododo 15y ago
Totally agree. A shockingly small number of candidates I've interviewed have heard of fizzbuzz. The first time I mentioned it to someone, I assumed they already knew it and would just chuckle and crank it out. However, that's actually kind
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by robododo 15y ago
Richard, MVC JS is great when there’s no way around it. Nice "..." there. You trolling? If so, this is the most bizarre topic for trolling I've seen in a while.
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by robododo 15y ago
s/just as// In all seriousness, when people ask me what HN is, I reply "It's like /. when it was relevant". Thank you for being here, HN.
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by robododo 15y ago
Old school trolling is awesome. "Everyone working at LucasFilm is a Real Programmer. (It would be crazy to turn down the money of fifty million Star Trek fans.)"
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by robododo 15y ago
Wow, glad I'm not the only one who's seen this. My problem is convincing managers that good bug fixers don't always make good clean-sheet coders. Nearly everyone has things their good at. The trick is figuring out how to utilize strengths w
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by robododo 15y ago
Color me dubious. Just check out Rudin's work on IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0748784/ That's a lot of solid movies. I have a hard time believing he'd take something so solid and totally screw it up. HBO series have a lot of credib
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by robododo 15y ago
That's how I've always felt, personally.
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by robododo 15y ago
Hrm, I think I have to refuse to watch the video then. The idea of a plexiglass factory is enticing enough that I choose the fantasy over reality.
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by robododo 15y ago
Conflicting evidence? I honestly don't get what you're saying.
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by robododo 15y ago
Thanks for the explanation. That's cool and all, but why wouldn't I just define an interface with method foo(), then override foo on my classes? This feels like class-based OO turned inside out.
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by robododo 15y ago
I found it really interesting that someone piped up in the blog comments disagreeing with the measure for overweight: "Since so-called overweight – BMI 25-30 – is the longest-lived cohort, parents aren’t the only ones with screwed up perce
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by robododo 15y ago
If you have to work with the US government, it's actually an issue: http://www.section508.gov/ From what I'm told by the "business guys", making your stuff accessiblt to the handicapped is a realy leg-up on some juicy contracts.
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by robododo 15y ago
It's not shocking at all that they allow firmware updates through the print port. That's very typical. What's shocking is the claim that the update isn't signed. I'm at a loss as to how to describe how terrifically awful that is. It's /s
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by robododo 15y ago
Too bad HDMI seems to only spec 5V @ 55mA. I had dreams of just plugging this stick into an HDMI port (TV, monitor, whatever) and having an instant PC. Sadly, it needs external power.