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721.
by robotmay 14y ago
Ilya always writes the best performance articles. Really nicely organised page too.
722.
by robotmay 14y ago
It's like a YTMND for the new age.
723.
by robotmay 14y ago
In Ben's defence, I doubt he's the only one who wouldn't have thought to check the whois data. I wouldn't have, for a start. There should have been an obvious contact email linked on the site itself for issues, not just a Twitter account.
724.
by robotmay 14y ago
I'm surprised at the lack of "innovative" new captcha ideas targetted towards mobile devices. "Spin your phone clockwise 3 times and lick the screen to prove you're not a robot"
725.
by robotmay 14y ago
Back when I was 14 I played quite a lot of Phantasy Star Online on the Xbox (which had a very small community). My voice broke a year or two beforehand, and I was pretty respectful and eloquent. I had people constantly looking to me for adv
726.
by robotmay 14y ago
I believe yegg has a pretty awesome internet connection in his basement: http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2011/12/duckduckgo-used-...
727.
by robotmay 14y ago
Brightbox are a UK company with a pretty decent cloud offering: http://brightbox.com
728.
by robotmay 14y ago
Rackspace offer an email service, though it is paid. Also, despite it being hosted in the UK, it is a US company.
729.
by robotmay 14y ago
Regrettably, this is my most popular piece of code I've released: a ruby gem for parsing a goddamn stupid text format used only by the website Rightmove. I pity the poor fools who have needed to use it. https://github.com/robotmay/blm
730.
by robotmay 14y ago
The Society of Barefoot Programmers would probably have quite a significant membership base. It's so damn comfy.
731.
by robotmay 14y ago
Oh absolutely, if they updated it to be based on modern farming then everyone would have significantly less acreage :D But you'll find that with most imperial measurements; they're based on physical objects or systems of measuring which mak
732.
by robotmay 14y ago
But not quite! ;) Somehow that extra 68.3ml makes all the difference.
733.
by robotmay 14y ago
Other measurement systems definitely have their uses though. Many older measurements still exist due to them being easier to estimate with; e.g. an acre being the amount of land you could plow in a day. And you'll never have the British dri
734.
by robotmay 14y ago
It's not quite as stable yet. First time I played it ran flawlessly (and at the same speed as it does under Windows). Since then I've had a few issues like excessive screen tearing and missing audio, but they're not too bad for what is stil
735.
by robotmay 14y ago
I've been recommending Sidekiq to people for the past few months and it's great to see it being picked up by more projects. It's quicker than Resque for everything I've tried it on.
736.
by robotmay 14y ago
Porting TF2 was a nice touch (and I have it installed on my Linux partition for a quick lunchtime game whilst working) but I need quite a few other games to be ported before I could consider using it more often. Give it a few years though;
737.
by robotmay 14y ago
I know a few people who have worked with them (not naming names), and they all agree that the FBI are nowhere near as slick as the media makes them out to be.
738.
by robotmay 14y ago
Hell, I'll invent an app just so I can use Stripe and reassure myself that it's all going to be OK and I'll never have subject myself to the existing solutions again.
739.
by robotmay 14y ago
I met him a few months ago in Oxford, UK when he was speaking. Really enjoyed his talk and he was very approachable in the bar afterwards.
740.
by robotmay 14y ago
I never got used to that, it seemed totally backwards to me. I can deal with it on a screen where my finger is (almost) physically attached to what I'm scrolling, but not on a detached mouse/trackpad and display.
741.
by robotmay 14y ago
Not really our government's fault though; to their credit they did actually try and fight it a bit. IIRC our regulation (in the UK) has a few differences from the EU one.
742.
by robotmay 14y ago
The slow transition is the biggest difference I've found when introducing people to it. It's actually pretty hard to notice it taking effect.
743.
by robotmay 14y ago
I have it working reliably here (64-bit Ubuntu 12.04), though it is noticeably lacking a lot of the configuration options available in the Windows/OS X versions.
744.
by robotmay 14y ago
I have it running fine under 64-bit Ubuntu, sounds like it might be a problem with KDE. Have you tried looking around for other packages for it?
745.
by robotmay 14y ago
I've been working on my own stats tracker in my spare time (it's gradually getting there, and aside from accidentally DOSing Pusher, it's going quite well), and I've taken a mixed approach to the site dashboard. It has the usual counters an
746.
by robotmay 14y ago
We've got our priorities straight; tea first, crushing & explosions later.
747.
by robotmay 14y ago
Here's a good article on the floating black spots you can experience in your vision: http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Floaters/Pages/Introduction.asp... TLDR; they're pretty common (I've had them for years), but you should go get them checked
748.
by robotmay 14y ago
I'm amazed that British adventurers ever managed to climb mountains if they couldn't make a decent cuppa on the way up.
749.
by robotmay 14y ago
Luckily the Cardiff store has significantly less hip and much more helpful staff. I hate having to book an appointment though; I know what's wrong, I just want to drop it off and for them to call me when they fix it under warranty.
750.
by robotmay 14y ago
I had a go with it fairly recently and I was generally really impressed. Some odd naming conventions but you can't half get some great data out of it.

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