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by roryisok 10y ago
> or being able to ensure a particular event takes place on a certain page number... I find your level of organisation intimidating
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by roryisok 10y ago
It's called Poe, available on the windows store, and there's more info on http://getpoe.com Written in WinJS. I'm working on v2 at the moment which is a complete rewrite and brings in rich-text and a bunch of othe
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by roryisok 10y ago
This is very relevant to me. I'm a struggling, unpublished novelist with a handful of half finished books and a moderately successful writing app in the windows store, which I use myself. Every time I sit down to write I find myself ma
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by roryisok 10y ago
Skype has had ads in it for a long, long time. I always find them very jarring.
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by roryisok 10y ago
Learning ruby at the moment and this is setting off alarm bells. What? gems break each other?
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by roryisok 10y ago
Probably the settings app which is there to replace the control panel of old. It's very dumbed down, and frequently has to launch cpls itself to allow you to do more complex things. FYI you can still get the control panel, just hit win
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by roryisok 10y ago
and Environment Variables / PATH entries are now added as rows on a table, instead of appending to a super long string and trying to remember whether or not to put a slash and or a semi-colon at the end
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by roryisok 10y ago
> Would you call a gang member that now uses guns instead of knives a "changed man"? Does this analogy really fit? Microsoft put an advert in their file explorer and now we're comparing them to violent criminals?
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by roryisok 10y ago
Have these limits increased or decreased? What were they before?
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by roryisok 10y ago
> 3. They have a normal sleep schedule. You can sleep. For all you new parents out there, this bit might seem like it will never happen, but it will, eventually. It might take longer than your friends kids, it might take longer than the
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by roryisok 10y ago
Nice! I wish I could throw out code that quickly. That would have taken me three weeks
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by roryisok 10y ago
never heard of it until now
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by roryisok 10y ago
I was just wondering the same, looking down at my trusty old lumia here. Unfortunately no desktop OS seems to be safe
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by roryisok 10y ago
No mention of Windows Phone. I guess I'm safe =)
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by roryisok 10y ago
Did you actually build this based off my comment??
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by roryisok 10y ago
> The new MacBook Pros, released in late 2016, where interesting, but something of a half-hearted shrug in the direction of users: they’re okay machines, but they sure aren’t interesting at all I can't process this sentence
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by roryisok 10y ago
I thought this was going to be a bot that auto discovered the relevant xkcd but I think I like this even more
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by roryisok 10y ago
You're so right. Twitter is all about NOW, about Live events, about the moment. Another way to exploit this would be to create a "news" space, a collection of journalist and press accounts which could be harnessed to provide
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by roryisok 10y ago
> If you don't fire up the app every few hours do you risk missing a crucial link or update? One thing that's always bugged me about twitter - its so transient. when you log on you only get a snapshot of what's happening a
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by roryisok 10y ago
I bought one this morning, going to hook it up to my router with pi-hole and block ads/clickbait/Trump out of my browsing across all my devices
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by roryisok 10y ago
yikes. I have two very swollen lithium batteries in my shed from two old mbps I've been meaning to ditch. I had no idea they could spontaneously combust. I'll be getting rid of them tomorrow!
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by roryisok 10y ago
It's more like you're looking at the sky and what you can see doesn't weigh as much as it should. Does Occam's Razor suggest that there's invisible stuff? or that you're weighing stuff wrong?
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by roryisok 10y ago
> "If Newtonian physics can’t predict the fixed curves, perhaps we should fix Newton, instead of making up a whole new class of matter just to fit our measurements." I've always felt this way about dark matter, but as a la
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by roryisok 10y ago
> Chris Bolt the dude who built a lot of the tech there is INCREDIBLY Incredibly what? =) I haven't touched my DA account in years, but more because I've stopped drawing than any issue with the site or community. I was exposed
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by roryisok 10y ago
how so? I never had trouble with mine
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by roryisok 10y ago
Can someone explain to me what Linux shell has over powershell that makes it so indispensable for developers? I'm a developer and I don't use Linux. I'm dual booting Ubuntu at the moment because I want to get more familiar wi
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by roryisok 10y ago
the problem with that one is that the garlic also gets up around the plunger, and you have to clean that out too. more moving parts = more to clean
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by roryisok 10y ago
I actually came here to post the Numatic Henry vacuum cleaner. A big simple cylinder with a face on it. Fantastic suction. Super long cord. Hand crank retractor (those spring loaded ones always wear down over time). Easy to unblock, the pip
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by roryisok 10y ago
I have to argue with the last one, I think this garlic press https://www.bedbathandbeyond.com/store/product/oxo-good-grip... is superior. When you're done with this one, you rotate the handle all the way arou
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by roryisok 10y ago
when I moved into my current house I bought a brand new microwave for exactly this reason. Two knobs - how long, how hot. anything else is a waste of time.

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