sambeau

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   by sambeau 14y ago

   Two things I would like: 1) An easy way to debug events. I find that javascript has become so non-linear it is really hard to decide where to breakpoints and what I really want is to follow an event from object to object instead. 2) An easy
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   by sambeau 14y ago

   I had to hand all my functional programming homework in in literate style in 1992 so 'New' is relative :-)
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   by sambeau 14y ago

   Britain would be better-off doing this rather than building ahigh-speed line. High speed internet for the whole country would be a massive stimulus to all sorts of new business ideas and working practices.
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   by sambeau 14y ago

   Traction control cost $100 when it was introduced in 1971 which is ~$567 in today's money. A new traction control system costs £500-£800. Clearly those components aren't as cheap as you might think. When a reporter writes about a cost in a
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   by sambeau 14y ago

   I'm not questioning the validity of the research. I'm questioning that one statement (a statement similar to one that appears in so many pop-sci articles). The £5,000 to £100 estimate is based solely on the hope that the raw component costs
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   by sambeau 14y ago

   "scientists hope to be able to reduce the cost to as little as £100 (about 150 USD)" Don't you just hate it when they regurgitate stuff like that. I'm sure the scientists hope for many things. It is a reporter's job to call them
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   by sambeau 14y ago

   I wish people would stop offering services 'for life'. They so rarely turn out to be for life. Having to renege on a 'for life' promise only generates the worst kind of publicity: justifiably vocal former-customers (even worse: formerly-hap
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   by sambeau 14y ago

   This looks interesting. Does it have much effect on battery life?
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   by sambeau 14y ago

   I spat my coffee out laughing. Because he is so right.
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    by sambeau 14y ago

    I spat my coffee out at this bit: if you want a quick fix go buy "learn PHP in ten minutes" and spend the next twenty years googling for "how do I compute the length of a string"
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    by sambeau 14y ago

    Down in UK
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    by sambeau 14y ago

    I do not believe that even Aaron Swartz could have given you a full answer to that question.
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    by sambeau 14y ago

    "Sorry, but this documentation is shit." Woah. That's way off the mark. I'm currently having to use both the Go documentation and the PHP documentation and I will take the Go docs anytime. Yes, they are short of useful examples but,
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    by sambeau 14y ago

    Can anyone translate? I'm a native english speaker with a science-y background and I find that tough going!
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    by sambeau 14y ago

    That analogy doesn't work with Governments. Here's a better example: Imagine a grandmother taking a loan for her grandchild so they can have a car to drive to work. The household income increases as a result. If she stops paying the loan th
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    by sambeau 14y ago

    Any discussion of The Beatles & Entrepreneurship that does not mention Brian Epstein will have completely missed the most important point. One that also fails to mention Apple and Neil Aspinall clearly has no point. Unless, maybe, it wa
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    by sambeau 14y ago

    So are most companies.
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    by sambeau 14y ago

    This is giving us a ~40% reduction in our file sizes.
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    by sambeau 14y ago

    Thanks for the fix.
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    by sambeau 14y ago

    Here's the problem I think "-3.05176e-005": <path d="M 185,-3.05176e-005L 207,-3.05176e-005C 209.761,-3.05176e-005 212,2.23853 212,4.99997L 212,27C 212,29.7614 209.761,32 207,32L 185,32C 182.239,32 180,29.7614 180,27L 180,4.99997C 1
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    by sambeau 14y ago

    Looking at the files I can see a lot of weird looking numbers in paths and a lot of 'NaN'. This kind of thing: <path d="M185 NaNl-190 NaN 212 NaN-212 NaN 7.239 NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaN NaNz" fi
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    by sambeau 14y ago

    Don't run this over production files without backup & testing! I have just run this over my SVG tests and I'm afraid it has broken 7 out of 25 of them. It appears to be mangling paths and changing the order of layers. d-_-b I can send y
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    by sambeau 14y ago

    Learn your talk as a bullet list not as a script. Know each slide and what it means: which bullet points it matches. Assume that you will ad-lib on the day. Put as little of the real text as you can into the slides themselves. Never read an
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    John McAfee has been captured/not captured near Mexico?(guardian.co.uk)

    2 points by sambeau 14y ago|0 comments
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    by sambeau 14y ago

    A well designed email should be multi-part and contain a text/plain part so anyone who views their mail text-only can ignore the text/html part. e.g. http://www.enewsletterpro.com/articles/multi_part_mime_messa...
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    by sambeau 14y ago

    If you are sending emails to business clients support for Outlook 2000-2003 & Outlook 2007 is still essential. I'm afraid you need to code them like it's 1999. MailChimp have a guide on how to do it right: http://mailchimp.com/resource
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    by sambeau 14y ago

    Assuming it kept the same mass? And even if it had a lot more mass?
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    by sambeau 14y ago

    Fascinating. I'm clearly guilty of believing left Black Holes are like plug-holes in the centre of galaxies and eventually everything will swirl down them. So this isn't a valid picture? Do you have a more realistic one for me instead to th
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    by sambeau 14y ago

    If the stars are all old and the black hole is surprisingly big, could it simply be that the black hole has swallowed most of the galaxy already?
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    by sambeau 14y ago

    I'm sure Mike Matas and all the other rock star & ex-Apple designers they have hired will be cock-a-hoop about that.