samwilliams

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   by samwilliams 14y ago

   I am not sure it will help, but have you tried the whole pretending to login without a password method of getting a forgotten password email sent to you? Good luck, sorry if this isn't of use.
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   by samwilliams 14y ago

   Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that FOSS was neccessarily optimised at all, I just meant the programs that were.
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   by samwilliams 14y ago

   This really is an excellent observation. I have often wondered whether this feeling of software being insubstantial slows down the propagation of FOSS in general? People seem to feel they are getting less of a tool when they can download so
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   Why hasn't functional programming taken over yet? [2010](stackoverflow.com)

   1 points by samwilliams 14y ago|0 comments
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   by samwilliams 14y ago

   Good point. But if you were a ZNGA owner who wanted to buy FB at a lower price than the expected one, you would know that as soon as the FB price was lower than expected, the ZNGA stock would slide (as everyone was using it as a proxy). Sub
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   by samwilliams 14y ago

   While this is a nice theory in principle, I think it falls down because of the timing of the ZNGA drop. The drop happened exactly when the FB shares were made available to trade (11.30 - 11.38), before this time they had been trading fine (
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   by samwilliams 14y ago

   While httpstatus.es seems much more functional (the short descriptions on the index are a really nice touch), this one just made my day. Thanks!
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   by samwilliams 14y ago

   While this is all well and good, it is probably not a very good idea to explicitly state your true motive on a public forum. It makes your deniability substantially less plausible.
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   by samwilliams 14y ago

   This app also made me smile, but I have to disagree with you - I often can't stop smiling while coding. The feeling of satisfaction when something works out really is unrivalled. Each to thier own though!
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    The best HN redesign - no redesign(news.ycombinator.com)

    3 points by samwilliams 14y ago|0 comments
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    by samwilliams 15y ago

    I think this comes with particular weight after this... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-17405016
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    by samwilliams 15y ago

    Interesting! I was actually thinking about writing something very similar as an erlang C node just a couple of days a go. I noted that the overhead for storing a mnesia table of 5 million rows of 3 integers was huge - it would take up 1.6gb
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    Formal Verification Of An OS Kernel [pdf](sigops.org)

    2 points by samwilliams 15y ago|0 comments
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    by samwilliams 15y ago

    Those interested in this post may like the examples on this page: http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/3434/shortest-ga...
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    by samwilliams 15y ago

    I read and enjoyed the article and I am surprised it has recieved this level of criticism here. Perhaps you should update it and add a number of the other features that you like about it (with a brief description..)? (edit: spelling)
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    by samwilliams 15y ago

    I am not seeing it on the HTC Sensation either. This article seems to agree with us too: http://www.slashgear.com/o2-sharing-phone-numbers-for-mobile... I wonder what the (de)selection criteria is then?
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    by samwilliams 15y ago

    I couldn't agree more. This morning I nearly had a heart attack when I read the title 'Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish' from 'google.com'. Thankfully I was too soon out of deep sleep to have a physiological reaction... It cer