saw-lau

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by saw-lau 14y ago
Similar devices were made for the PalmPilot (never tried one, but remember they were being hyped back in the day): http://www.hutchison-whampoa.com/en/media/press_each.php?id=...
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by saw-lau 14y ago
Grammar pedantry: surely it should be 'The cookie law is dead. You're welcome.'?
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by saw-lau 14y ago
Some site feedback - the 'You have enlisted!' text that appears when you click 'Enlist' wasn't obvious to me. Might be better to go old-skool and redirect to a 'Thanks for enlisting!' page to make it clear that you have the details.
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by saw-lau 15y ago
This is definitely a better analogy, but I actually agree that the second-hand games market is hurting the publishers, particularly the legitimised selling of pre-owned titles by bricks and mortar retailers. There are always going to be x%
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by saw-lau 15y ago
...or not consume it in the first place. I don't understand where this 'right to be able to get everything I want' has come from in recent years. Sometimes it sucks to not get all you want, but - you know - that's life.
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by saw-lau 15y ago
I thought this quote was interesting: 'helped keep Linux together and defy the trend for forking and fractionalization' when compared with images like this regarding the numerous distributions: http://files.cyberciti.biz/uploads/tips/2007/
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by saw-lau 15y ago
I would happily pay a significant premium to travel on airlines without screaming children.
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by saw-lau 15y ago
I bought this last week... but at £2.99 I'm not going to lose any sleep. :-)
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by saw-lau 15y ago
Interesting... I've never seen such a machine here in England (seen some that automatically scan your registration plate and print it on the ticket, though, e.g. at Heathrow Airport's Terminal 5).
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by saw-lau 16y ago
'Why wait 3 months to listen to an album if you can get it today?' Well, I know I'm in an ever-decreasing minority here, but: because that's the legal thing to do? I've always had a hard time understanding the argument 'I'm forced to steal
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by saw-lau 16y ago
While I don't claim to be an expert (I haven't used C++ for the last six or so years, and I only have about five or six years experience in using it), I'd like to think I have better than a 'poor' understanding of it. Interestingly for me,
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by saw-lau 16y ago
Somehow I got hold of a link to Yossi Kreinin's 'Frequently Questioned Answers' ( http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/index.html ) - probably from HN, actually; so I felt duty-bound to add it to SO's C++ Tag Info ( http://stackoverflow.com/tags/c%2b%2
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by saw-lau 16y ago
Works in Apple Stores in the UK, as well, so I imagine it's worldwide.
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by saw-lau 16y ago
Does anybody have any experience of withholding what their current salary is when asked? I'm a terrible negotiator by my own admission and always blurt out what I'm on immediately when asked in interviews or by recruiting agents (and I'm te
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by saw-lau 16y ago
Fair play - I stand corrected.
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by saw-lau 16y ago
In XP, all bets are off, as the vast majority of users run with local admin rights. For Vista and 7, I believe that the much-hated-by-numpties User Account Control should prevent this from happening, as it opens a virtual screen or someth
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by saw-lau 16y ago
Sometimes I feel I'm the only person left in the world who a) still buys media; b) doesn't mind doing it; c) thinks it's wrong to pirate things; and d) doesn't consider it my right to be able to consume any media I want, and the only reason
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by saw-lau 16y ago
It's not all content consumption, either. My wife's studying for an MBA at the moment and as well as using GoodReader extensively for the course material (in PDF), also finds it really easy to create mind maps while working.
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by saw-lau 16y ago
I believe the following answer is the best of the bunch: http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/45776/why-do-... TL;DR - companies will get away with paying as little as possible.
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by saw-lau 16y ago
Some nice examples there, but for me there were just too many... I have to admit I got bored about half-way through and clicked away. Sometimes less is more to make a point?
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by saw-lau 16y ago
I tried it with the message "What's all this about then?" and it barfed due to the single quote.
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by saw-lau 16y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the 'made your bed, now lie in it' part, but apart from that I have to agree with gaius. This seems such a transparent scam to me that the mind boggles as to how anyone could think otherwise.
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by saw-lau 16y ago
<ot>I didn't know that! Innerestin'. :-)
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by saw-lau 16y ago
I bought Land of Lisp recently (haven't got round to starting it yet), but a quick search of the PDF only shows a couple of mentions of emacs...
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by saw-lau 16y ago
I am consistently amazed at how many people think that episode is a genuine unscripted documentary.
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by saw-lau 16y ago
As a Brit I feel duty-bound to mention James May's record-breaking track: http://www.worldamazingrecords.com/2009/08/wlongest-scalextr...
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by saw-lau 16y ago
I would imagine the naming implications was given very definite thought...
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by saw-lau 16y ago
Really? I don't know... Surely the fact is that it's way too easy to unwittingly publish anything to the whole world on FB?