silversmith

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   by silversmith 16y ago

   No sane businessman is going spoon-feed what can be considered the bad facets of his product to potential customers. They call it 'the information age' for a reason: whether it is inkjet printer, smartphone or pickup truck, you can find rev
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   by silversmith 16y ago

   "It's a dick move to begin competing in ads and start by banning your main competitor's product from the market you control." This has always puzzled me. Why would they NOT do it? Apple does not control smartphone market - they control iPho
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   by silversmith 16y ago

   Thanks, but no thanks.
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   by silversmith 16y ago

   This has helped me immensely when trying to track down faulting methods through a chain of third party plugins. Easy to add where necessary too.
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   by silversmith 16y ago

   The posted link shows fresh results. Clicking on the hashtag works too. Where's the problem? Edit: Safari on iPhone, located in Latvia.
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   by silversmith 16y ago

   Obligatory Half-Life 2 reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PEPt2OCYSk#t=2m00s
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   by silversmith 16y ago

   What's worst, these usually contain mission-critical code. I have had to tackle a 6k line one, in PL/SQL. You open up a package, the line count reads 6k. You shudder. Then, you notice that the structure tree has only one entry. One procedur
8. 248.▲
   by silversmith 16y ago

   At least once a day. More often in summer or if I'm doing sports that day. Vast majority of people I know the showering habits of are the same.
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   by silversmith 16y ago

   Now there's something! Just couple days before I was talking with a collegue about switching the main browser ar work to chrome, and the we came to the comclusion that the LACK of awesomebar in chrome is what's holding us back.
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    by silversmith 17y ago

    'I have an iPhone' is the same as 'I have a shopping cart' - in both cases you still don't own the shopping mall, just a way of interacting with it.
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    by silversmith 17y ago

    Yes, yes it is. Homo sapiens is a pack animal. You interact with people on daily basis, from buying milk to job interviews and parties. And that is not a skill you are born with. School systems throw you in a group of people usually far lar
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    by silversmith 17y ago

    I find the whole trend of online studying quite disturbing. From what I've seen, it defines studying as sitting in awe and trying to soak up the knowledge flowing from professors, and strives to replace it with possibly more efficient chann
13. 253.▲
    by silversmith 17y ago

    1.5 MB, even if one-time only (assuming no cache-cleaning on client side), is quite heavy. Too heavy for vast majority of web applications.
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    by silversmith 17y ago

    Read the comments there: "I've been a rackspace customer for a while, and I've only ever used that password to verify my identity over the phone. A different password is used to log into the web interface to access data and tickets." It's a
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    by silversmith 17y ago

    Ummmmm, on the point of beautiful design, are we seeing the same thing? This is what I see: http://imgur.com/0Jk8I.png -Not high enough contrast for my liking, -Bulks of text in low contrast = 'tl;dr', -I keep clicking what looks like inp
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    by silversmith 17y ago

    I am writing this standing here, waiting for the train. It is couple degrees below zero. Stylus alllows me to keep my gloves on - I see that as a HUGE bonus.
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    by silversmith 17y ago

    Nokia 5800 is quite good in this one too. 1) Press middle of the three hardware buttons on the lower part of the phone. Home screen appears. 2) Press icon in lower left part of the home screen, numpad appears. 3) Input the number. 4) Press