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by spatulon 17y ago
I wouldn't call my professors "phonies", but it's true that many of them were certainly poor programmers. But that's fine, because they're professors in a CS department, and CS is not programming.
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by spatulon 17y ago
Try swinging the cage back and forth.
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by spatulon 17y ago
Nice list, but you'd be surprised how little work it takes to build a functional web server. I know I was when a couple of friends and I wrote one in Haskell on a rainy day. We were just scratching an intellectual itch of course, so there w
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by spatulon 17y ago
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=1+furlong+per+fortnight+in+...
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by spatulon 17y ago
Even if Google isn't explicitly censoring it, Chinese censorship as a whole is going to severely limit either the knowledge of the 1989 protests, the number of websites that are willing to mention it, or both. That will inevitably have an e
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by spatulon 17y ago
I assume you're referring to the supposed lack of Tank Man photos on the Chinese version of Google Images. That's not the case: http://images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen+square Also, it's inevitable that the name Tiananmen Square conjure
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by spatulon 17y ago
The Daily Express is an unreliable tabloid and, as far as I can tell, they have completely fabricated the CCTV element of this story. There is no mention of CCTV in any government press release that I could find, nor in any other newspaper.
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by spatulon 17y ago
According to the article's author, "EA didn't want to be involved in the article so I couldn't say one way or the other if they paid or not." http://twitter.com/SimonParkin/status/3104511092
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The Edge of Reason? - iPhone game developer's trademark battle(eurogamer.net)
23 points by spatulon 17y ago|13 comments
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by spatulon 17y ago
AT&T is just one carrier of many and yet, as far as I can tell, the Google Voice app has been denied approval from all the iTunes app stores, not just the one for the US. A few possibilities come to mind: - Apple doesn't have the abilit
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by spatulon 17y ago
I'm still a little baffled by Vista's reputation. I'd rather not run Windows at all (alas, I enjoy PC gaming too much), but even just the addition of Aero makes it a much more enjoyable experience than XP for me. UAC is also clearly the rig
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by spatulon 17y ago
One story I heard was that, at the height of the dotcom boom, Wind River were receiving $1 in OS royalties for every HP printer sold. They do a lot of other business, but that alone would make any company very rich.
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by spatulon 17y ago
It seems to be a common problem that, although the will is there to improve practices, persuading higher-ups is almost impossible. Although many of like to think that cold, hard logic is the only suitable method of reasoning with somebody,
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by spatulon 17y ago
I recently became aware that I was unable to review a movie with anything more profound than, "It held my attention for two hours." I've been actively seeking out movies that are considered great, and just engaging my brain a bit more while
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by spatulon 17y ago
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/3drealms.com "Looks down from here" suggests to me that it's simply doing an HTTP GET and interpreting the returned status code (or timing out). http://downforyouaswellorjustme.com/ would probably be m
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by spatulon 17y ago
Good luck, but I think it will be very difficult. I added the bit about DVD Jon a few days ago, but was unable to find anything else even remotely resembling a reliable source. If a passing reference to Fravia on DVD Jon's blog is the best
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by spatulon 17y ago
Team Fortress 2, i.e. the type of vapourware that does eventually materialise and proves to be worth the wait.
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by spatulon 17y ago
Companies such as Blizzard and Valve are rightly applauded for ensuring the quality of their games by delaying or cancelling them as necessary. For years I've been defending 3D Realms, saying that the situation with DNF was no different: it
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by spatulon 17y ago
Sometimes I wonder whether electricians spend this much time and effort debating which screwdriver manufacturer makes the best screwdrivers. Computers are tools. By all means, feel free to explain to the rest of us what's so great about you
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by spatulon 17y ago
I agree about the importance of having a .com domain, but it's still rather unfortunate, since I can only presume it's the primary cause of all the obnoxious nonsense-words we see as Web 2.0 company names. Flickr, digg, reddit, pownce, frap
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by spatulon 17y ago
That format may be printer-friendly, but it is significantly less readable on-screen. The text fills the browser window, making each line far too long to read comfortably. Bloated pages (both visually and in terms of file size) are a proble
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American Stonehenge: Monumental Instructions for the Post-Apocalypse(wired.com)
28 points by spatulon 18y ago|8 comments
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by spatulon 18y ago
Unfortunately, the full-width text harms readability far more than removing the advertising and navigational clutter. My browser window is typically sized to a width of around 1200 pixels -- pretty typical I would think -- so the printer-fo