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by sspiff 12y ago
Unrelated to the topic, but the scrolling mechanism on that site is terrible. I can't use my wheel, arrow keys or page down/up. I have to use the arrow images in the bottom left corner to scroll the page content.
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by sspiff 12y ago
Regardless of whether or not you belief in a singularity theory, it's only mentioned in passing in the article and not really relevant to this discussion.
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by sspiff 12y ago
> I like it. Even more than Java' which I used for a long, long time. Even more than PHP' which I used since I started with web programming. Even more than JavaScript, with which I am happy to work with. Those aren't the g
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by sspiff 12y ago
All in all, I'm surprised with the very respectable performance AMD managed to reach. Price, power and thermals will probably play a big part in how successful these parts will become. I've heard many people comparing the TDP of t
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by sspiff 12y ago
Providing for a family doesn't mean always choosing the most money. If you can have a more relaxed schedule, work load or work-life balance, while having an adequate income, this might be more valuable to your family than having a more
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by sspiff 12y ago
> $40k per year is quite close to minimum wage in California. Exactly. In California. If you want to live off of what is basically donations for community work, you might want to relocate to a much cheaper place. Eastern Europe or South-
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by sspiff 12y ago
Some people care about performance, and ABCL is nowhere near SBCL in this regard. I also don't know if ABCL's compiler is offline (generating class files from CL code) or on-demand (likely using OW2 ASM). While it is no longer imp
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by sspiff 12y ago
Haxe is really an under appreciated language, and I'm happy to see it gain more widespread attention. Though it doesn't bring any fancy new paradigm or language feature, it cherry picked a lot of useful and convenient parts of oth
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by sspiff 12y ago
I have a few bugs I've encountered over the weekend: 1. The Linux binaries on the new site are a tar.gz.gz, making `tar xf filename` fail, and besides that inconvenience, is probably a packaging error. You might want to fix that. 2. Th
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by sspiff 12y ago
They also have the annoying characteristic of lasting longer than the content they link to more often than not!
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by sspiff 12y ago
* Is it OK to use this for moderate/high volume stuff? * Does it use any kind caching? * Any plans on adding a way to use HTTPS?
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by sspiff 12y ago
The two major Belgian providers offer the same: Telenet only offer their own network, while Belgacom is a member of the international Fon network. I think both providers only offer the service to people with more expensive subscriptions, bu
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by sspiff 12y ago
I disabled it on my previous provider through a bunch of obscure operations that seemed like black magic to me. Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how to disable it on my current provider. I don't know why providers make this so
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by sspiff 12y ago
They are basing this largely on statements by the companies in question, not on their actions or any proof that these companies actually abide by their promises. Seems a bit hollow to me.
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by sspiff 12y ago
Oh, I completely misinterpreted the earlier comment! Sorry!
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by sspiff 12y ago
Don't Roguelikes usually enforce restarting the game after death? I thought they didn't allow you to (easily) have multiple saves.
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by sspiff 12y ago
As far as I can tell, HTTPSB is not available for Firefox, please fix! I would love to use something better than ABP (in terms of performance, it does content filtering just fine), but I'm not so desperate to abandon the (warning: subj
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by sspiff 12y ago
This technique has a (derogatory) name in the world of strategy games, "save scumming". I think in a single player game, the only thing that matters is that the player has fun. It is more common practice in games like RPGs, but le
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by sspiff 12y ago
They're also using a screen that's much cheaper, I think that explains a large part of the price difference.
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by sspiff 12y ago
In the case of mobile, the term is used differently, at least as far as I have seen. Native apps are often used to describe apps using the platforms own UI toolkit, widgets and API libraries (that is, they look and feel like platform apps a
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by sspiff 12y ago
You can block IPs belonging to Google, Micorsoft, ... And make the link expire after a while (you can keep the content, just make it inaccessible). Not foolproof or without problems (there are not only crawlers and bots at these companies,
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by sspiff 12y ago
I did this as well, but only until I discovered DuckDuckGo.
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by sspiff 12y ago
That's fine if it works for you. I won't judge. I just mentioned it because I've had several people, both on- and offline, mention it as a symptom of poor technical understanding of how the Internet works. In truth, I think i
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by sspiff 12y ago
> The guy giving the talk said that their average employee is already confused if some icons on the desktop change and they are very reluctant to accept changes. This accurately describes my dealings with non-technical people over 50. My
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by sspiff 12y ago
Most of our stuff is from Ikea. There's a 2 tables, 1 desk and 4 chairs in our apartment not from Ikea. Nothing broke so far (3 years in). Our main sofa is a little bent in the middle, but not obviously so. I only noticed because befor
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by sspiff 12y ago
> Every country ... Only every country that is, wants to be or pretends to be a military power. Many (smaller) countries realized long ago that if they would end up at war with a much larger neighbour, their own military power would be o
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by sspiff 12y ago
This reminds me of the story about Theodore Hall, who gave secrets from the US atomic bomb projects to the USSR, allegedly for the sake of preventing a monopoly of such power by the US and balancing out the two major power blocs to prevent
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by sspiff 12y ago
> But all of life does suck. It's also all beautiful, and amazing, and completely meaningless, yet full of meaning. To me it's all a big joke. Nothing makes sense. That's something I can get behind! Good look processing yo
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by sspiff 12y ago
I don't know the details of his mothers' passing. Regardless, cancer and old age are not mutually exclusive, and whatever the case here, the statement I made still applies. Death by illness or by car accidents is as much part of l
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by sspiff 12y ago
> Life. Fucking. Sucks. I'm going to be reinforcing your feeling that no one understands how you feel. I'm really sorry about about the death of you're mother. Death however, is part of life. People die, and people close t

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