stuartd

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1. 271.▲
   by stuartd 12y ago

   LEGO has come along a lot since I last played with it.
2. 272.▲
   by stuartd 12y ago

   Seems a bit unfair as "The Endochronic Properties of Resublimated Thiotimoline" was published in 1948.
3. 273.▲
   by stuartd 13y ago

   I thought 'aftermath' was a great pun (HN must be Americanising me because of course it should be 'aftermaths')
4. 274.▲
   by stuartd 13y ago

   I like the melting effect on the photo. Old school.
5. 275.▲
   by stuartd 13y ago

   Or just don't bother.
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   by stuartd 13y ago

   When I worked in Medical Records in a capital city in the UK, your date of birth was the primary key of filing: not querying for the year is then a basic procedural error, but then again doctors surgeries have far lower standards than outpa
7. 277.▲
   by stuartd 13y ago

   Safari 6.1.1 is BAD because it allows TLS 1.0 and there seems to be no way to fix it..
8. 278.▲
   by stuartd 13y ago

   Two words you youngsters probably don't remember - Expert Sexchange..
9. 279.▲
   by stuartd 13y ago

   Hubris -> Atë! (not that any of you youngsters would understand that reference)
10. 280.▲
    by stuartd 13y ago

    Meh. U no support my 6 year old MacBook with crappy integrated graphics? Nothing on Safari 6.1, Firefox 25, Chrome 31..
11. 281.▲
    by stuartd 13y ago

    I've been experimenting with using the Report Spam button to avoid Reverse Identity Theft - http://xkcd.com/1279/ - for fuckwits who sign up for stuff using my email address. It's a lot easier than doing a re
12. 282.▲
    by stuartd 13y ago

    What nonsense.
13. 283.▲
    by stuartd 13y ago

    Because we're craven.
14. 284.▲
    by stuartd 13y ago

    http://www.oldversion.com/windows/directx-5-2
15. 285.▲
    by stuartd 13y ago

    Mo
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    by stuartd 13y ago

    "Everybody loves finding Stack Overflow answers on search results, but nobody contributes those answers. I can understand that." Hmm. I see lots of excellent answers on Stack Overflow from declared Microsoft engineers, and undou
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    by stuartd 13y ago

    I was in MOMA in Glasgow a few years ago - back when it used to have cool stuff - and there was an installation in the basement, part of which was a running turntable with the needle stuck in the locked groove at the end. The record was - o
18. 288.▲
    by stuartd 14y ago

    "According to Islamic Shari’a law, a man must shave his mustache, armpits, and pubic hair." you learn something every day..
19. 289.▲
    by stuartd 14y ago

    In Office 2015 you'll have to watch a 10 second ad before you can open a document..
20. 290.▲
    by stuartd 14y ago

    As I said, edited..
21. 291.▲
    by stuartd 14y ago

    I run as a non-admin user on Mountain Lion (stops the kids messing stuff up) and it sometimes has unexpected benefits - like in this case, when I run security dump-keychain -d ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain in terminal the output is mos
22. 292.▲
    by stuartd 14y ago

    Annoyingly, the Java 2012 update REMOVED the -uninstall option from Java, so you have to rm it and clean up the installhistory plist manually if you want to uninstall Java from Lion
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    by stuartd 15y ago

    The same is true of any software, firmware, or indeed operating system, and probably a lot of hardware as well. Security By Tedium, I like to call it.
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    by stuartd 15y ago

    See also http://msmvps.com/blogs/jon_skeet/archive/2011/11/11/eduasyn... for COMEFROM in C#
25. 295.▲
    by stuartd 15y ago

    Really? It's now categorized under 'Malicious Web Sites'..
26. 296.▲
    by stuartd 15y ago

    Websense has categorised your site as 'Potentially Damaging Content' - you might want to get that changed.
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    by stuartd 16y ago

    SICP is also available as a series of videos of the lectures at http://groups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussma... - very enlightening to this self-taught programmer