stuartd

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by stuartd 4y ago
As a CI company, their ‘customer data’ is source code!
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by stuartd 4y ago
The actual source of this - TorrentFreak [0], linked in the article - has an update: > Update December 20, 2022: > During the past few hours the Intellectual Property Office edited its advice. The announcement page no longer reference
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by stuartd 4y ago
I got ‘Cambridgeshire Considered Dangerous’ - much less HN front page but it made me laugh
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by stuartd 4y ago
Haven’t managed to find a site (apart from HN) that it does allow yet!
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by stuartd 4y ago
Safari on iPadOS 16 loads that just fine for me. I’d forgotten all about this site, don’t remember ever using it but I certainly heard of it.
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by stuartd 4y ago
Still my MB desktop image, after all these years - https://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zqwHotW-IDI/RyjMm9VamYI/AAAAAAAAA...
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by stuartd 4y ago
IMO the best site was Oink’s Pink Palace. After that got shut down, what.cd and waffles benefited hugely.
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by stuartd 4y ago
I don’t have any insight except I follow her on Twitter and a lot of names I recognise are saying very different things from you, like for example Larry Osterman. Maybe you know better.
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by stuartd 4y ago
> If you asked every developer on earth to implement FizzBuzz, how many actually different implementations would you get? Thousands at least. Some of which would actually work.
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by stuartd 4y ago
It’s locked so you can’t edit it, but you can still upvote it if you want.
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by stuartd 4y ago
https://webkit.org/
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by stuartd 4y ago
+1 for `rebeccapurple` - https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/06/19/rebeccapurple/
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by stuartd 4y ago
> .. considers Sunday to be the first day of the week How can the first day of the week happen in the middle of the weekend !?!
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by stuartd 4y ago
This - https://www.howtogeek.com/297651/what-does-it-mean-when-a-co...
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by stuartd 4y ago
From the uBlock repo: [0] > No donations sought. > Without the preset lists of filters, this extension is nothing. So if ever you really do want to contribute something, think about the people working hard to maintain the filter lists
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by stuartd 4y ago
Browser add-ons require permissions which you might not want to grant to arbitrary code. And anyway, it’s a truism that products can and will absorb add-ons into their code (cf ‘Sherlocked’)
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by stuartd 4y ago
cookies were once delicious delicacies - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=213186
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by stuartd 4y ago
Some browsers need a trailing dot - http://ai . - this site was on HN a week or so ago in an article and I guess when they saw the resulting traffic they changed it, used to be the Antilles domain registrar homepage.
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by stuartd 4y ago
Punk. 1000%.
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by stuartd 4y ago
Punk was very much not a sign of prosperity, more like stagnancy. Source: was there.
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by stuartd 4y ago
If meals cost 5$ all over the planet then there would be mass starvation
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by stuartd 4y ago
Still doesn’t stop the world burning, though
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by stuartd 4y ago
Some people (like me) are wide awake at 3AM and have work thoughts then. Others are asleep - we’re all different. I tend to use email drafts or email myself the text with a note to forward it.
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by stuartd 4y ago
All they did was ‘write a form in JS’??? > Our solution to that was to develop a high-level API around the machine translation engine, port it to WebAssembly, and optimize the operations for matrix multiplication to run efficiently on CP
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by stuartd 4y ago
I like SourceTree’s ‘branch diff’ (and it’s the only thing I use it for).
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by stuartd 4y ago
I remember installing Firefox (I think v0.7) for my mother in law and giving it the IE icon.
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by stuartd 4y ago
OMG! Thank you so much for this. According to this link [0] iTunes Match is an integral component of Apple Music. And I pay for both! So I guess I'm cancelling iTunes Match.. [0] https://miapple.me/apple-music-vs-itun
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by stuartd 4y ago
Having said that, in the really early days it (or my phone, an iPhone 4 and later a 6S) was a terrible experience a lot of the time. Even with good Wi-Fi I’d wait for songs to play and then they would probably still stutter. It’s seamless
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by stuartd 4y ago
Been using iTunes Match for years and it’s great. I have a load of stuff in my library which was either never released digitally (eg em:t) or was deleted (eg The KLF). Oink.
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by stuartd 4y ago
.. in fact I’ve just realised it will help me with an issue and I will be using it tomorrow!

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