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by stuartd 8y ago
Yeah like 'basic web functionality'. Unless you're happy with a full page refresh every time you click literally anything, And please don't suggest the UpdatePanel as a solution..
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by stuartd 8y ago
Well, you can still do that in Visual Studio 2017 with Windows Forms. Remember when when they tried to do the same with Web Forms? What a disaster. I suspect this may have been the reason they moved to declarative UI like WPF but I personal
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by stuartd 8y ago
I used VFP for 10 years, from the insanely buggy original 3.0 release to the final "Sedna" edition. I miss the Command Window occasionally, but nothing else. Visual Studio at the time was something of a car crash, but it is a soli
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by stuartd 8y ago
To reduce the signal-to-noise ratio. Disclaimer: apparently I'm an asshole Edit: not moderator
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by stuartd 8y ago
No, not at all. Once you have earned enough reputation to have the right to edit a question without moderation, you don't gain any reputation from doing so. It's only given to editors under that threshold.
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by stuartd 8y ago
> one of my questions from 2011 edited today, to remove the word "Thanks!" from the bottom. A successful edit is a way to gain reputation, which is hard to get these days for new users. I know it feels a bit odd when someone el
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by stuartd 8y ago
Oh, and here I go all over again with 17776. I remember the journey from eagerly anticipating new updates to saving them up so I didn't reach the end too quickly.
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by stuartd 8y ago
[Considering dogs generally, Ackerley] "saw how amiable and well-mannered they were, in a way how sad, above all how nervous with their air of surreptitious guilt, and meeting the mild, worried brown eyes that often studied me and my
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by stuartd 8y ago
the Security Director wasn't a security expert - not ideal..
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by stuartd 8y ago
Not quite the same, but the Developer Tools picked up a lot of the functionality of Firebug: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Migrating_fro...
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by stuartd 9y ago
Answering my own question - the original gist was posted in March 2017.
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by stuartd 9y ago
How old is this? the state and details of disk encryption on both OSes is slightly unclear, but hopefully will become clearer when iOS 10.3 is released. 10.3 was released 9 months ago. And I find it hard to take seriously any article wher
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by stuartd 9y ago
49 comments without mention of Lobachevsky? And who deserves the credit? And who deserves the blame? Nikolai Ivanovitch Lobachevsky is his name! I have lots of TL on an old disk, but this is the one I still listen to. A good primer on Russi
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by stuartd 9y ago
"So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back." - Hunt
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by stuartd 9y ago
Well, they're obviously not the only criteria, as the text you mention was immediately preceded by "Not only did these Twitter accounts typically include profile photos of adult actresses, but they also had similar bios, followed
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by stuartd 9y ago
Repost of https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/sep/09/why-the...
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by stuartd 9y ago
That is very true, and it's something we've struggled with on our bot, but there's also a collorary - every time you add a feature, you have to add UI for it which adds complexity and can have support costs - I have heard ane
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by stuartd 9y ago
You still can - I’m getting my 6S battery replaced tomorrow!
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by stuartd 9y ago
It's proprietary tech, sorry.
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by stuartd 9y ago
Demo of ordering a cab in San Francisco (city area only plus SFO) Features: - Purely text based, no buttons or menus - Supports multiple intents - Multi-turn dialogues (for example address disambiguation) - You can also ask about the cab, d
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Show HN: Demo chatbot using natural language(hncabbotdemo.azurewebsites.net)
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by stuartd 9y ago
Given the performance and memory usage improvements in FF57, it might not be necessary any more (I note that extension was last updated in 2007)
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by stuartd 9y ago
Doesn’t really scale though. Firefox, Chrome, IE/Safari, er..?
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by stuartd 9y ago
Anything where you have to log into an account with a secondary identity. So I have one for my work account Azure as it’s a different Microsoft account, one for work Google API projects as it’s a different Google account, etc. Used to have
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by stuartd 9y ago
If you're going to use your phone while driving, then you're going to have to look at it to do so. How you unlock it is irrelevant.
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by stuartd 9y ago
I remember those days when people uploaded mp3s of albums they owned - https://music.ihoc.net/ Edit: no markdown
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by stuartd 9y ago
Yeah, I'm old as well. Things change. Not for the better maybe, but you can't turn back the clock.. the only way forward is to make something new and better.
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by stuartd 9y ago
From Money by Martin Amis: -- I gestured at my litre of fizzy red wine. “Want a drop of this?” I asked him. "No thanks. I try not to drink at lunchtime.” "So do I. But I never quite make it.” "I feel like shit all day if I dr
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by stuartd 9y ago
You want to have a beer with someone who disparages "elitist liberal virtue signaling"? Enjoy. BTW I have to wear glasses to write this, sorry about being a filthy "four-eyes".
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by stuartd 9y ago
There was no patch for XP until today, so how could they?

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