stuartd

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by stuartd 9y ago
> because a lot of them are running ancient operating systems that are the only ones that can interoperate with legacy hardware FTFY
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by stuartd 9y ago
> extreme long shots, like Iceland, are still not worth the risk. Iceland lost against the hosts in the quarter-finals after thumping England. So much for that!
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by stuartd 9y ago
We'll just conveniently ignore the costs of retraining users and of replacing any legacy systems they may use. Ooh look, shiny Linux!
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by stuartd 10y ago
What does the colon mean?
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by stuartd 10y ago
I just didn't like it: I went back to it a few times but the whole "stand there squirting that" didn't work for me.
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by stuartd 10y ago
Yeah, it's all about the Mario for me. Since the washout that was Super Mario Sunshine they have been brilliant, though I thought SMG2 was a bit hard (as I couldn't finish it!). I still reckon I can remember my run for "Luigi
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by stuartd 10y ago
The title of Pirsig's book is itself a riff on "Zen in the Art of Archery", published in 1948.
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by stuartd 10y ago
Misleading title - there is absolutely no Zen in this article. The nearest it gets is a quote from Confucius, who wasn't a Buddhist.
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by stuartd 10y ago
See also src/services/GeocodeService.js
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by stuartd 10y ago
OSX 10.9 or later only. But you have to download it to find that out (bah!)
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by stuartd 10y ago
If you don't get any internet at all because you can't afford it, net neutrality is irrelevant.
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by stuartd 10y ago
Ice fishing was my favourite grift.
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by stuartd 10y ago
A couple of minutes ago, we passed two halls dedicated to badminton and ping pong. Here in the park, there’s also an athletics track, a geothermally heated swimming pool and—at last—some visible kids, excitedly playing football on an artif
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by stuartd 10y ago
Clickbait trash
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by stuartd 10y ago
So SQLPAL (great name) is in the current SQL Server for Windows? It's quite an engineering achievement, though you could hopefully automate a lot of the actual abstraction, and I bet the testers were on overtime. I'd be interested
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by stuartd 10y ago
'goto case' is a thing? I'm so going to have fun with that
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by stuartd 10y ago
Doesn't install on OSX 10.7 - not exactly a surprise, but there aren't any system requirements on the download page that I can see.
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by stuartd 10y ago
No they don't. From http://stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/edit > We believe in the power of community editing. That means once you've generated enough reputation, we trust you to edit anything in t
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by stuartd 10y ago
The smiley used to be in Visual Studio http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31532267/can-i-hide-the-s...
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by stuartd 10y ago
Ctrl-DragSelection (Windows) duplicates the dragged text without overwriting the clipboard text , which is sometimes handy. It's Alt-DragSelection on OSX.
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by stuartd 10y ago
> ergonomics of languages like Erlang and Go My brain read that as "ergolangmics"
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by stuartd 10y ago
Mid-2007 white MacBook here, 2GB RAM, SSD, on it's third or fourth battery. Running Lion. DVD drive died long ago, plastic on the front split after a couple of years but has been stable ever since. Been used every day of it's life
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by stuartd 10y ago
I wish I had enough rep to downvote you. For shame.
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by stuartd 11y ago
This is where f.lux - https://justgetflux.com - is so great. After sunset in your location it gradually bleeds blue light from your display: also at work I use it to just orange-ify the display a bit at a constant rate - because
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by stuartd 11y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9519474
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by stuartd 11y ago
Nothing, according to Bruce Schneier - https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/02/mujahideen_se... - perhaps OP just doesn't like encryption when used by bad guys.
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by stuartd 12y ago
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4776355/does-wpf-work-wit...
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by stuartd 12y ago
Thiotimoline
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by stuartd 12y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8967918
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by stuartd 12y ago
LDWDI WORDS ;MORE BULLSHIT.

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