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by takno 11y ago
Virigin tend to take small ownership stakes in companies and just lease their name and branding out to them. In the case of Airlines they own 25% of Virgin America, 51% of Virgin Atlantic and 10% of Virgin Australia.
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by takno 11y ago
Isn't this exactly what all those Chromebooks are? I mean they haven't exactly set the world on fire, but they exist.
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by takno 11y ago
The real problem is that these APIs don't come easy, and given that JS didn't bother to even start on this stuff until recently other languages have up to 25 years head start on JS. It doesn't help that the standards guys are
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by takno 11y ago
On the face of it this sounds like a problem where the optimal solution would have been to throw more hardware at it while you looked at the underlying choice of datastore.
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by takno 11y ago
It's easy to create. It's verbose and tedious to read
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by takno 11y ago
I'd love to know what I'm doing wrong. FF45 on a fast Android phone for me is almost unbearably laggy both on loading and scrolling pages. I mean to the point where I can't really understand how anybody is using it. I've
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by takno 11y ago
In administrative terms about half the cities and many of the large towns in the UK aren't part of a county anymore. It's just a field which doesn't help much if there's a postcode, and should never have been mandatory a
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by takno 11y ago
London, along with most county towns in the UK shouldn't have a county appended to them. This isn't the case for New York.
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by takno 11y ago
I've never seen a credit card company ask for separate first and last names.
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by takno 11y ago
My apartment has two different apartment numbers, the right one and the one that Royal Mail made up for their database. Makes it interesting to match things up on different accounts
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by takno 11y ago
This seems to be somewhat (although not universally) true of buses in the US, which often struggle to be on a par with buses in the UK 25 years ago. Here we tend to have more comfortable seating, cleaner interiors (and exteriors), less engi
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by takno 11y ago
Node has a history of kicking out a new release virtually every week, often with crazy breaking changes. Quite sensibly the Debian packagers decided not to try to keep up with that game. There is an easy-to-add on repo if you really want it
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by takno 11y ago
If you've called it with an empty string there's probably a bug in your calling code which you'll want to test for anyway.
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by takno 11y ago
Hmm. Take it from a resident of Scotland, the words are Scot and Scottish. Scotch is whisky or tape, and when it is applied to people is likely to result in contempt at best
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by takno 11y ago
I'm no expert on this, but the article seems to ignore vertical-align. I could be confused though
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by takno 11y ago
I hate that customer support in start ups is considered nothing more than a leg up into a "real" job. It may not be the best paid job in the organisation, but it's crucial and certainly shouldn't be paid at such a fracti
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by takno 11y ago
Honestly the Moto g is probably the best value phone available. Even the earliest version without 4g or the SD card would still serve my purposes perfectly at a great price point.
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by takno 11y ago
What is a scotchman? My best guess is somebody made of sticky tape
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by takno 11y ago
I'm using a bumper-style case myself just because it came with the phone, and the phone has a glass back and razor sharp edges which is really just bad design.
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by takno 11y ago
I didn't intend to, although since I was going to prepend a string to the start that would be a rather surprising result
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by takno 11y ago
The Javascript has to request permission for each type of device access on first use, which is a lot better than the ask-for-everything-on-install model that older versions of Android use. Service Workers also only load over HTTPs. Generall
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by takno 11y ago
Primarily because Firefox on Android doesn't yet support any of the technology being discussed in the article, or indeed most of the technologies on the page you linked to.
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by takno 11y ago
Interesting on case usage. I'd say virtually everybody I know with an iPhone has it in a case, but for other devices it's maybe 20% of people I know who use one. All anecdotal, and every mall I go in has a hundred shops selling th
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by takno 11y ago
I wasn't planning on passing a non-string to my function. The type-checking only needs to happen because this is a needlessly generic function
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by takno 11y ago
Realistically 17 lines of code is total overkill for this function. In many cases you could achieve the same thing more efficiently in a single line.
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by takno 11y ago
I closed my browser for 5 minutes and then wrote down what I remembered. I've printed out these pages and put them in a splendid ring binder. The hardback edition therefore takes pride of place on my shelf, and by the logic of the auth
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by takno 11y ago
The emphasis on lifetime spending power in this paper is odd, since most people wouldn't choose to starve through their 20s and 30s in return for the ability to spend more on luxuries towards the end of their lives. I suspect they are
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by takno 11y ago
I would guess he's talking about buying a windows laptop and wiping it to install Linux. Paying extra to wipe off and replace a dated Linux installation instead seems a bit pointless
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by takno 11y ago
Not really sure the strange and inaccurate comment about needing another computer available online to install an open source OS really adds much to your argument here. Java also has excellent out of the box documentation. Tools which are de
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by takno 11y ago
Couldn't agree with this more. Infinite scroll and expandable sub-lists on index pages make it impossible to use those pages in a meaningful way. If there is ever any value to looking back to previous stuff in the list you need it brok

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