teh_klev

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by teh_klev 5y ago
> but your average C# program requires writing a hell of a lot more boilerplate code than your average VB6 program Not actually true. I just created a new C# Windows Forms application in VS, dragged a button onto a form, double clicked a
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by teh_klev 5y ago
Thanks, I'll check it out after work. Seems to be banned on our company network.
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by teh_klev 5y ago
Unsure if this is a parody or not.
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by teh_klev 5y ago
> but why is this the number 2 story on HN? Because it's interesting to a lot of folks.
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by teh_klev 5y ago
The Barras, what a place that was back then. A bizarre bazaar chock full of cheap crap, knock offs and "stuff off the back of a lorry" (literally). I'm probably the same age as Zippy but wasn't really part of any "s
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by teh_klev 5y ago
Possibly just temporarily: https://spacenews.com/bigelow-aerospace-lays-off-entire-work... "A company spokesperson confirmed March 23 that the company laid off all its employees because of the governor’s order, and th
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by teh_klev 5y ago
Many years ago I read "Blue Magic : The People, Power and Politics Behind the IBM PC" and seem to remember quite enjoying it (though it was ~1990). There's a copy on The Internet Archive you can "borrow" for free:
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by teh_klev 5y ago
The article mentions that if Netflix detect that you're connecting via a VPN then the content is restricted to Netflix Originals.
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by teh_klev 5y ago
Ok...fair enough. I did look for a token being sent from my computer whilst not being signed in but obviously missed it.
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by teh_klev 5y ago
Yes, but all the small parts add up.
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by teh_klev 5y ago
I'm guessing it's the author's application token which is read only. Should probably create your own: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/authentication/oauth-2...
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by teh_klev 5y ago
It's difficult to draw any conclusions without knowing the environments, what's running on them, were they configured properly, etc etc. Don't get me wrong, I'm not ideologically bound to any platform, but stuff like thi
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by teh_klev 5y ago
There isn't a formal definition of what a continent should be, the naming of these things is a bit loose. Some of it comes from geology, others the politics of geography. There are such things as micro-continents (which Madagascar woul
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by teh_klev 5y ago
I think you may thinking of Windows Server 2003. I also suspect you've never run Windows Server 2003 at enterprise scale either. No operating system is perfect, but Windows 2003 was a reasonably capable workhorse, even in 2003.
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I'm genuinely astonished at how powerful that tide is. It's also quite a disconnect watching how the water flows past the machine, as if it's moving forward when it's stationary. If I was a technician going to work on th
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by teh_klev 5y ago
> what these things do better than Salesforce Not being Salesforce ;) I worked on a bunch of Salesforce stuff for about a year, including building an app. Can't say I relished that time. I think the thing that seems attractive about
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by teh_klev 5y ago
> until VB6-ish started integrating with .NET Minor nitpick :) VB6 never had tooling to integrate with .NET. Rather, .NET could provide an "interop" layer to allow you to consume components written in VB6, or just COM in genera
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by teh_klev 5y ago
This was quite an interesting event that happened recently in Scotland: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... Basically the train lost the ability to brake and effectively rolled backward
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by teh_klev 5y ago
Sans paywall: https://archive.is/T5tic
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by teh_klev 5y ago
I think the parent commenter knows that, I took it as a humorous deliberate misreading to get the joke in.
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by teh_klev 5y ago
Sure, but a bit nit-picky. The extradition process being fought against in court was initiated by the US government.
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by teh_klev 5y ago
In the UK, deductibles on mortgage interest payments (known as MIRAS[0]) was abolished for private home owners in 2000. As a renter this kind of always stuck in my craw that homeowners got this preferential treatment and was quite glad it w
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by teh_klev 5y ago
Cheers for the recommendation.
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by teh_klev 5y ago
There's also Wigtown in Dumfriesshire: https://www.wigtownbookfestival.com/visit/bookshops https://www.wigtown-booktown.co.uk/bookshops/ It's about the same size as Hay-on-Wye.
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Cryptocurrency Synthesiser - Making Analog Synth's That Plays CRYPTO's(youtube.com)
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by teh_klev 5y ago
Could do with 2020 appended to the title.
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by teh_klev 5y ago
We used to do this for domain name registrations and it worked fairly well for years. However once you've been added to a spam blacklist it quickly breaks down, especially for time critical operations such as domain name renewals when
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by teh_klev 5y ago
> Are these stories real? > The argument's too absurd for me to believe that it's being made in good-faith. It's the US, so I have no difficulty believing this kind of thing can happen. All it needs is an overzealous DA
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by teh_klev 5y ago
I see lots of comments blaming MS about this turn of events. I think this project has been going on pre-MS. But what did we expect from GitHub....MS or not? This was an obvious survival mechanism for GitHub sans MS. All that coding data the
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by teh_klev 5y ago
I see lots of comments blaming MS about this turn of events. But what did we expect from GitHub....MS or not? This was an obvious survival mechanism for GitHub sans MS. All that coding data there? Let's turn machine learning or AI onto

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