tezmc

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by tezmc 13y ago
Similar to this, I noticed a pretty crappy thing Google are doing on Youtube on the ipad last night. I did a youtube search and went to tap the first result only to have it replaced with an ad just before I clicked it, taking me through to
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by tezmc 13y ago
Having become hooked on watching the feeds over Christmas I actually have been thinking about going to the next one.
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by tezmc 13y ago
You've probably already seen it, but in case you haven't: her talk at 30C3 was excellent and is worth a watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-2k6TMPMRo
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by tezmc 13y ago
I don't quite know why, but I want that carpet.
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by tezmc 13y ago
Wasn't it similar with Japan in the eighties?
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by tezmc 13y ago
You'd also have to include flyovers and opportunities for refuelling. The route would end up looking like a piece of cooked spaghetti was dropped on the map.
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by tezmc 13y ago
I assume Venezuela could give him a passport or some sort of temporary travel document. How they're going to actually get him to Venezuela without the plane being forced down and searched is another thing entirely.
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by tezmc 13y ago
If this document is genuine, it's a little ironic that they forgot to include his middle name.
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by tezmc 13y ago
They might mean for launching apps by typing and using auto-completion. Here's my personal story with Windows 8. I built a PC about a month ago after using macs for several years. I'd heard all the horror stories about Win8 and was going to
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by tezmc 14y ago
Thanks for reminding me about them! I ordered a catalogue from them a couple of years ago but never got around to ordering anything. I'll definitely take another look.
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by tezmc 14y ago
I'm not sure I'd say that most commercial seed stock is hybridised. I'm in the UK too and in my experience most varieties you can buy are still the kind where you can harvest seeds and plant again the following year. That said, I ignore t
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by tezmc 14y ago
narcissistic personality disorder?
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by tezmc 14y ago
I had a small remote control toy car when I was a child. One day I got freaked out when I heard voices coming out of it. It turned out I wasn't going mad, the thing was picking up local CB radio.
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by tezmc 15y ago
Let's face it though, no music quite conjures up the feeling of Geocities like a terrible midi version of a beck song. Should have included a few "under construction" GIFs too IMO.
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by tezmc 15y ago
That's not really a good analogy. The 'F you, pay me' guy was talking about being assertive and sticking up for yourself in the face of clients who are trying to get you to do work for free/not pay their bills etc. (that's if we're talking
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by tezmc 15y ago
I've never wanted growl on my system, and yet somehow it keeps ending up on there without my seeming to have any say in the matter. At least this has given me the reason to uninstall it yet again. I already have enough distractions as it is
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by tezmc 15y ago
I had a similar experience at around the same age. In my case it was Douglas Adam's 1990 documentary for the BBC called Hyperland. All about the Internet and the web before I'd even heard of such things. I remember thinking at the time that
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by tezmc 15y ago
For your database example he'd be absolutely right to do so. Removal of inconsistencies is a detail that too many programmers think isn't important, but something as simple as a column name can cause all kinds of consequences down the line.
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by tezmc 15y ago
The design is ok, but I don't like the way they've broken usability, standards and everything else. I had hoped people would have learned from the Gawker disaster that requiring javascript to be able to see any content at all is a bad idea.
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by tezmc 15y ago
The other commenters said most of it already but here's what I do. I follow multiple headline accounts (BBC, Sky, Al Jazeera, Reuters etc), those tweets usually have a headline and a link to the article if I want to read the rest. I follow
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by tezmc 15y ago
I use it almost entirely as a news feed, I only very occasionally post things myself.
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by tezmc 15y ago
Anyone in the channel could have posted it from their own IRC logs - most IRC programs will allow you to log everything you see. That they've censored the nicknames of the people talking before posting gives me the feeling that it was prob
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by tezmc 15y ago
That's easy to say when you're not the one being sued by a company with very deep pockets.
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by tezmc 16y ago
There's a Robotics subreddit. It's not super-busy but it seems to get a couple of submissions per day. http://www.reddit.com/r/robotics/
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by tezmc 16y ago
The world needs more hacking gentlemen, with a monocle and their own mahogany-panelled laboratory.
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by tezmc 16y ago
It's been a year or two since I've read the Sunday Times (it's so huge I ended up spending a week reading it) but my experience with it has been very good, just as good if not better than the daily edition.
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by tezmc 16y ago
The Times isn't as great as it used to be, but it's nowhere near being a tabloid.
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by tezmc 16y ago
I seem to recall Kasparov complaining of unfairness/cheating too, when he was beat by Deep Blue.
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by tezmc 16y ago
You don't have to have anything to do with Anonymous to have some idea of what they're capable of when they're poked with a stick.
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by tezmc 16y ago
Let's not forget when Second Life was going to be the future of the Internet.

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