thalur

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by thalur 17y ago
It seems to me like this was a missed opportunity for building a new model for audio-based advertising. Something that inserts adverts tailored to the listner (language, country, music choices etc) in between bits of music. However, I don
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by thalur 17y ago
I know what you mean - I have the same problem. For me, it's worst with television: I can't have a conversation with someone if there's a TV on in the same room. I'm not sure if this is the opposite to the flashlight simile, or just an ex
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by thalur 18y ago
I think the doubling comes from the fact that initial estimates are always that it would take x weeks if you were to work flat out 100% of the time. As this is incredibly unlikely to happen, you have to increase the estimate to take into a
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by thalur 18y ago
I think this is a reformatted version of this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=232192
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by thalur 18y ago
I like what they've done to improve the page. The only thing that sticks out a bit is the "yet" in "... is not yet participating". It sounds a bit pushy, like they are trying to pressure the company into participating.
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by thalur 18y ago
I think it's referring to an email quote in the article.
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by thalur 18y ago
Its entirely possible that it's something to do with my browser - I was looking at it from work where we have to use ie6 :(
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by thalur 18y ago
It's not just about being physically able to install something (i.e. having admin privileges), we aren't allowed to install (or even write) anything that is "network aware" for security reasons.
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by thalur 18y ago
Certainly a very novel (to me) definition of coupling and cohesion - I had to re-read the coupling section again, and I'm still not confident that I've fully understood it. I may have misunderstood, but I think its lacking the idea that cha
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by thalur 18y ago
Just a little thing: if I click on a twitter name, it takes me to a page which says "this domain is still available". Also, I agree with the idea of splitting up the domain and twitter names - it was far from obvious to me at first look to
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by thalur 18y ago
Isn't that just as bad then?
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by thalur 18y ago
I second this, although it can be a bit disconcerting when it suddenly changes the colour temperature. Also, it doesn't affect the mouse cursor for me, which ends up appearing slightly bluey green in the evenings.
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by thalur 18y ago
I agree, but I think it's something we may come to regret. While I don't see hackers unionizing, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the "it's just a job" programmers do, and as they count for the majority of programmers, that might leave th
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by thalur 18y ago
but can you name them all? ;)
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by thalur 18y ago
I suspect you hadn't been indoctrinated on GOTO being the one_true_evil at that point. I remember writing programs on my TI83 during maths and physics classes, but BASIC on a BBC was where it all started for me. Lots of GOTOs there. &#62
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by thalur 18y ago
(as a web programming novice) I think the problem with the web in this context is there are still some significant hurdles to getting set up, e.g. getting a server to host your webpages (unless you only want your friends to be able to see i
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by thalur 18y ago
But its also quite small compared to how long you might expect it would take to make a game.
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by thalur 18y ago
Which immediately makes me wonder how easy it would be to scale chops' site to service other MMOs. If you could get it to the point where you can release a fully-featured guild website on the launch day of each new MMO you might just be on
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by thalur 18y ago
Isn't that what happens when you write (poor) safety critical software in C++?
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by thalur 18y ago
Well said. There's one thing I would add if you're doing defence work which is about security. The complications brought on by working with classified data can be very frustrating: limited or no internet access, limits on the software you
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by thalur 18y ago
I think that looks quite cool, particularly the timeline view. While I'm not sure I would present my CV in such a way to a prospective employer, I might include a link. It would be interesting if there were a way to take that data and use
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by thalur 18y ago
As long as you can remember which dimension you left that important document in...
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by thalur 18y ago
I would say that talent is how good you can be at something without having to try (i.e. without hard work), and that as such it is a continuous quantity rather than a binary one. When talent runs out, the only way to get better is through
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by thalur 18y ago
Interesting if true, but it reminds me a bit of the xbox360 vs ps3 vs wii "which sold most" fan fights of the past where each side quoted only the most favourable numbers for their favourite. I guess the real challenge will be when Android
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by thalur 18y ago
"You could say that work, like deliberate practice, is often mentally demanding and tiring. But that's typically not because of the intense focus and concentration involved. Rather, it's more often a result of long hours cranking out what w
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by thalur 18y ago
I don't particularly want more sleep, but I would like to be less tired all the time; how does that factor into his question?
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by thalur 18y ago
If you follow the link to the BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7671046.stm It looks like they aren't recording the content of the messages, just times and dates etc. The worrying is that they are already doing it, and
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by thalur 18y ago
I use one of these: http://keyovation.com/ at work. It's substantially cheeper than the Maltron, but missing a few bits, such as a separate numeric keypad, and I'd really like to get control, alt and shift keys in the gap between the two
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by thalur 18y ago
Cool idea. I wonder how sensitive it is to the location, and how well it deals when it doesn't know its location? Also, the iPhone bashing is getting rather tedious and the Android phones aren't even out yet!
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by thalur 18y ago
One of the hardest bits can be working out what the easy problems are in the first place.

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