timrobinson

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by timrobinson 16y ago
What are the units on this?
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by timrobinson 16y ago
This would beat the "enumerating all the windows in the system and calling ShowWindow(SW_HIDE)" program, but not: "setting their program as the screen saver, disabling the mouse and keyboard devices, and then invoking the screen saver on t
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by timrobinson 16y ago
It's `svn blame` integrated into Visual Studio?
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by timrobinson 16y ago
cpp (the C preprocessor) is alive and well
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by timrobinson 16y ago
"The first step to writing an operating system is getting to ring 0" Right; just as the first step to building a web site is to write your own web server, and your first line of code is: int main() Most "how to write an OS" tutorials make
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by timrobinson 16y ago
More like, "10 Operating Systems With Great Screenshots". Using the ability to run Firefox as a metric, I think only Haiku, ReactOS and OpenBSD qualify as great.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Right: I'd imagine that in order to persuade companies (i.e. corporate expenses departments) to accept these receipts, they'd have to be convinced that they were the same as the paper originals.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
I'd find this useful if I'm travelling on business. Right now I have to keep a week of receipts safe somewhere and bring them back - coffee, restaurants, taxis etc. Then I go back and type the details into the corporate expense system, and
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Stores tend to put their name on the receipt (or at least the large ones do), which you could cross-reference against a list on the server. Alternatively, if you've used your phone to capture the receipt, you've got probably got geotagging
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Do Nectar currently provide this information to customers? If they did then you could put together a quick hack that scraped their web site for the data.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
The other thing I like about Apple stores (the UK ones, at least) is that you don't have to walk anywhere to pay. The last time I went there, the guy entered my purchase into his iPod, then scanned a bar code on the nearest chip & pin m
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by timrobinson 16y ago
There's two problems: wasting paper and having to manually enter the receipt into an expenses system. You don't have to solve both problems at once.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
I like the idea of electronic receipts. If you weren't bothered about wasting paper you could print the code on the paper receipt; otherwise, you'd need a dedicated device to transmit the QR code. I wonder how big the QR code needs to be in
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by timrobinson 16y ago
If you use somebody else's framework, they can extend and fix the framework so you don't have to. And if that framework is open source, and somebody else isn't extending or fixing it for you, you can do it yourself. You can still hack on it
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Do you want to make a job out of your site, or building a framework for your site? These are two different things, and spending time one one tends to prevent you from spending time on the other.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
This is a feed for the home page, not /newest. I don't know of a feed for /newest.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
For me, the important point is that higher-order functions (map, fold, etc.) compose well with other higher-order functions, whereas hand-coded recursion doesn't really compose with itself or anything else. Using recursion in a functional l
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by timrobinson 16y ago
ASTs are trees of nodes. At each level, a node will typically be one out of a range of choices. In OO languages this turns into a class hierarchy of nodes, and you'd use the visitor pattern to manipulate them. This approach is awful: it gen
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by timrobinson 16y ago
This is interesting, although it's news from back in 2009.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
I don't have a clever reason, other than I want to get one, so I think you should too. "a few hundred quids" - so you'll be waiting until 25th March when they come out in the UK?
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Stop = power off, so no, only EBS data is kept. When you start the instance again, the OS boots from scratch.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
I'm glad they added the ability to change the instance type. Previously you could stop the instance from the management console, and start it up again afterwards, but you'd have to run `ec2-modify-instance-attribute` in between.
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by timrobinson 16y ago
I take "the iPad 2 isn't even better" to mean: - Although iPad 2 is good, it would be even better (than itself) if it made copying & pasting easy - Copying & pasting is more difficult on the iPad 2 than it could be - Therefore the i
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by timrobinson 16y ago
I responded to a similar question yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2285213 Just because you have some technical skill, doesn't mean you have to put it prominently on your resume. If you don't want to do PHP jobs, take PHP of
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Here's the most recent submissions of this article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2051062 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1982332 <-- comments http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1937182 http://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Even though you've got Java and web development experience, nobody's saying that you have to list them on your resume. These skills are in demand, so of course employers are going to focus on those sections of your resume instead of the fun
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Good thing my UK-based web sites use .com :)
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by timrobinson 16y ago
"any ideas?" - due to the embargo against Libya? Presumably the Navy doesn't block every non-US domain. For instance, surely .ca and .uk are OK?
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by timrobinson 16y ago
I don't know the reason, but I could guess that: - Your phone has an IP address - Your IP address is assigned to a cell tower - Google knows where each cell tower is located
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by timrobinson 16y ago
Silverlight, HTML5 and Windows Phone 7, according to http://fixwpf.org/ .

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