tonyblundell

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by tonyblundell 9y ago
Docs and a Youtube presentation... https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/headle... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6biclFh0i0&feature=youtu.be
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by tonyblundell 10y ago
Lots, I guess highlights would be... Pavane by Keith Roberts The Spire by William Golding Running Man by Stephen King Catch 22 by Joseph Heller Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
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by tonyblundell 10y ago
> Why do we send postcards? Because our mothers are scared of smart-phones :-)
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by tonyblundell 11y ago
Cool! Linux with Viruses :-)
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Meet the World’s First Ubuntu Tablet (That Is Also a Desktop PC)(omgubuntu.co.uk)
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by tonyblundell 11y ago
This could be useful as a backup. I don't know about BitBucket, but GitHub has suffered downtime before. If you have a second remote on Dropbox, you can also get to your files there and wherever it's automatically syncing them sho
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by tonyblundell 11y ago
I once started a job where whoever wrote the codebase I inherited had used variable names like MrString, MrsInteger, SirArrayOfArrays etc. Was hilarious :-|
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by tonyblundell 11y ago
Which is exactly why we need a single new framework to rule them all!
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by tonyblundell 11y ago
Sounds more like $5 logos for programmers. The technology behind it sounds really interesting - expecting programmers to chase bounties and work for nothing up-front with only the possibility of getting paid - not so much.
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by tonyblundell 11y ago
It definitely pre-dates the internet - I remember my mother and grandmother writing it in birthday cards at least 25 years ago. Also, I know someone named Lol - apparently it used to be quite a common shortening of Lawrence.
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by tonyblundell 11y ago
True, but I don't think it necessarily follows that they'd pay for the same content digitally. One thing the web has shown us is that people still value tangible things differently to non-tangible things. You also have to consider
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by tonyblundell 11y ago
The web is 20 years old. I think if this was going to happen, it would have happened by now. Outside of a few niches, people just aren't willing to pay to read websites. What I could see happening is premium content being bundled by IS
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by tonyblundell 11y ago
It doesn't make sense mathematically because it isn't a mathematical notation, it's linguistic in nature. In Europe, '4th May' is shortened to 4/5. In the US, 'May 4th' is shortened to 5/4. Neith
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by tonyblundell 11y ago
Yeah seems obvious, but I don't think it really makes sense to guess that it's a UK format date based on whether one of the numbers is bigger than 12. 4/5/2012 could be 4th May or 5th April and it would be impossible to
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by tonyblundell 11y ago
Yeah this was in 07/08-ish - I think someone successfully challenged them in court since.
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by tonyblundell 11y ago
That's for a commercial license. Home subscriptions are about £25.
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by tonyblundell 11y ago
My local did this, until he was caught, prosecuted and subsequently lost his job/business and something like £30-40k IIRC.
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by tonyblundell 11y ago
Ask for forgiveness, not permission!
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by tonyblundell 12y ago
I've never understood this argument. You need a connection for web-based use-cases. You don't need a connection for non web-based use-cases (document editing, etc works offline). The same is true of any OS.
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by tonyblundell 12y ago
That something does more, doesn't make it better for a given task. In fact in some cases the extras make it less suitable. When you eat a meal, do you use a knife and fork, or two Swiss-army knives?
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by tonyblundell 12y ago
Yes - https://github.com/dnschneid/crouton Personally I develop on a Chromebook by SSH-ing into a Digital Ocean server direct from Chrome OS. I don't use it full-time as a dev box though.
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by tonyblundell 12y ago
No, it isn't just about the cost. If I had a choice between a £150 Chromebook and a £75 Windows laptop, I'd choose the Chromebook. Windows isn't an 'upgrade' to Chrome OS.
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by tonyblundell 12y ago
It's been changed twice since then. First it was changed to include one capital letter, one numerical digit and an asterisk. Now it's correcthorsebatterystaple.
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by tonyblundell 12y ago
UK English. We say Lego or Lego bricks, rather than Legos. Same way we'd use sand & grains of sand as plurals.
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by tonyblundell 12y ago
Does anyone have any info on how royalties will be calculated yet?
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by tonyblundell 12y ago
It's always much more expensive direct from the network. Here you can buy the 16GB iPhone 5S for £0 up front, on a £33pm contract. http://www.dialaphone.co.uk/plans?upfrontPriceRange=Free&tar...
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by tonyblundell 12y ago
To buy the amount of music I listen to on Spotify would cost hundreds of pounds each month, so I prefer to subscribe for £10. I can still buy the obscure/local/unsigned music I want to listen to that isn't available on there.
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by tonyblundell 12y ago
They'll probably run it at a loss until they have the subscriber numbers to make profit. As long as they get usable web/phone/xbox apps this will kill Spotify.
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by tonyblundell 12y ago
Chrome bookmarks are sync'ed between your chrome devices automatically. Kippt is good ( https://kippt.com/ ).
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by tonyblundell 13y ago
Drag from top of screen.

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