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1021.
by trollied 10y ago
Some people appear to think that what they did wasn't legal. See: http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/593329-usa-today-ua-forci...
1022.
by trollied 10y ago
Time
1023.
by trollied 10y ago
I first started coding because I wanted to create fractals (Julia sets, Mandlebrots, Sierpinski gaskets). Fractint ( https://fractint.org ) is brilliant for exploring these things of mathematical beauty.
1024.
by trollied 10y ago
Are business cards even relevant in this day and age? Even so, if you've got to the point of exchanging business cards with somebody, wouldn't your amazing app already have been discussed?
1025.
by trollied 10y ago
It really is the definitive guide. I remember reading it when I was doing my Computer Science degree back in 1996.
1026.
by trollied 10y ago
"Julian Assange will not hand himself in because Chelsea Manning's release won't happen immediately, lawyer says" http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...
1027.
by trollied 10y ago
Groupon still exists? I am surprised.
1028.
by trollied 10y ago
I read Hacker News.
1029.
by trollied 10y ago
Well done for making money off Flickr while you could. Just accept it and move on.
1030.
by trollied 10y ago
It's no different to a random crawler. What's the actual problem? Is it configured with your internet banking credentials?
1031.
by trollied 10y ago
Hardly news though. It only applies to betas/release candidates & the devs explicitly state, due to the nature of the software, it's a kill switch just in case a data loss bug is introduced.
1032.
by trollied 10y ago
Amusing that they talk about Oracle 9.3 in the article. Oracle 9.3 has never existed. There was 9i (9.0.x) and 9i Release 2 (9.1.x).
1033.
by trollied 10y ago
... and the problem is that the new kids think all of this is acceptable in worlds where it really isn't acceptable
1034.
by trollied 10y ago
Works fine on iOS 10/Safari
1035.
by trollied 11y ago
Steve Furber (creator of the BBC Micro, and co-designer of the ARM CPU) headed up a team at Manchester University that designed an asynchronous version of the ARM CPU, called AMULET. Details: http://apt.cs.manchester.ac.uk/p
1036.
by trollied 11y ago
SQL Server was a port of Sybase initially. Think of it as the RDBMS going full circle back to its POSIX roots
1037.
by trollied 11y ago
May not have been as hard to port as you all think. SQL Server was a port of Sybase, which was *NIX based anyway
1038.
by trollied 11y ago
:) I got flamed for my rant.
1039.
by trollied 11y ago
You judge, yet I've spent the last few days doing some amazing things with d3.js and I'm all over modern web dev. Being able and not liking the state of it are completely different.
1040.
by trollied 11y ago
No. You still need to teach the fundamentals or you'll run out of people to do everything low level. It's no longer a science when it's wishy washy high level
1041.
A brief history of snobbery [pdf](brej.org)
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1042.
by trollied 12y ago
The blogger is full of crap. 3G base stations don't automatically upgrade themselves to 4G. It costs a fortune to upgrade each tower. The backhaul also has to be upgraded to cope with the extra bandwidth that the tower can cope with du
1043.
by trollied 13y ago
Crikey. SELECT * can be bad for the following reasons: - returning more data than you need over a network connection can be a bottleneck. The ORM/java prog written by a programmer that doesn't care may only need a few columns. Tab