usedtolurk

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New technique allows non-artists to draw complex perspective accurately(architizer.com)
1 points by usedtolurk 15y ago|1 comments
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
Is there even a need for pages anymore? Wouldn't it be nicer to have one long continuous sideways scroll in landscape mode. Even better if the App was able to match the scrolling speed to the playing speed automatically.
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
Looks like the most dramatic changes will be in writing Metro style Apps: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br23030...
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
This is horoscope writing. A less fashionable, but equally true example might be: 80% of People are Secretly Satisfied with Their Lives
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
Many would say the same thing about the software industry.
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
Heheheh... all these comments just go to show that no one policy can be fair for everyone. :) Balsamiq have a policy that aims at fairness, is transparent (and yet open for discussion!) and has a better-than-average chance of appealing to t
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
You're definitely not alone in feeling like this. "Good enough" always depends on the circumstances, so the best way to know if your feelings are warranted is to get honest code reviews from the people who will be working with your code. Ba
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
My parents were always worried that I "spent too much time on the computer", but it was always balanced by weekend outdoor pursuits in mountains and rivers. Both did me a lot of good. I don't want my children to live in a "risk-free" societ
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
Sadly, I can't see such a system working either. But I can imagine it being put into place and then being abused.
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
I tend to agree with you, but as online "voting" systems become ubiquitous (likes, karma, +1's etc.) I can imagine a future where a public voting record would seem normal or even desirable.
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
"students can now solve problems that were previously too time-consuming to attempt, and can focus on underlying concepts." The question should be whether the more time-consuming problems are helping to understand the underlying concepts. I
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
Both demos worked beautifully for me in Firefox. Very impressed guys - well done! Agree with DevX101 about the need for a video showing the programming process - I also looked for one.
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
Just saying that this is not a new problem and there are tested procedures for moving that sort of quantity of gold around the world. (The article seems to imply that a "new" solution was needed). For example, swapping physical metal in one
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
Actually, the logistics (which the article focuses on) isn't as unique a problem as one might think. Australia alone produces about 300 tons of gold each year and I would expect most of it is exported.
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
Maybe 4 years at Microsoft is enough to tell if you have what it takes, but I doubt it. If you work elsewhere you can find yourself moving backwards if you're surrounded by poor practises, particularly early on in your career. My programmin
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
I would be careful about jumping to that conclusion. Perhaps you would procrastinate just as much if you had been forced to do unpleasant chores. No way of knowing for sure.
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
I'm surprised at the outraged expressed in this thread. Everybody expects participants in this experiment to be divided into givers and takers, right? Why would anybody donate and then claim if they could just buy their own cup? The very na
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
He doesn't seem concerned about salary - just a chance to prove himself. If he's really good the salary will take care of itself.
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
There is definitely a market for this. International payment gateways like CyberSource (www.cybersource.com) are extending their services to include address validation (and correction), fraud detection, etc. It would be very hard for a sta
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
TLDR: You can't be above the law, but we can. It's ironic and a great pity that an "organisation" which demands transparency and accountability is completely lacking in both. The most respected revolutionaries walk the walk and lead from th
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
What a pity this has got so personal. They could really help each other. Why doesn't Oatmeal could just upload his own (fully attributed) work to FunnyJunk himself? It's clear they have an enthusiastic audience and he would like the exposur
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
Just to be clear, the police have not apologised for the arrest, just for initially denying that he was arrested (I misread it at first).
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
If that's true, its even worse - you don't know where you stand if your plans could be ruined because somebody's having a bad day.
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
I know it's not fair, but when I read this all I could think about was Douglas Adams' description of "...an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digit
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
In Australia, all the mobile phone and data plans have massive penalties for exceeding your quota by even small amounts. My provider (and I suspect, all the others) deliberately obfiscates both the billing details and the plan rules to make
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by usedtolurk 15y ago
90GB of data was stolen - nobody is defending that. Some of us have trouble believing that 90GB of data is actually worth the $193,000 as determined by the Telstra contract. The actual "damage" seems pretty small when compared to crimes whi
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
Wouldn't you have been better off explaining the (presumably genuine) need for a windows machine? Your CEO is likely to remember this the next time you make a suggestion.
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
...or perhaps they daren't ask again ;)
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
That's a bit of an exaggeration. Many countries do not have their own currency and still manage their own economies. Still, I take your point that it's not something they would let go of without a fight.
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by usedtolurk 16y ago
After 15 years in the corporate world I've almost forgotten those exciting early days of programming. This article brought back the joy I felt when I figured out how to make the bad guy "home in" on the good guy - that was a turning point f

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