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by wbillingsley 12y ago
Word Perfect 5.1 for DOS, released in 1989, was very popular indeed among Microsoft's customer base. And the first to have a (DOS) menu bar. Open the File menu and 'x' is highlighted in red in the word 'Exit'. In ot
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by wbillingsley 12y ago
The article seriously misrepresents the Australian sociologist and the community response to the Queensland floods. Here's the Australian sociologist's article (you can find both quotes in the piece, but quite out of context): ht
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CGT only applies on the sale of the property. As the property value rises, buy-to-let landlords will often use the equity generated to leverage another loan on another buy-to-let property, rather than sell the first property. So as they ke
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I liked that the videos showed a glimpse into the active community around Haskell -- they are not just a fixed set of tutorials for newcomers, but show the variety of talks that Haskell programmers around the world give (including some deep
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The ASA is an industry body -- it's not a government regulator. Which gives it much greater freedom to rule on this. (It's harder to sue, as it's a body that the industry signs up to in order to protect the reputation of the
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If I recall, the issue of jurisdiction isn't "does any of the activity happen outside our borders" (law stopping at the border) but "does any of the activity happen inside our borders" (activity in a jurisdiction gi
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I think one inevitable fairly result would be many other national governments observing Google trying to use its market position in order to bully the courts and overpower the rule of law in a country, and swiftly passing legislation orderi
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It might be worth waiting until the Surface Pro 3 has actually been released (20 June) before declaring that it isn't selling. The pen is it's unique selling point and niche (there's quite a few hybrid tablet/laptops, bu
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by wbillingsley 12y ago
A colleague at NICTA was working on something similar (a market-machanism for review, reviewer reputation, and citation) a few years ago: http://rickyrobinson.id.au/2009/07/24/citemine-a-new-way-to-...
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by wbillingsley 13y ago
It feels very odd reading about this "moral panic" of my childhood, as nobody where I grew up was in any way panicked at all. Did I somehow miss out on it? I played lots of D&D with my elder brother and his friends, and we wen
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"...go ahead and grab it with flour on your hands". I don't know about you, but I wouldn't grab my smartphone with flour on my hands. Neither would I be trying to take a picture of a barcode with my cellphone in one han
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This seems to be an ill thought out technique. The exercise has been designed so that all the candidate has is a false task and an awkward channel for communication. Coding at interview is essentially always a false task, as the context and
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Thematically, I'd say Angular's dependency injection is "supposed" to be resolved by the tooling. If you look at Angular.dart, it doesn't have this particular hack because it uses the type system to resolve what to
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by wbillingsley 13y ago
Curiously, with MOOCs replacing OpenCourseware, we've shifted to an environment that's a little bit harder to iterate on. Editing text is easy. Editing something someone said in the middle of some video can be harder (continuity i
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At one of the keynotes for the Association for Learning Technology back in 2007, the speaker had a variation on this question. His point, if I recall, was a little different -- As normally asked, the question is code for "parrot the Ar
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It always seems a little odd to me that bitcoin is associated with criminal enterprise. Surely with the transaction record public, it's rather easier for the police to "follow the money" than with cash etc?
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Every day, but only for parts of the year. (Do I take the average and say "at least once a week?") It's interactive teaching software (in-class and online) that we've used in the course when it runs, but the course only
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Impressory -- which I happen to be working on at NICTA -- only requires you to be able to post and tag. It has a few other goals -- it supports live interaction in-class as well as online, social content, and is part of a push towards disag
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Good companies should care about their false negative rate, as if they're smart they will realise that unlike Harvard their pool of potential candidates does not completely refresh each year. As you yourself exemplify, Google are now
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We've had a course running for a couple of years now that seeks to addresses these issues, as well as the inherently collaborative nature of software engineering. It's a second year course that in its first two iterations had appr
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by wbillingsley 14y ago
I think this story sounds like great news. MPEG LA's licensors include the research labs -- Fraunhofer, etc -- not your usual patent trolling companies. This gives the labs a sugar daddy (Google) that has a commercial interest in paying t
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by wbillingsley 14y ago
As I understand it, even if the builder is wrong and they can't sell at 500k (there are only 200k buyers), affordability still suffers. Why? Because the developer won't sell the first flat for 200k even if that turns out to be the highest
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Or you could cross to the dark side https://domains.live.com/Signup/SignupDomain.aspx I'm lucky in that I already have Google Apps and they're not starting to charge me. But if I didn't I'd look at whether there are reasonable free/cheap
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All you need is a forwarding service to forward the incoming mail to your gmail account, as regular personal gmail can handle sending out email with a different from address. No exim4, no spamassassin, no clam-av, no figuring out which inde
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by wbillingsley 14y ago
Perhaps because I skim-read it, but I couldn't seem to find the part where he (i) actually found that Christian fundamentalists in general have something against set theory, and (ii) determined that it was their Christian fundamentalism and
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What I particularly like about this is that it fits with changes Microsoft have already been making (a move to minimalism and a focus on the content and clean lines, with extraneous UI elements normally off-screen and need to be swiped in).
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Any project that builds using Maven does that all the time! (And really it's not simply a question of "non-free" -- there are plenty of open source licenses that are incompatible with the GPL. Is this technically a workaround for the incom
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Ineffective at preventing bots and also ineffective at letting humans through reliably: Good luck to those with accessibility needs (elderly, blind, etc) in catching those moving glyphs... No more vegetarians visiting your site (after all i