Michiel

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Cisco Amsterdam helps recover the bee population and raise awareness about CCD(translate.google.nl)
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by Michiel 14y ago
> all if you manage to give me good feedback on how to do a better presentation next time around. You really should ask the audience that question. What a web based tool could do is integrate a feedback mechanism, maybe even tied to spe
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by Michiel 14y ago
"Doug, it's important that, when writing JavaScript, your use JSLint to verify it. Do you know it? If you need any help, refer to our internal wiki."
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by Michiel 14y ago
There was JavaScript (including the good parts) before Douglas Crockford started disseminating his ideas about the language and long before jQuery was released. So it was like a powerful and possibly quite elegant language all along, but i
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by Michiel 14y ago
> it's really cluttering the UI. It looks like Bing is trying not to clutter the UI with its social features by default: "Sidebar is the most novel component of the new Bing. It's a mellow, gray sidebar that is closed by default. It sho
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by Michiel 14y ago
Actually, the Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool can be downloaded from adobe.com: http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html From the page: "The Adobe Creative Suite Cleaner Tool helps resolve installation problems for Adobe
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by Michiel 14y ago
What is Instagram was to be the replacement? Can Facebook, with a lot of cash from the IPO, avert the same fate as MySpace buy buying its supposed successors?
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by Michiel 14y ago
That path seems to go in the same direction, but then it diverges in Science, mostly due to the first sentence on that page, where [Latin] and [knowledge] are links: > Science (from [Latin] scientia, meaning "knowledge") is a systematic
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by Michiel 14y ago
> However I don't know if that reflects some deeper truth about the world, or just my bias in how I answer the questions. It's the same reason why you always end up on "Philosophy" if you're browsing Wikipedia and consistently follow th
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by Michiel 14y ago
Why not?
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by Michiel 14y ago
Doh! Thanks for the update.
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by Michiel 14y ago
Here are the stats from my MacBook Pro (also mid 2009, 13-inch, original battery): Temperature = 2990 CycleCount = 488 DesignCycleCount9C = 1000 DesignCapacity = 5450 MaxCapacity = 4804 WearRatio = 88% CurrentCapacity = 4804
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by Michiel 14y ago
Yes, Marketing
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by Michiel 14y ago
What a coincidence, just this morning I read an account of "How Bertrand Russell was prevented from teaching at the College of of the City of New York" [1]. The judge deemed him to be a dangerous influence on students because he would under
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by Michiel 14y ago
I'm not sure which one you mean, but the new logo looks great and it visualizes the concept of branches quite effectively.
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by Michiel 14y ago
"WordPress installations with unsecured shortcodes ( such as [php] which allows raw PHP code to be run ) are vulnerable to serious attacks if WooThemes are installed..." (emphasis mine) Wow, I had no idea that was even possible, but on the
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by Michiel 14y ago
I live in Europe and I pay €250 in rent. So I can't relate to this at all. How much of your salary goes into rent if you pay $1500 and you're a senior web developer in NYC?
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by Michiel 14y ago
Maybe they had... or maybe the NASA/MIT code is based on code originally obtained from behind the iron curtain.
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by Michiel 14y ago
Let's not forget http://placesheen.com if you need placeholders of Charlie Sheen.
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by Michiel 14y ago
> I didn't even want to read the whole table for all the features of windows 8 Took me all of 5 minutes to digest that table (and decide I want Windows 8 Pro for Boot from VHD and Client Hyper-V). That's not too much time to choose so
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by Michiel 14y ago
I am currently writing the a style guide (for a small agency), and I have added semi-colons as preferred for JavaScript. And abusing the && operator like in the now infamous code snippet is definitely out. Our code needs to be maint
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by Michiel 14y ago
> It looks as though Caine will be a future lover of HN, like us. He's got the hacker gene, that's for sure. With his non-reversible, encrypted, calculator-based hashing algorithm one time pad ticketing system...
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by Michiel 14y ago
There was also mention of patents for messaging. Microsoft outright bought Skype, wich was bound to have patents in that area as well. Adding these patents to their portfolio must be helpful knowing some of their competition (Google, Apple)
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by Michiel 14y ago
Unicode is probably the closest we are today to world peace. If we can get all this somewhat right, including the flags, the noodles and the 'person with blond hair', I think there is hope...
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by Michiel 14y ago
"the presence of readline-style keyboard shortcuts at an OS mediated level" What does that mean? Do you have an example comparing it to non-'readline-style' shortcuts?
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by Michiel 14y ago
Of course, editors should be using the ligature (unicode character LATIN SMALL LIGATURE IJ). But having said that: I'm Dutch and a) I have never used that character and b) I have no idea how to write it on a keyboard.
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by Michiel 14y ago
And let's not forget Phil Haack ( http://haacked.com ), who is now working at GitHub. He used to be the program manager at Microsoft for ASP.NET MVC, the first part of the ASP.NET framework to be released under an open source license.
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by Michiel 14y ago
That's like comparing an intersection with a parking garage.
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by Michiel 14y ago
How much of your rant has to with the actual language C# as opposed to the VM, other people, XML and patterns?
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by Michiel 15y ago
From what I can tell everyone is going to have to use the Metro UI because it has replaced the Start menu as the built-in launcher. There is also a new menu on the right side of the screen that let's you access search and settings among oth

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