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by Thrall 12y ago
From that article: "used in my example above where we decided that us meant “unsafe string” and s meant “safe string.” They’re both of type string. The compiler won’t help you if you assign one to the other" Assuming you have the
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by Thrall 12y ago
This article is about pre-rendering a webpage to png, so anyone using a text-based browser would actually find the result even less useful than the original page.
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by Thrall 13y ago
I agree that a numpad isn't really necessary. The keys I miss on a laptop keyboard are: - Home, end, pgup, pgdown - Delete - Function keys that are just F-keys, not volume/brightness controls that act as F-keys when you press a &#
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by Thrall 13y ago
If you're using the mouse, not having focus follows mouse means you have to click twice to activate something in a window without focus, which from my point of view as someone who uses focus-follows-mouse, is pointless and irksome. Whe
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by Thrall 13y ago
I found this to be one of git's greatest strengths; Beyond the basics, it doesn't force you to use features you don't need or want. Initially, I just committed snapshots in a single branch. Later, I found I wanted to do somet
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by Thrall 13y ago
I also round them up, but in doing so, it makes me think about the fact that the price doesn't reflect the 'value' of the product: If they hadn't rounded it to ₤X.99, would it have been more or less? How much of that is
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by Thrall 13y ago
Our local libraries recently started an ebook program. However, copyright restrictions mean they aren't allowed to loan a single 'copy' out to more than one person at once. With the relatively small number of ebook copies ava
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by Thrall 13y ago
Would it help if they were prepared in such a way as to make them unrecognisable? I know plenty of people who will happily eat mince, chops, etc., but who find it offputting if there are signs of where the meat came from, (e.g. a hog roast,
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by Thrall 13y ago
> The trick to the author's math That's the trouble with this article; With the dependence on buying everything in bulk (and somehow using it all up before it goes off), it appears to be more of a fun theoretical calculation than a
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by Thrall 13y ago
The better areas are taken by those with money. You can move to a better area, but the police will turn up before long to move you on.
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by Thrall 13y ago
You'd have to walk for hours to check all the prices and work out the cheapest from various supermarkets though. Also, the more calories you burn walking across town to find, purchase, and carry home the very cheapest food, the more you nee
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by Thrall 13y ago
I agree. Local seasonal veg from a good greengrocer or market is cheap and healthy.
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by Thrall 13y ago
> …hopefully they do it in a different way, doing the same thing twice is pointless. I believe Newton said, "If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.", not, "I have rediscovered everything in a slightly diffe
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by Thrall 13y ago
In addition to the other answers, don't forget that in the situation described, if you remove the 'thousands of unauthorized copies', you still haven't sold any copies. In terms of semantics: "Say I write a book but nobody purchases a copy.
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by Thrall 13y ago
I think perhaps there is an increasing tendency to design one UI for every platform (touch screen tablets, desktops etc.) and to favour consistency across platforms rather than proper integration within each platform. So if right-click is d
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by Thrall 13y ago
This appears to be trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist with a solution that is more problematic than the problem it attempts to solve. If my browser can handle pdfs, I probably want to view them using the browser[1]. If my browser
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by Thrall 13y ago
It wouldn't read your .bash_profile, because it cannot. Any variables that are set by your .bash_profile will therefore not be set, and anything that depends on them being set may break.
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by Thrall 13y ago
I noticed this too. Sometimes the simple solutions are the best (compare with the long thread of suggested solutions further down this page). It's like a master-criminal's subtle and sophisticated plan being foiled by a simpleton because it
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by Thrall 13y ago
There is a subtle hint that all is not well if you try to select the code using triple-click: it will only select one half at a time, suggesting it is not the one-liner it appears to be...
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by Thrall 13y ago
> There was an attempt to port homebrew to linux, but it didn't go far. Linux already has more package managers than you can shake a stick at. To gain traction on linux, homebrew would have to offer useful features that other package ma
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by Thrall 14y ago
> Many jewelers were confused and incredulous when we asked about one. Bear in mind that it is in the jeweller's interest to perpetuate such superstitions as it means they can persuade many customers to buy a new ring instead. Buying a
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by Thrall 14y ago
Basic advertising is important in that you cannot sell a product without letting people know it exists. However, I think the advertising industry grossly exaggerates the importance of advertising. The trouble is, it's impossible to ask, "Do
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by Thrall 14y ago
This was my first thought. If you don't have to chew your food, your jaw muscles will atrophy (and I believe teeth and gums may also suffer from lack of use). If you have to chew gum to make up for this, you're starting to lose the simplici
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by Thrall 14y ago
You personally may not care which term is used. However, if you want to get the law changed, you probably need to get a large number of people interested in the issue. One way to do this would be to force the use of the word 'licensing', so
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by Thrall 14y ago
How about: * Deliberately making terms and conditions so long and verbose that no-one has the will/time to read them and is more likely to simply check the "I have read the terms and conditions" checkbox without actually reading them.
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by Thrall 14y ago
I sometimes wonder why languages use sequences like "->". This is clearly meant to represent an arrow, so why has noone ever taken the time to make sure an arrow character is defined, make sure it's possible to type it in most keyboard
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by Thrall 14y ago
It also depends on the amount of revenue you can generate if you hire a professional and get on with your work. If we assume that the professional's fee is constant (doesn't depend on your income), then someone with very high income can was
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by Thrall 14y ago
I love the comment translated as, "People around the world .. scratch turnip". Without any knowledge of Russian, I can only assume the word for turnip is used informally to mean head. Can anyone who knows Russian confirm/refute this?
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by Thrall 14y ago
Idle thought: If this could be shown to be the case, i.e. that BK actually increased their profits as a result of the defendant's actions, could the court order the defendant to pay negative damages? (I know the answer's no, I just find the
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by Thrall 14y ago
In many countries, the amount of government money spent on scientific research is rather low. Therefore a lot of researchers have to attract interest from companies willing to fund them, otherwise they can't afford to do any research at all

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