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by bobbykjack 11y ago
When he finds the '@', he's gonna be delighted!
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by bobbykjack 11y ago
I hope she's not called Rebecca Mary-Rachel Ford ...
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by bobbykjack 11y ago
Apparently doesn't work if the words are just in your signature.
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by bobbykjack 11y ago
I'm not sure that's even 'large', let alone 'huge'.
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by bobbykjack 12y ago
Are government run lotteries also unethical? What about government run investment schemes?
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by bobbykjack 12y ago
You should clarify - that's the minified JavaScript!
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Driverless cars set to roll out for trials on UK roads(theguardian.com)
4 points by bobbykjack 12y ago|0 comments
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by bobbykjack 12y ago
The trouble with that analogy is that water and electricity (just about) are absolutely essential to our day-to-day lives; a specific social media site isn't. Facebook needs to appeal to the trend to keep in business. Hugely popular so
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Computer Science: a misnomer(stanforddaily.com)
5 points by bobbykjack 12y ago|0 comments
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by bobbykjack 12y ago
From the FAQ [1]: "Are reposts ok? If a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we kill reposts as duplicates. If not, a small number of reposts is ok." As with much of the HN system, that's intentionally
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by bobbykjack 12y ago
There are a few similar slip-ups in the article; the author is presumably not a native English speaker. However, despite that - and what really motivated me to comment - I find this really well written, and the odd mistake just adds a bit o
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by bobbykjack 12y ago
Since Sergey stopped wearing it [1]. [1] http://beta.techradar.com/news/portable-devices/other-device...
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by bobbykjack 12y ago
Why " write native or .NET" but " hack together some javascript and CSS"?
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by bobbykjack 12y ago
And many of us object to that male default. About the first thing I learnt at any serious level of linguistics teaching is that language does not stand still, it evolves. It would be trivial to say "did they say they were in the bay ar
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by bobbykjack 12y ago
Did he say he was a 'he'?
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by bobbykjack 12y ago
(Because http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms973919.aspx#string... for anyone wondering 'Why Turkish?')
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Apple's 'unwritten rules' spark discontent for some app developers(theguardian.com)
5 points by bobbykjack 12y ago|0 comments
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by bobbykjack 12y ago
Of course, this is how our browsers used to work before the makers decided to remove or hide that feature. I've never seen it on a mobile device. Does anyone understand the reasons behind that move? Even if you think page zoom is &#x27
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by bobbykjack 12y ago
It's easy to toss out statements like "monitor your network traffic"; do you have any good suggestions for how an average developer with relatively little understanding of networking can go about doing so?
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by bobbykjack 12y ago
To say "b has n more views than a", you need two operations whether you use signed or unsigned ints. Signed let's you say "these two videos have n different views" but, to be honest, it seems unlikely that you be do
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by bobbykjack 12y ago
Yes, pretty poor usability to link two words only separated by a space, but terrible usability to extend that to linking two adjacent characters separately.
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by bobbykjack 12y ago
If IE didn't barf on a trailing comma after the last value, we wouldn't have this problem. That's probably the biggest source of all my IE JavaScript bugs. To be fair, I'm not actually sure what the spec says, but the sp