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by etfb 12y ago
Aha! So there is. So it's not bad implementation, just bad UI design. So the trick is: - Change your email address to something like kjghoyvgljhbvljhvkljhbv@mailinator.com. - If you get a confirmation message to your old address, dele
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by etfb 12y ago
Made a new account? I don't know. It's kind of crazy that there's no "forgot password" option. I can understand not allowing account deletion, because you don't want to break conversations by having someone&#x
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by etfb 12y ago
I agree with most of his points. I stopped reading Slashdot because I didn't like how the voting affected my interaction with the site, and I went cold turkey on Reddit and haven't been back (or even missed it) for maybe a year n
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by etfb 12y ago
It's an intriguing idea, but like the correlation between margarine consumption and divorce, or the rise in global warming and the reduction in pirates, it needs more than intrigue. Perhaps the Grauniad article will give it enough pub
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by etfb 12y ago
And thence comes most of the really stupid arguments on Facebook that aren't about guns or Firefly. This is why I long to own a t-shirt bearing the words "Practising Peddant".
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by etfb 12y ago
In Year Eight at school, I had an English teacher who liked to mix things up a little. One time, I was answering a question in class, and I used "different to" or "different from" or something -- maybe even "differe
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by etfb 12y ago
As another commenter here pointed out, it's preferred , not correct . This is the old prescriptivist vs descriptivist debate, as seen among linguists. (Disclaimer: I am not a linguist. I just read Language Log.) If you're fre
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by etfb 12y ago
Ha! I didn't even notice the error - read it as "Data Mining" two or three times.
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by etfb 12y ago
This is a dangerous article. I was nodding and saying "I knew it!" so often, I got a sore neck.
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by etfb 12y ago
Not according to his Wikipedia article, at least. My theory was that the govt wasn't letting him back in the country because someone saw the Hitch Hiker's Guide movie and decided to enforce a minimum standard...
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by etfb 12y ago
Coming back to the original post, I wrote a proof-of-concept Braille output program for a daisy wheel printer. Basic idea was: take a line of text input, eg "hello". Convert to Braille ("⠓⠑⠇⠇⠕"), but reverse the dot pa
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by etfb 12y ago
Are you old enough to remember daisy wheel printers? Basically, the computerised equivalent of a typewriter, with the individual letters on a daisy-like wheel that spun around under computer control to produce slow but "letter quality
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by etfb 12y ago
The former government (centre-right Labor party) promised FTTH or FTTP (Fibre To The Home/Premises) but that was scrapped when the slightly-less-centre-and-more-far-right Liberal party got in and proposed FTTN (Fibre To The Node). The
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by etfb 12y ago
Pretty sure it was the way hi-res graphics worked on the VIC-20 too -- 22 characters by 8 pixels per character = 176 pixels wide, multi-colour mode where each block of 8x8 pixels had a background and a foreground colour. Deeply freaky.
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by etfb 12y ago
I learned Turbo Pascal in an MS-DOS emulator running on old green-screen Burroughs smart terminals, circa 1987. I knew the terminals had some sort of graphics capacity because their font changed when they left VMS mode and started emulatin
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by etfb 12y ago
Looks like you right click on a cubelet to make it active, but in Firefox under Linux that pops up a right-click menu. Double-click would have been a better choice for that functionality.
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by etfb 12y ago
Logic says that someone who spends more time in front of a computer is less healthy than someone who spends less time in front of a computer. I think it's solid enough logic that the onus is on you to provide evidence to the contrary.
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by etfb 12y ago
I'm amazed he wasn't dead years ago. Seventy four is a good twenty years younger than I kind of assumed he would be. He was only forty when he did the design for Alien? I know he already had his artistic style famous before that
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by etfb 12y ago
That's pretty cool. I like how it would seem to support literate programming at a lower level than just extensive comments (which always seem to go stale) or long variable names (which often hinder comprehension more than they help it)
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by etfb 12y ago
My major objections boil down to aesthetics and culture. The themes and layouts that shipped with Drupal 6 and below were all eye-bleedingly ugly, really obviously designed by developers with no eye for colour, layout, white space or typog
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by etfb 12y ago
It's a magical place.
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by etfb 12y ago
Quite a good description of VMware et al, I thought. I frequently need to explain that technology to non-geeks; this is the description I'll be using from now on. Why on Earth did you find it at all objectionable?
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by etfb 12y ago
I don't remember, sorry.
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by etfb 12y ago
Amen, brother! Or sister. Or eukaryotic organisms. Whatever. So what happened to Squiz? It was the godawful piece of shit that I criticised in the /. post that kinda-sorta lost me my job with AGIMO, so I wouldn't mind knowing
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by etfb 12y ago
sniuff is right, Drupal is all PHP, through and through. As for Wordpress's alleged speed problems, I haven't had any trouble. The speed of development for WP is way ahead of that for Drupal, in my experience at least, to the poi
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by etfb 12y ago
Gesundheit!
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by etfb 12y ago
There's a new version of it now, which is an option when you go to maps.google.com. I tried it and gave up because it doesn't seem to work on Tasmanian ADSL - sits and spins, never loads, presumably because the new state governme
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by etfb 12y ago
I'm calling that Chester's Law, and quoting you henceforth.
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by etfb 12y ago
In Tassie now, happily running my own business and not dealing with cretinous managers. But thanks!
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by etfb 12y ago
AGIMO is funny. It used to be part of the Department of Communications, then it got slurped up by Finance. The people in charge were career public servants, totally interchangeable with no real idea of what the org was doing. What they ba

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