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Thousands fled to Mastodon Are they still ‘tooting’?(theguardian.com)
10 points by gburnett 3y ago|0 comments
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by gburnett 5y ago
It will end up where the service provider takes it. Don't imagine that GitHub cares about lowering barriers to entry as an end in itself. It does this as a means to pursue GitHub's business interests.
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by gburnett 5y ago
That is a very simplistic, and incorrect, response to the problem. GitHub provides computing resources, for free, to attract users. This is just one of the challenges of that business model. If this is intolerable for GitHub then it'
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by gburnett 6y ago
A change to GMT all year round would be most welcome here in the U.K.
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Cream Finance Drained of $37.5M in Major Exploit(cryptobriefing.com)
2 points by gburnett 6y ago|0 comments
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North Korean attacks on crypto exchanges reportedly netted $316m in two years(theregister.com)
1 points by gburnett 6y ago|0 comments
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UI backwards compatibility(danluu.com)
3 points by gburnett 9y ago|0 comments
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NSA's arsenal of Windows hacking tools have leaked(zdnet.com)
1 points by gburnett 9y ago|0 comments
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A malicious module on npm(blog.liftsecurity.io)
5 points by gburnett 10y ago|1 comments
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by gburnett 11y ago
Yes, I'm not sure why transpiling will ever go away. Not sure either why it would be limited to specifications.
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by gburnett 11y ago
This was my first thought after reading it. I've used gitlab.com, also locally, and it is ok. Presumably people will want to stick with github due to popularity though.
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The end of capitalism has begun(theguardian.com)
103 points by gburnett 11y ago|83 comments
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Why electronic voting isn't secure – but may be safe enough(theguardian.com)
1 points by gburnett 11y ago|0 comments
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by gburnett 12y ago
In my experience the phrase has the meaning that twic described.
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by gburnett 12y ago
It's even more interesting than you think. The Conservative Party do much better under Scotland's system of proportional representation than in Westminster. Compare these results: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by gburnett 12y ago
Not much. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP#PHP_6_and_Unicode
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by gburnett 12y ago
In this case, yes. It was definitely unnecessary to remind me of the author's name on each page.
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by gburnett 12y ago
I use LibreOffice in an environment where almost every other user uses Microsoft Office tools. I've had difficulty with some documents in the docx format. Most of the documents will turn out to be ok but when certain types of formatt
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by gburnett 12y ago
"They left work and played volleyball and worked on their tuner car and went to family events and so on. They learned exactly what was specifically necessary for their job today and tomorrow. Never beyond. Most of them were 20-ish year
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by gburnett 12y ago
In my experience lots of commented code stays around while version control is either underused or unused.
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by gburnett 13y ago
The "Where is Variance not a good fit?" section is useful. I'm not just saying that as a long time victim/critic of pie charts.
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by gburnett 13y ago
In the case of elderly users I don't think that many of them could even identify the browser that they use without prompting from others.
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by gburnett 13y ago
The telephone is my main gripe at the moment. My line manager likes to conduct all his business over the phone. One of my colleagues likes to project her voice across the entire office despite the phone being less than an inch from her mo
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by gburnett 13y ago
Equally there are philosophy professors who don't appreciate it. One class that I was a member of was warned that our professor had not seen The Matrix and, given the number of essays that referred to it, never wanted to see it or rea
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by gburnett 13y ago
I had a look in IE9. All I found were a couple of video demos. I was left to reflect on what it is to reinvent something.
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by gburnett 13y ago
Ask the Economist and it is London.
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by gburnett 13y ago
I went through the tutorial last week and it all worked.
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by gburnett 13y ago
Not even if people vote for them?
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by gburnett 13y ago
Thanks for posting this. Silence is preferable to music but music is preferable to other voices.
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by gburnett 13y ago
It's not that the picture is incomplete. It is, I believe, that the picture is incorrect. Sets are not relations. This is a barrier to understanding for a beginner.

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