gwalker

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by gwalker 14y ago
I've always thought that the GNU date command captured this confusion well. On Linux, if you run `info date` and go to "input date formats": Our units of temporal measurement, from seconds on up to months, are so complicated, as
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by gwalker 15y ago
Task Warrior was mentioned http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2596158 a while back on HN.
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by gwalker 15y ago
The article is infoq is more balanced http://www.infoq.com/news/2011/09/Metro-Plug-ins The fact that MS may abandon Silverlight and other Windows technologies is far more significant that the "look, look Apple are right again" angle.
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by gwalker 15y ago
Interesting point from the article: A legal expert on intellectual property cases, who declined to be named, asserted that when pictures are filed both in the complaint and in separate productions, those in the complaint would be
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Punchlines by QR Code(blog.makezine.com)
2 points by gwalker 15y ago|0 comments
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by gwalker 15y ago
"The definition of groups is... everyone inside the group knows who else is in the group" This is a slightly narrow definition, the visibility of a group should be an attribute. Dan Gillmor cites a good use-case: "I'm considering a circle c
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by gwalker 15y ago
Evolution of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key
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Bing Deals not available on Windows Phone?(discoverbing.com)
1 points by gwalker 15y ago|0 comments
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by gwalker 15y ago
Apple don't file patents, they file magic
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by gwalker 16y ago
Just searched for "Amazon App Store", it's way too early in the morning (in ireland) for freaky results http://i.imgur.com/2W3UK.png
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by gwalker 16y ago
The amazing free market, the duct tape of neo-liberalism. It's kind of a cool idea but seriously?
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by gwalker 16y ago
Depending on what you need to do something like Appcelerator http://www.appcelerator.com might be of some use. Dunno if they are planning on Windows Phone 7 compatibility.
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by gwalker 16y ago
Maybe you could do a types of sausages eaten at lunchtime or colour of buckets used by HN users or fight club rules... http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2009/1/18...
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by gwalker 16y ago
The Unix Haters' Handbook is worth looking up. I think it is out of print but the PDF is available for download. My favourite from USENET is cleaning out .o files after compiling C code but fat-fingering the SHIFT key and instead of typing