hasslblad

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by hasslblad 15y ago
I think it's because IE6 is the default browser for Windows XP Installs. I think even with the later Windows XP Service Packs, they still baselined to IE6. That and there was a big gap in time between IE6 and IE7. Didn't Microsoft once anno
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Artificial intelligence community mourns John McCarthy(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by hasslblad 15y ago|0 comments
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by hasslblad 15y ago
It's worth noting Scott McCloud also did the Google Chrome comic - http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
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by hasslblad 15y ago
I think this comic sums it up nicely - http://www.ethannonsequitur.com/facebook-you-customer-produc...
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by hasslblad 15y ago
I agree with this. At first glance the problems he presents are simple, then you realise all the design decisions they've made and the pros and cons of each approach they were aware of when writing C#. On a footnote I also recommend Jon Ske
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by hasslblad 15y ago
This has happened to British Agents before in WWII. I remember seeing a documentary about training British agents to infiltrate France. While in France one agent got caught out by asking for a black coffee. This was the default coffee at th
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by hasslblad 15y ago
Newspapers and the press in general normally have an obituary team who write and update obituaries for noteworthy people who are still alive. That way if anything happens, they can be quick off the mark and publish a well researched article
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by hasslblad 15y ago
Well, when working on a code base, the first thing I think is who wrote this and when. When they wrote this how experienced was the developer? What's there coding style or was it written after coding standards were introduced? I've had this
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by hasslblad 15y ago
Or Even this.MyControl.TabPages.Clear();
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by hasslblad 15y ago
Sorry, I should have been clearer. I was getting flashbacks to when I saw a similar problem (except in a for each loop), that's what set the alarm bells ringing in my head. When I see nasty code like that, I tend to stop parsing it fully an
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by hasslblad 15y ago
As soon as I saw that snippet I could see what's wrong. In C# / .Net you can't remove an element from an enumerator while you're enumerating through it. You can remove the last element however, as it's the final loop the enumerator isn't us
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by hasslblad 15y ago
Google did this when they first launched Chrome too - http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html
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by hasslblad 15y ago
Most of the talk of Google buying Motorola Mobile has been about the patents and more control over the hardware. I think it's also important to consider the tax breaks Google could be aiming for - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/01/go
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Video games industry: Rise of the 'bedroom' developer(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by hasslblad 15y ago|0 comments
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The Negotiator - This man could save your life(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by hasslblad 15y ago|1 comments
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by hasslblad 15y ago
You could always check this incident map of the areas and visit the high street shops - http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/interactive/2011/aug...
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Roger Ailes and the rise of Fox News(guardian.co.uk)
5 points by hasslblad 15y ago|1 comments
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by hasslblad 15y ago
Something like an automated resume / CV generator would be a great feature for a site like Linked In, or perhaps Monster.com.
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by hasslblad 15y ago
They exist outside of the Japan too. It's called Lolita Fashion - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita_fashion They have lots of different sub styles - Gothic Lolitas, Sweet Lolitas. Generally from what I understand they're their own sub
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by hasslblad 15y ago
The parent article is doing it's round on the internet at the moment. It's linkbait. Scott Hanselman has a better rational breakdown of the article - http://www.hanselman.com/blog/HackersCanKillDiabeticsWithIns...