jermy

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by jermy 5y ago
The way you describe is how it worked in zope templates (allowing a 'no items here' text if there was nothing to iterate over in a list) - it was frustrating that the later python implementation was different.
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by jermy 7y ago
They plug in to a socket in the glove compartment, and I don't think the rental is counted as completed until they are returned there. I'd naively assumed this was standard across the globe, but clearly there must be other factors
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by jermy 7y ago
I think it might have been a pun relating to the phrase "Going Dutch"
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by jermy 7y ago
On a point of technicality - he was only two years old when the Great War started! (I think you meant the 2nd World War)
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by jermy 7y ago
Just to extend this - if you're often using different users (or need to otherwise deploy via a configuration manager), I've found out that a good way of having system-wide options on Debian is /etc/vim/vimrc.local w
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by jermy 7y ago
Likewise - with visual mode it's normally pretty quick to select an area and do a basic regex, even for things like re-indentation (auto-completes to something like :'<,'>s/^/\t/) even though I'm sur
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by jermy 8y ago
We deploy our software packages to our own infrastructure and clients using a private APT repository and basic HTTP auth. Obviously we're running it with apt-transport-https installed for making the latter not completely insecure. I se
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by jermy 8y ago
Unless we use Supermicro kit, presumably?
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by jermy 9y ago
Jökulsárlón lagoon in southern Iceland is a fascinating place for this - large blocks of ice break from the glacier at the top end and slowly float towards the outlet of the lagoon to the sea. Near the outlet the iceburgs catch on the bed o
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by jermy 10y ago
We had people in the same team with the same differing opinions 15 years - we compromised on a coding standard of 3 spaces, and anything else looks wrong to me now.
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by jermy 10y ago
I'm not who you responded to, but the DeckLink Mini Recorder (towards the bottom of https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/decklink/models ) is a very capable PCI-e HDMI and SDI capture card for around £100
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by jermy 10y ago
And a typical aircraft flight management system would involve inserting a series of instructions then pressing the execute button.
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by jermy 10y ago
Is this possible? Fault currents are much more obvious at a higher voltage than lower, and I thought most RCDs would not be made to be sensitive enough to catch what might be a dangerous DC leakage.
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by jermy 11y ago
A friend wrote a blog post at http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/hannah-griffiths/isis-climat... whilst in Iraq, which refers to the Columbia University paper at http://www.pnas.org/content/112/1
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by jermy 11y ago
You should probably first consider seeing if there are critical bits of code that can be rewritten to use MMX/SSE instructions, since your data is in the right cache already, without needing to move it anywhere else.
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by jermy 12y ago
Windows NT 3.1 (1993) and its successors (NT 4.0, Windows 2000, XP and the server equivalents) was independent of DOS, but was separate to the other OSes (Windows 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, ME) that ran with a hybrid 16-bit/32-bit monolithic k
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by jermy 13y ago
Forbidden Technologies - London, UK (Wimbledon) We are looking for two software engineers for R&D work on the FORscene cloud-based video editing platform. Jobs are based in Wimbledon (South-west London, so no need to travel in to the ci
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by jermy 13y ago
Also mandatory link to 'So you need a typeface' flowchart: http://julianhansen.com/
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by jermy 13y ago
Forbidden Technologies - Wimbledon, London, UK We're still looking for an R&D manager to take over the technical lead and management of a growing team working on developing FORscene, the market leading professional cloud-based vide
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by jermy 13y ago
Forbidden Technologies - Wimbledon, London, UK We're looking for an R&D manager to take over the technical lead and management of a growing team working on developing FORscene, the market leading professional cloud-based video editing s
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by jermy 13y ago
There's a bit more info from somebody on the inside over at http://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1eyrdo/bbc_ab...
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by jermy 13y ago
It's very unlikely to be useful, unless you are running the same platform and have an interest in implementing business rules for the same use cases as the BBC have. Much of the interesting functionality will have been licenced from outside
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by jermy 13y ago
The irony is that we (the company I work for) already do low-resolution web-based proxy editing. The BBC has know about us since 2006 - we were even part of the original DMI tender process, but have been sidelined through all of that, with
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by jermy 13y ago
Which was largely non-video related, and implemented on IBM WebSphere
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by jermy 13y ago
Well, it's been a common enough movie plot (cf. Casino Royale where the Antagonist engineers terrorist attacks on high-profile companies whilst short-selling their stocks).
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by jermy 13y ago
Won't that cause issues when going through a typical paranoid corporate web proxy?
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by jermy 14y ago
Heathrow airport is just about visible (14 miles) - http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=105.9166&#3... And Wimbledon tennis (the AELTC, 7 miles) - http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=58.1529&#38...
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by jermy 14y ago
It's on a Sunday, and central London is always genuinely quiet. If you want to find lots of people, look at more touristy places like the Southbank http://btlondon2012.co.uk/pano.html?view.hlookat=-33.2466&#3...
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by jermy 14y ago
Since I've had nothing better to do that look at the pictures for a bit, I'm confident that it was Sunday, 28th October 2012, with one set of photos starting around 1pm facing north and another one used for filling in gaps a bit later - sta
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by jermy 14y ago
Video at http://blogs.rsa.com/idp-beat/announcing-rsa-distributed-cre... Any suggestions of what might be worth $150,000 in all of this? At a basic end, this seems to be similar to storing every other character of a suitable hash on two n

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