nomoresecrets

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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
The worst part about the implementation is that the browser icons often appear unsorted initially, and then the sort kicks in 0-5 seconds later, and they all shuffle. This has caught me out at least twice by clicking on a browser icon to ch
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
The solution is to get a decent external keyboard. A laptop keyboard is never going to be good. Stop dancing around the issue - get a decent keyboard. I started to get wrist pain about 10 years ago, which worried me. This was right aroun
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
http://developer.android.com/reference/java/lang/Compiler.ht... "The Android reference implementation does not (yet) contain such a JIT compiler, though other implementations may choose to provide one." I thought that was one of the compl
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
The url itself is quite odd (firefox instead of facebook).
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
Mine is a stock iPhone. No jailbreaking or other shenanigans.
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
"Software apps or Apple can push updates I don’t want." The badge on my iPhone's App Store icon that says '34' seems to suggest otherwise.
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
It's certainly the only explanation that fits the facts. The only one.
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
This reminds me of a point I heard someone make about (I think) a Heinlein novel. Heinlein (or whoever :)) had predicted the widespread use of telephone answering machines. Their point is that this was kind of easy to do - but what Heinle
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
Odd. I have two 1920x1280 monitors (arranged as yours). With my mouse acceleration I can go from extreme left to extreme right without much effort (don't have to lift my palm off the desk). Yet I can easily hit small targets a few pixels
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
Maybe it's this line: "That's it for now. I really apologize for any inconvenience this may cause, but I hope you understand that this is fully beyond our control." ...because I've never written an Amazon API app, but even I know they have
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
There are an awful lot of people who never use the address bar - they just go to google.com and type the URL into that. So this kind of makes sense.
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
Maybe, but a lot of interviewers ask questions like this because they love being smug about catching people out for not asking about requirements before starting. I was in an interview where a couple of the interviewers asked me to do somet
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
I know I can't be alone in being super-excited that all those annoying Flash ads for dog food are going to work just fine on my mobile phone too.
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
If you search for leopard dildos on SL, it asks "Specify type of leopard"
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
Agreed. Whenever I see one of those operator precedence tables in a programming language book, I just skip it. Other than BODMAS, I have no real idea what precendence logical/bitwise operators etc have - I just use parentheses, and always
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
You may also like the story of LEO then: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Computer-Called-LEO-Worlds-Office/dp...
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
And what's funny about trojans?
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
Also got redirected to some (presumably malware) antivirusscan site.
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
"Consumer banking has always been free in the UK." No, it hasn't. Charges for writing cheques, withdrawals, etc were common at one point. I remember the switch to free banking in the UK when I was a child - not having to pay anything to us
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
When I check my GMail spam folder, I get spams at about the rate of one per minute these days. Filtering those manually became unworkable for me years ago. I maybe see a spam in my inbox once a day. It goes up and down, as spammers find wo
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
Yes, in many ways, Jeff 'took one for the team' in a big way, in that he reminded a lot of people to "Er...I'll just check my backups and make sure they're working." We're tech types, but e.g. I know a programmer who never backed up his l
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
iirc, squatting is the best position for humans for this activity. (You can probably work out why; something to do with the lack of toilets at some point in history)
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
When you test airbags, you have to then replace them. This is possibly the worst car analogy ever :-)
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
As mentioned already, the book Peopleware has a section the Black Team, which predates this article by quite a few years.
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
When I was interviewing C++ programmers, we had a C++ test, and some stock questions I asked face to face. However, I found I could pretty much weed the good C++ programmers from the mediocre/just read about C++ before the interview by aski
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
Yeah, Dell are great at support. </sarcasm> My Dad's PC had a DVD-ROM drive that died. I was on the phone to Dell support for A WHOLE DAY. THe problem was trivial, but I got shunted around, told to try all the crappy shovelware sh
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
"Instead you would doom billions to death and starvation, because during the transition time you need young people to support the old." Not if we kill them when they reach the age of 30.
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
"I know for a fact that most public accounts of Google interviews are wrong." Out of interest, how do you know this for a fact? I presume you were actually at most of these interviews?
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
Sounds like somebody needs to read 'No Silver Bullet' again, especially the part about Essence vs Accident.
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by nomoresecrets 17y ago
"I hadn't really seen this coming from Microsoft" Not even when they first announced it at PDC2008 a year ago?

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