nwp90

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by nwp90 10y ago
There was no snark - just a need to come up with a set of different names for Mozilla software modified as necessary by Debian.
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by nwp90 11y ago
I'm curious as to how this (which I know as a "French Prussik") could possibly be jammed. IME, and that of the guides who recommended it to me, this is far less likely to cause jamming problems than a traditional single or do
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by nwp90 11y ago
I'm sure there are several valuable lessons hidden away in there - concerning assumptions, human factors, jumping to "obvious" solutions without having verified the actual cause of a problem, unintended consequences etc. etc.
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by nwp90 11y ago
When I lived in London, and used buses fairly regularly, I started thinking about ways to improve the service and stop bunching. I considered the reason stated here, and some of the solutions, but later realised that the root cause was tha
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by nwp90 12y ago
No, it doesn't. There's no reason for the proportion of people looking for perl related stuff who use "perl language" as a search term to change over time. That proportion might affect the absolute numbers, but not the t
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by nwp90 12y ago
If you read "Into Thin Air", make sure you also read "The Death Zone" by Matt Dickinson - an interestingly different perspective on the same event.
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by nwp90 12y ago
"My fear is that teachers will now choose for Windows on the RPi, since that is what they know." Well, no. Almost none will have used Windows without the GUI.
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by nwp90 12y ago
Seems more likely Broadcom have been helpful than MS from what the RPi folk have said. I'd guess that they weren't originally expecting it to be feasible to get what appears to be a custom SoC made. Note that when the B+ board was
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by nwp90 12y ago
I noticed libreoffice doing this yesterday. Very disappointing.
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by nwp90 12y ago
In the UK and France, the +1 was available for use by traffic travelling in either direction. It sounds like in this case, they're talking about one side being allowed to use it for a spell, and then the other. Similar to the overtakin
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by nwp90 12y ago
sigh http://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ Worth reading once, if you keep wondering why everyone is slagging off the language you love (and that language is PHP).
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by nwp90 12y ago
The earlier message in the same thread explains more concisely why he did not implement namespaces: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2014-12/msg007...
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by nwp90 12y ago
If you saw them, they weren't doing it right.
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by nwp90 12y ago
A lot of people seem to miss the point that the Knowledge also acts as a deterrent to bad behaviour by proper cabbies - they have too much invested in their license to be likely to throw it away lightly.
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by nwp90 12y ago
A neighbour of some of my bees had a Labrador pup that kept trying to catch bees in its mouth. It apparently reacted badly (which became expensive), and didn't learn. Had to move the hives in the end.
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by nwp90 12y ago
This - http://www.amazon.com/Guide-Bees-Honey-Selling-Beekeeping/dp... - is one of the "standard" books, in the UK at least.
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by nwp90 12y ago
I agree (in that I wasn't impressed by that project) :) - also trying to find time to build temp/humidity/weight/sound monitoring. Would be interested to hear your thoughts. monsterlemon@gmail.com
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by nwp90 12y ago
Yes. In NZ we don't have them, but one of the guys who works for AsureQuality (google them) on bee-related stuff here is from Paraguay, and his description of beekeeping experience there (where basically all their bees are apparently A
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by nwp90 12y ago
Yes, it's different, but the article was trying argue that since "X" wasn't used in that context at the time it was introduced as a GUI element, the GUI element couldn't possibly be referencing the letter as a way o
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by nwp90 12y ago
No 'x' to close vi? Was that not always there? I've certainly been using it as long as I can remember; that's not to say it's always been there though - does anyone know when it was first available? Edit: seems Word
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by nwp90 12y ago
Yes. Signal for Android will be coming, apparently, and will integrate RedPhone and TextSecure capabilities. According to the original article, "Signal will be a unified private voice and text communication platform for iPhone, Android
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by nwp90 12y ago
Why not just add a means of invoking it such that it generates "special" method names when used by Apple, and (if necessary) use the license to require that they use them?
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by nwp90 12y ago
Except that it doesn't measure the actual using at all; I seem to recall there being rather more interesting stats than just vanilla "market share" in the iOS vs Android comparison that show that while more people have Andr
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by nwp90 12y ago
Facebook needs to move to Oculus, not try to tie Oculus to what Facebook currently is. If they're thinking more that way, there's hope. I have very little faith in them allowing anything remotely awesome to come out of this, thoug
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by nwp90 13y ago
Are you aware of the history of the City of London Corporation? And its voting structure? If so, to try to equate it with any other government anywhere, seems rather disingenuous. If not, I suggest you have a look on wikipedia: http:/
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by nwp90 13y ago
I think a project that is to continue to be relevant for the long-term needs a vision, and that that comes from a leader. Once the leader is gone, the vision doesn't develop. At some point the original vision will no longer fit the cha
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by nwp90 13y ago
I've got two U2713HM. One at work, connected to a Mac Mini (HD4000) via displayport. The other at home using HDMI (so not up to full native res). The only problems have been caused by the Mac Mini (and have happened no matter what the
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by nwp90 13y ago
The Norweigans do: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skjold-class_patrol_boat
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by nwp90 13y ago
Ha. I have never started contributing to Stack Overflow, because it won't let me. It appears that you can't provide answers without first asking questions. When I have questions, I use Google or IRC. Every now and then Google th
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by nwp90 13y ago
You seem to be missing their point; they were worried that previously, there was a possibility of their servers etc. being seized for investigation (a la Megaupload) based on these dodgy wire transfers. They believe that in Iceland there is

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