radio4fan

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by radio4fan 1y ago
Yes, we sure are lucky that natural born Americans have never implemented anything poorly
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by radio4fan 1y ago
> Personally, I find this kind of protesting abhorrent. Yeah? I find raising ducks in dark sheds so you can kill them because you like the taste abhorrent, with or without force feeding.
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by radio4fan 2y ago
I have an AA1 somewhere, mine has an Intel Atom. Worked great until I updated Linux to discover that I could no longer install the stupid proprietary driver for the graphics, so lost hardware accelerated graphics. Was never able to downgrad
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by radio4fan 2y ago
All good advice IMO. The _reason_ for the /posts/98765/my-dumplings-recipe pattern is SEO (ugh). It is thought that search engines give extra weight to urls which contain relevant keywords. You can invariably put anything aft
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by radio4fan 11y ago
I'm expecting a strong correlation with my upcoming study "Women Like Their Partners to Spend Time Hanging Out With Their Buddies, as Long as it is by a Committed Partner", and its follow-ups "Women Like Their Partners
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by radio4fan 11y ago
> We will in fact “take [our] toys and play in another sandbox,” because some of us actually care about the past and future of humanity as a race and our place in the stars. Take it to La Palma, please. It needs the investment and constr
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by radio4fan 11y ago
I absolutely agree. And I don't buy their justification for going down the app route in the first place: "But by the middle of 2011, six months after we launched in our app, more than half of installed web browsers were still not
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by radio4fan 11y ago
> I don't like the trend of narrower and narrower line widths (It looks bad enough on my laptop, on a 2k screen 700px width would just look ridiculous); The line length (measure) on that page is about 60 ems. This is much longer tha
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by radio4fan 11y ago
Or looking at it another way, OP has trained the client to continue to act this way by rewarding his undesirable behaviour. Its like giving a dog a biscuit every time it pisses on the rug. Still, I feel that the fair solution to both part
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by radio4fan 11y ago
> My experience of working for agencies is they want to pay a fixed price and will laugh you out of the agency at the idea of paying hourly Mine too, and I've been at this game for 16 years. In fact, my usual experience is agencies
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by radio4fan 11y ago
> Bookmarks: Rolled into Notebook, which was discontinued itself and pushed into Google Docs. So, I guess it's still there, kinda? Certainly looks like it's there to me: https://www.google.com/bookmarks/
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by radio4fan 11y ago
I inherited a (dreadful) application which had a hilariously lame 'rude words filter'. It checked for words on a banned list. The full list is here: http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=1Pv4v8j7 It contains such gems as
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by radio4fan 11y ago
Wait; you're supposed to log in with your Facebook login details, not click a 'log in with Facebook' button? Is this a crude phishing attempt, or just a massive WTF?
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by radio4fan 12y ago
I bought one of these about 15 years ago. The packaging was great, with lots of funny cards and stickers. Apparently now you get photos of Cliff with your actual bottle, and a personalised drawing on the box. I'm permanently on the mov
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by radio4fan 12y ago
But if you care about programmer productivity, you use jQuery, then you profile, then you optimise where required. The last step isn't usually necessary.
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by radio4fan 12y ago
While I have no opinion either way on your post, I felt that I should point out that Spain's government is not socialist. The party in power (Partido Popular) is on the right of Spanish politics, and sits with the right wing EPP group
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by radio4fan 12y ago
> It's not even competetive with bank transfers which costs me a flat fee of about 5€ to transfer funds using my banks internet portal to any other eu bank account. They charge you? These are free for me. In fact, EU law says that
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by radio4fan 12y ago
Awesome job of putting un-followable links in the press release, Reading University. I'm going to take this with a hug pinch of salt until I've read the transcripts, due to the involvement of famous publicity-hound Kevin Warwick.
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by radio4fan 12y ago
Scripting additions have always existed... I used work for a living in AppleScript nearly 20 years ago. Heavy drinking helps block out the memories.
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by radio4fan 12y ago
I'd have to doubt his claim, given this comment which shows they must be breeding: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7858130
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by radio4fan 12y ago
"hamburger menu" refers to a menu which pops out when you click on the 'menu' icon, which looks a bit like a stylised hamburger. => ☰
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by radio4fan 12y ago
Laravel isn't going away, even if Taylor gets hit by a bus. There's a huge and active Laravel community, it's just that Taylor is the benevolent dictator. If Taylor was hit by a bus, there would be plenty of others who woul
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by radio4fan 12y ago
Another option is to inject the script: A. At onDOMContentLoaded and B. Inside a setTimeout(func, 0) block Then the browser's loading indicator will stop before the script has been loaded, executed and all its assets loaded. Useful for
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by radio4fan 12y ago
Just tried it, and it makes no difference. Still waits for the CSS to load before requesting the script. At least, in Chrome.
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by radio4fan 12y ago
Yep, 4k is pretty wow indeed. My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81, which only had 1K or RAM, but there was 8K of ROM, and the BASIC interpreter was pretty, um basic.
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by radio4fan 12y ago
Indeed. And the privacy policy says: > Sharing data with third parties > We do not disclose an individual user’s data to third parties unless (1) you have given explicit consent to each such disclosure, (2) we are required to comply w
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by radio4fan 12y ago
I've lived in rural Normandy, and it's pretty cheap there too. You can get your large house, land, hunting licence, etc. It's even cheaper in the bit in the middle where no-one lives. Tax allowances in France mean you don&#x2
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by radio4fan 12y ago
To be fair, if the permission to receive mail is buried in TOS, then I'd consider it spam too. So I guess I attached my point to the wrong comment. But I know from industry experience that some people who explicitly sign up to mailing
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by radio4fan 12y ago
> It's like smiling and saying to a guy, "Here's my number", and not saying: "But if you call me, for any reason, I will report you for harrassment", without any indication that this is how you feel. Absolut
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by radio4fan 12y ago
Cheatsheet, perhaps?

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