stoney

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by stoney 14y ago
These projects are still extremely awesome for those of us running older CPUs!
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by stoney 14y ago
As they are being featured their promo art is shown to users before they get to the page for that particular app (see the screenshots for their new and old images - you can see it is part of a scrolling bar of promo images). If they weren't
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by stoney 15y ago
I was thinking that I would be reluctant too, but then I realised that I have given plenty of SaaS companys my CC up front - sometimes not even for a free trial (but usually with a moneyback guarantee). E.g Linode and JungleDisk.
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by stoney 15y ago
I wouldn't have called it poor English! I wouldn't have guessed from the text that you aren't a native English speaker - I had to check your About page to be sure. Your writing isn't as polished as, say, Paul Graham's writing, but then ver
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by stoney 15y ago
Australia has a long history of making bad decisions involving the local wildlife, which is why they are now super-cautious when it comes to things like this.
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by stoney 15y ago
Take advantage of what you've paid for, but be aware that what you have paid for is far more than just access to educators and educational resources. Make connections with as many people as you can: fellow students, grad students, professor
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by stoney 15y ago
It's not okay to plagiarise someone else's thesis paper, because the entire point of a thesis paper is to demonstrate your own ability to think/research/etc. If you plagiarise a paper you can fully expect your university/college/school to
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by stoney 15y ago
Not sure why this is downvoted. I think it's probably right. I get randomly selected for the bomb test almost 100% of the time in Australia. I don't think there is anything about me that is being discriminated against (typical white male)
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by stoney 15y ago
There is an unstable mode in some aircraft (maybe only small aircraft?) where it enters into a kind of spiral dive. When you are sat in a plane where that is happening (I have done this in a training exercise) you really cannot feel anythi
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by stoney 15y ago
If everyone used UTC you'd still have many of the same problems, just in reverse. For example, you can reasonably guess that in any country, an office will be staffed on weekdays from roughly 9-5 local time. If we all operated on UTC, the
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by stoney 15y ago
I found it very straightforward finding a partner to climb with when I started. Rock climbing gyms are very friendly places in my experience, and as others have said, most will have some kind of system for pairing up people who are looking
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by stoney 15y ago
I use installers for things I deem to be key packages (numpy, scipy, stuff like that) and use virtualenv and pip to set up project specific sets of packages. I really don't know what to do with egg files, I've never had to use one directly
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by stoney 15y ago
I use Python on Windows for various things, primarily number crunching. Mostly I use it as a better (for me) Matlab, but it's also handy for random scripting tasks. And why do I use Windows? Excel.
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by stoney 15y ago
As a data point for your London vs not London question - if you work for a university in London (vs a university outside of London) you normally get something like an extra £2.5k per year as a "London allowance". I think public service typ
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by stoney 15y ago
It's not a perfect comparison, I agree. Probably I shouldn't have mentioned your house. It's more like the police getting a warrant to search a company's premises. My thought process went a little like this... Presumably the police could
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by stoney 15y ago
Is this all that different than the police entering your house (with a warrant) to look for evidence? I'd say they have reasonable cause to believe that they will find evidence in the messages.
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by stoney 15y ago
The British government often comes up with poorly thought out policy ideas, but in fairness, these ideas rarely end up as actual laws - the obvious logic flaws are picked up on sooner or later. I suspect it's just a case that they needed g
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by stoney 15y ago
> your choice in email host is a reflection on you Actually my choice to use hotmail is a reflection of me X years ago when I created the account. It is also a reflection of the state of free web based providers X years ago. You don't
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by stoney 15y ago
I think that's pretty hard to do in these post-concord days? Though if you lived close to a time zone border it could be a problem. There are towns straddling the Queensland-New South Wales border in Australia. There is a one hour time di
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by stoney 15y ago
Yes, very true. Doesn't work very well for events where people are attending from multiple time zones. I was thinking more of events that I attend in person. But I'll use the paper diary example again - if I was in Mombassa and was due to
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by stoney 15y ago
> You have to tell it a time zone or else the calendar app will not know what time you mean It seems logical to me that whatever time I write in my calendar app is the time that I expect something to happen. I.e. it is the local time a
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by stoney 15y ago
> I run http://whirlpool.net.au An excellent and very useful forum! It seems like whatever topic I'm searching for, google(.com.au) returns a useful result on your site.
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by stoney 15y ago
That's assuming that people's choice of bookstore is influenced by links. When I buy a book from a website (or pretty much anything from a website) I always check the price on Amazon. So the only way the affiliate program helps them to se
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by stoney 15y ago
I wouldn't focus on technologies if you are interested in doing this - focus on the types of work/projects you can do. What job could you do from home? If you can do it from home you can do it from anywhere. For example, I am a researcher
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by stoney 15y ago
I went through a phase of copy/pasting double inputs. That phase ended when I copy/pasted a mistake from the first input and it caused a whole lot of hassle sorting it out. Now I just make myself type it twice. I tell myself it's for my o
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by stoney 15y ago
Exactly. I didn't mean to imply that pointers are evil or should be avoided. That was supposed to be the point of my dynamite analogy, but I guess the comment made elsewhere on this topic about the inadequacies of analogies holds true her
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by stoney 15y ago
When I used to work in building design, I used to create lots of charts of various climate data for projects in new regions where I didn't know much about the climate (and also for eye candy in presentations). One of those charts was very
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by stoney 15y ago
I think he means that pointers are unsafe in the same way that dynamite is unsafe. They both have legitimate uses, but you need to be very careful when you are using them. (Rather than unsafe in the sense of don't use them at all). I lik
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by stoney 15y ago
I got around the problem of needing to show data from a non-SSL map server on an https site by using reverse proxying. So my javascript requests the map tiles from a URL on my site (over https), the server then forwards the request to the
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by stoney 15y ago
And even those who are in there primarily because they want to learn will be very aware that getting a good grade in the exam will most likely improve their job prospects on graduating. Learning to ace an exam in the minimum time possible f

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