stusmith1977

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by stusmith1977 8y ago
Wouldn't it have been more sensible to do the launch from somewhere nearer the edge of the earth?
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by stusmith1977 12y ago
I tried pinterest a while back (so apologies if it's changed since)... I remember the sign-up process was awful. Part of the sign up process forces you to follow a certain number of other people. I just wanted a blank page to start add
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by stusmith1977 12y ago
What was always worse was that the choices never came with any explanation. I remember a while back trying some flavour of Linux or other, and during installation it asked (paraphrased): "Use Nautilus or Thunar?" I imagine the sto
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by stusmith1977 12y ago
And on desktop too. Page up / page down keys don't work unless you focus the page. There is a scrollbar within a scrollbar.
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by stusmith1977 12y ago
In situations like this, you can report the bug to Microsoft Connect: 1. Submit bug report. 2. Wait six months. 3. MS tech will post a comment, "this will be fixed in the next release". 4. Wait two more years. 5. Bug report will b
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by stusmith1977 12y ago
I've found the "24 Days of Hackage" series incredibly useful - each day is a brief introduction to a useful Haskell library, many of which show off features of Haskell that aren't available in 'standard' langua
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by stusmith1977 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_insolvency_law#U... and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trading_while_insolvent
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by stusmith1977 13y ago
I can't remember how tight I made it... but I would think you need a couple spare: one for the number of iterations, and another for the screen stride. But yes, spilling registers like SP and LR is a useful trick if you need it.
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by stusmith1977 13y ago
Reminds me fondly of the time I was writing assembler for the ARM2/3... it had such a nice instruction set that made hand-writing assembler pleasant. It had a "barrel shifter" that gave you free shifts of powers of two, so yo
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by stusmith1977 13y ago
Surely open-source handset OSes are just as vulnerable to patent attacks? If Firefox OS were to take off, it would immediately become a target for exactly the same sort of lawsuit.
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by stusmith1977 13y ago
The article compares to other first world countries, where I seriously doubt there is a problem with (under-)reporting infant deaths.
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by stusmith1977 13y ago
It's not just kids who are reassured by cosmetic changes. MRIs used to be called NMRs. People freaked out because of the word 'nuclear'.
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by stusmith1977 13y ago
The problem there is the word "allotment". How can you allocate in advance how many sick days to give? If you allot (say) four days sick each year, and an employee is sick three times, surely the rational choice towards the end of
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by stusmith1977 13y ago
Does "verbatim" mode approach what you need? Google won't attempt to guess what words it thought you meant in that mode.
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by stusmith1977 13y ago
Judges flaunt the law, surely? I mean, if you're wearing a huge wig and robes, you've got to be flaunting something.
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by stusmith1977 13y ago
The press could mention it, that would be a start. BBC news for instance barely mentioned the proposed blocking. The only stories to hit the front page (and then, right at the bottom in the Tech section) were the links to Huawei and the spa
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by stusmith1977 13y ago
And in fact, writing scads of dumb code is often the sign of a poor developer. It often follows from the "never turn back" mentality, that leads them to follow an initial poor choice of solution through to the bitter end.
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by stusmith1977 14y ago
Steam Cloud Sync can be a bit flaky at times, which is annoying when you play something like Civ V on multiple machines.
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by stusmith1977 14y ago
I'm going to add step 5b - save what SQL you executed (against what server, and for what reason), ideally in source control, as an audit trail. Otherwise, I end up having this conversation (which actually happened): Him: <Big Client&#62
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by stusmith1977 14y ago
Lego Education does a spare parts catalog - but not sure if you can buy from it as a private individual. I used to use something similar when I was a kid - I couldn't afford (say) a complete new pneumatic set, so I just bought a pneumatics
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by stusmith1977 14y ago
I'd add one more thing to this article: don't throw these projects away, even if they seem failed/doomed/incomplete. Store them somewhere. Back them up. Whatever. You might need them. Back when I was a teenager, I wanted to write an art pac
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by stusmith1977 14y ago
The UK did use legislation to gradually switch to the metric system, with certain exceptions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication_in_the_United_Kingd... One major way in which metrication is being introduced properly is via schools -
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by stusmith1977 14y ago
The selling point would be that you might only need one car instead of two - which would make 25k more attractive than 2x20k. The use of a self-drive car isn't that it drives you to the office, it's that it drives itself back home for your
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by stusmith1977 14y ago
Agreed. As I understand it, these automatics kick in when there's a certainty of a crash ahead if no action is taken. In those circumstances, it's better to avoid the certain crash and take a risk on a uncertain shunt from behind. On a simi
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by stusmith1977 14y ago
I vaguely remember there was some discussion of this in 'Metamagical Themas' by Douglas Hofstader. It's been a while since if I read it, but if I remember correctly he drew some parallels between law and provability in maths - basically, yo
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by stusmith1977 14y ago
Hearos ( http://www.hearos.com/ ) do a really nice range... I find their foamy ones amazing, comfortable and blocking even quite load noises.
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by stusmith1977 14y ago
Bingo. So many genetic/evolutionary algorithms assume you need a large population with crossover to avoid these supposed 'local minima'. Very often, the most efficient evolutionary search algorithm involves a population of one (or two, depe
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Changing my mind on Microsoft(brontecapital.blogspot.co.uk)
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by stusmith1977 14y ago
I've got a Lenovo G770. Not particularly pretty but seems solid and has a nice big 17" screen for a decent price. I dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu without problems.
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by stusmith1977 14y ago
It's a shame the website had a white background, and the video had a black background. The borderless, chromeless video could have looked awesome if it had the same background color as the webpage itself - it would have merged in nicely. In

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