China, a country with a vast land mass, a vast economy, and 1.5 BILLION people, are worried about being able to absorb a few million NK refugees? I'm not buying that one.
I'm gonna repeat my usual spiel here: use Bitbucket. Github's only real benefit is its network graph - I'd like to see Bitbucket implement that. But I jumped ship to Bitbucket a while back so I could get attachments on my issue tracker and never looked back. Free private repos too. And for a "social coding" site, Github doesn't have very much social stuff going on. There's no forum - just some lame web form for feedback that Github never seems to respond to.
Oh and I remember seeing a talk from one of the main Github developers some time ago and he kept saying "fuck" all the time like Beavis & Butthead. Not impressive.
On the other hand, loads of free software is a PITA to get running on a Redhat-based distro and most tutorials tend to have Debian install instructions but not Redhat ones. I'm pretty glad I switched to Debian.
C#/CLR is much quicker when directly responding to HTTP requests; Java/JVM is a bit quicker when going through the popular web servers / stacks Tomcat and IIS.
Heh... if they're dictating tab width, they're doing it wrong. If you must have a certain tab width, you should be using spaces for everything or you lose the whole benefit of tabs - letting people choose their preferred indentation size.
Use tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment. That way you'll never go wrong. Looks like this was one of the less "beautiful" things about the Doom 3 code.
Yet the fourth plateau is the realization that if one vendor becomes extremely powerful, it tends to create huge barriers of entry for others and so your choice is reduced, sometimes drastically, and therefore it can be a good idea to just arbitrarily support competition even if what everyone uses is good enough right now.
In addition, Chrome's UI is way too minimalistic for everyday use in my opinion, and completely uncustomizable. I detest having a close button on every tab - I regularly close Chrome tabs by accident - but they stubbornly refuse to do a damn thing about it.
This is exactly like the UK, at least for the first 2 years. As long as you tell your employee you fired them because eg. you tossed a coin, they called heads, and lost, it's OK to fire them and there is no unfair dismissal. This is what the government calls being "employer friendly". It's ludicrous.
I think that's a glib answer. It's a bit like saying "anyone can climb Mount Everest, if they practice hard enough". Yeah, but it's still really hard, and some of us are the social equivalent of a fat guy with diabetes in a wheelchair trying to climb Everest. You ought to be sympathetic.:-)
Depends what you mean by "easier". "More chance of success", yeah maybe. But I think the point being made is that for some people it can just be plain difficult to muster up the courage to randomly walk up to a woman you don't know and say hi. Especially considering what is implied by that - "I think you're attractive and would quite like to go to bed with you." It's very unlikely a man would randomly introduce himself to a woman for any other reason, if there's no shared interest or anything.
Finally dipping my toe in the water with an SSD for the desktop machine
My advice: get on with it. I had a 2-year-old Seagate platter drive just die on me the other day (could hear the read head scraping the platter). Meanwhile my 5-year-old Kingston SSD has slowed down a lot, but is still chugging along. And I use that with Windows XP, heavily, as my main drive. At worst, it will probably revert to read-only mode, while my platter based drive is dead as a dodo. Good job I make backups. I plan now to only ever buy SSDs; these days, you can just about get affordable 512GB SSDs and in a few years, 1TB ones will be affordable. Goodbye platter drives; can't say I'm too sad to be leaving you.:-)
Just that the large majority who have gas-powered vehicles get cranky about being asked to pay more, while people with electric vehicles get to use the roads for "free".
Why don't those dickheads buy electric cars then? Presumably it would save them money if it's so cheap.
How did stuff like SimCity and Civilization get made in the good old days? I'm guessing they didn't need such an enormous budget. RollerCoaster Tycoon was almost completely programmed by Chris Sawyer. I'd put up with less of their shiny 3d graphics for games that are just fun to play.
What do you mean "faked up to kilo"? I know full well that I weigh ~90 kilograms (or 95,000 grams). That's the great thing about metric, that it's easy to just change orders of magnitude with a change of the prefix. There's no faking going on, it's working as designed.
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China, a country with a vast land mass, a vast economy, and 1.5 BILLION people, are worried about being able to absorb a few million NK refugees? I'm not buying that one.
Care to mention which supplier this is you use?
I'm gonna repeat my usual spiel here: use Bitbucket. Github's only real benefit is its network graph - I'd like to see Bitbucket implement that. But I jumped ship to Bitbucket a while back so I could get attachments on my issue tracker and never looked back. Free private repos too. And for a "social coding" site, Github doesn't have very much social stuff going on. There's no forum - just some lame web form for feedback that Github never seems to respond to.
Oh and I remember seeing a talk from one of the main Github developers some time ago and he kept saying "fuck" all the time like Beavis & Butthead. Not impressive.
On the other hand, loads of free software is a PITA to get running on a Redhat-based distro and most tutorials tend to have Debian install instructions but not Redhat ones. I'm pretty glad I switched to Debian.
C#/CLR is much quicker when directly responding to HTTP requests; Java/JVM is a bit quicker when going through the popular web servers / stacks Tomcat and IIS.
What racism? Do you mean the ban on minarets? That isn't racism.
As cats only live 10-20 years, locking them at age 5 would be more like perpetual middle-aged cats. :-)
Good job I'm still using Windows XP!
Luckily, IPv6-only connections are becoming less useless every day.
Yep. I love browsing Slashdot at home with my IPv6 conn... oh wait.
Heh... if they're dictating tab width, they're doing it wrong. If you must have a certain tab width, you should be using spaces for everything or you lose the whole benefit of tabs - letting people choose their preferred indentation size.
Use tabs for indentation, spaces for alignment. That way you'll never go wrong. Looks like this was one of the less "beautiful" things about the Doom 3 code.
Yet the fourth plateau is the realization that if one vendor becomes extremely powerful, it tends to create huge barriers of entry for others and so your choice is reduced, sometimes drastically, and therefore it can be a good idea to just arbitrarily support competition even if what everyone uses is good enough right now.
In addition, Chrome's UI is way too minimalistic for everyday use in my opinion, and completely uncustomizable. I detest having a close button on every tab - I regularly close Chrome tabs by accident - but they stubbornly refuse to do a damn thing about it.
And if the UK were split into constituent parts, no US state is likely to be worse than Scotland for general health and life expectancy.
That's nothing. North Korea is even worse!
It's already been pointed out that the reason why the United States has "high" infant mortality is that we count ALL live births as a live birth
Hell, some Americans count every fertilized ovum as a live birth. :-)
This is exactly like the UK, at least for the first 2 years. As long as you tell your employee you fired them because eg. you tossed a coin, they called heads, and lost, it's OK to fire them and there is no unfair dismissal. This is what the government calls being "employer friendly". It's ludicrous.
Except that my mobile phone plan includes all-you-can-eat data. :-) What do you have to say about that, Nokia?
I think that's a glib answer. It's a bit like saying "anyone can climb Mount Everest, if they practice hard enough". Yeah, but it's still really hard, and some of us are the social equivalent of a fat guy with diabetes in a wheelchair trying to climb Everest. You ought to be sympathetic. :-)
Depends what you mean by "easier". "More chance of success", yeah maybe. But I think the point being made is that for some people it can just be plain difficult to muster up the courage to randomly walk up to a woman you don't know and say hi. Especially considering what is implied by that - "I think you're attractive and would quite like to go to bed with you." It's very unlikely a man would randomly introduce himself to a woman for any other reason, if there's no shared interest or anything.
Here's a decent 480GB SSD: http://www.ebuyer.com/284750-ocz-480gb-agilitry-3-ssd-agt3-25sat3-480g
It now costs 347.64 pounds ($557.55) but I recently paid 290 pounds ($465) for it! So you can get really decent-sized quality SSDs if you shop around.
Finally dipping my toe in the water with an SSD for the desktop machine
My advice: get on with it. I had a 2-year-old Seagate platter drive just die on me the other day (could hear the read head scraping the platter). Meanwhile my 5-year-old Kingston SSD has slowed down a lot, but is still chugging along. And I use that with Windows XP, heavily, as my main drive. At worst, it will probably revert to read-only mode, while my platter based drive is dead as a dodo. Good job I make backups. I plan now to only ever buy SSDs; these days, you can just about get affordable 512GB SSDs and in a few years, 1TB ones will be affordable. Goodbye platter drives; can't say I'm too sad to be leaving you. :-)
Stones for weight? I'm about 85kg. It's not hard to switch, you just need to look at the metric part of the dial.
Just that the large majority who have gas-powered vehicles get cranky about being asked to pay more, while people with electric vehicles get to use the roads for "free".
Why don't those dickheads buy electric cars then? Presumably it would save them money if it's so cheap.
How did stuff like SimCity and Civilization get made in the good old days? I'm guessing they didn't need such an enormous budget. RollerCoaster Tycoon was almost completely programmed by Chris Sawyer. I'd put up with less of their shiny 3d graphics for games that are just fun to play.
... of course I meant ~95 kilograms back there. :-)
What do you mean "faked up to kilo"? I know full well that I weigh ~90 kilograms (or 95,000 grams). That's the great thing about metric, that it's easy to just change orders of magnitude with a change of the prefix. There's no faking going on, it's working as designed.