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abdulhaq

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About abdulhaq

z80, basic and lisp programmer made good and still surviving

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    Comment #48324433

    I'm with the Tal Shiar on this one

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    Comment #47765398

    If you run a statistical sample on modern maths books, it becomes clear that maths is usually about 6cm x 5cm.

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    Comment #47737141

    I found Showstopper! even more compelling

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    Comment #47440166

    > Sometimes the interpolated detail is wrong you just (correctly) negated your own claim

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    Comment #47194379

    Israel _creates_ extreme right Islamist ideology as a reaction to its genocidal and expansionist behavior.

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    Comment #46669115

    Yes she's fine thanks, one of the docs kindly dragged himself to the unit and plucked the thing out with some forceps :-)

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    Comment #46665923

    When she was 4 my daughter managed to shove one of those trackpad caps up her nose. At first she was going for the clown look but ended up in frantic tears and a visit to A&E at 2a…

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    Comment #46649145

    You might be right but the gallery owner has probably learnt that disputing the authenticity of his pieces with walk in punters rarely leads to a fruitful discussion

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    Comment #46106834

    Actually, back in the day Andersens (and EDS) were some of the few companies that could deliver really big systems (for all their faults) e.g. https://accountancyage.com/2000/03/16…

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    Comment #46023617

    For anyone who has read about this period, such as The Soul Of A New Machine, there's some great stories on this site.

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    Comment #45858380

    That's a fair question, for one thing white space is often important and sometimes very important, so we need spacing to be very clear. Also it can be useful to have vertical align…

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    Comment #45836838

    Sn act of Providence means an act of God expressed in this way so as not to disturb those who don't like to talk about God

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    Comment #45737103

    To me, in the UK, it sounds like there is an opportunity here for some sort of centralised representation and/or app that can fight claims for people

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    Comment #45634535

    When I was a physics student at Oxford in 1983-86 I was a voracious reader and the Beats figured in that. Ginsberg travelled through Oxford for a day or two and gave some street pe…

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    Comment #45617715

    Tie that kidney off for me would you please nurse, my date is waiting for me. Two bowlines and a sheepshank should suffice.

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    Comment #45556942

    I loved the Quarterdeck stuff especially Desqview

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    Comment #45452399

    Fortunately the world has woken up and the coming generation sees the truth.

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    Comment #45452032

    Ethnic cleansing is deeply wrong, starvation as a tactic of war is horribly wrong, we all know what's happening, please have some respect for peoples' intelligence.

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    Comment #45451291

    even if it was true, and the charities say it is not, would that make it OK to starve the people of Gaza?

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    Comment #45403875

    The www was a fairly obvious idea that was just waiting for the right technology to power It. It would not have been possible to keep it to yourself and charge for it.

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    Comment #45387877

    Can anyone tell me why numbers in this article are being rendered higgledy-piggledy on my browser, Firefox / Windows 11?

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    Comment #45005871

    Then again, plenty of people pickle themselves while alive

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    Comment #44796412

    it doesn't need to dominate run times when it's being called by hundreds of millions of pages every day. The power saving worldwide will be considerable.