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Aha! So there is. So it's not bad implementation, just bad UI design. So the trick is: - Change your email address to something like kjghoyvgljhbvljhvkljhbv@mailinator.com. - If yo…

Made a new account? I don't know. It's kind of crazy that there's no "forgot password" option. I can understand not allowing account deletion, because you don't want to break conve…

I agree with most of his points. I stopped reading Slashdot because I didn't like how the voting affected my interaction with the site, and I went cold turkey on Reddit and haven't…

It's an intriguing idea, but like the correlation between margarine consumption and divorce, or the rise in global warming and the reduction in pirates, it needs more than intrigue…

And thence comes most of the really stupid arguments on Facebook that aren't about guns or Firefly. This is why I long to own a t-shirt bearing the words "Practising Peddant".

In Year Eight at school, I had an English teacher who liked to mix things up a little. One time, I was answering a question in class, and I used "different to" or "different from" …

As another commenter here pointed out, it's preferred , not correct . This is the old prescriptivist vs descriptivist debate, as seen among linguists. (Disclaimer: I am not a lingu…

Ha! I didn't even notice the error - read it as "Data Mining" two or three times.

This is a dangerous article. I was nodding and saying "I knew it!" so often, I got a sore neck.

Not according to his Wikipedia article, at least. My theory was that the govt wasn't letting him back in the country because someone saw the Hitch Hiker's Guide movie and decided t…

Coming back to the original post, I wrote a proof-of-concept Braille output program for a daisy wheel printer. Basic idea was: take a line of text input, eg "hello". Convert to Bra…

Are you old enough to remember daisy wheel printers? Basically, the computerised equivalent of a typewriter, with the individual letters on a daisy-like wheel that spun around unde…

The former government (centre-right Labor party) promised FTTH or FTTP (Fibre To The Home/Premises) but that was scrapped when the slightly-less-centre-and-more-far-right Liberal p…

Pretty sure it was the way hi-res graphics worked on the VIC-20 too -- 22 characters by 8 pixels per character = 176 pixels wide, multi-colour mode where each block of 8x8 pixels h…

I learned Turbo Pascal in an MS-DOS emulator running on old green-screen Burroughs smart terminals, circa 1987. I knew the terminals had some sort of graphics capacity because thei…

Looks like you right click on a cubelet to make it active, but in Firefox under Linux that pops up a right-click menu. Double-click would have been a better choice for that functio…

Logic says that someone who spends more time in front of a computer is less healthy than someone who spends less time in front of a computer. I think it's solid enough logic that t…

I'm amazed he wasn't dead years ago. Seventy four is a good twenty years younger than I kind of assumed he would be. He was only forty when he did the design for Alien? I know he a…

That's pretty cool. I like how it would seem to support literate programming at a lower level than just extensive comments (which always seem to go stale) or long variable names (w…

My major objections boil down to aesthetics and culture. The themes and layouts that shipped with Drupal 6 and below were all eye-bleedingly ugly, really obviously designed by deve…

It's a magical place.

Quite a good description of VMware et al, I thought. I frequently need to explain that technology to non-geeks; this is the description I'll be using from now on. Why on Earth did …

I don't remember, sorry.

Amen, brother! Or sister. Or eukaryotic organisms. Whatever. So what happened to Squiz? It was the godawful piece of shit that I criticised in the /. post that kinda-sorta lost me …

sniuff is right, Drupal is all PHP, through and through. As for Wordpress's alleged speed problems, I haven't had any trouble. The speed of development for WP is way ahead of that …