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Comment Re:Stage magicians are entertainers (Score 1) 85

by WhoolaHoop on Sunday November 29, 2020 @01:49PM (#60776020) Attached to: Uri Geller Finally Apologizes for Suing Pokemon 20 Years Ago

He falsely presented himself as the real deal, not an entertainer at all. He is an anti-science charlatan. Knowingly misleading scientists into wasting significant parts of their career trying to reproduce this nonsense. There must be 10s of millions who still believe in this paranormal rubbish that was all over TV in the 70's, largely inspired by this guy. This con-man was an international superstar at the time and still a household name.

Comment Re:The Nobel Prize Committee blew it (Score 3, Informative) 276

by WhoolaHoop on Thursday October 09, 2014 @02:56PM (#48105255) Attached to: No Nobel For Nick Holonyak Jr, Father of the LED

In fact white leds are normally made by a "single colour" LED illuminating a phospor. Not by mixing red, green and blue.

Visual Studio 2010 Forces Tab Indenting 390

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 25, 2010 @12:26AM from the one-man's-readable dept.

An anonymous reader writes "For years, Microsoft has allowed Visual Studio users to define arbitrary tab widths, often to the dismay of those viewing the resultant code in other editors. With VS 2010, it appears that they have taken the next step of forcing tab width to be the same as the indent size in code. Two-space tabs anyone?"

Drupal's Dries Buytaert On Drupal 7 55

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday January 19, 2010 @12:57PM from the on-the-horizon dept.

itwbennett writes "The Drupal community has been working on Drupal 7 for two years, and there are 'hundreds of changes' to show for it, says Drupal creator Dries Buytaert in an interview with ITworld's Esther Schindler on the occasion of Drupal 7 going into Alpha test this week. Most notable for end users are 'some massive usability improvements,' says Buytaert, while site builders will see the greatest changes in the Drupal Content Construction Kit (CCK), which has been moved into the Drupal core. But one thing that hasn't changed is the not-so-easy upgrade path. 'The upgrade path for a Drupal site has never been really easy, to be honest,' Buytaert says. 'We do break backwards compatibility. It's a little bit painful because it requires all of the contributed modules — and there's 4,000-5,000 of them — to make changes.' But Buytaert doesn't think that's all bad. 'Innovation is key. Backwards compatibility limits innovation,' Buytaert contends. 'The rule we have is: We'll break the API if it makes a better API, and if it allows good innovation and progress to be made. Also: The second rule is that we'll never break people's data. We'll always provide an upgrade path for the data.'"

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