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by 0898 5y ago
If I may mount one small defence of the Touch Bar: it’s great for picking emoji.
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by 0898 5y ago
Future launched my career too. I started writing for .net in 1998 magazine when I was 15 and joined as a staff writer two years later. Fun fact: its editor, Richard Longhurst, went onto start Lovehoney.
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by 0898 5y ago
The British computer press of the 80s and 90s - magazines from the Future stable like Your Sinclair - pioneered a lot of the whimsical, zoo-TV style writing that’s popular now.
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by 0898 5y ago
It's not impossible that one day our rail network could stand shoulder to shoulder with GOV.UK and the NHS – which I don't think it's too hyperbolic to suggest are both the envy of the world.
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by 0898 5y ago
Wait. An IRC network has employees?
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by 0898 5y ago
"The key to comedy is to put a delicate idea indelicately or an indelicate idea delicately" – Cicero. Worth bearing in mind Chaos Monkeys came out 8 years ago – an age in cultural years. That same year Warren Buffett was quoted as
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by 0898 5y ago
I'm curious: do Americans know what shagging is?
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by 0898 5y ago
I would have been amazed even 5 years ago too. For example, I listened to Harry and Meaghan's cringeworthy new podcast on Spotify. Afterwards I clicked around the web, trying to find some commentary that would truly sum up my feelings.
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by 0898 5y ago
I used to be very much of the same opinion. But increasingly I find the Daily Mail to be the only place to turn for a sensible reaction to woke hysteria – like the supposed "rape culture" in schools, and the recent walkouts over t
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by 0898 5y ago
How would the card merchant know what specific product you bought though? Is that data transmitted too somehow?
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by 0898 6y ago
Bi-modal input worked for me. That’s a fancy way of saying use a trackball and a mouse at the same time. I would use the trackball to fling the cursor around the screen with my left hand, and the mouse to fine tune the aim with my right han
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by 0898 6y ago
Sorry. Starling Bank.
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by 0898 6y ago
Great to see Plausible on HackerNews. It's one of the few pieces of software (Stripe is one, Starling another) that I deeply enjoy using. I get a good feeling when I open it up. I don't really have the UX vocabulary to explain it
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Supermarket puts GPS-trackers in pork chops(dailymail.co.uk)
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by 0898 6y ago
Wha? Can somebody explain to a non-programmer now one character can "flip" in a computer and become another one? Is this quite common?
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by 0898 6y ago
In the UK, the only place I could find with no cell sites is the Scottish island of Eigg.
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by 0898 6y ago
I don’t have much to add to this discussion except to note that PG has impeccable punctuation but doesn’t capitalise the days of the week. Odd.
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by 0898 6y ago
Josh, remember those funny Dreamhost newsletters? What happened to those?
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by 0898 6y ago
Off-topic I know, but how can I make my blog look like this? So many posts like this on Hacker News have this clean, confident, gentle-exposition style. (As you can tell I don't really have the design vocabulary, but hopefully looking
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by 0898 6y ago
I think many of us have learned from Matt Levine’s newsletter that even if you do gain early access to earnings, it’s very difficult to turn that into a profitable trade.
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by 0898 6y ago
This happened to Boris Johnson: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/boris-s-dilemma-relinqui...
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by 0898 6y ago
Is there a Wordpress theme that will make my website look like OP's?
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by 0898 6y ago
How do economists measure "productivity", and it is a worthwhile metric? It always seemed super sketchy to me.
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by 0898 6y ago
Why not the Spectator? I've been a subscriber for 10 years. It's a great way to expose yourself to different views, and Rory Sutherland's columns are always worth reading.
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by 0898 6y ago
I'm sure it's a great product. But personally, any marketing copy that talks about "your brain" gives off quacky vibes. It would be lovely if we didn't need to pseudo-medicalise everything.
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by 0898 6y ago
I've observed the NYT's recent drift with dismay. Here's a recent example I noticed: https://imgur.com/a/uST4zE0 Somebody was murdered at a protest, and two bullet-points the NYT splashes with are "
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by 0898 6y ago
Why would tabloid glamour models be excluded?
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by 0898 6y ago
Well, that's all the encouragement I need to finally read this. Thanks dang.
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by 0898 6y ago
Question: if you started an agency offering SEO and marketing to darknet sites, would you get in trouble for that?
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by 0898 6y ago
What happened to that little handheld console with a crankshaft Panic was making?

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