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by Graham24 10y ago
I was just listening to Milestone when I found this as it happens.
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by Graham24 10y ago
From memory, that's the BBC football page. It's either the main page or the latest scores 'vide-printer' style service. [hums MOTD theme to himself].
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by Graham24 10y ago
This is what I'd like to build. A CPU from parts. I'll start when I win the lottery.
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by Graham24 10y ago
ah, of course. Dried in the sun because most people in the UK 1957 would only know of packet spaghetti.
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by Graham24 10y ago
That's up there with the great spaghetti tree hoax: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVo_wkxH9dU "The last two weeks of March are an anxious time for the spaghetti farmer..."
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by Graham24 10y ago
Some of us were lucky enough (and old enough) to have heared the radio series when they were both first broadcast...
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by Graham24 10y ago
I did not know that had all changed, we reckon he must have got £250,000+
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by Graham24 10y ago
Is it still commonplace for them to get a percentage of sales as a bonus? I know someone who worked on Tomb Raider 2, 3 and 4. he's not poor.
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by Graham24 10y ago
Has anyone else on Hacker News actually seen Leicester City play this season, or is it just me? I'm rather unusual in the office as I'm the only one into computers and watching league football (I blame my dad for that one). For th
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by Graham24 11y ago
"Between 1997 and 2007 the housing stock grew by 10%, but the population only grew by 5%". I find this hard to believe, the town I live in has not grown by 10% in a decade. "The Bank of England says inflation is 0.3%. Really?
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by Graham24 11y ago
More Volcanoes? That's just greedy...
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Bill Gates to Appear on Desert Island Discs(theguardian.com)
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by Graham24 11y ago
Ahhh, crap. I'm old. Are you trying to suggest that 20 years ago wasn't the 1960's?
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by Graham24 11y ago
I could have sworn I saw a Kodak digital camera in the National Museum of Film, Photography and Television in Bradford in about 1990. I think the signage said it was the first one on sale and was made in the early 80s.
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In our Time radio programme: P v NP(bbc.co.uk)
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Ride, hustle, kill, repeat: the underground cycle gangs of Los Angeles(theguardian.com)
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by Graham24 11y ago
I do not understand how the prices are set for buying food (at least in my games). some items can be 20 or 30 each, whilst others are 2 or 3 but are just as good. curiously, bread and water seem to be the most expensive food to buy and ra
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by Graham24 11y ago
The block of flats I live in used to be a UK telephone exchange, and it has some seriously thick concrete walls and massive steel girders. I dare say this was partly to house the old electro-mechanical exchanges, but it does look like it&#
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by Graham24 11y ago
indeed, and I'm (just about) old enough to remember this from the first time around. what on earth do people from America make of this? Mind you, they must have had chimneys over there to knock down too, so 'appen they had their
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by Graham24 11y ago
you wait to crossrail 2 if that ever happens, the same sort of thing, but from the SW to the NE.
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by Graham24 11y ago
I heard about this on the Today programme this morning, the presenter was taking great delight in repeating the name "The British Gut Project".
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by Graham24 11y ago
Shove ha'penny? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shove_ha'penny
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by Graham24 11y ago
I've been to Iceland and I have to say that if all you can write about is the coffee, then you rather missed the point.
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by Graham24 12y ago
I do not believe that the University of Leicester is renaming itself the King Richard University. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/richard-iii-t...
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by Graham24 12y ago
Curiously is says that we cannot read this in the UK: "We're sorry but this site is not accessible from the UK as it is part of our international service and is not funded by the licence fee. It is run commercially by BBC Worldwid
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by Graham24 12y ago
British Thermal Units? Surely that's an obsolete unit.
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by Graham24 12y ago
Robert Rankin perhaps? Try the Brentford Triangle. I've been the Griffin Park (not that i'm boasting or anything).
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How my son and I kind of became game programmers(theguardian.com)
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Assemblers were once people: My aunt did it for NASA(theregister.co.uk)
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Bournemouth beats London as UK's fastest-growing digital economy(telegraph.co.uk)
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