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by ProxCoques 10y ago
I would not bet on Boris as PM. Most in his own party can't stand him, and grass roots Tories are at best luke warmabout. They will be very hesitant to choose yet another establishment figure now that they've seen what working cla
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by ProxCoques 10y ago
"Democracy doesn't work by voting until you get results you want." No, it works when people make informed choices they understand. That didn't happen in this case.
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I guess you've not been following Ian Paisley Jr on Twitter then... Things are going completely through the looking glass right now...
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by ProxCoques 10y ago
The stakes are getting very high already: the establishment was blind-sided by the shattering wrath of the poor and disenchanted who saw voting out as way of making their voices finally heard from under the neoliberal din of austerity and s
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by ProxCoques 10y ago
The only people who read UML diagrams are those that make them. And there are about 12 of those people in the world.
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by ProxCoques 10y ago
I am a designer who had a hand in the UX of how hotels.com geolocates its customers. They use a combination of browser language and IP location, cookie or URL to decide which version of the site to show, with browser language being the main
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by ProxCoques 10y ago
50% faster this, 200% faster that... Wake me up if any of this is noticeable in real-world use of the browser. Because it hardly ever is due to external bottlenecks (network latency, cache reading, etc. etc.)
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by ProxCoques 10y ago
Google Instant Apps will fade away after a couple of years because nobody gets it and it's a solution looking for a problem again. They specialise in auto-failing ideas like that.
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by ProxCoques 10y ago
"Apple’s ability to make software solid and simple has come under attack" I don't actually recall Apple's software being any better or worse than the competition after OS 6. The fact is that ALL software, including Apple
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by ProxCoques 10y ago
In the UK, it was more than a suspicion - it was actual tax fraud. But the UK government decided to giggle and politely ask for a tiny amount from them, just to be sporting, what? Let's hope the French rip them apart for billions inste
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by ProxCoques 10y ago
Read T+L's side of the story: https://museumhack.com/what-happens-when-your-startup-gets-t... They don't insist on having unrestricted right to certain words - it's just that the term "hack" is comm
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by ProxCoques 10y ago
One thing I always try to tell myself is that if you are going to complain about something, be clear about what you want to get from complaining. Do Museum Hack want money? An apology? Crediting? What? I see they sort of climb down eventual
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by ProxCoques 10y ago
As much as I dislike Peter Hitchen's politics, he has it right when he says that both major parties are now just commercial organisations, who raise money wherever they can get it to buy their way into office through unscrupulous elect
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by ProxCoques 10y ago
File servers. Everywhere I've worked for the past 5 years makes you use a cloud "solution" like DropBox or Google Drive. Those things are find for individual use, but a nightmare to work with in a team. "I'll share
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by ProxCoques 10y ago
The person writing the article (in common with most people) equates "looking good" with "working well" because they're unable to understand there may be a difference between those two things. Also, the blandness of