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by arooaroo 6y ago
If only he’d travelled to Scunthorpe! I dare say for any UK based user they are still seeing their fair share of Cummings memes, jokes, rage, vitriol, etc. regardless. Frankly any feature to reduce over-exposure to this farce will be blesse
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by arooaroo 6y ago
There's a good doc on YouTube covering the case. The pressure looks immense. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V58kK4r26yk Interesting aside: one of the pro bono lawyers was Keir Starmer, now Sir Keir Starmer who went on
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by arooaroo 7y ago
I know someone who works at one of the London airports and is responsible for keeping the runway operational. One of the jobs is keeping the birds well clear, and if necessary, sadly, may resort to shooting. The crows know the score though.
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by arooaroo 8y ago
I used to work for Pearson Longman, and one of their USPs was that their defining vocabulary was significantly smaller than the main competitors, namely OUP and CUP. Longman's was just over 2000 (about 2100 IIRC), whereas OUP's wa
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by arooaroo 8y ago
I got one from order-update@amazon.co.uk too. Looked genuine -- didn't seem to be fishing for anything. However, the complete lack of information bothered me a lot.
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by arooaroo 8y ago
Tell that to the person/people in charge of the lightning port and headphone jack on the iPhone. I know headphone jacks are no longer on Apple's radar, but they always seem to get messed up after a year so that the stock iPhone he
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by arooaroo 8y ago
I’m pretty sure that Google, Facebook, Twitter et al., stick to acting as platforms because they are relying on years of legal precedents which protects them from liability of any abuse carried out by users. If however they start curating c
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by arooaroo 9y ago
I know this post is young but surprised not to see Linode on here yet. We are deploying to Linode and have recently switched from Puppet to Saltstack to manage our servers. There's a bit of Fabric and Capistrano to glue it all together
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by arooaroo 9y ago
I noticed that Windows Phones seemed over-represented on TV too - UK and US shows. And they still pop up despite being mothballed by MS. I noticed one on a recent show just a month or two ago although the show escapes my memory. Now Windows
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Book Publishing's Weak Bet on “Fire and Fury”? Blame Data(fastcompany.com)
1 points by arooaroo 9y ago|0 comments
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by arooaroo 9y ago
Wow. I’m just trying to do 1+2+3= and I’m consistently getting 24.
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by arooaroo 9y ago
My father quit smoking this way.
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by arooaroo 9y ago
Always pleased to see more resources encouraging more LaTeX use. ShareLatex and Overleaf are doing a great job of promoting Latex. Fwiw my Getting to Grips with LaTeX[1] tutorial have been around for years and are well used. [1] http:&#x2F
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by arooaroo 11y ago
Packt once approached me to write a book about LaTeX. They would only accept the manuscript in MS Word. Needless to say negotiations didn't get very far. To be honest that wasn't necessarily a red-line, but it was clear that their
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by arooaroo 12y ago
It's certainly a great resource and extremely comprehensive. Personally I think it a bit too detailed to be an effective beginner's guide. And I say this as one of the credited authors of the LaTeX wikibook ( https://en.
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by arooaroo 12y ago
Go for it - it's simpler than you'd imagine. You may find this beginner's guide a useful starting point: http://www.andy-roberts.net/writing/latex/ [disclosure: I'm the author]
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by arooaroo 12y ago
I know this is a minor point but using 'gg' to move to the first line is easier than '1G'.
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by arooaroo 12y ago
[Self-declared interest: I'm an ex-employee of Pearson Education, the publisher of Longman Dictionaries, and I used to work on the dictionaries team.] The author may appreciate English learners' dictionaries as a possible source o
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Getting to Grips with LaTeX(andy-roberts.net)
11 points by arooaroo 13y ago|1 comments
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by arooaroo 14y ago
But in Stable it's not quite that cutting edge: v0.7.63.
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by arooaroo 14y ago
And what version of nginx does Debian ship with? I suspect it classes nginx entirely as experimental!
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by arooaroo 14y ago
I'm sure there's a good reason why Apache 2.4 wasn't in the comparison but the author failed to mention it. Apache 2.2.23 may be a recent release but it's a security update of an old but stable branch. Apache 2.4 branch is a year old and a
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by arooaroo 14y ago
Rest assured that my tutorials have been tried-and-tested by many under- and post-grads over the years. They've been included in college & university syllabi and I've get a lot of positive feedback from postgrads who've opted for the La
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by arooaroo 14y ago
If all this typesetting talk has ignited people's interest in LaTeX then I can recommend a handy beginner's guide: Getting to Grips with LaTeX ( http://www.andy-roberts.net/writing/latex ) I can recommend it because I wrote it ;) Funnily en
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by arooaroo 14y ago
Just to be clear, Vim has had built-in spelling checker since v7.0 (released 2006). The LanguageTool plugin may be handy for spelling and other grammar checking issues but users requiring straight-forward spelling functionality will most li
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by arooaroo 14y ago
I suspect that agnostic as a word has lost some of its meaning because of all the heat in the religious vs atheist debates. To some being agnostic on the issue of god is a cop-out (get off the fence!); to moderates being agnostic is a kind
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by arooaroo 14y ago
"Job Queue is Backend agnostic" This may be slightly tangental and I really don't want to come across as a troll but 'agnostic' in its absolute loosest terms could be defined as 'unknowable' (although it specifically relates to whether the