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by awjr 11y ago
ALPR cameras are interesting. I've been looking at ALPR as a solution for understanding how traffic moves through your city/town. Transport planning feels like it is very much something done in the dark ages and primarily focused
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by awjr 11y ago
This from the guy that pretty much destroyed GM.
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by awjr 11y ago
Been watching this for a while and this looks promising: https://github.com/angular/angular/milestones
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Issues – angular/angular AngularJS 2 Beta imminent(github.com)
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The True Costs of Driving(theatlantic.com)
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Effective Campaigning – The art of changing what's possible(slideshare.net)
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Antiaging protein is the real deal, Harvard team claims(news.sciencemag.org)
2 points by awjr 11y ago|0 comments
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by awjr 11y ago
So is the issue here of delivering a European Supergrid (Ultra High DC) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_super_grid ? This would enable the development of a continental "green" energy grid.
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by awjr 11y ago
As an example, when the UK government tried to demonize the cost to the National Health Service of smoking related diseases (£450Million), the tobacco industry rightly pointed out that tax revenue was around the £12Billion. Taxing drugs wou
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by awjr 11y ago
This is a very valid point. I don't see the UK government however changing their approach. Treating addiction as a disease just enables the government to vilify users. Many low-level heroin/cocaine users just lead normal lives. As
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by awjr 11y ago
I've pretty much come down on the side of prohibition is bad. Yes hard drugs destroy lives, but many many many more are destroyed by socially acceptable drugs like alcohol and nicotine. We live within societies where the way we control
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by awjr 11y ago
I don't get it. Ang2 is in alpha. I mean the next big thing to drop is Angular Connect https://github.com/angular/angular/milestones and one of the key parts of Ang2 is the ng-upgrade which nobody has started
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by awjr 11y ago
Graduated in 1993, started contracting in 1995, and pretty much been at it ever since then. I have no issue with agents. They make my life easier. The only and ONLY rule I have is that the employer knows exactly the rate I am getting and is
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Why Twitter’s Dying (And What You Can Learn from It) – Bad Words(medium.com)
10 points by awjr 11y ago|4 comments
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by awjr 11y ago
I was using ansible with packer https://www.packer.io/ to build AMIs (Amazon Machine Images). I'm spending a lot more time with docker these days though. I see Ansible as primarily an orchestration tool.
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Can magnets change your beliefs? [audio](bbc.co.uk)
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The Best Ways to Get to Work, According to Science(gizmodo.com)
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by awjr 11y ago
The way I chose in the past. Use a jobsite (in my case www.cwjobs.co.uk). Type in framework. Count number of jobs. If one is significantly bigger in the job market, this gives me more flexibility and job security going forward. This has res
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Astronomers may have found giant alien 'megastructures' orbiting star(independent.co.uk)
18 points by awjr 11y ago|5 comments
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by awjr 11y ago
I think what is interesting is how they recognised a real issue in the potential for corruption/nepotism and designed this issue out of the selection process. I also think it was quite interesting how they had a preference for existing
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Google Design(design.google.com)
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by awjr 11y ago
I think there's a general conversation that people seem to be ignoring. We currently use general taxation as a way to discount certain behaviours. Tobacco/Alcohol duty more than pay for the costs that these forms of consumption pl
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Fix infrastructure for walkers and cyclists to help tackle obesity(theguardian.com)
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Male Engineering Student Explains Why Female Classmates Aren't His Equals(huffingtonpost.com)
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by awjr 11y ago
Would be better to analyse other factors over the top of these. Income I guess is obvious, however transport probably is significant. Can you cycle/walk/get good public transport? What about topography?
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by awjr 11y ago
Their partnership with Google over Typescript and the general openness that they are pushing is fantastic. I really feel they are giving a lot to the developer community. The Surface Book is an exceptional piece of kit. It is telling that t
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by awjr 11y ago
Any idea why the functions do not return promises?
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by awjr 11y ago
Wish I could find it, but there was an article recently about analysing why the US appears to have 22% of the world's prisoners. The analysis determined District Attorneys used to issue prison sentences in about 1/3 of cases and t
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by awjr 11y ago
My major concern with a CMS that delivers a front-end is that it must to be able to deliver "raw" HTML to be accessible and support search engines. Yes search engines can index javascript but I still see a requirement of any CMS t
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by awjr 11y ago
This feels like this should have been a chrome plugin sitting on top of Trello. I might be thinking about this wrong.

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