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by awjr 12y ago
A most telling point is the comment about how driverless cars would keep to the speed limits and how 'boring' this would be. In the UK there is a reason why the police have stopped using the word 'accident' when reportin
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by awjr 12y ago
What you've written above comes across as the nightmare requirements spec from a client. You're being too vague. You need to deconstruct yourself and your life. Your personality, your habits, where you live and how you live. What
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by awjr 12y ago
I posted above but here are a couple of links on "buy to leave" http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/dec/04/property-inv... http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/20
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by awjr 12y ago
My mother just recently bought a studio flat in Wales for 31k. Prices are dropping around the country. London prices are forcing people away from living in London. Businesses are moving away. (If you are a young developer, I'd suggest
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by awjr 12y ago
http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/dec/04/property-inv... http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/08/islingt... It's called "buy-to-leave&q
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by awjr 12y ago
In the UK it's normal practice to get in a chain. You sell yours, line up the one you want to buy, and all 14 people in the chain complete on the same day. Not sure you should be selling your house, then deciding to look. You have to a
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by awjr 12y ago
I have to say, the Pi 2 comes across less as a bit of fun and more as something you can really start doing interesting things with. Currently investigating image processing and ANPR using OpenCV.
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by awjr 12y ago
Thought something like 40% of new apartments are bought and never lived in. They are a financial investment/safe capital holding vehicle.
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by awjr 12y ago
Thought storing Hydrogen was notoriously hard because it can penetrates rather effectively through pretty much anything.
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by awjr 12y ago
Has more to do with where the industrial centres of the 19th century were within a city and how cities have evolved and developed over time, making those centres prime residential zones now. In Bath's case there is a clear need for mor
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by awjr 12y ago
They have just finally taken down the last one in Bath. This is a 'good' thing. What has to be realised is that the ones that are being taken down are usually in the heart of a city and take up valuable 'brownfield developmen
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by awjr 12y ago
Just loaded up a 17MB OpenStreetMap svg file (map of Bath, UK) which was unworkable on my Mac under 0.48. 0.91 is fast. Really fast. I'm sold. Well done.
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by awjr 12y ago
I grew up with this stuff. Such a long long time ago since I've played at this level of optimisation. Very very very clever.
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by awjr 12y ago
In the UK, there is something called the 'ring of steel' around Birmingham. In effect all UK motorways and most main routes have ANPR on them. I would expect as costs decline, eventually most street light systems will be 'upg
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by awjr 12y ago
This is very hard to measure as you would be looking at teaching practices in the 1920-1940s to determine the effects on life expectancy. I think potentially, nationally, this would be possible as most nations have been quite consistent on
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by awjr 12y ago
Not sure that makes sense. She potentially experiences 12 years of increased stress compared to her peers. I'm not implying that later in life, she will have better tools for work, but that her body would have spent most of her formati
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by awjr 12y ago
Would be interesting to look at the 'stresses' that occur within schools. My 11 year old daughter was born on the 30th of August. Ergo she is the youngest in the year at school. She is studying with people that have a year of deve
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by awjr 12y ago
I have to say I was of the opinion that Sublime was pretty much as good as it gets, but I've recently started using Webstorm and I am definitely impressed. I do think it is probably one of the best for JavaScript development IMHO.
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by awjr 12y ago
Not sure your argument stands up to the 0-17 age group having a 75% reduction in cycling.
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by awjr 12y ago
For those with too little time, the basic premise is that helmet laws appear to suppress cycling significantly, increase the risk of cycling and cause premature deaths through lack of exercise TL;DR "The following trends were observed
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Evaluation of New Zealand’s bicycle helmet law (2012)(nzma.org.nz)
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by awjr 12y ago
I think a lot of this comes down to where a business is located. I've worked on Business parks where the developers of the park have included ponds/lakes and footpaths to enable good circular routes and great places to get out and
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by awjr 12y ago
At a 'society' level it very much depends on the rich. So Walmart appears to be paying the minimum they possibly can. This massively affects the spending power of this low wealth group. I believe this was something Ford recognised
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by awjr 12y ago
The Krita website is running a tad slow https://krita.org/download/krita-desktop/ however download is possible if you are patient. Looks like a very interesting tool for creating art/comics.
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by awjr 12y ago
That working from home can be an exercise trap. I spent the last 6 months with a startup and exercise started dropping off rather quickly towards the end. Ended up making sure I rode with friends twice a week...usually to a pub but it wasn&
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by awjr 12y ago
Monmouth canal (Newport to Cwmbran) is unused (no boats) so has way more wildlife than I've seen on any other canal path. I've had to face off against a swan, a rather large number of ducks and the odd suicidal moorhen. Recent win
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by awjr 12y ago
In the UK, use http://www.cyclestreets.net/ it can highlight non-traffic routes so enable you to plan a more pleasant ride. Of note, don't just assume it gets it right. In my case, it put me at the front of the train s
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by awjr 12y ago
As somebody touching 20st (127kg) I recently started working on a client site and had a choice, drive by car or catch a train and cycle the 5 miles to the client site. Into my second week and finding the cycling is really making a differenc
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by awjr 12y ago
Being able to manage 'big data' is quite impressive. Personally I'm a massive fan of dc.js http://dc-js.github.io/dc.js/ as this is this lets the end user play with data.
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by awjr 12y ago
His response email is exceptional: "As imperfect humans, we have a tendency to limit our association with other persons to those persons who are most like us. Unfortunately, there is even more of a human tendency to stay within our com

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