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by baha_man 15y ago
Not sure if it adds much, but here's the Guardian's take on the same story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/08/london-riots-fac...
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by baha_man 15y ago
Yes, I don't want anyone talking in the cinema while I'm watching a film, but I may want to talk about it afterwards.
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How Blackberry, not Twitter, fuelled the fire under London’s riots(eu.techcrunch.com)
31 points by baha_man 15y ago|36 comments
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by baha_man 15y ago
"Talk to your local data protection agency." For the UK, this is the Information Commissioner's Office: http://www.ico.gov.uk/complaints/privacy_and_electronic_comm...
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Big Pharma wants to ‘friend’ you(theglobeandmail.com)
2 points by baha_man 15y ago|0 comments
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Black Hole Projects(panopticoncentral.net)
2 points by baha_man 15y ago|0 comments
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Why Another DVCS?(ericsink.com)
9 points by baha_man 15y ago|4 comments
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by baha_man 15y ago
"I don't think there is any religion/ideology that discourage things like "defending property and people". Pacifism?
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by baha_man 15y ago
"But then I would just resort to using something like quilt to manage patches onto of SVN, which is ridiculous." This is exactly the way Mercurial patch queues work: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MqExtension
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by baha_man 15y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2829619 "HN observers often assume we don't have a sense of humor around here. Actually, I've seen a number of funny comments upvoted, and have done so many times myself. It's closer to the truth to say
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by baha_man 15y ago
"Pretty standard phrase, at least here in the UK." No, it's definitely not.
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by baha_man 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat "The rationale of the doctrine is that if ignorance were an excuse, a person charged with criminal offenses or a subject of a civil lawsuit would merely claim that he or she is una
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Startup Weekend pep talk: It ain’t the code(blog.asmartbear.com)
43 points by baha_man 15y ago|4 comments
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by baha_man 15y ago
Ignorance of a law is normally not considered an excuse for breaking it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignorantia_juris_non_excusat
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A Visual Guide to Narrowing in Emacs(emacsworld.blogspot.com)
10 points by baha_man 15y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 15y ago
"...you'll be hard pressed to find a Brit... who didn't take a Gap Year at some point." Not true. Sure, it's common enough for young people to take a gap year before or after university, but not everyone does - I certainly didn't. Among tho
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Treadmill shows medieval armour influenced battles(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by baha_man 15y ago|0 comments
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Aside vs. Blockquote in HTML5(impressivewebs.com)
1 points by baha_man 15y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 15y ago
Not in the UK. I don't think the tongue-twister is well known here, but the phrase is used in the other sense in the TV show Dad's Army[1], which is still shown on the BBC. However, it's only used by one character[2], who's supposed to be 7
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by baha_man 15y ago
' Is this a fair paraphrase? "Everyone here isn't attacking you, also, your draft sucks and shouldn't have been posted on HN."' No, it's not. speckledjim is complaining that someone writing another book on C is not news, he doesn't say anyt
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by baha_man 15y ago
They're not the only site to silently truncate passwords, unfortunately. (I hope you're joking about spending an hour trying to log in, though.)
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by baha_man 15y ago
I assume you mean 'MQ' rather than 'MG'. I'd recommend learning to use patch queues via the command line first: http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/MqTutorial Once you've done that, using the GUI should be straightforward.
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Microsoft's boffins aim for the personal touch(irishtimes.com)
1 points by baha_man 15y ago|0 comments
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Chrome may become Ubuntu's browser(news.cnet.com)
1 points by baha_man 15y ago|0 comments
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Whatever You Do, Don't Buy a Chromebook(pcworld.com)
4 points by baha_man 15y ago|0 comments
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Online radio firm Pandora floats for $2.6bn in New York(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by baha_man 15y ago|0 comments
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Productivity and Continuous Improvement - Measurement makes it happen(hanselman.com)
1 points by baha_man 15y ago|0 comments
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by baha_man 15y ago
http://hgbook.red-bean.com/
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by baha_man 15y ago
"...always missing something" Such as?
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by baha_man 15y ago
"The problem with C# is that it's tied to Microsoft..." What about Mono?

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