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by baxter001 6y ago
That's not a very interesting observation due to everyone being able to work that out. The point here is the previously assumed additional round of quantitative easing now going to be so hot on the heels of the last in January the US m
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by baxter001 6y ago
Someone's got a great deal of solidarity I see,
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by baxter001 6y ago
Disgusting prevarication in an attempt to sell the idea that it's perfectly natural for the world to balance on a knife edge of investor confidence. Don't swallow it.
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by baxter001 7y ago
There _is_ a reason apple has removed them, I'm not certain blunt aesthetics is the reason however.
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by baxter001 7y ago
On two occasions I have been asked, — "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this quest
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by baxter001 7y ago
Stronger drinks that contain more units of alcohol have a higher minimum price than drinks that contain less alcohol. Drinks that have been most affected include strong white cider, own brand vodka and gin, and super strength lager. A bottl
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by baxter001 7y ago
NOTE: sear is presently vaporware, so this won't do a whole lot yet.
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by baxter001 7y ago
Smells more of marketing than anything else.
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by baxter001 8y ago
Wow, this must be some convincing propaganda to restrict even the viewing of it!
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by baxter001 8y ago
One I was at: A constraint solving problem where you had a map with a grid and various clues gave you constraints like 'not within 2 squares of a bomb shelter' A thermal imaging camera so you could detect which one of a set of &#x
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by baxter001 8y ago
As with most interesting problems, this legislation hasn't been written with a focus on what sort of end-results are easiest to arrive at a technical solution for. This article characterises that as 'magic wand regulating' -
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by baxter001 8y ago
"Improved engagement" in corporate training materials? I fear that's a concept that only exists in the sales literature of training materials creators.
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by baxter001 8y ago
If you think you have to glue content in front of their eyeballs, you've got bigger problems than fulfilling your legally mandated requirement for check-the-box training.
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by baxter001 8y ago
Looks like the BrowserWindow events at the js api level are unchanged for the past two years. Here's hoping something deeper was broken about them that now drastically changes top-level api behaviour!
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by baxter001 8y ago
For most people international time coordination issues are rare, rare enough that it's more valuable to have a local time, to tell someone you're meeting at 13:30 so they have a natural feeling for the fact it's comfortably a
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by baxter001 8y ago
Grab the stdout of a python script that calls a webservice? There's no ruby equivalent of googleapiclient?
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by baxter001 8y ago
That jumped out at me too, also an excellent example of where poking at a 'mystery language' rather than reading the documentation can lead to some really weird mental models (I'm reminded of myself trying to force a haskell
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by baxter001 8y ago
Just at the basic level of what the experience for these boys would have been like, sealed in a metal cylinder and towed through the cave system for hours - it seems a greater feat of endurance for them than being lead out - particularly wi
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by baxter001 8y ago
Sounds vaguely like Glenn Mulcaire
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by baxter001 9y ago
The sauce part isn't new https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q0vk_fKDEo Nor is the oven: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW_Maj0g8cg Nor are dry ingredient spreaders for anything from cheese to sliced mea
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by baxter001 9y ago
> So seriously, Hacker News, what is the obsession with this? We are dilettantes, we think there is always something that could be improved in a domain we don't fully understand.
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by baxter001 9y ago
In a collision they either ripped the pedestrian to shreds, or very efficiently transferred all of the impact energy to the occupants. Depending on if you hit a person or a wall. Having something smooth and easily deformed mitigates both of
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by baxter001 10y ago
I think you'll find the accepted name is "Philip Zimbardo's weird weekend"
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by baxter001 10y ago
As an applicant I've not had any on a technical basis. A few years ago: "Bit too much of a solo developer, which can be great but not what we're looking for." Which is fair given that the context was they were needing to
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by baxter001 10y ago
As in "State of being awake" rather than awareness.
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by baxter001 10y ago
I've built a handful that search for evidence of newly opened businesses and sell the resulting information to various utilities companies. There's about a 30% rate of business failing to register themselves and depending on the u
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by baxter001 10y ago
Git automatically exposes the email of committers, or at least a string that is nominatively an email, I see no evidence of a anything beyond that here.
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by baxter001 10y ago
This is pretty representative: https://www.gov.uk/transformation/exemplars/apply-visa Very clean uncluttered forms with clear direction.
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Ask HN: Do you have a public metrics screen and how did you build it?
5 points by baxter001 10y ago|4 comments
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by baxter001 10y ago
What's the old joke? Poverty is a symptom of wealth.

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