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by beejiu 11y ago
You can argue much the same about London underground -- it too is a mishmash of previously competing railway lines, and has grown in complexity to include all manner of railways -- some cut-and-cover, some deep-tunnel, some overground. For
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by beejiu 11y ago
It's even worse with a Magic Mouse. Just touching the mouse flips the slides 10 ahead.
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by beejiu 11y ago
It's much cheaper to buy unbranded, white-box multivitamins than gender- or vitamin- specific multivitamins. They often contain a wider variety of vitamins, too. Just read the label and make sure they include iron.
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by beejiu 11y ago
That's just a special instruction to the Google 'Search Appliance' not to crawl the page contents.
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by beejiu 11y ago
> once you adopt Promises a large portion of your code will have to be tailored to use it. This isn't a necessity, since you can create a function which both returns a Promise and accepts a callback. Most Promise libraries make this
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by beejiu 11y ago
If you do buy an ETF, make sure they are not synthetic ETFs that are really buying swaps rather than stock. The tend to be quite expensive for retail investors.
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by beejiu 12y ago
Where I work there a few people who arrive an hour early, leave an hour late and work through lunch. I think it's fair to say they are the least productive members of the team in terms of the work they do. I doubt management sees it in
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by beejiu 12y ago
> one can easily aim at a wider angle to the wall You could of course urinate into the open air. The reason people urinate against walls is, ironically, to protect their modesty.
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by beejiu 12y ago
They have never tweeted from that account (see archive.org)
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by beejiu 12y ago
Well, that's my point. It would be illegal for the accused to do so. Surely it's also illegal to abet a crime?
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by beejiu 12y ago
I don't know how US law works, but would this not be against the following law http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9A.72.090 : > (1) A person is guilty of bribing a witness if he or she offers, confers,
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by beejiu 12y ago
It's better than typing one thing and it doing 3 different things in 3 different browsers.
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by beejiu 12y ago
But it doesn't come with an open source implementation.
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by beejiu 12y ago
I think we also have to recognise that the days of working in the same company for 40 years or until you die are long gone. For many people, career progression is not something that happens within the same organisation, but by moving from o
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by beejiu 12y ago
MailChimp has a good UX newsletter, too: http://www.theuxnewsletter.com/
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by beejiu 12y ago
https://frinter.co.uk/
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by beejiu 12y ago
All you have done is used a function without understanding what it was doing, or reading the documentation. Most JS developers know how parseInt works, and even if they run into this problem, would quickly discover the cause. I don't s
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by beejiu 12y ago
The airport will have to pay airport tax at the airport the passenger leaves, which could be more than at the destination proper.
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by beejiu 12y ago
Last year, London announced plans to let go 10% of its firefighting force. This is despite booming population and construction. In 2004, there were 572,000 fires in the UK. In 2013, there were 193,000 reported fires. ( https://www
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by beejiu 12y ago
Distributing the software is probably illegal under the Computer Misuse Act here in the UK.
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by beejiu 12y ago
It is likely this was used to form the training set of 200,000 observations that was used to train the network.
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by beejiu 12y ago
Nothing wrong with 'feature freezes' rather than complete code freezes. It's a great opportunity to get work done that you've been putting off all year. If the management aren't expecting new features, it's a p
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by beejiu 12y ago
Anybody who travels 4,000 miles to a new country to work in, and to live with people they have never met, have proven themselves to be the sort of motivated person you want to hire.
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by beejiu 12y ago
It's also led to a class of consumers that will not accept a slightly wonky carrot.
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by beejiu 12y ago
And nobody credited da Vinci.
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by beejiu 12y ago
In reality, you'll have your blood pressure checked by a nurse, not a doctor, and a load of boxes ticked on a form. Still worthwhile, of course, but my own experience with my local doctors is that they are under a huge amount of pressu
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by beejiu 12y ago
Cross validation too uses training sets and test sets. This sort of time-ordered data will not be independent, so the prequential approach seems to be a more suitable approach to measuring forecast accuracy. (I haven't read the paper.)
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by beejiu 12y ago
The NHS run a great advertising campaign on this. Here's one of their adverts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KG_2OEH8UM&list=UUoFX8yfaEw...
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by beejiu 12y ago
Actually, the bombs were already falling short of the target. The British instructed captured German spies to report they were hitting their targets. They were quite subtle about how they did it -- they would simply omit news about the bomb
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by beejiu 12y ago
> Clearly this is not a contract I'm pretty sure making a pledge of this nature does form a contract. The terms of that contract are available here: http://www.google.com/patents/opnpledge/pledge/ , wh

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