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Hospital records of all NHS patients sold to insurers(telegraph.co.uk)
2 points by benjamta 13y ago|0 comments
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by benjamta 13y ago
It's fascinating seeing it progress (albeit from afar), true cathedral scale engineering.
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by benjamta 13y ago
My father worked on the ITER project for many years. This article goes some way to express the shear scale of this project, it's absolutely vast. When I was a lot younger I was taken on a tour of JET ( http://www.efda.org&#x2
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by benjamta 13y ago
A fantastic move! I've been using ShareLaTeX for quite some time, it's a great service. This move to open source really shows you're pushing your product in the right direction. Thanks :)
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Python Script to Play Radio 4 Without the Archers(q-m.org)
2 points by benjamta 13y ago|0 comments
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by benjamta 13y ago
It's common enough that many crossings in the UK are protected with metal barriers. It's not at all uncommon to see those barriers bent and twisted where a car has hit them. Sure thousands of cars can pass through a crossing every
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by benjamta 13y ago
Crumbs, this makes interesting reading - clearly lots of failings by the companies involved here. However. If someone were to steal a physical asset in order to extort something else out of me I would go immediately to the police. I'd
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by benjamta 13y ago
And AWS! As the article said he got lucky that the attacker didn't twig that there was an AWS account associated with that amazon.com login. You should be using two-factor authentication for all your AWS accounts, especially the '
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by benjamta 13y ago
Hmmm. I reckon I'm quite good at choosing the music I want to listen to. Not sure I want to pay some one (or a service) to select music for me.
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by benjamta 13y ago
The NHS provide shockingly little information on how to opt out. The leaflet that came through all our doors about this was vague. There is no official form, they just suggest you talk to your surgery. Legislation passed in 2012 allows th
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Parser Generator for JavaScript(pegjs.majda.cz)
2 points by benjamta 13y ago|0 comments
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by benjamta 13y ago
I agree. Here in the UK it's thankfully not illegal to circumvent censorship filters. Indeed you can opt out (although there are good reasons why requiring opt out is a bad thing). The term pirate has negative, fringe connotations for
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by benjamta 13y ago
Very well said. Tackling a problem with a broad brush law that grants liberties to one group while denying those same liberties from another should never be the answer.
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by benjamta 13y ago
Very nice. Whatever your views on JS are this is an impressive project.
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Sega’s Out Run even better than the wheel thing(theregister.co.uk)
1 points by benjamta 13y ago|0 comments
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by benjamta 13y ago
Which does make me wonder how much better this plan would be than using, say, motorcycle couriers. If the story had been - 'Amazon to deploy motor bikes to deliver packages within 10 miles of their distribution centre' it'd
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Simple 8-bit Assembler Simulator(schweigi.github.io)
5 points by benjamta 13y ago|1 comments
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by benjamta 13y ago
Wow - I love this, love both the aims of this project and the look of the finished product. Fantastic stuff! Can't wait to see one of these recreated next: http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/atomictoys/Gi
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by benjamta 13y ago
We use Prolog extensively at RainBird - I could definitely be considered a fan! As always it's about using the right tool for the job. Prolog is a great choice for many symbolic type problems. We use it as the basis of our knowledge re
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by benjamta 13y ago
Since I upgraded to Mavericks I've been watching battery life (hoping for an improvement) and it does feel like it's draining quicker now. But in reality I'm sure this is just because I'm watching it more closely than
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by benjamta 13y ago
Really like this approach - fascinated to know how this works out over time.
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Why I've invested in big data(jamesduez.blogspot.co.uk)
1 points by benjamta 13y ago|0 comments
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by benjamta 13y ago
Agreed - Sphinx is great, especially if you're working in Python. Markdown's perfect for lots of situations too, especially for collaborative document authoring on wikis etc. I still see lots of developers writing documentation i
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Project to create computer simulation of human brain(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by benjamta 13y ago|0 comments
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Why don't more developers use LaTeX?(blog.bentaylor.co.uk)
2 points by benjamta 13y ago|3 comments
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by benjamta 13y ago
So true. Before leaving to focus on more interesting things I've spent a chunk of my career working developing software services for some big insurers. This tale from 1995 could easily be a story of the challenges we faced in 2012&#x2
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by benjamta 13y ago
Absolutely agree - that Gravatar now requires a Wordpress account is a really shame. avatar.io should be capitalising on this, focusing on why a user would want use their service, not just developers.
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by benjamta 13y ago
Fantastic - quite some speed it's got there.
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One Question Can Predict the Future of Your Company (2011)(inc.com)
1 points by benjamta 13y ago|0 comments
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by benjamta 13y ago
No sure really - thinking off the top of my head something along the lines of the Tilt FireFox extension could be cool. Not sure how this would work in practise, or even if it'd be useful to be honest...

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