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by bshimmin 8y ago
Interesting question, and I can't really answer it, not being American - "prat" basically means an idiot, but it's quite a useful word because it conveys a real sense of contempt (but often more for the opinion or act th
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by bshimmin 8y ago
This is great progress; given a little more time, I hope we will be able to recreate the fabled AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean!
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by bshimmin 8y ago
Before he became some sort of ill-defined entrepreneur/investor he used to talk knowledgeably and enthusiastically online via a podcast (or possibly several) about wine, which was his family's business - this was probably a decade
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I had a great one like this with LinkedIn recently - a client called me to discuss something and mentioned a third-party; I hadn't heard of them so asked if the client could send me some information; he sent me an email later that day
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Isn't the fact that there were "dozens of terrible decisions" leading to one poor guy dropping the production database (in a way that was extremely hard to recover) absolutely a failure of process rather than a failure of a p
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I use Tweetbot on my Mac for Twitter and don't get ads. I imagine the same probably applies to other third-party Twitter apps too.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I felt like this too. I'm also confused by the "subtle cinemascopic curve" at the top of the "t" which doesn't appear to be replicated anywhere else in the font.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I'm glad I wasn't the only person who thought this. The worst bit for me was "Christie, as Thompson details, came by such understanding through the traditional means of early hardship"... but the "hardship" th
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Puppeteer has "networkIdle0" (0 network connections for 500ms) and "networkIdle2" (no more than 2 network connections for 500ms). My experiences with it have been very positive.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
In England, if you're fairly traditional, you would always say up to London, Oxford, or Cambridge (and, from the latter two, if you are a student and temporarily expelled, you are "sent down" - or "rusticated", to
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Typically, how you might "prepare" for interviews in other industries is...learning about your potential employer. It has always shocked me that people don't instinctively think that doing this is an absolute necessity for
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I think this definitely depends where you live in the UK and how much your local rail network was screwed by the Beeching cuts. I live in Somerset and the two nearest railway stations are more than a 30 minute drive.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I am reminded of when Apple stuck U2 into everyone's iTunes library (though I actually think this is weirder and worse). It seems like an inviolable, cardinal rule is "don't push things on me that I didn't ask for"
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I was off to a rocky start but thanks to a blog post on gamasutra that ended up on HN I managed to reach my sales goal and I'm in the clear for the next 6 months. I guess the shrewd commenters who said this piece https://w
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I will be honest and say I didn't get the reference!
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by bshimmin 9y ago
"LIQUi|>" is hands-down the worst name for anything I've ever seen. Do they really expect people to write it like that?
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by bshimmin 9y ago
If you're at all interested in something from a similar era that has also aged (in my opinion) extremely well, try _Kind Hearts and Coronets_.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Don't you feel like the "impenetrable ending" is one of the best things about 2001 ? For me the outlier on that list is Lawrence of Arabia , which I'm sure is a very fine film but I have yet to stay awake for the ent
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by bshimmin 9y ago
You might be interested in this essay by Umberto Eco about Casablanca : http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/eco.html I think the author of this article is right that La Marseillaise is the most important scene in the fil
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by bshimmin 9y ago
so try to fit all content in one pane, so the recipient doesn’t have to scroll Oh no, have we introduced "the fold" into emails too, after a decade of forlornly trying to persuade people it doesn't exist on the web?
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Sometimes when I write a lovely, thorough, well-crafted email and get a "can u hop on a call 2 discuss" response, I "hop" on that call and simply read out my email. Occasionally I add little pauses to make it sound like
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by bshimmin 9y ago
From the understated opulence of a Bentley I'm sorry, what? A Bentley is "understated"?
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I did! Perhaps it was inspired a little by http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/AAAAAAAAA ! (the baby always kills me)...
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by bshimmin 9y ago
It's very close to the idiomatic "flowery speech"!
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by bshimmin 9y ago
That's nothing. Linda Evangelista, who was probably at her peak fame before you were born, famously said she wouldn't even wake up for less than $10,000 a day!
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by bshimmin 9y ago
For what it's worth, a big company in NYC that we work with definitely pays contractors with lots of experience (10+ years) $1000 a day. That's closing in on a quarter of a million dollars a year and you probably won't eve
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by bshimmin 9y ago
Couples have this tendency to produce children, which tend to come with additional costs.
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by bshimmin 9y ago
This piece seems incredibly negative. My first ever Mac was the dual 2.5GHz G5 and I loved it - sure, it was huge, but it was also powerful (for the time, and for a good while thereafter) and looked amazing. Yes, mine did make a weird chi
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by bshimmin 9y ago
That one is really a pleasure to watch/listen to in comparison with this, from the same guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W--13mBc788
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by bshimmin 9y ago
I can see a few problems with this. The concept of "you are their product" is not an easy one to understand if people don't have any relevant background or experience in thinking critically about the problem. It requires th

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