d4rti

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   by d4rti 10y ago

   What's the use case for not allowing autocomplete?
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   by d4rti 10y ago

   I know a guy who is building an All Relay Computer, no transistors. I don't think he has a webpage though.
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   by d4rti 11y ago

   You don't get mortgage relief as an owner occupier in the UK. The tax treatment of rental properties is somewhat complex depending on structure. There is no filing jointly here either. You can get tax relief for pension contributions u
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   by d4rti 11y ago

   Mr Money Mustache and Jacob of Early Retirement Extreme offer some food for thought on reducing expenditure and investing the savings. I can't say I've adopted the whole thing, and the tax structure in the UK seems to be less adva
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   by d4rti 11y ago

   hence the name of this dark pattern : http://darkpatterns.org/privacy-zuckering/
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   by d4rti 11y ago

   Come to the Uk, 20 days is minimum, 25 is fairly common, plus 8 bank holidays. Sick days are extra, not taken out of holiday. Usual disclaimers about not every company etc.
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   by d4rti 11y ago

   If your business is dependent on Facebook you need a plan for if all that traffic goes to 0. It's happened to the news media, it's happened to games on Facebook, it will happen again. Like the scorpion, it is in its nature.
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   by d4rti 11y ago

   It's the prettiest construction site I've ever visited, and the exhibits about it (particularly the string and weight models) were great.
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   by d4rti 11y ago

   I'd agree - I'd bet more people know the name Steve Jobs than Bill Buxton.
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    by d4rti 11y ago

    I once rewrote around 200-300 lines of VB using the WinInet gear into a 20-30 line Perl script with WWW::Mechanize. VB's HTTP stuff was terrible.
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    by d4rti 11y ago

    A fantastic example of the impact of phrasing and positioning is Yes Minister on National Service - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA
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    by d4rti 12y ago

    share capital is not the same thing as capital - there's no way you can run an airline on £1 of capital.
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    by d4rti 12y ago

    @dang - can we get [2010] in the title
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    by d4rti 12y ago

    I look forward to their safe passes and patience, as a cyclist and pedestrian.
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    by d4rti 12y ago

    The sacred rac is illustrative of people's culture blindness http://www.drabruzzi.com/sacred_rac.html
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    by d4rti 12y ago

    Jamie Zawinski's CADT[1] observation is relevant again. We are perpetually stuck on version 0.8. [1][ http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html ]
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    by d4rti 12y ago

    Is this the course you are looking for? https://www.coursera.org/course/crypto2
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    by d4rti 12y ago

    In the only game I have played I was France with no Italy. Far too advantageous for France.
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    by d4rti 13y ago

    This is also a fallacy - it's certainly possible for some government entity to be more efficient than some business.
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    by d4rti 13y ago

    Additionally the line is spoken by a character who lives for over 2000 years.[1] 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Long
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    by d4rti 13y ago

    There's a similar idea in Sandler Selling, where in your voice mail you invite them to say that it's over, and just to let you know that it is.
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    by d4rti 13y ago

    I've been enjoying Zed Shaw's Learn C the Hard Way http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/
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    by d4rti 13y ago

    It's a brainfuck program - you can run it in your web browser at http://www.iamcal.com/misc/bf_debug/
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    by d4rti 13y ago

    Zed Shaw's Learn C The Hard way has an exercise that builds a simple prototype based OO system using C[1]. [1]: http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/ex19.html
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    by d4rti 13y ago

    You could make it two recipes, with the yoghurt, nuts and fruit forming a dessert.
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    by d4rti 13y ago

    Should I expect something in return for my beer taxes?
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    by d4rti 13y ago

    “Entertainments may be taxed; public houses may be taxed; racehorses may be taxed…and the yield devoted to the general revenue. But motorists are to be privileged for all time to have the whole yield of the tax on motors devoted to roads. O
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    by d4rti 13y ago

    Or the UK's disastrous worst of all worlds system, of which the best run piece is run by the State! [1] Unless you're willing to build redundant train routes between cities it's not really possible to have competition for tra
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    by d4rti 13y ago

    > HS1 also had a promising ROI, but the calculation failed to account for the explosion in cheap flights happening over the same period of time. I'm pretty sure part of this is due to low/no taxation on aviation fuel, while tra
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    by d4rti 13y ago

    I believe that the plan is to run both as the current line is over capacity. As an avid UK train user, but not frequently on that route I support high speed rail plans in general. I'd like them to build the phases in the opposite order