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by daleharvey 5y ago
The comment I was replying to and point I was making wasnt about the implementation of individual maps. It was a general point about using a device to navigate vs paper maps. (Ordnance survey maps are available for your phone)
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by daleharvey 5y ago
You can take the maps printed on paper ... and "print" them on a screen!
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by daleharvey 5y ago
You have me there, it's not like I am Scottish and spend most of my time navigating the Scottish outdoors or anything ...
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by daleharvey 5y ago
How stupid can people be that a device that can store vast amounts of information, be updated constantly, can track your exact movements and contact people instantly across the world not be more useful than some ink printed on a fragile pie
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by daleharvey 5y ago
Not exactly hacker news material, but couldnt help remind me of The Guard - "I dont know what street your buying your cocaine off but its not the same street I am buying mine" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp37
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by daleharvey 5y ago
Whats the matter, is Ricky Gervais too challenging for you? (ref: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adh0KGmgmQw )
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by daleharvey 5y ago
That seems like it would be an irrelevant conclusion if we were to be playing hacker news bingo.
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by daleharvey 5y ago
If the goals were smaller and most penalties did not result in goal that would not mean they are poorly taken. These people are obviously the best in the world at what they do, they are picked specifically and paid generously in order to be
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by daleharvey 5y ago
Have you considered that the few people who have managed to rise to the top of one of the most competitive fields in the world, as well as the clubs who have have many millions of pounds depending on the result of a penalty kick ... may pos
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by daleharvey 5y ago
While my comment was sarcastic it was still mostly true. The history channel is completely dominated by world war 2 documentaries and they rarely discuss the involvement of other nations. Some British people will obviously know more, but th
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by daleharvey 5y ago
> Why do americans think that the US won WW2 in Europe? If you were British you would know the real truth from the 24/7 repeats of WW2 documentaries that Churchill won WW2
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by daleharvey 5y ago
Transferring the location from one place to another So aside from the fact that my address has around a 50/50 success rate with people trying to find it (My address is a building + street name that has a mirror building + street name a
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by daleharvey 5y ago
A location near me geohash: gcuvz30z w3w: drift.march.donor I had to switch tabs 3 times to copy across the geohash since the page I found it on wouldnt let me copy and paste, I remembered the w3w immediately. I am 100% against something li
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by daleharvey 6y ago
This is fairly gross, pretending to be socially concious when if the technical claims were true it would be a horrific potential for abuse (revenge porn etc). NFT's have nothing to do with ownership, if someone puts up your data illega
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by daleharvey 6y ago
Why? I earn ~8x the salary my Mum ever earned, I earn more than anyone I know that I went to school with. I can support myself and my family. I started paying attention to my spending last year and realise around half of it was on stuff tha
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by daleharvey 6y ago
I did thanks, editing mistake
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by daleharvey 6y ago
Its hard to think of a more homogenous industry / group of individuals than the HN / SV startup founder clique. The length that people will go to to pretend that it isnt another rich boys club that leans somewhat conservative (sor
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by daleharvey 6y ago
You are responding to easily observed demographics with hypothetical anecdotes. The startup tech industry, that involves high salaries and the transfer of hundreds of million pounds is a prestigious one. The overlap between YC alumni and FA
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by daleharvey 6y ago
The parent comment (and the various other "but startup founders dont get paid!") clearly were arguing that the VC industry (and its startup founder participants) are not within a prestigious and well paid sector. Failed tech entre
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by daleharvey 6y ago
There is certainly systematic inequality between particular sports for sure. There is a difference though of course, being excluded from a sport can on an individual level be sad it certainly doesnt have the same impact as an entire gender
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by daleharvey 6y ago
At the point where people are trying to argue that the venture capital industry is working class to try and prove that sexism doesn't exist might be a time to reevaluate what you are arguing for and why.
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by daleharvey 6y ago
The fact that this very well paid prestigious industry doesn't "attract" more women is a very clear sign of inequality.
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by daleharvey 6y ago
If your definition of fairness is "we created an environment so toxic to an entire gender that they don't participate in it" Then sure.
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by daleharvey 6y ago
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658850 has some background, it seems at least sometimes they are identical
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by daleharvey 6y ago
I dont consider the web and offline first / local software to be mutually exlusive. PouchDB is a database built on web technology in order to enable offline capabilities to web sites / apps, Service workers handle caching static a
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by daleharvey 6y ago
People couldn't sell adverts? Working on PouchDB I spent a good amount of time thinking about how to "sell" local / offline first apps. It seemed a lot to me like the problem was plain old capitalism, offline / loca
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by daleharvey 6y ago
I remember back in the AOL days being excited about the internet and choosing it as a career because I was convinced that when it was possible for everyone in the world to openly communicate and share information that things like corruption
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by daleharvey 6y ago
The alternatives arent that people just dont use it, the alternative is are that people download some random executable that has much larger security vector, ie some electron app that has unlimited file system access.
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by daleharvey 6y ago
Before my pixel 4 I had a pixel 3, its camera started started being extremely jittery, especially during videos. I reported it to the Google support and they replaced it new reasonably quickly, was quite happy with that interaction. After m
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by daleharvey 6y ago
I loved my Pixel 4, it was a really good phone albiet very expensive (£669). I went out for a run one day and it rained my phone got slightly damp in my pocket, never booted again and Google Support offered to repair it for ~£500. Hard to c

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