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by danw 17y ago
The Open Rights Group (like an UK EFF) sent a survey to all British MEP candidates to find out their opinions on copyright extension, data protection, etc: http://euelection.openrightsgroup.org/ They found the Green party did very well.
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Can Computer Nerds Save Journalism?(time.com)
4 points by danw 17y ago|3 comments
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North Korea Sentences Current TV Journalists to 12 Years of Labor(newteevee.com)
1 points by danw 17y ago|0 comments
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by danw 17y ago
I prefer to wear what I normally do. If the company has the same "code over looks" outlook that I have then it won't be an issue. If they object to jeans and tshirt, then we wouldn't have been a good fit anyway. (Of course the exception is
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by danw 17y ago
High test scores and blind following of rules may not lead to people who are happy, creative, entrepreneurial, etc later in life.
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by danw 17y ago
The Guardian is a good source and certainly understand tech the best of UK newspapers (they have an api, post the raw data used in articles, host barcamps/hackdays, etc). Carr on the other hand is know for bitter opinion pieces, such as thi
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by danw 17y ago
Moo have an api if you wanted to automate the entire process. Sometimes however going all manual is faster. For example, I wanted to print all my unread instapaper articles into a book. Writing a script to do it would have taken a while so
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by danw 17y ago
This is great. Not entirely surprising since world of goo started out as an app built in a week as part of a series of rapid prototypes built by competing graduate students [ http://www.gamasutra.com/features/20051026/gabler_pfv.htm ]
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by danw 17y ago
I'm not sure I comprehend this. Isn't it the role of the emergency services to prioritise your visit? If you're critical you'll get seen, otherwise you wait. If you're capable of shopping around for the best appointment time then shouldn't
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by danw 17y ago
Does it keep your rep consistent between StackOverflow and the new site? Or is the porting only at signup?
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by danw 17y ago
Here is one users attempt to use the new Ovi store http://shkspr.mobi/blog/index.php/2009/05/nokia-ovi-store-oh...
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Beyond Basic Web Development: Tools for developers(morethanseven.net)
16 points by danw 17y ago|0 comments
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by danw 17y ago
Looks like TC are aggressively deleting comments that disagree with their opinion.
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Dinky pocketbooks: the command-line reference edition(natbat.net)
1 points by danw 17y ago|0 comments
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Mozilla Challenge: Reinvent Tabs in the Browser(design-challenge.mozilla.com)
24 points by danw 17y ago|7 comments
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by danw 17y ago
The implications from requesting ip addresses appears to be attempting to find the original leak source, ie the earliest scrobbles not accountable to journalists, execs. (This is a guess, not something I know)
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by danw 17y ago
Is there any clarifications of what exact data TC accuses of being sent? ie usernames, ip addresses?
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by danw 17y ago
What's the legality of last.fm transferring any data from it's UK servers to CBS in the US, under EU data protection?
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Javascript Malware Analysis: A Case Study(schillmania.com)
4 points by danw 17y ago|0 comments
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by danw 17y ago
Similar to the http://www.idea-a-day.com mailing list
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by danw 17y ago
Oh that's a shame, I didn't know it had been cut. Amazon has a similar scheme "Public Datasets", that store data as an EBS rather than an S3 bucket http://aws.amazon.com/publicdatasets/
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Rewired State Government Hackday for 15-18 year olds(rewiredstate.org)
1 points by danw 17y ago|0 comments
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by danw 17y ago
Putting on a barcamp/democamp is very easy. I put together MobileCampBrighton in a few spare hours and it only cost about £50 of my own money. There's usually some company/coworking space/pub you can use for free.
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by danw 17y ago
Perhaps the barcamp ethos is different where you are, but at all the UK ones I've attended, marketing pitches are heavily frowned upon. BarCamp is about sharing knowledge, not pitching to people.
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by danw 17y ago
As much as The Reg likes to exaggerate, they are usually pretty accurate. In this case they link developer discussions in forums.
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A Prism for Interface Design [Theory](creativeapplications.net)
1 points by danw 17y ago|0 comments
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by danw 17y ago
Try talking to the Open Rights Group http://www.openrightsgroup.org/ - they have an event on in Clerkenwell this evening - http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2294908/
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Fred Wilson on investing in Geocities(avc.com)
54 points by danw 17y ago|7 comments
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Google Corporate Philosophy - Ten Things(google.com)
2 points by danw 17y ago|0 comments
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by danw 17y ago
The Zen of CSS Design for me. It takes submissions to the CSS Zen garden and uses them as examples of what techniques you can use for layout, typography, images, etc It suits my learning style of visual diagrams and reverse-engineering thin

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