darrenf

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by darrenf 9y ago
> I briefly tried some of the "skills" but they're awkward as hell. You have to say something along the lines of "Tell <app name> to <command>". Yikes. That's a little like saying "some webs
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by darrenf 9y ago
To clarify, as that paints a fairly broad brush: Southern Rail cover a dense but geographically small part of southern England. Their reputation is rightfully poor, but in large part because their performance is exceptionally worse than m
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by darrenf 9y ago
I was about to make a similar comment regarding the title (as a startled Harmony One and Harmony Hub owner).
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by darrenf 9y ago
Australian pokies hold basically no allure for me. I've been visiting Sydney on a yearly basis for 10+ years, and only on my first trip did I really spend any time gambling. It wasn't much fun even though I won: unfamiliarity, plu
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by darrenf 9y ago
The shows to which you refer were not necessarily to be shown in classes - AIUI they were the classes/lectures for the Open University, a distance learning uni which still exists to this day. The broadcasts lasted into the mid-00s:
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by darrenf 9y ago
It changed over the years. From, like, 92-00 I was sinking way more money than I could properly afford into them, and often hated the experience. Losing felt absolutely horrible, but winning felt fantastic. Most of my friends would gamble t
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by darrenf 9y ago
When I used to throw tons of money at the things, what amazed and impressed my friends wasn't that I would regularly win money - I wouldn't, and I was always up front about how much I was pissing away - but just that I understood
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by darrenf 9y ago
We will have to agree to disagree. When I'm programming, as a backend engineer (like the article's author) I am almost always making use of numerous computers at once: my local hardware, a remote dev instance, remote production in
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by darrenf 9y ago
The "but it's not local and therefore not programming!" style reactions make little sense to me. Programming is an activity; where the code resides or executes doesn't change that fact. How would you have the title &quot
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by darrenf 9y ago
Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41479620
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by darrenf 9y ago
Independent of the concept's wisdom or implementation, Yahoo! introduced disposable addresses (originally marketed as 'Address Guard') back in 2003: http://web.archive.org/web/20031023014724/http:&#x
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by darrenf 9y ago
As someone who grew up in zone 4 and has lived for 18 years in zone 6, I don't recognise the last point here at all.
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by darrenf 9y ago
Honestly it seems those dictionaries are not at all up to date with common English informal phrases. Source: native and resident Londoner of >40 years, and user of "mugging" in the "ripped off" sense for most of them.
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by darrenf 9y ago
AIUI bare knuckle boxing is less dangerous than the big time stuff. Gloves protect the boxer doing the punching from breaking their fingers/hands, enabling them to do more damage to their opponents. You ain't punching a skull with
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by darrenf 9y ago
Semicolons are valid (especially) when the list items themselves contain commas - such as "its parent company's executive chairman, Eric Schmidt".
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by darrenf 9y ago
The average internet user could use Dropmark: http://www.dropmark.com/ (not affiliated, but happy user)
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by darrenf 9y ago
In the UK, Timpson[0] are a well known example of a national employer not only willing to hire ex-offenders but one that does so proudly, and indeed offer training to prisoners before they are even released. They have tried to convince othe