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by disputin 12y ago
Nope, London doesn't have thunderstorms. Maybe they're thunderstorms by UK standards, but not by global standards, not in the 13 years I've lived here. One of the things I miss most about living elsewhere in the world is th
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by disputin 12y ago
London doesn't get awesome thunderstorms. I used to joke about the annual thunderclap. This year we've surprisingly had a few already. Neighbourly camaraderie? Open fire? Walking in the rain? Walking in puddles of engine oil?
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by disputin 12y ago
Yes. Rats are cheaper to train, and light enough that they don't set off the mines.
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by disputin 12y ago
And connect their robots to Viki.
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by disputin 12y ago
Agreed unlikely, but the point remains there have been considerable increases since £315,000, hence all the talk of bubble danger by BOE, politicians and investors, especially if you don't single out suburbs, and consider the data is i
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by disputin 12y ago
Most recent, but not recent - 2012 Q3 - add two years of 17% per annnum.
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by disputin 12y ago
"In London, the average price ... is two-and-a-half times the national average, at £435,034, and 17% higher than in April 2013." -- http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/may/30/london-house-pr..
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by disputin 12y ago
Do you think Bach would have been a rubbish musician if he was an atheist? I suspect religion was just one of many possible muses.
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by disputin 12y ago
"Court procedure..... In a murder case, the offender flees to a safe place – including outside the country – to avoid prosecution or execution "Qisaas." "
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by disputin 12y ago
Yes, why is Go constantly compared to Python?
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by disputin 12y ago
"It maybe doesn't tickle me on an intellectual level, the way Haskell or Clojure do, sure, but for getting real work done, I'd choose it any day over those two." Agreed. I'd suggest perfect for the world's dar
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by disputin 12y ago
Lovely. Would love to be able to see the constellations more clearly. I can make them out I zoom in, the sun's rays enhance them. Although someone above doesn't like the constellations - so maybe a switch.
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by disputin 12y ago
I find that flash one fantastic, with the stars. I'll be returning to it often.
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by disputin 12y ago
http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/
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by disputin 13y ago
Came across a computing version once upon a time: https://plus.google.com/+JeanBaptisteQueru/posts/dfydM2Cnepe
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by disputin 13y ago
I'm interested to see what's around that corner. What is the average price of a London home at the moment - 12x salary? Foreigners are still flocking in, and the market mania seems to be increasing with sellers increasing prices
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by disputin 13y ago
Ah, ok great, thanks. I was just using the demo as is.
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by disputin 13y ago
I'm not allowed to work on weekends? Thoughtful, alas.
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by disputin 13y ago
I'm aware of cognitive biases, and know they get me, I just find this use really feeble. Individuals and all that. When I make bad decisions I don't reconcile anything, I swear and grumble and cut my losses and tell myself to fo
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by disputin 13y ago
"The only way to reconcile their thoughts and actions is to explain that, in fact, they must really love this job and therefore should work hard at it." Is my mind supposed to work like that? I'd think "I should've
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by disputin 13y ago
You have a point regarding electricity - South Africa was having rolling blackouts a few years back, not sure what the state is now. One thing to consider is that it might be easier to grow into a big fish in a small pond than in a big pond
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by disputin 13y ago
Last few places I've worked, in London, devs with 10+ years were getting around $70 000.
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by disputin 13y ago
What's the lurch distance?
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by disputin 13y ago
Probably just wait until the bus has stopped.
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by disputin 13y ago
There are far cleaner geographic tube maps than that, and if you want to have any idea of where you are in London the geographic tube map is the one to use. The designed map is very clean and clever but eliminates all information except the
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by disputin 13y ago
No doubt. Although in coffee shops they wear name badges and don't have much reason to tell people their names.
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by disputin 13y ago
Eastern Europeans in London do this. Andrzej becomes Andrew, Wojciech becomes Voytek, names beginning with Sz drop the z. People working in coffee shops often change their name after working there a while.
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by disputin 13y ago
That wasn't a negotiation, that was a demand. Dan'l did the negotiation. "People are not often as clear as Steve was" - he wasn't clear at all. He put on a performance for the developers, and Dan'l was the pe
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by disputin 13y ago
Seems to me those are goals, not fixes. I'd like to see a list that matches languages to problems and domains.
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by disputin 13y ago
I think you're confusing achieving optimal productivity with achieving decent productivity. Sometimes even the latter is a depressing struggle.

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