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by dithering 7y ago
And yet... haven't you noticed that supermarkets in posher areas are less likely to have the coin slot? (Asda and Tesco are two whose policy varies by location). And in supermarkets with large car parks there are return stations all ov
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by dithering 7y ago
IMO it depends how they got there. For me the "minimal set" of rules that can still be called Agile is a mechanism for measurement, and a retrospective. You use the retrospective to perturb the process, and you use the measurement
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by dithering 8y ago
I'm hoping for Mary Anning, personally. Local hero.
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by dithering 8y ago
If your purpose is to allow the device to be used when it doesn't have your full attention - like a car radio, for example - I don't think that's a good solution. I have a phone with a knurled power button, and a smooth flash
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by dithering 8y ago
Thing is, I had that all set up! I'd deleted all the IE icons! Spotify did an end-run around all my precautions, because there was basically no way to remove IE from the OS, and any app that wanted to use it could.
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by dithering 8y ago
I'm on there and I've never been vetted. I'm not sure what shape that would take. They are trying to disintermediate agents, without ending up in a race to the bottom, IMO.
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by dithering 8y ago
Embedded in the desktop app. It was news at the time. "spotify ads malware" looks like a good search term to dig up more information.
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by dithering 8y ago
Years ago, a Windows virus slipped on to three family machines I'm the go-to-guy for, due to Spotify using IE to display ads, and not vetting its ads properly. My answer was two-fold - never use Spotify, and always use an ad-blocker.
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by dithering 8y ago
Putting aside the difficulty of building that database of true facts, and of parsing unknown facts out of English text, that solution feels like it's inviting an arms race. I can write a bunch of uncontroversial "true" facts
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by dithering 8y ago
Never mind HN, that's a classic Slashdot response.
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by dithering 8y ago
"Use a bouncer" might be the answer there. All engineering is compromise, and needing a bit more compromise to support legacy applications is not unreasonable. (In fact, why are you running a stream-oriented application over such
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by dithering 8y ago
I use location and a dash of IFTTT to auto-fill timesheets. I'm aware it's a trade-off.
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by dithering 8y ago
> And companies will neglect the EU market altogether As an EU citizen (until April, anyway), can I live in that future please?
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by dithering 8y ago
Well he was replying to me and I didn't read him as uncivil at all. His response ("syncing is expected") is completely on-point when talking about the PoLS. I disagree, obviously, and think syncing is scary voodoo magic. I do
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by dithering 8y ago
We could apply the principle of least astonishment to get a feel for correct behaviour without resorting to sterile arguments about what proportion of users understand the difference between a web site and a web browser. If they looked at a
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by dithering 8y ago
You should look up where most of our medical teaching skeletons come from.
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by dithering 8y ago
There's got to be something that grows faster, and is easier to sequestrate, than trees. Bamboo, maybe? Seaweed? Algae? Dry it off in salt pans and dump it in the deep, cold ocean? That's just dumping more carbon into one of our n
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by dithering 8y ago
Old building. Managed offices, completely gutted internally last year. I don't know if that wound count as new build. Probably not.
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by dithering 8y ago
From my basement in London: Probably specific countries.
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by dithering 8y ago
That's.... extremely sensible. A lot like not allowing a market for human organs.
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by dithering 8y ago
Teaching skills are the bridge. That's what servant leadership is to me - not teaching in the "stand in front of the classroom" sense, but teaching in the "lets pair on this and figure it out together" sense.
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by dithering 8y ago
It was a technique used by poachers, not Gentlemen. Laws around hunting in the UK have a strong scent of class about them (Eg hunting with a bow is illegal, hunting with dogs was legal far longer than it should have been). My grandfather ha
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by dithering 8y ago
Yeah, but what have you done for us lately? </ducks>
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by dithering 8y ago
Balloons, maybe.
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by dithering 8y ago
I use a variation on inbox-zero: if it's unread, it still has to be dealt with. Sort email unread-first. Works well enough for me (I have lots of "automatically mark read" filters for noise emails).
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by dithering 8y ago
Instructional content from passionate hobbyists is where YT shines, I think. My recommendations are full of great content from niche channels, plus some music videos.
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by dithering 8y ago
> Removed from google != removed from public record. "It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard.'" I'm imagining
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by dithering 8y ago
Developers recommend friends and family on computer hardware purchases. We've seen it before: a company starts out (over)designing for a market segment that includes influencers, gets successful off the back of proselytization, decides
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by dithering 9y ago
Ship of Theseus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
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by dithering 9y ago
Suggestion: (needs trust + fallback to a court of law) is less risky than (trust free + no fallback). It's a moot point anyway - as has been said, bitcoin's a commodity not a currency.

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