earnubs

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by earnubs 16y ago
Our use of oil no more explains the Deepwater Horizon accident than our use of fertiliser explains the Texas City Disaster.
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by earnubs 16y ago
In general I agree, but I struggle with a moral/immoral distinction being so black and white. BP weren't drilling for kicks, there /were/ safety measures in place, there's a balance between safety and cost - no rig in the world is 100% safe
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by earnubs 16y ago
1. The leak is at 1,500m. Doing anything is difficult and dangerous. 2. The well has a measured depth of +10,000m, the pressure acting on the reservoir is ejecting the hydrocarbons with a very large force.
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by earnubs 16y ago
FWIW The HTML5 spec also comes in web dev flavours: http://www.w3.org/TR/html-markup/ http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec-author-view/
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by earnubs 16y ago
"The HTML5 spec is 900 pages and hard to read. HTML5 for Web Designers is 85 pages and fun to read. Easy choice." The HTML5 spec is current, uses hyperlinks and free. Easy choice.
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by earnubs 16y ago
My granda used to tell me you should always try and look at things from a different perspective (which, taking him literally, prompted me to climb the rock garden to look at our house). Working for different companies gives you perspective
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by earnubs 16y ago
#!/usr/bin/perl -w use strict; # from selected block in vim: !scriptname.pl while (defined(my $line = <STDIN>)) { $line =~ m/^(.*)\{(.*)\}/; my $element = $1; my @list = split /;/, $2; @list
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by earnubs 16y ago
Makes it easier to sort in Vim; 'ggVG!sort' will sort your css alphabetically: .bar .apple {...} .foo .apple {...} .foo .banana {...} .foo .cherry {...} (I also have a wee script that sorts the declarations alphabetically too.) I prefer the
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Ove Arup's Key Speech(arup.com)
4 points by earnubs 17y ago|0 comments
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by earnubs 17y ago
Depends on the version of IE. For IE versions that a far out of date it would be reasonable to ask a user to upgrade. For current versions of IE it might only be reasonable in certain circumstances (security considerations maybe). Installin
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Illegal-file sharing could 'cost billions' by 2015(news.bbc.co.uk)
3 points by earnubs 17y ago|1 comments