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by eftpotrm 16y ago
School choice is far from an unmitigated blessing - it has a very strong tendency to produce 'sink schools' with very poor outcomes, simply because the parents who care congregate around the schools they think are best. Note think - we
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Speaking for the US and UK, I'd hardly call what we had in '06 particularly liberal. DHS in particular springs to mind...
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Equally though - it's far from an unforeseeable problem, this individual is unlikely to be the first affected and they've had the data to see this coming for some time, and it wouldn't be impossible to fall over to a separate, more scalable
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
98% uptime is down roughly: * 1 minute every hour, or * 3h20 every week, or * 1 week every year I know about hyperbole for making a point, but does Basecamp really total anything like a week's downtime per year? If so, why? I'm pretty sur
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Which is the kind of thinking that underlies the endless 'manageement team dashboard' apps that exist in the corporate world, because some higher up has decided that the best way to get an overview of the company is to come up with some Key
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
The core issue here (IMHO) can be summed up as: * We all (and I'm aware I'm a pretty young account myself) vote on stories and comments to rank their quality * Newer users vote less in line with the historic ethos because they're less aware
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I had a brief play once for this sort of thing with doing stem-based pronounceable word generation based off a starting dictionary; the idea being that it broke them into fragments marked as beginning, middle or end and used intersections o
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Hmm, that's not very comprehensive for this purpose. Years ago at a former employer, we discovered just after shipping a large quantity of quite sensitive demo materials that an outside contractor had managed to slip a hidden profanity in
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Statistically, yes. Not, I suspect, because marriage suddenly confers stability and harmony onto relationships where none was previously, but because of a mix of people having to pay a large deposit on the relationship and of non-marriage r
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I don't think they do. Print journalists compete directly with the 6am/12pm/5pm/10pm news on radio and TV in that they're providing exactly the same material. That's the case for the news journalists but not for the specialist media which
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Yes, but that scenario leads to customers going 'where's my app gone?', at which point a percentage of them put the App name into Google and guess what pops out...
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
We've only been capable of even low earth orbit for 52 years from a recorded history of civilisation of a good few thousand years, archaeological evidence pointing at a few hundreds of thousands of years of species existence and hundreds of
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I suspect Apple may have to back down over this... So much of the value they paint of the iOS ecosystem is in the apps - 'There's an app for that' was a large campaign last year. Yet they're now threatening to make a number of their more po
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Do you really need to live in London? If we're talking the classic example here of ramen profitability, you can do that for about half as much cash by moving out along the train lines and commuting in when you need to. I'm about an hour f
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I'm all for clear and simple and I do get frustrated with Firefox's growing slowness, but.... Chrome just doesn't have enough features. It's too stripped out. I miss Firefox's better bookmark and history handling. I miss that I can open
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
A better return than nil isn't hard, though...
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I can buy a 3G USB dongle for, what, £20? Heck, for that price difference, I can buy a whole 3G Kindle. I find it very hard to believe they're both subsidised that heavily by their respective backers, so why (other than supporting the pri
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Beats me; so often IME it's true though. There've even been cases where I've installed the app and found I preferred the company's mobile website so used that instead.
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
But so much of the beauty of the Internet is its portable ubiquity; I can write a website once and it's available in much the same format to Windows, MacOS, Unix, iOS, Android.... you name it. Whereas in the mobile world we're seeing _milli
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Without knowing the exact design of the test it's very difficult to be certain, but also from the linked Wikipedia article: Goizueta publicly voiced a complaint many company executives had been making in private as they shared letters the
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Which was significantly a marketing issue - even the person running the anti-New Coke campaign preferred the new recipe in blind taste tests. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Coke Gay Mullins, a Seattle retiree looking to start a public
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Well, you're dumping waste heat either way, and at too low a difference to ambient to be efficient to extract, but while I'm not an expert in the energy usage of 3D printers, I find it very hard to believe that reducing an item to granules
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
We will have to solve the energy problem, first, though. First catch your hare indeed.... The energy implications of shredding and remanufacturing essentially the same items rather than cleaning them just makes me shudder. That really can
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Within the terms that were then understood, they're very well on the way to that though. The first office I ever worked in, as a summer job as a student, was computerised but used them as glorified typewriters in the main. All the master
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
At the moment, you're stuck in the burnout. It's draining your energy and enthusiasm, so you're not going to have the cool ideas to go off and do something better because your brain just isn't in the right place. If you can afford to get
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
If we're talking about the parents of gang-member children who need metal detectors and locked windows to stop them taking weapons into school, locked toilets to stop them beating each other in there, who can't be trusted not to steal schoo
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Well, at present the cars are pretty much written off at the end of the year as total losses anyway - you might see a few cropping up for sale, but for well below the manufacturing costs in my experience. So forcing a sale wouldn't really c
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Sort of. http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2006/09/has-joel-spolsky-ju... This suggests they're Windows native, but using custom tech to provide non-Windows compatibility.
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
I note in the interests of the soundtrack they skipped the 80s turbo cars completely! No bad thing though; they were spectacular performers but not spectacular noises, to me at least. I'm fairly sure I've seen all the cars they had in the
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by eftpotrm 16y ago
Absolutely agree. I'm fed up with seeing a whole swathe of 'degree' coures in what many years ago would have been a work-based apprenticeship. Hospitality and event organising, outdoor activities leadership and so on. And does the world rea

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