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The NHS is selling your private data – here's the price list [pdf](hscic.gov.uk)
252 points by ghswa 13y ago|114 comments
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Samsung smartwatch revealed by patent filings(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by ghswa 13y ago|0 comments
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by ghswa 13y ago
Hewitt posted it himself.
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Behind the scenes photos of the Boston bomber manhunt(bostonmagazine.com)
1 points by ghswa 13y ago|0 comments
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by ghswa 13y ago
Sticking to LTS releases was actually the worst way to do this as it meant catching 10.04 which was effectively a "one off" UI, resulting in two changes to the UI rather than one big overhaul. My mother started off on 8.04 LTS. Wh
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by ghswa 13y ago
I gave up on Ubuntu when I could no longer have faith that my environment would be recognisable from one release to the next. For me, and my mother, that's a very important part of "just works".
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by ghswa 13y ago
This certainly seems to be allowed: http://stackoverflow.com/a/39247
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by ghswa 13y ago
That won't work since escapologybb can't type a password at the OS X lock screen.
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by ghswa 13y ago
At least the Ubuntu VM can be password protected and encrypted, unlike OS X in this scenario, or am I missing some other issue? Using a VM as the "real" machine seems to be at least as effective as any other suggestion made here a
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by ghswa 13y ago
Not if I don't know my wife's login credentials and not if I'm watching a home video or a DVD that I've ripped.
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by ghswa 13y ago
I'm looking forward to it spreading between platforms. If I'm watching a movie on my linux laptop and the battery dies I want to continue watching from the same spot on my wife's ipad.
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by ghswa 13y ago
And another in timeline form: http://www.levenez.com/lang/ This one is my personal favourite. My wife got a print made around a year ago for our anniversary. It's around 3m long so we don't actually have anyw
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Optical strontium clocks could redefine the second(phys.org)
11 points by ghswa 13y ago|7 comments
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by ghswa 13y ago
I frequently see people talking about an unqualified "100% test coverage". Is it safe to assume in these cases that the author is referring to statement coverage[1] rather than something more stringent like decision coverage or ev
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by ghswa 13y ago
For Haskell you're absolutely right however I was responding to the OPs comment that controlling effects in general is over the top. The issue of composing effects, along with the widespread fear of monads, are enough for me to conclud
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by ghswa 13y ago
Effect inference has already been done: http://research.microsoft.com/apps/mobile/showpage.aspx?page... I doubt we'll see anything like this in a mainstream language anytime soon.
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by ghswa 13y ago
Using the mechanic employed by the scala plugin I linked to[1], dofib would be annotated with pure(argumentProvider). dofib itself is pure however, at each call site, it has the effect of its argument for that call. This is consistent with
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by ghswa 13y ago
I don't agree that managing effects is over the top per se however the use of monads feels over the top for pretty much everything! It's always struck me as strange that value (as in a typical type system) and effects would be con
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by ghswa 13y ago
Perhaps, but why shutdown the service so abruptly? Why not shut down the service in, say, 3 months, support MyRedis customers to migrate to Redis Cloud (or elsewhere) before moving the MyRedis personnel into their new roles. As somebody wit
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by ghswa 13y ago
Solving this surely requires explicit support for testing at the language level, eg. a "private testable" scope.
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by ghswa 13y ago
I'd recommend seeing a podiatrist anyway[1]. I've known about my alignment issues for years - mega tight hamstrings and weak gluteals so I got my first pair of (corrective) running shoes from a local, reputable, running shop[2] af
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by ghswa 13y ago
For those that are interested, here's a link to the docs: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233243.aspx
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by ghswa 13y ago
Most people I regularly spend time with are aware that I'm bipolar even if they aren't in the "been there" category. This is quite deliberate. When I'm well, I do my best to explain the difficulties I have during an episode to try and avoid
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by ghswa 13y ago
For me this depends very much on who it is that's trying to help. If they've not experienced something similar to the mental health problems I'm suffering from it's usually best if they treat me as normal. The effort required to try and exp
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by ghswa 13y ago
I'm not aware of any conclusive research showing that depression is more common than mania although people are more likely to seek treatment when depressed than when they're manic. I also struggle to believe that there is any evidence to su
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by ghswa 13y ago
This doesn't sound like you're talking from personal experience. Saying that the highs bring genius is a gross simplification. Yes, manic episodes can provide productivity boosts and huge amounts of energy but it doesn't have to go much fur
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by ghswa 13y ago
And in these cases the situation can be exasperated by well meaning friends, relatives and practitioners searching for a root cause that, if addressed, will make it all go away.
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by ghswa 13y ago
Thanks very much for posting those links, I too am bipolar. Unfortunately I'll have to put off checking them out properly until another time. Until last December I'd been stable for around 5 years. Now I'm putting together an account of my