harryc2011

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by harryc2011 11y ago
I find Church bells both musical & interesting :) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_ringing
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UK FOI is under threat(mysociety.org)
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by harryc2011 11y ago
There certainly is product placement in the UK - see [1]. When watching these shows you'll see an opaque 'PP' logo flash up on the screen to let you know. [1] https://www.itvmedia.co.uk/advertising-opportuniti
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by harryc2011 11y ago
FWIW, the duration has nothing to do with it - you could be 'long APPL' etc. for only a few minutes (or even seconds, microseconds etc.) - see [0] An alternative phrasing here might be "We are bearish on software" [1] [0
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by harryc2011 11y ago
It happens if you paste the code into an Outlook email (which used Word as the rendering engine IIRC)
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by harryc2011 11y ago
And, somewhere within the depths of modern versions of Windows, there lay, dormant, an old-fashioned System font from 1990 — alongside some vintage software routines necessary to render it. I mean it's hardly hidden in the dept
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by harryc2011 11y ago
Thankfully there has been a movement to reduce the number of road signs in general - see the 'Reducing Sign Clutter' [1] advice released the the DfT in 2013. [1] https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/syst
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by harryc2011 11y ago
I think that those van were (are?) mainly for show - http://www.bbctvlicence.com/Detector%20vans.htm
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by harryc2011 11y ago
Isn't the problem right there in the first sentence? - "Almost every university in England offers courses in computer science". Obviously not all institutions offering a CS degree are equal & a quick look at a league tab
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by harryc2011 11y ago
I assume that you mean any tube station within Zone 1 because otherwise this is just not true. For 1.5k you can rent a 2 bed flat in Zones 2-3 and get much more than this further away if you're willing to flatshare. I have a friend who
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by harryc2011 11y ago
They seem to focus their campus recruitment events ( http://www.deloitte.co.uk/aem/student-events-calendar.cfm ) heavily towards the Russell Group universities (Oxbridge, London, Durham etc.) If they want a more diverse
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by harryc2011 11y ago
The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
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by harryc2011 11y ago
The 2014 list is here: https://www.henleyglobal.com/files/download/hvri/HP%20Visa%2...
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by harryc2011 11y ago
I wanted to mention this exact thing on one of the threads earlier today but couldn't articulate it properly. In the UK the department stores John Lewis and House of Fraser are both guilty of this - if I browse something on either of t
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by harryc2011 11y ago
This happens on the BBC (which is ad-free) & it drives me mad! E.g. Dragons' Den is clearly pre-formatted to be sold to commercial channels with ad breaks - there is about 20 mins of content in a 1 hour show w/ 40 mins of reca