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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
1. A close friend had gone to Berkeley to do an information masters - he was self taught and suggested I give it a try. I didn't like my job and when Google Glass was announced I decided to actually quit and find something part-time so
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
Also, c'mon, if Facebook has your data then the NSA has your data... I wouldn't want any of this type of info on there.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
There's a lot of stigma in music around making money, it's pretty weird. I remember a pretty successful alternative musician once telling me that you couldn't survive these days if you divorced being creative and being entrep
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
Good comment. Yeah, the point about Rihanna is interesting but does skirt something pretty clear about the larger music business today - that there's been a dash towards the lowest common denominator in mainstream music. You hear it on
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
I honestly think that while this has every right to be here - and be discussed here - given the last couple months' worth of revelations it's pretty offensive nevertheless. Obviously SIGINT for a nation isn't a bad thing per
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
I've found particular mileage in it recently during arguments over the UK porn law. Haven't used it this much since university...
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
Well, that's exactly it. I thought "oh, hacking and/or botnets?" then read the article and thought "why wasn't that called 'New Russian Server tech gains market share' or something a little less pugil
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
What a ridiculous article title. Generates so much discursive noise and adds nothing to the subject of the article.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
I think he means a second chamber elected by voters. That's certainly what I mean.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
I meant 'lobby' as in 'club' or 'group', and I agree. I'm all for an elected second chamber rather than the current system.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
A policeman joining the police state lobby. Well, I never.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
Exactly. When I learned to code I did it on a laptop monitor and did a lot of switching tabs and workspaces. As for keyboard shortcuts, rarely have I found myself blazing through anything quickly enough that what I'd probably think of
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
I thought this current government couldn't sicken me further with its conduct in this ongoing fiasco; clearly I was wrong.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
Ubuntu at home and for personal projects and OSX at work. When you're at work it's easier to just go with what the majority of the team already uses.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
Exactly. I've got an Rdio subscription but I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop. As a small label owner where we put in more investment than we've ever gotten out, it's crazy to see a thousand streams generating a coup
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
Yes, but £27,000+ minimum of debt for an undergraduate degree is still a lot of money. Plus cost of living is very high for most places in the UK where there's lots of employment to be found.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
In the UK pre-Thatcher the highest rate for income tax was about 83% as memory serves. Since that was canned income inequality has gone up a lot[0], but (and the article I think draws out this point) it's wealth inequality that really
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
I was wondering about this, sites like LyricsFreak and all the others have been on the internet since I was in primary school. I really don't understand what all the fuss is about. Plus for annotation there's better projects like
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
The Rails 3 Way was the book that cracked it for me. Hartl's tutorial is a great start, but Obie's was the book that actually hit the 'why' on the head.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
For most jobs in the UK I think this will still be the norm. The last application I wrote was exactly like this - Letter with 2-page CV, GitHub and links in the footer.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
It's absolutely shocking timing, they should be ashamed of themselves. What's concerning is if they don't put it into a bill but rather chop it up and just push it through piecemeal on ministerial initiative.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
Yep, tried reading and then gave up because the menu was too obtrusive.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
shameless plug! Yeah, I go there for Bootstrap Business Club and it's a good space.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
Manchester are on it. Free wi-fi in a number of places and MadLab. As a resident I'm not that surprised :)
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
To be fair to Udacity, I did the CS101 course to get a reasonable intro to CS concepts and found it really useful. Doing CS262 now, and it's all very applicable to understanding the deeper workings of the code.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
I visited CERN a few weeks ago and totally lost it when I saw that first NeXT workstation. So awesome.
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by hipsters_unite 13y ago
That was exactly my first thought - I use rubular all the time and it's a great scratchpad for regexes.
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by hipsters_unite 14y ago
Yeah, I had thought that was a done deal... clearly not.
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by hipsters_unite 14y ago
I've thought this for years. Something like Flattr, except, y'know, that works and people use.
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by hipsters_unite 14y ago
I guess it depends what you're doing with the video... most of the time I'm happy to use vimeo - as then you get stats etc through their player as well as discoveries through that site as well.

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