koshatnik

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by koshatnik 12y ago
There's a proposal to create 'virtual' articles from Wikidata: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikidata/Notes/Article_genera... The benefit of this is that articles would be dynamically synthesi
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by koshatnik 12y ago
Depneds on the company - best to do some research. Are there any clues from photos on the company website/at events? If you know someone (who knows someone etc) who works there, ask what the informal dress code is, but probably go a
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by koshatnik 13y ago
Also, although this is more the case overseas rather than in Westeros itself, slaves. Ancient Greece and Rome certainly had the knowledge and ingenuity to have industrial revolutions, but with the availability of mass forced labour, there
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by koshatnik 13y ago
Not sure about the identifier used in England and Wales, but in Scotland most boards use the 10-digit CHI number. From this you can determine the patient's date of birth and sex. For this reason it is not used as a patient identifier
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by koshatnik 13y ago
"It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." - D
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by koshatnik 13y ago
This is very like what happens in the book World War Z, which was probably inspired by government responses to SARS and other epidemics. A mysterious disease arises in China, and the government strongly censors reporting of outbreaks. Thi
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by koshatnik 13y ago
Just as well he's not gay then - Bradley Manning would have found things a bit harder in this situation
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by koshatnik 13y ago
Interesting that having a daughter makes CEOs more mindful of equal pay, when they already had a woman close to them that they should be looking out for - their wife/partner (I'm assuming gay CEOs with kids don't form a signi
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Will Bitcoin change how kids learn to count?(wired.com)
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by koshatnik 13y ago
At least it's not a load of non-technical founders of 'pink' startups (fashion, kids etc) and tech tv presenters, as these things tend towards. Found some cool people to follow on Twitter, anyhow.
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by koshatnik 14y ago
I had similar feelings when I started to use 'programmer' and 'developer' on my CV, and when I started my first IT contracting job. I had done programming in my previous job, but it was in no way acknowledged in my job description or grade
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by koshatnik 14y ago
'electronic dance music' does not seem to be all that new to me. I'm amused by the idea that something popular in Europe for decades which originated in US alternative cultures is only now catching on in US mainstream culture.