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UK government seeks way out of clash with US over Apple encryption(ft.com)
7 points by leocassarani 1y ago|2 comments
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Vesuvius Challenge: First letters found in new scroll(scrollprize.substack.com)
278 points by leocassarani 2y ago|27 comments
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by leocassarani 3y ago
You can in Scotland: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Outdoor_Access_Code In the rest of the UK, it's a little more complicated (for now): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam#E
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by leocassarani 7y ago
And if you're eligible to vote in the UK, vote Labour in the December 12th general election: https://labour.org.uk/manifesto/a-green-industrial-revolutio... Likewise support Green New Deal politicians in the US an
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by leocassarani 7y ago
That's a good line, but I think Labour did it first and the Lib Dems are parodying the high-five https://labour.org.uk/aaaa
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by leocassarani 9y ago
>>> While undoubtedly a lovely sentiment, Jez, making state confiscation threats out loud isn’t great for shifting houses to minted foreigners. I found this passage very strange. Throughout the article, the author seemed to be advo
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by leocassarani 9y ago
Geckoboard | Back-end/Front-End Developers, VP Engineering, Product Designer | London, UK | ONSITE (but some WFH is not a problem) Thousands of businesses use Geckoboard to build TV Dashboards that help drive growth and focus teams, by
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by leocassarani 10y ago
Geckoboard | Back-end/Front-End Developers | London, UK | VISA, ON SITE (but some WFH is not a problem) Thousands of businesses use Geckoboard to build TV Dashboards that help drive growth and focus teams, by taking the complexity out
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by leocassarani 10y ago
Geckoboard | Back-end/Front-End Developers | London, UK | VISA, ON SITE (but some WFH is not a problem) Thousands of businesses use Geckoboard to build TV Dashboards that help drive growth and focus teams, by taking the complexity out
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by leocassarani 11y ago
London, UK | Geckoboard https://www.geckoboard.com | Full time | ON SITE (but some working from home is not a problem) Geckoboard is a successful, growing 30-person B2B SaaS startup based in East London. Our elegant real-time da
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by leocassarani 11y ago
London, United Kingdom - Geckoboard - https://www.geckoboard.com - ON SITE (but some working from home is not a problem) Geckoboard is a successful, growing 25-person B2B SaaS startup based in East London. Our elegant real-time
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by leocassarani 12y ago
Interestingly, your tool claims our website (SSL-terminated at our ELB instance) is still vulnerable; while this other tool ( http://possible.lv/tools/hb ) claims we are unaffected. Another, known unpatched, app is repor
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by leocassarani 13y ago
Hi, I wrote Lightbuild. BlinkStick looks great, but for us, the main advantage of using the Hue bulbs is that the entire team is instantly alerted when the build breaks (the blinking definitely helps!). I'm not sure it would have quite
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by leocassarani 13y ago
On the other hand, 6th April is the first day of the tax year in the UK, so that would work out quite well.
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by leocassarani 13y ago
Did he though? The BBC seems to think he was staying in a "capsule hotel", with very few amenities: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23077350
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by leocassarani 13y ago
This Slate article provides a bit more context: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/06/28/voting_right...
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Concurrent garbage collection in Rubinius 2.0(rubini.us)
14 points by leocassarani 13y ago|1 comments
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My afternoon chatting with a man who thinks I shouldn't be able to get married(tommorris.org)
1 points by leocassarani 14y ago|0 comments
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by leocassarani 14y ago
Definitely too skeptical. Every piece of research that 23andme uses to interpret your genetic data is backed by a wealth of citations and studies. Each "discovery" is rated on a confidence scale from 1 to 4, with experimental research being
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The Poetry of Function Naming(blog.stephenwolfram.com)
2 points by leocassarani 14y ago|0 comments
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by leocassarani 14y ago
For the record (and while I know it's beside the point you were making), the "adding fiberglass to cigarettes" claim is pure bullshit. See the Snopes article on the subject: http://www.snopes.com/business/alliance/menthol.asp
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by leocassarani 14y ago
> And probably good for you - it means your body is finally getting rid of some stuff it should have gotten rid of before and didn't. That sounds like the sort of pseudo-scientific, unsubstantiated nonsense you hear all the time from Ne
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by leocassarani 14y ago
Twitter, for one: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/18/twitter_signs_do_not...
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by leocassarani 14y ago
It's ironic that you're linking to one of Joel's articles in your response, given that he's actually the "Windows programmers' hero" that the comment was referring to: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/06/16.html .