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by majc2 12y ago
I guess it depends on your definition of socialist. It's the common term thats used here - the Labour party which until recently was the dominant force in Scottish politics is a member of the Party of European Socilaists. (source: htt
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by majc2 12y ago
Scotland's parliament does have tax varying powers but has never used them . So, it takes the block grant from the Westminster parliament and decides how to spend it through something called the Barnett formula. Scotland is essentially
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Uber banned in Germany by Frankfurt court(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by majc2 12y ago|0 comments
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I Can't Find Good Salespeople(raganwald.com)
14 points by majc2 12y ago|4 comments
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Uber app 'competing unfairly' in London(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by majc2 12y ago|0 comments
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by majc2 12y ago
Damn right! They have a right to be picky if they're charging too :)
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by majc2 12y ago
...we will know if they know the material or not? I don't think cheating on exams is that widespread, what are others experiences?
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by majc2 12y ago
London has 5 airports; there is also the Eurostar. If people really want to go, I'm sure they can find a way. Surely if thats too high a barrier it says something about how serious they are about founding a startup?
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by majc2 12y ago
Anyway, anyone going down this line really needs to speak to an accountant, yada yada yada. For consultants/freelancers/contractors - dividends can be fine, if you can mitigate your exposure to IR35 (typically a bigger issue for c
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by majc2 12y ago
Yeah definitely, Edinburgh has acquired a few extra rail bridges! IIRC the network rail movement feed tells you when a train has reaching specific passing points, so there is a very granular level of data available if you want to show movem
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by majc2 12y ago
TrainTimes already has a map ( http://traintimes.org.uk/map/#bhm ) although I'm not sure of their data source. I've looked at this before and it's already doable through the network rail api ( https:/
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by majc2 12y ago
I first heard this in "The secrets of consulting" by Gerald Weinberg. The fuller version is that the manger is only allowed to say 'yes' if they tell you there is a cost associated with it (i.e. it isn't free).
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by majc2 12y ago
Well you see the internet is a series of tubes... In all seriousness though, in the UK credit record agencies can only keep 6 years of financial information - a search engine is not subject to any regulation around this and could for exampl
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by majc2 12y ago
I've had the early access version; the stuff on Heroku is at the tail end of the book and is a matter of c. 10 pages or so. So, don't let that put you off.
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by majc2 12y ago
Technical debt isn't drastic enough to get people's attention - in particular management. I prefer to talk about the technical credit card - I find that it gets across the point that the debt needs to be addressed.
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by majc2 12y ago
Apparently not. This article ( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/pharmaceutic... ) suggests its a case of economics. That is new antibiotics would be kept back as a last line of defence only; therefor
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Microsoft warns of Internet Explorer flaw(bbc.co.uk)
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by majc2 13y ago
No, just widely speculated.
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by majc2 13y ago
This is interesting - Xbox one is their most interesting platform right now.
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by majc2 13y ago
Looking at twitter it seems like XAML is getting a ton of love from MS. Go back 2 years and many were predicting that HTML was going to win the war on Windows; what gives/what's changed? Disclosure: written more XAML than I'd
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by majc2 13y ago
Hehe :) In fairness though, keep in mind they've gone as far as mice.
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by majc2 13y ago
Well done; really think you've got a decent product idea here. Few comments, which you've probably already thought through, but worth mentioning. Have you considered how you'll get repeat revenue from your customers? Also hav
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by majc2 13y ago
1. Tell them you're going to tell the accelerator about the IP dispute 2. Just tell the accelerator that you believe they're infringing your IP. 3. In future, get some form of paperwork signed early - I've used http:/&#
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by majc2 13y ago
Welcome to the free market. If you don't want to purchase his services at 175usd per hour don't - if you do, do. Ranting about the expense of a freelancer in a freelancer thread is unlikely to make him change his rates.
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by majc2 13y ago
You might like Alan Weiss's "Million Dollar Consulting"
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by majc2 13y ago
To me, your question is about the feast or famine side of freelancing and consulting. The key is to hedge the famine side and sell existing clients retainers. patio11 and Brennan Dunn do a great job of explaining this in a ton of their news
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by majc2 13y ago
BBC's Horizon covered the Placebo Effect last week and folks in UK can see here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03wcchn/Horizon_201320...
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Hardcore porn on sale next to children’s books in Google’s online store(telegraph.co.uk)
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by majc2 13y ago
Having worked in a large bank, I can maybe shed some light on it. It's all about balancing benefits, risk, cost and opportunity cost. Large corporates typically have budgets for projects/investments and for Business as Usual (BAU)
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US makes Bitcoin exchange arrests(bbc.co.uk)
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