mattdoughty

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by mattdoughty 5y ago
I have decoded the UK QR code (though not using this code). It conforms to the same standard.
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by mattdoughty 6y ago
I used to live in a flat (I guess you would call it a condo in the US) with heating provided by the building. My landlord who I lived with left the heating on 24/7 during the winter and the flat would get ridiculously hot. Even though
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by mattdoughty 9y ago
When I lived in the US, the lack of in-unit washing machines was quite unexpected. I had to pay $2 to use the shared (between 2 apartments) machine even though we as tenants paid the electric and water bills.
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by mattdoughty 9y ago
With a pen mark you can just cross out the mark and put your X in another box. That would be accepted here in the UK at least.
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by mattdoughty 10y ago
When I crossed the border on a passenger train from Poland to Belarus and from Mongolia to China, the train went into a warehouse where the compartment was lifted and new bogies slid underneath. All while the passengers remained on the trai
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WiFi data collection pilot at 54 London Underground stations(tfl.gov.uk)
1 points by mattdoughty 10y ago|0 comments
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by mattdoughty 11y ago
I get that it may be demeaning but that analogy doesn't really work. It would be like the NYC Subway didn't go to Wall Street at all, and the banks built their own subway for their workers which ran from an NYC Subway station.
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by mattdoughty 12y ago
Djangae lets you use the Django ORM with the Datastore, meaning you don't have to use NDB. It also has lots of other helpers for things like deferred tasks. The Django NDB middleware written by Google, as far as I can work out, just ma
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by mattdoughty 12y ago
Northern line trains on the Charing Cross branch only go south of Kennington at peak times. This is shown on the map of the Northern line but not on normal Tube maps.
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Online voter registration launches in the UK(gov.uk)
1 points by mattdoughty 12y ago|0 comments
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by mattdoughty 13y ago
No option for both parents :) although my mum hadn't done it for years when I was starting out. I wouldn't say either of was a mentor though, I learnt by myself.