matthewowen

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by matthewowen 14y ago
When I board planes I wait until the last possible second - I like to hear 'last call' before I join the queues. I don't take stupidly big carry on luggage, so why would I care whether I get on first or last? I'd rather wait as long as poss
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by matthewowen 15y ago
As a Latinist, this makes me cringe. Roman numerals are added, not multiplied. MM = 2000. Not saying that this isn't the root; just that it is deeply dissatisfying.
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by matthewowen 15y ago
I'm really uncomfortable with the term 'learning to code', because when I read it makes me think that the company wants its employees to know in what circumstances you should and shouldn't use semicolons in Javascript, or what methods are a
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by matthewowen 15y ago
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Baader-Meinho...
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by matthewowen 15y ago
FYI: neither of those fragments used the passive voice.
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by matthewowen 15y ago
Very nice! I've been very interested in mobile bus times, so I built better mobile sites for live bus times from: Oxford - http://www.oxbus.co.uk and London - http://londonb.us They both harvest live bus arrivals data from the relevant
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by matthewowen 15y ago
you assume that the author hasn't mindlessly used the title. this is techcrunch. i'm unconvinced.
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by matthewowen 15y ago
that isn't correct. demand for goods and services drives economies.
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by matthewowen 15y ago
You can see it as 90% of their traffic being caused by iPlayer, or as 90% of their business being due to the content provided (at no cost to them) by iPlayer. An exaggeration, of course. But the principle stands. If (eg) streaming video wer
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by matthewowen 15y ago
I'm not sure that's a meaningful way to understand rights. All rights depend on restricting "freedoms". Saying someone has the right to food entails the belief that society should be willing to do some form of redistribution to ensure that