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by midhir 12y ago
Sure. The picture shows the President queuing behind a member of the public to use the ATM. As far as I know he's not required to do this, of course. He could have someone go for him etc. In the UK it's very unlikely the Head of S
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by midhir 12y ago
"The monarchy aren't that rich or powerful at all by modern standards." "it really isn't that actively harmful" How can you be sure?
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by midhir 12y ago
It's a great article and the insight into the symbolism of the event is fascinating. I always wondered what the guy banging on the door of the houses of Parliament with the huge ceremonial stick was all about when I was a kid. Neverthe
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by midhir 12y ago
The guys I know who stuck with this stuff got themselves involved in the modern OTO or gnostic ceremony or whatever. They aren't exactly what I'd call focussed people, they might not make great programmers. In all honesty, I could
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by midhir 12y ago
In fairness, Scrubs is way funnier in German. [1] Interestingly, when Elliot actually speaks German in the episode they dub that into Italian. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5_AMLQ2QTA
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Rifkin on the emergence of 'collaborative commons' economy.(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by midhir 12y ago|0 comments
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by midhir 12y ago
So is the extra day, or two days during a leap year, simply appended to the year, waited out and ignored? It's an interesting concept; similar to the Time-slip in Red Mars. Wanting a Martian day to equal that of an Earth day, colonists
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by midhir 13y ago
Great initiative, I've shared & supported it. But is compiling a database of (full) names and email addresses of internet dissidents really wise given that that's the very medium these organisations are abusing? And would it b
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by midhir 13y ago
"Cloudflare did not return a request for more information..." lol.
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by midhir 13y ago
A few years ago I'd a much more humble experience with virality. I'd decided to hack off a quirky part of a project I was working on into a jQuery plugin and make a landing page for people to play with it. Nobody went to it. For m
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by midhir 13y ago
This is actually well overdue, Curtis is a genius whose work will appeal to a lot of people here. It's not considered his best stuff, All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace is probably most relevant to HN and all three episodes a
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by midhir 13y ago
Read this with interest earlier. Personally, I think the author is spot on. We've been launching a new product quietly, building a simple landing page[1] that asks subscribers to tweet or share the page by email after they enter their
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by midhir 13y ago
Seriously surprised Ireland doesn't figure anywhere on this. Salary inflation here is creating a national gravity well in Dublin/Leinster, where several multinational tech companies have their EU HQs (Google, Facebook, Twitter, Mi
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by midhir 13y ago
Ha! Double plus good!
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by midhir 13y ago
Wow, you can really see how the 'open city' feel of Midtown Madness made it into GTA after the acquisition too. Amazing.
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Plink - Collaborative music game using the Web Audio API(labs.dinahmoe.com)
3 points by midhir 13y ago|0 comments
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by midhir 13y ago
Ouch. I've been on the receiving end of Heroku outages during heavy traffic, it's zero craic. But it happens. Give the guys a break lads, it's hard to anticipate this. Still, maybe hosting the static front page on... err.. S3
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by midhir 13y ago
I hate to be THAT guy but I got 19/20 because Norden, whilst being a table, is also a very kvlt black metal band.[1] I picked up their full length at Wacken 2006 for €3. It was not good. [1]: http://www.metal-archives.com&#x
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by midhir 13y ago
Mistook self-assembling for self-replicating and became unduly alarmed.
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by midhir 13y ago
Definitely welcome. Operating from Belfast, the intersection of a kind of Ireland/Britain venn diagram, options for accepting payments have been seriously limited for us. We've been using Fastspring so far and it has been great fo
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by midhir 13y ago
Well... It'd be hard to get much whiter than me! I guess that's my point though, that maybe this guy wasn't targeted but merely a victim of what happens every day. Being associated with the Guardian he'd have known his r
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by midhir 13y ago
About two or three years ago I was taken aside when boarding a plane at a London airport back to Belfast by a policeman and held under their terrorism legislation. Being heavily hungover from a night spent funding London's publicans, a
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by midhir 13y ago
Love the potential for this. It'd be great for businesses if they brought out letterheads, great for startups if they could run it as an API and pretty much reduces the cost to write to anyone in the UK from anywhere else in the world.