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by mprev 8y ago
The point is that chrisseaton said they didn’t know where the city of Chester ends and I mentioned that there’s a pretty big change of admin at the edge of the city (or, in this case, the borough of Chester and West Cheshire, as we are talk
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by mprev 8y ago
I care! Thanks for pointing that out.
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by mprev 8y ago
Well, sure, I’m not saying otherwise. It was just a comment unworthy of a parry.
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by mprev 8y ago
Isn’t there a welcome to Wales sign on one side of the city? I always find it fun driving over the border and suddenly you can araf at the gwasanethau for a paned o de.
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by mprev 8y ago
One of my favourites was James Governor’s Sympathy for the DevRel. A call for people in tech to take better care of themselves. https://devrel.net/dev-rel/sympathy-for-the-devrel
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by mprev 8y ago
This isn't all that much like alcohol prohibition, though. This is about enabling fair access to and good stewardship of a scarce resource. Prohibition was the imposition of one form of morality through law. In my view, it's easie
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by mprev 8y ago
It is difficult to get a backing licence in the UK, though. OpenBanking is tangential to this and you still need regulatory approval (min £50k and several months of paperwork). Monzo spent a long time as a card provider only, while working
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by mprev 8y ago
Slightly off-topic but it's interesting that they interviewed Evelyn for her own obituary.
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by mprev 8y ago
I hate to be so blunt but it won’t pan out in any meaningful way. Why would it succeed where FirefoxOS and Ubuntu Mobile could not? Not enough people value openness to make the trade off versus iOS and Android. Does iOS not provide the pri
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by mprev 8y ago
Can you be more specific about what you perceive to be their political stance, how that impacts your browser usage, and how it differs from that of the other browser vendors?
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by mprev 8y ago
I thought Twitter might somehow be pertinent to the hack but, apparently, this person just happens to have a Twitter account.
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by mprev 8y ago
Nobody buys an AMG for fun?
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by mprev 8y ago
Genuine question: which part, specifically, was amazing? I'm wondering if there's something some people perceive (such as yourself) and others, like me, don't.
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by mprev 8y ago
I read the article and I listened to the samples and I fail to see where the "8D" comes in. Early virtual surround sound examples always seemed impressive, if gimmicky: a plane would fly over your head and you'd hear it move
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Ask HN: What's the best developer tutorial you've read?
4 points by mprev 8y ago|2 comments
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by mprev 8y ago
I know it's a little off-topic but I wish they'd let the content speak for itself. Are the Geocities-style background and animated GIFs really necessary? I feel they add to the cognitive load rather than adding to the story.
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by mprev 8y ago
I love the idea of sending data over ham radio but, outside some kind of disaster or simply making hams happy, is there a practical use?
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by mprev 8y ago
Your reply is fascinating. Are you really trying one-up someone who is hinting heavily at their own desire for suicide?
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by mprev 8y ago
Afaicr, the Amstrads were distributed under the Schneider brand in some non-UK countries.
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by mprev 8y ago
Isn’t the point that we don’t need another platform to take over but that the web was meant to be decentralised and we can all easily go back to that?
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Dear Amazon, NYC doesn’t want you(theguardian.com)
9 points by mprev 8y ago|9 comments
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by mprev 8y ago
I received my first fake from the UK site recently; a microSD card. I too was prevented from leaving a review due to “unusual review activity” for that product. Checking the reviews I saw that many people had also received fakes and left on
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by mprev 8y ago
The average tech reporter for a public service broadcaster most likely does not know the difference. How often do you read mainstream tech reporting and find yourself complimenting the journalist on their insight and factual correctness?
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by mprev 8y ago
It’s no longer the Manchester Guardian. It’s positioned as a global English language newspaper. Coverage of domestic issues in Australia, the US and Canada, at least, is routine.
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by mprev 8y ago
This seems less about witchcraft as such and more about defrauding people. Having said that, is there any other kind of witchcraft than fake witchcraft?
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by mprev 8y ago
Berol were kind of the British Sharpie, in some respects. Not exactly the same product but similarly ubiquitous. They were made in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, I think.
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Apple tried to buy Leap Motion twice(uk.businessinsider.com)
1 points by mprev 8y ago|0 comments
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by mprev 8y ago
I don’t remember the detail but if that were sponsored then I suspect the revenue wouldn’t have covered a month of sending out free CDs, let alone doing any propping up.
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by mprev 8y ago
I'll take one in "Questions to which the answer is 'No'". Merger or no, there's a huge install base of Hadoop clusters doing useful (and not so useful) work. Is Hadoop just another tech now? Yes. But it's
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by mprev 8y ago
How did IBM prop up Ubuntu?

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