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by noneeeed 4y ago
I don’t think it’s as well known as you or I might assume. I’ve been fascinated by early writing for a long time and I often find people are unaware that writing like this (rather than transactional stuff) goes back that far.
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by noneeeed 4y ago
This was a weirdly strong memory from my childhood. The BBC’s consumer rights programme Watchdog, which my parents always watched, would cover it on an almost weekly basis. It really was a staggeringly stupid thing to do. And it was weird t
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by noneeeed 4y ago
That all sounds pretty cool. Nice to see people trying something new.
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by noneeeed 4y ago
> Fly is innovative in the same way Heroku was when it launched I've not had a chance to play with it yet, what are they doing that's innovative. (Genuine question, not being cynical).
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by noneeeed 4y ago
Ok, I need to watch that, it looks stunning.
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by noneeeed 4y ago
Currently going through this. "We'll have lots of autonomy", "they want to learn for us as much as we learn from them", etc. A year down the line and our founders have left and we've been gutted of anything tha
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by noneeeed 4y ago
My wife does a photo book every year, combining the best of both our photos. It’s a bit of a chore, but I’m so glad she does it, they are so much nicer to browse through. The kids love looking at them all from time to time.
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by noneeeed 4y ago
I really wish airships were actually viable, but it’s just never going to happen. They seemed like a really nice way to travel, slow and sedate like an ocean liner, but you could take them over land.
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by noneeeed 4y ago
Thanks for sharing that. It’s one of those conditions, like Tourette’s or OCD that has an almost comic reputation in popular portrayals. More people need to understand what it really is. I hope you manage to get better treatment in the futu
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by noneeeed 4y ago
This reminds me of reading The Hobbit to my son last year, I actually found the language quite hard to work with in places. The rhythm is just different to modern English and there were turns of phrase that are rarely used now. It’s amazing
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by noneeeed 4y ago
As a Brit with two small kids, I was on the lookout for some practise books to help them practice what we call “joined up” writing and kept finding US based ones. I finally understood why so many Americans hate cursive, it seems a lot more
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by noneeeed 4y ago
Our school does that. The staff must have had so many phone conversations where the first thing the parent said was "omg is something worng?" that they just learn to automatically preempt it. We've had the "This is $teac
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by noneeeed 4y ago
The FB feed has become utterly drenched in suggested content, 99% of which is trash. I'm sure they will see some short term bump but I've got to wonder if this is finally the end for them. I'm certainly not bothering to check
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by noneeeed 4y ago
An overnight success that was years in the making...
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by noneeeed 4y ago
I remember helping out at school to install Lotus Smartsuite on a room full of PCs from floppies. The box was about 2 foot long. We had to relay them from one PC to the next so we could install them all roughly at the same time.
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by noneeeed 4y ago
This is great. Although looking at the UK map makes me sad, all those abandoned lines. It makes you wonder what the country would be like if we'd leaned into the rail system instead of tearing up a chunck of it following the Beaching R
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by noneeeed 4y ago
This is just an extreme form of my problem with both Facebook and Linkedin, both of which have become utterly unusable over the last year. Linkedin is particularly aggressive with the "someone you know liked a comment by someone you do
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by noneeeed 4y ago
Why do you think rooftop solar is only going to be single digit? Is it down to the cost/complexity of installation compared to greenfield solar setups? Instinctively it feels like there is a huge amount of unused roof area in the UK th
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by noneeeed 4y ago
I think the outbound cold calling side of it was the bit that never appealed. Once that connection has been made I can definitely see the attraction.
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by noneeeed 4y ago
This was the question I asked myself that totally changed how I thought about sales and marketing people. I cannot do sales, I do not want to do sales, but if I want a job someone needs to do sales. To me sales looks like an awful job, bu
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by noneeeed 4y ago
Quite a lot of the old red phone boxes in the UK have been turned into these. They work great. We have one in our nearest park.
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by noneeeed 4y ago
This is for management culture: talk to your non-technical colleages (office manager, junior HR/admin etc) see how they are doing and how they are being treated. To understand who someone is you need to see how they behave when they ha
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by noneeeed 4y ago
I feel fairly confident we in the UK are heading into a deep and long recession/depression. I really hope I’m wrong, but I really don’t see how we get out of the current situation quickly.
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by noneeeed 4y ago
> Your random VPS can just send email from any address you like and expect it to be delivered. You're response backs up the parent's point, that a lot of developers don't realise that you have to do all those things to sta
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by noneeeed 4y ago
I'm very interested in this. It got some weird pushback, but Peter Jackson's film "They Shall Not Grow Old" really helped make it's subjects so much more real by cutting through the limitations of the old footage fr
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by noneeeed 4y ago
> Teen boys are doing skincare routines. For context, there have been other periods in history when young men were as focused on their apperance as women, used makeup and obsessed about how they were seen. Social media gives an outlet fo
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by noneeeed 4y ago
This is why I think some of the hype is overblown. This is definitely really important, but these systems generate output that is frequently off or incoherent in really important ways. I think this is going to lead to some fascinating art,
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by noneeeed 4y ago
I don't know about that. A lot of the images I've seen SD generate have been interesting but "incorrect" in really important ways that indicate it doesn't _understand_. Things like people's limbs not being conn
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by noneeeed 4y ago
I consistently see NHS results at or near the top for most symptom searches. I don't know if that's geography specific. I just tried it for "swollen ankles" and the NHS came top, followed by webmd.
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by noneeeed 4y ago
It’s Ruby that was influenced by small talk, especially its approach to OOP.

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