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by ollysb 13y ago
My parents watch the BBC news religiously, I asked them if they'd heard anything about the NSA story a couple of days after the story broke and they were completely unaware. When I brought their attention to some of the articles online
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by ollysb 13y ago
The BBC may be impartial when it covers a story, unfortunately it's criteria for selecting what to report seems less and less impartial...
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by ollysb 13y ago
This is very encouraging to see, if artists raise awareness of this issue in popular culture they have a real change changing the tide.
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by ollysb 13y ago
You have to use click and drag to move around, scrolling probably would have been a bit more obvious...
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by ollysb 13y ago
They also didn't mention at what temperature the wines were served at. I'd expect a wine to taste markedly different when served chilled or at room temperature.
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by ollysb 13y ago
One of the most effective strategies I've found is to externalise as much of your process as possible. My personal take on burnout is that it's the result of prolonged mental stress (I spent the first half of last year doing at mo
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by ollysb 13y ago
> What is the damage to society and economy an average criminal causes over the course of a year? Those incarcerated for drug use could potentially be making the government a profit. The only negative effects on society are associated wi
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by ollysb 13y ago
Or more worrying, they're buoyed by the relative lack of concern for increased surveillance.
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by ollysb 13y ago
As opposed to MySql? Sounds like sound kind of toy database.
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by ollysb 13y ago
Non cursive hand seems like an incredibly slow way to write, impractical for classes etc. is this because everyone is bringing a laptop to class and just doesn't write much at all? I'm from the UK and as far as I know they still m
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FBI chief Mueller says spy tactics could have stopped 9/11 attacks(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by ollysb 13y ago|1 comments
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by ollysb 13y ago
I had to look up what cursive was, for me that's just what you call handwriting. Are you saying that there's a move towards non-joined up handwriting?
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by ollysb 13y ago
The delivery was a bit weak though, maybe they should get some professional actors in.
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by ollysb 13y ago
[1]The term arose from a 1935 New York Times report that more than $3 million had been spent on recreational activities for the jobless as part of the New Deal. Among these activities were crafts classes, where the production of "boon
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by ollysb 13y ago
If I was in Snowdon's position I'd be taking every measure possible to protect myself from America. If that is his game it sounds like a sensible strategy, he's certainly not going to be getting any support from his home coun
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by ollysb 13y ago
I've yet to see an opportunity for much personal gain on his part, what's caused you to cast him in that light?
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by ollysb 13y ago
I really have trouble believing that the real reason people want a gun is so they can fend off the government. To be honest when you consider the opposition(the American military!) I don't know how anyone can say it with a straight fac
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NSA surveillance: anger mounts in Congress at 'spying on Americans'(guardian.co.uk)
5 points by ollysb 13y ago|0 comments
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by ollysb 13y ago
HR departments are infamously bad at hiring developers. In this case having a degree will help you get a job at a corp but that doesn't make you a good candidate (of course you might be as well, they're just not going to be able t
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by ollysb 13y ago
They're trying to change the conversation to be about the leak rather than their activities. At this point people should be discussing what can be done to restore the checks and balances that prevented this kind of abuse. America needs
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by ollysb 13y ago
I think the main issue is that the people have not been involved in any discussions regarding where this balance should be.
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by ollysb 13y ago
Yeah that's a fair point ;) To be honest though I never actually noticed the Getting started section on the right of the screen. I've never visited the site with the intention of building a site with jekyll at that moment so I was just skim
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by ollysb 13y ago
Problem is they usually are actually desperate...
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by ollysb 13y ago
Jekyll was something I've been meaning to try for ages. I never found a getting started section on the wiki and this blog was exactly what I was looking for.
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by ollysb 13y ago
A year after I graduated I got my first role in London at £27000 for a dev role (one above junior). This was an enterprise java role and in the first year I worked in a team of 3 building a custom CMS (it was a telecoms publishing house) an
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by ollysb 13y ago
I wouldn't actually have them as Boolean variables, I'd extract them into query methods, then the code would just be: if( skipLogging() ) return res;
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by ollysb 13y ago
What exactly is DRM supposed to achieve? For it to work it seems to need to prevent 100% of all opportunities, worldwide, of duplicating copyrighted material. A single copy is all it takes to seed every single pirated copy. I can't see that
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by ollysb 13y ago
You could express the same thing without comments: boolean alreadyLogged = !_ok; boolean skipLogging = alreadyLogged && (Math.random() > 0.1) if( skipLogging ) return res;
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by ollysb 13y ago
That's probably because you're a paying customer rather than a pair of eyeballs to them.
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by ollysb 13y ago
Your rhetoric makes me feel a little uncomfortable but ignoring that isn't the converse also true, that the system is disproportionately funded by white men.

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