paulcarey

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Emoji Frequency in 2021(home.unicode.org)
1 points by paulcarey 5y ago|0 comments
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Which monads Haskell developers use: An exploratory study(sciencedirect.com)
89 points by paulcarey 6y ago|12 comments
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A Primer on Boolean Satisfiability(homes.cs.washington.edu)
1 points by paulcarey 7y ago|0 comments
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by paulcarey 7y ago
You could consider ‘partitioning’ your DB when you migrate your schema so each DB instance only deals with a single bitemporal slice eg after 5 migrations you have 5 distinct database instances. This approach avoids bloat assuming the vast
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by paulcarey 8y ago
This is interesting, but I think there's an implicit assumption here that a particular topic must be covered in depth, at which point its study is completed, not to be returned to. And indeed, this is way many textbooks are structured.
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by paulcarey 9y ago
A few years ago, I recall being impressed at the clealiness of the toilets in Edinburgh train station. An attendant was diligently wiping each urinal with a cloth, and also used the same cloth to wipe the Dyson hand dryer. I’m sure it’s not
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I am a cyclist and you hate me(humancyclist.wordpress.com)
4 points by paulcarey 10y ago|2 comments
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Why Apple should build bikes(medium.com)
3 points by paulcarey 12y ago|0 comments
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Unusual clouds(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by paulcarey 14y ago|0 comments
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Polyglot Cookbook(langref.org)
1 points by paulcarey 15y ago|0 comments
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Fukushima, six months on(guardian.co.uk)
5 points by paulcarey 15y ago|0 comments
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by paulcarey 15y ago
If you didn't already know that Ruby scripts can be written in a very similar way to awk, this makes for a good read. http://tomayko.com/writings/awkward-ruby
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If MSG is so bad for you, why doesn't everyone in Asia have a headache?(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by paulcarey 16y ago|1 comments
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Musical Escher(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by paulcarey 16y ago|0 comments
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by paulcarey 16y ago
Dev tank is on Monday, if you ask nicely you might be able to skip the waiting list http://www.meetup.com/DevTank/calendar/15487391/ If you're still around on Thu 9th, you could check out OpenCoffee http://www.meetup.com/londonocc/calend
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by paulcarey 16y ago
I think you've already done the most important thing you could by creating a separate room that delineates home life from office life. The biggest distraction I've found while working with a remote team is dealing with IM. In practice I've
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Design to Annoy - Discourage behaviour through design(erikaskin.com)
2 points by paulcarey 16y ago|0 comments
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by paulcarey 16y ago
When I was employed as a developer, I was quite obsessive about refactoring my code to the point where I considered it elegant. Now I run my own company and am the sole developer. So these days I tend to think if my code is well factored, I
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by paulcarey 16y ago
I like the speed and simplicity, but without the ability to import contacts, I'm going to treat it more like a toy than a tool.
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Customer Acquisition - This time it will be different(zoneco.de)
2 points by paulcarey 16y ago|0 comments
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by paulcarey 17y ago
A contrasting approach - when Mo Ibrahim set up a mobile network in African counties he knew a no-bribe approach wouldn't fly, so bribes were limited $30,000. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/feb/01/mo-ibrahi...
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Every Ubuntu Karmic user will have an address book stored in CouchDB(mail-archives.apache.org)
45 points by paulcarey 17y ago|14 comments