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by pidg 10y ago
17,000. The author is from a country that uses . to delimit thousands.
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by pidg 10y ago
I am using it less and less, not because of a particular technical fault, but because of how it makes me think and act. First off, instantly seeing see others' half-formed thoughts makes me strongly want to find fault with their views,
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by pidg 10y ago
Another addition to their 'Hall of Flame' might be the British Monarchy. A couple of weeks ago, they broke every existing URI when they moved from www.royal.gov.uk to www.royal.uk. Every URL from the old domain gets redirected t
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by pidg 10y ago
Greatest Prime Minister we never had.
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by pidg 10y ago
> I'm just sad he's the exception rather than the norm. Margaret Thatcher was the daughter of a grocer, worked as a scientist and became PM, despite huge party opposition at the time because she was middle class. Gordon Brown w
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by pidg 10y ago
I dunno, how would you feel about putting it on your CV? Like calling a business Smelly Bottom Industries would be funny and populist, but people who actually worked there would struggle to take pride in the fact.
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A man collapsed at the airport, and I'm the only jerk who took a photo(cnet.com)
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by pidg 10y ago
I suspect '300 years' takes us back to 1707 and the Acts of Union. I think most (not 'some') people would disagree with the hardline nationalist view that we've endured 300 years of human rights abuses since then.
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by pidg 11y ago
This is starting to sound like the plot of an NCIS episode.
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by pidg 11y ago
And <Cmd Shift 4> <Space> lets you take a screenshot of a window!
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by pidg 11y ago
Getting annoyed at people for choosing to give you gifts has to be the very definition of 'first world problems'.
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by pidg 11y ago
Exactly. And those creating content are the ones who fork out for a paid account. It wasn't designed for 'curators' because they add nothing but noise to the ecosystem.
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by pidg 11y ago
Bandai/Namco certainly do hold multiple registered trademarks on PAC-MAN, at least in Europe. They cover not just the video game side[1], but everything from kitchen appliances[2] to lotteries[3] and even beer[4]. [1] https:/&#x2
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Virtual assistants are made of people(cio.com)
2 points by pidg 11y ago|0 comments
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Why the Arabic world turned away from science (2011)(thenewatlantis.com)
24 points by pidg 11y ago|2 comments
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by pidg 11y ago
There's a little more in the wiki entry for Mezzo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezzo_%28desktop_environment%2... Looks like it challenges elements of the desktop metaphor. The white paper (from 2005) on the idea
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by pidg 11y ago
I don't know enough about the admin side, but perhaps it's something that needs to be enabled separately. From a user perspective it 'just works' in our office: If several people open a document shared on OneDrive, that
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by pidg 11y ago
No, not against open standards. Microsoft OOXML is an open format. You might recall it's (controversially) the Ecma, ISO and IEC standard format, and is supported by LibreOffice and OpenOffice. So even if MS did something terrible, the
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by pidg 11y ago
+1 for Office 365. I wasn't convinced until I actually started working at a company that uses it properly. The collaboration features in the native desktop apps work beautifully. Not having to endure emailed-round documents with multip
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by pidg 11y ago
This desperately needs someone who can write in plain English to actually explain it without the MIT imagineering jargon. The video helps somewhat, but I suspect if someone described this in plain English it'd seem a lot less exciting
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by pidg 11y ago
I agree journalists are a potential audience for materials produced by marketing, but that's not the same thing as PR. If you ever want a free firework display, tell any PR professional that their role is a subset of marketing... don&#
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by pidg 11y ago
Some interesting stuff, although confusing how it keeps conflating PR and content marketing. They're very much not the same thing. There seem to be swathes of this article that are about online PR and getting coverage from tech journal
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by pidg 11y ago
I'm not sure I would add pauses when saying "the horse raced past the barn died"... mainly because in real life there'd be enough context to parse it properly. These sentences are just very artificial examples.
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by pidg 11y ago
> should never be written like that In my view it's as valid as something like: The dog with the red nose died which would never be written The dog, with the red nose, died Just because it's not easy to parse does
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by pidg 11y ago
Yes, it's been done by some prominent composers. It doesn't always sound good without some tweaking! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_%28music%29#Melodies
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by pidg 11y ago
On my third year of membership and wouldn't hesitate to recommend Fastmail. Only ever had one issue (a small bug to do with some very specific domain config) - their support team emailed me back straight away, it was escalated to the d
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by pidg 11y ago
English: signal Bosnian (Latin): signala Bulgarian: сигнал Catalan: senyal Croatian: signala Czech: signál Danish: signal Dutch: signaal Estonian: signaali Finnish: signaali French: signal German: Signal Indonesian: sinyal Italian: segnale
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by pidg 11y ago
I can only think of one commercial track that uses the voice synth - Cow Cud is a Twin by Aphex Twin[1] uses the 'Hysterical' and 'Bells' voices. And those aren't "remixed" - they're used straight - w
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by pidg 11y ago
This kind of TV is the 'default' here in the UK (Freeview) - we get about 50-60 digital channels and 10 HD channels. I suspect cable TV is actually on the rise here, but can't find stats to back that up.
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by pidg 11y ago
Finance.

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