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by polshaw 14y ago
> Please note that all our volunteers... are required to buy a ticket. Ouch, full price £95 to work at a bar.. why would anyone want to do this? You would have thought at least a discount! They say it is not profit.. where is all the
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by polshaw 14y ago
..seems odd, i've seen many 'green' (representing new?) users with articles on the front page? Looking at the user-page, i can only assume it means 'too few points', since they have had an account for over 9 months? If anyone can shed any l
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by polshaw 14y ago
>I notice that this looks to be printing in unreinforced concrete. What about some rebar for the load-bearing elements? Well then you didn't watch the video in your haste to comment on it. ~5:50.
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by polshaw 14y ago
>47126 Ouya >7755 Ouya + Controller I thought that sounded odd. All have a controller, the second is 'limited edition brown'. As for costs.. i am guessing they will probably make an order for 100k? (They have the cash, plenty of tim
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by polshaw 14y ago
Personally, not really, because there is no real ambiguity. For example, at a company like apple (or anywhere else that makes devices), they might have 'real' qualified engineers working alongside software engineers. The liberal use of the
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by polshaw 14y ago
All of your points could be applied to, say, a manager in a business, but nobody would call them a employee engineer or business scientist.
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by polshaw 14y ago
As someone with an engineering degree, it does irk me to constantly hear programmers referred to around these quarters as 'engineers', it's extremely introspective, and IMO a little disrespectful. Similarly to the 'are you technical?' thing
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by polshaw 14y ago
There is a reason behind this. Tesco deems it worthwhile to take a (smaller) hit to keep your business, whereas your local pub believes you aren't going to switch pubs, and just wants to encourage you to use cash so that they keep as much o
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by polshaw 14y ago
I don't want to use gmail because i don't want to have a global online identity. But it depends on what you see as the primary use case (corporate? technical? casual?). Optional gmail is fine. If it's all private then maybe i'd be OK with i
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by polshaw 14y ago
I think there is space (one thing for me working in your favour is that i don't want to sign in with my gmail or facebook.. i want a separate account, if any), but traction is a major problem- if it feels like a ghost town, no one is like
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by polshaw 14y ago
From a usability perspective, the start screen is faster than clicking items on the start menu. MS wrote a very convincing blog post on the matter full of statistics (which i agree with mostly). Similarly, the ribbon interface in explorer a
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by polshaw 14y ago
Completely false equivalence. If MS had just dropped the name 'windows' or 'xbox' then you might have a point. But the name of the metro interface has nowhere near the significance of apple's flagship product, which also allowed it to tie i
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by polshaw 14y ago
>I think the latest round of currency increases is mostly a function of people wanting to purchase goods, and needing to "bid up the price" in order to make their purchase. As vendors receive bitcoins, they usually immediately sell them
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by polshaw 14y ago
Or $3K last june. It's easy to make great investment decisions with hindsight.
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by polshaw 14y ago
>We have no evidence to the contrary except the previous mega-crash. >bitcoin being a deflationary uh, no, it's not yet. Masses of new bitcoins are being created every day. That is inflationary (and much more so than USD). @greg_bt:
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by polshaw 14y ago
I'd very much like to see this happen. A lot of posters seem to be missing the point.. the idea is use the TV spectrum to allow mobile broadband to become a viable main-use broadband, which would set a decent minimum standard across the who
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by polshaw 14y ago
>focus on universal access to 2 Mbps broadband instead of higher speeds in cities... assumes that you can't have both I don't think it assumes that at all, just that the free market will provide for the cities (which it is.. >100M
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by polshaw 14y ago
No offence but your 'guess' is not very useful. e: really, is downvoting appropriate here? I can quite easily speculate that i don't think the nexus Q sounds that great (and thats what i'd put my money on), but the electronics exist, and
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by polshaw 14y ago
Do you know what the amp in the Q was like? I'm not trying to be accusatory- i just haven't heard sound quality ever mentioned when discussing the Q.
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by polshaw 14y ago
Lesson: facebook ads work great for selling items at below cost. I'm not sure ads were needed in the first place; an event and posting on the pages he talked about /a couple of forums may well have had a similar result.
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by polshaw 14y ago
I think we tend to quickly forget the motivations of creating these, because they are 100 years old. They appear to have commercial links-- so 'interesting' would probably have been a more important quality than honesty or in depth thought
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by polshaw 14y ago
>Facebook actually hashes multiple versions of your password (eg ... when you left caps lock on). Detecting if capslock is on with javascript (in a round about way) would seem to be a much better solution for this case.
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by polshaw 14y ago
> The UK is special in that the biggest broadcasters (BBC, ITV, Channel 4) are all publicly owned. No, no, no. Only the BBC is 'publicly owned' (e: ok and channel 4 is although commercial- the point was definitely not ITV). They do hav
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by polshaw 14y ago
>perhaps running the car in a less than optimally efficient gear. A properly designed solution would enable the opposite; keeping the car in an optimal gear for longer. A hybrid works best when the batteries run where they have the grea
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by polshaw 14y ago
These require 2 DVI connectors, right? Is there a similar one with HDMI? [E: ok.. it seems like 1 dual-link DVI, so-- can you simply use a basic HDMI-DVI socket converter as used on many video cards if you want to plug in an HDMI source?] A
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by polshaw 14y ago
The device end seems really chunky for today's electronics. I can't see that being used to power anything more portable than a laptop (and it's still big for ultraportables) if there is no mini version.
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by polshaw 14y ago
>trust the physical A lock-picker might say different, no?
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by polshaw 14y ago
As others have said, thanks, really great tutorial. I don't know whether i'm going to go all the way to backbone (maybe?), but wherever i stop i'll have better, more maintainable JS. I also have a quick question; why from the 'Creating a vi
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by polshaw 14y ago
>In mobile, Mozilla's browsers play little to no role If this, is the case, then it won't be for long. I am strongly of the opinion that Firefox is, by a good way, the best mobile browser available (but of course not 'allowed' on iO
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by polshaw 14y ago
Worth noting it is 'v2', which is a specific setting with a specific encoder (lame) that creates a variable bitrate file which averages around 192kbps. That is very different to just setting itunes to 192 and expecting 'perceptually lossl

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