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by rahoulb 13y ago
So if I see you walking down a PUBLIC street and you are talking loudly, it's acceptable for me to smack you round the head with a baseball bat for being too loud? Or do we expect people in a civilised society to have some higher standards
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Or even better "I'm not sure about your idea because..." as that leaves the door open to it being a misunderstanding on my part, which is always a possibility.
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Depends upon your definition of democracy. Even in our "western" democracy, the right to vote is limited (whether age, residency, prisoner-status etc). In the USSR, only members of the Soviets (worker's councils) could vote, as the Soviets
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by rahoulb 13y ago
England was governed exclusively by parliament (although the king remained in title only) in the 13th Century, and became a true republic after the English Civil War in 1649 (although only for a decade).
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by rahoulb 13y ago
37Signals also sprinkle their stuff with "this works for us, we're not saying it's for everyone". They are outliers, and much as I love and am inspired by them, if what they said was so easy, why aren't we all working four day weeks from h
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by rahoulb 13y ago
My guess is that the same machine is a big giveaway. There's a difference between leaving a trace of your presence on a shared computer accessed by many people and a computer accessed by one or two. However, if people you know found the ac
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Agreed - I've seen cases where someone obsesses about shaving milliseconds off a tight loop whilst using a profiler would reveal that the real bottleneck is the code called just before entering the loop. Premature optimisation is optimisati
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by rahoulb 14y ago
I may be wrong (and I'm too lazy to search) but didn't Linus say that the git command-line is basically a series of dev tools for someone to build a "proper" interface over the top of?
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Google certainly stated that there is zero margin on the Nexus 7 ( http://www.knowyourmobile.com/google/17658/google-says-there... ). I'm sure I read the same about the 4 but can't find any sources, so maybe I just confused the two.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
The inverse of that is the Microsoft experience - I can remember a similar resentment slowly building across the late 90s. We all still used MS products, and jumped to their tune, but the underlying resentment meant that as soon as an alte
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by rahoulb 14y ago
I can already feel the pressure building to start using G+, just to help with search engine results. Which makes me resent G+
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Well, in the UK you can complain to the Press Complaints Commission. Headed by the editor of the Daily Mail
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by rahoulb 14y ago
I honestly don't know about the economics of it. But threatening to leave a whole city (Liverpool) to rot was typical - and the fact that she is still sung about at football matches over 20 years after she was forced out ( http://www.youtub
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Britain was bankrupt after the Second World War (and in hock to the US for billions of dollars as well). As part of the attempt to rebuild the country a consensus was formed that the British state would step in and help people - hence the N
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Also check patio11's article on simplifying your pricing models: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/08/13/doubling-saas-revenue/
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Well the article is about the synchronisation, not the RSS client. I can read the same set of feeds in Flipboard on my phone, Reeder on my ipad and NNW on my mac. The people who were building alternative synchronisation systems gave up when
557.
by rahoulb 14y ago
Given that she comes across as non-technical and not knowledgeable about how these things work, I think that's quite harsh. Maybe she simply hasn't checked her listing since the article was posted.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Leap interface? https://www.leapmotion.com/
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Changing my position. The fact that I can hold it like a book/piece of paper/clipboard means I can shift my position whilst using it - whether that is leaning back in my seat, or walking around the house/office - in a way that's just not pr
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by rahoulb 14y ago
I guess if I'm going to my parents' or a friend's and I know they've got a keyboard and monitor - I just take my phone instead of my laptop. If I don't know what's available at my destination then I take the extra bag. (although I use a 3G
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by rahoulb 14y ago
For the most part, I agree. But "free speech" has real, human, costs; just as censorship does.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
The corollary being that I have just shut down one of my websites because I'm sick of the racist and other abuse that myself and my brother were receiving (the justification being "you take offence, not give it"). There's only so many time
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Interesting that you called it "Laurie and Fry's TV series". They will always be "Fry and Laurie" to me.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
I love the books but I have to say that Fry and Laurie's adaptation is a perfect retelling. They were born for those roles.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
I think it's intended as Samsung's plan B if their relationship with Google sours
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Sort of - you need to prove your ID to them (and contracts include that ID). But I was using a 3 contract broadband SIM in my phone and that wouldn't let me access stuff on the phone's browser.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
Good luck with that. The only time I've screamed with rage down the phone at some poor customer service rep (who was just following the script given to her) was trying to end a 3 contract. They are bastards.
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by rahoulb 14y ago
I have to say vintage did my head in. I guess to me, vim requires a different mindset to a "modern" editor, and vintage mixed the two. Now I seem to spend a few months with vim as my primary editor, get tired of it, switch to ST2 for a few
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by rahoulb 14y ago
I'm on 3 and it once blocked a page on the NME (New Musical Express) - I just thought it was a one-off and couldn't really be bothered digging into it. It appears that I was wrong.
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3UK treats political satire as porn and blocks it(techdirt.com)
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