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by robaato 10y ago
p.s. TransitApp guys - there's a broken link from blog article to: https://transitapp.com/regions
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by robaato 10y ago
This link works for me: https://transitapp.com/region/london-uk#all-regions
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by robaato 10y ago
I have been practicing the Japanese martial art of Aikido for 25 years or so, and also kenjutsu from 20. It's really interesting to observe different methods of training, and in my teaching to try and work out how best to pass this on.
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by robaato 10y ago
The competitive element of judo is a pro and a con. Executing a technique against someone actively trying to resist is very educational and good for your training - it shows what works (vs practicing with someone who just lets you throw the
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by robaato 10y ago
There are questions about the validity/lineage of much ninjutsu taught - caveat emptor...
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by robaato 10y ago
It is common for members of a university club to be practicing effectively 2 or more hours per day. Over several years this brings pretty rapid progress. Getting to nidan is fairly common. But after they leave, the majority stop, or do mayb
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by robaato 10y ago
I study kenjutsu (and aikido) - and have friends/colleagues who are also serious kendo practitioners. Kendo has pluses and minuses - the shinai used can teach habits of "flicking wrists" which just don't work with heavie
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by robaato 10y ago
Aikido is a very "broad church" - ranging from fluffy bunny to pretty hard styles - and the effectiveness can vary significantly. The principles and techniques can be very effective, but it depends on what/how you train (or w
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by robaato 11y ago
Am I the only one who regrest the demise of nntp and good news readers? Threading was great, and I found it very efficient to get through a lot of stuff. With the switch to html based forums, my personal efficiency plummeted. But I went whe
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by robaato 11y ago
What about doing it in the cloud? E.g. AWS instances which you create and only spin up when you need them...
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How creativity is helped by failure(bbc.co.uk)
46 points by robaato 11y ago|5 comments
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Austrian took on Facebook over data privacy in the European court and won(theguardian.com)
2 points by robaato 11y ago|0 comments
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by robaato 11y ago
It is not difficult to achieve the "atomic" commit issue you mention via use of triggers. And indeed streams provides it out of the box. These days, with the use of shelving, there are integrations with CI tools such as Jenkins wh
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by robaato 12y ago
There is value in communicating status of work via a central SCM repository. For binary files and locking this is particularly so. The approach of Perforce where file status is tracked on the server provides this. There can be costs associa
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by robaato 12y ago
My personal rant is that I want a global setting on every printer to override differences in requested page size. For example, being in the UK, I print to A4, and that is the only size of paper I have available for my printer. If I print st
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by robaato 12y ago
My German teacher at school did an accelerated course from scratch at university (no previous knowledge) - a full language degree. It involved rote memorisation of German texts. It worked! She said that the advantage was that you later reco
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by robaato 12y ago
I worked in the field of infrastructure documentation for a while, applying configuration management principles to it. Naming is very important and often done poorly. The positional scheme you link to works very well. You need to label thin
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by robaato 12y ago
There's plenty of research on this, e.g. http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a487169.pdf For an alternative take: http://theenergyproject.com/blog/sleep-as-a-competitive-adv
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by robaato 12y ago
My son has one of these cards - it has been great for us because we use it with his XBox Live account and as a debit card he can't overspend. They had a launch this week and seem to be doing well.
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by robaato 12y ago
In the UK things have changed and so parents need to be careful. Various high profile cases have resulted in changes to both social services and police processing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Victoria_Climbi%
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EBay issues, then deletes call to change passwords(reuters.com)
3 points by robaato 12y ago|1 comments
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by robaato 13y ago
The following is a presentation in 2008 by Richard Erwin of Microsoft at the BCS CMSG (Configuration Management Specialist Group): http://bcs-cmsg.org.uk/events/e20081124/2008-11-24-agile-scm... Lots of good stuff
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by robaato 14y ago
Worth reading Tim Park's book: Teach Us to Sit Still: A Sceptic's Search for Health and Healing http://www.amazon.co.uk/Teach-Us-Sit-Still-Sceptics/dp/00995... An accurate review comment: this autobiographical account of his journey from
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"Augmented reality" - helicopter controlled by iPhone(youtube.com)
1 points by robaato 16y ago|0 comments
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by robaato 16y ago
Looks very nice. You might also consider licensing the technology to other sites etc...