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by rossng 8y ago
I have the same and it's easily the best interface I've ever used on any microwave. I am always baffled by the ones with two dozen buttons. Who on earth uses all those modes? Even more infuriating is when they actually make it ha
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by rossng 8y ago
I briefly tried to use Oracle Cloud for a small project. Its UI is close to the worst I have ever used: the whole product is inconsistent and confusing. Despite having multiple thousands of dollars free credit available, I quickly switched
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by rossng 8y ago
Bike sharing schemes aren't all bad. Copenhagen has Donkey Republic[1] which works well and doesn't seem to cause any issues. Of course it helps that they city is flat - San Francisco is clearly more suited to electrically-assiste
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by rossng 8y ago
I think it's fair to say that St. Pancras is uniquely fantastic, and Bruxelles Midi is unusually terrible. I suspect stations in the UK and Belgium are much the same once you average them all out. That being said, I do think that the T
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by rossng 8y ago
My suggestion would just be to significantly ramp up the fines. No need to bother with pointless tickbox compliance audits and all that other stuff. Obviously you would also have to have some pretty strong rules around covering up security
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by rossng 8y ago
It seems correct to me. I found a good analogy on a StackExchange answer[1]: pushing 'back' means pushing something away from the current point in time. Bringing 'forward' means bringing it closer to the current point.
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by rossng 9y ago
> usually at the top of intelligence range in the math spectrum As someone who is definitely not at the top of the `math intelligence spectrum' but does have a reasonable understanding of monads (in a practical, not category theory
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by rossng 9y ago
So, Collabora Online[1] [1] https://www.collaboraoffice.com/code/
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by rossng 10y ago
This is a dark pattern. Why would you want the default to be a compiler that essentially spies on your code? I can think of no better way to make developers (not to mention businesses!) uncomfortable with the idea of adopting Rust. Thankful
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by rossng 10y ago
For an offsite backup, Backblaze is fantastic. Unlimited storage for $5/month and the client works perfectly. It's not highly-redundant or anything, so use it in addition to a local backup. CrashPlan is the next-best option if you
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by rossng 10y ago
Good question. Cambridge and Oxford have interesting technology but very high cost of living. Bath is close to Bristol and part of the same city region. I'd prefer to avoid London due to air quality, cost and commute. I would consider
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by rossng 10y ago
Iran is a pretty highly-developed country with a population of 83 million people, so I don't think that's too surprising. There's a perception gap due to the western world's treatment of Iran. Maybe we shouldn't hav
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by rossng 10y ago
Edinburgh has lots of interesting technology companies: Rockstar, SkyScanner, Amazon, Codeplay etc. The University of Edinburgh has an excellent CS department and hosts the UK's national HPC facility, ARCHER. It's one of the few c
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by rossng 10y ago
I've noticed this phenomenon while riding Greater Anglia Class 379s on the WAML. It's very annoying!
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by rossng 10y ago
Fun fact: the simplified ISA and language for this machine were designed by David May[1], who was the architect of the highly-parallel Transputer[2] in the 1980s. The Hex machine inherits a few features from the Transputer, including the PF
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The Big Hex Machine – a giant, yet simple, 16-bit computer(bighexmachine.github.io)
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by rossng 10y ago
I've found Linguee very useful for English -> French translation. I think it draws heavily from the huge corpus of professionally translated EU regulations and documents.
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by rossng 10y ago
This is why I think Servo is particularly exciting - while it's still a few years off being a practical browser, it should be immeasurably more secure than the existing crop of crufty C++ codebases. I think it (along with Rust) is by f
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by rossng 10y ago
Edit: I thought you were referring to debt, not salary. My mistake. I'll leave my post intact in case anyone finds it useful. Yes, absolutely. Fees are £9000 per year. The minimum guaranteed maintenance loan, if you take it, is £3821 p
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by rossng 10y ago
> If a handful of early adopters controlled 80% of the IP space, if they were the ones now charging rent to those seeking to utilize that space, would there be such rapid uptake? Would you be happy leasing your IPs from some third party
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by rossng 10y ago
Agreed. My parents bought a hard drive from Amazon a couple of months ago - something I used to assume would have been absolutely fine. When it arrived, it became clear that the drive had been pulled out of a server, possibly relabelled and
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by rossng 10y ago
I am not happy about the continued existence of what are essentially rights-free zones at border crossings. Unfortunately, with the current political climate in the UK, I'm not sure the majority of my fellow countrymen would agree. And
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by rossng 10y ago
The desktop interface is unpleasant and clunky. The web interface is significantly worse than Backblaze, and they clearly don't care about the home product as compared to their enterprise product (which I get the impression is kept muc
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by rossng 10y ago
I have already spent several hours this week on the university student IT helpdesk fixing laptops broken by this Windows 10 update. Every single person said they hadn't chosen to update - clearly it was a result of this popup. Most of
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by rossng 10y ago
I use Crashplan, but it's a bit rubbish. Backblaze is much better if you don't need to use it on Linux.
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by rossng 10y ago
There are some pretty crazy stories online about what TPP is like internally. https://www.glassdoor.co.uk/Reviews/Employee-Review-The-Phoe... I guess it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that a large healthcare
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by rossng 10y ago
Amusingly, there is an obviously-fake review for exactly the same product as your scathing example. http://www.amazon.com/review/R1UCB6JLZ6TRTN/
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by rossng 10y ago
While I understand the point being made here, it is worth remembering that cabinets are not continuously modified by large teams for years on end. Corner-cutting generally makes things harder to maintain, which has a severe knock-on effect
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by rossng 10y ago
Every time I am asked to set up someone's Apple device, I find it incredibly difficult to: * Get it synced properly * Determine what is stored in iCloud/on-device * Ensure that device contents are actually backed-up, unless done m
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by rossng 10y ago
There definitely is some tooling available to help - Redgate, many ORMs - but I agree that it's somewhat lacking. I think the bigger problem is cultural - many programmers either don't really understand databases/data modelli

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