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541.
by sambeau 12y ago
Further reading: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Mulligan_and_His_Steam_Sho... ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt3ZQxKl_ZQ )
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by sambeau 12y ago
I came here to say exactly that. I'm glad you put it do well.
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by sambeau 12y ago
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
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Apple chief Tim Cook is under pressure to prove innovative flair is still there(theguardian.com)
1 points by sambeau 12y ago|0 comments
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by sambeau 12y ago
If only someone would write something similar about making a cup of coffee.
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Haskell, and Why It Might Be My New Favourite Language(unbui.lt)
83 points by sambeau 12y ago|53 comments
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by sambeau 12y ago
The single most common mistake I see managers making is assuming that their job is to manage the people rather than the project, closely followed by trying to micro-manage the project itself. Trust and delegation are key to all of this. A g
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by sambeau 12y ago
If this technique is shown to be effective and becomes popular amongst owners of small ponds I could imagine similar techniques being encouraged, or mandated, for any large body of still water in and around high-populations.
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by sambeau 12y ago
I would buy one for my neighbours pond so I could once again sleep with the window open and I live in rural England.
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by sambeau 12y ago
If these are deployed in high population areas they are also being deployed in high-malaria areas. If you treat those with malaria while preventing mosquitos from reproducing you would hope that you would prevent the spread of malaria to th
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How do you build a city in space?(theguardian.com)
2 points by sambeau 12y ago|0 comments
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Is the craft beer craze going to cause a hops shortage?(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by sambeau 12y ago|0 comments
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by sambeau 12y ago
"that the problems with data races and memory safety arise when you have both aliasing and mutability. The functional approach to solving this problem is to remove mutability. Rust’s approach would be to remove aliasing.&
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by sambeau 12y ago
I think you might be missing the point here. gofmt doesn't only enforce a style guide, it has allowed the Go team to change Go's syntax and automatically update everyone's code. This tool, to me, looks really useful for updat
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by sambeau 12y ago
Originally it was a reaction to the in-built desire I (and I suspect most of us) have to immediately jump in and make a correction to someone else's English. It was an experiment in trying to say something useful and positive instead.
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by sambeau 12y ago
My apologies.
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by sambeau 12y ago
It's not. Note the second paragraph where it mentions modern usage. In modern vernacular usage, "to beg the question" is sometimes used to mean "to raise the question"
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by sambeau 12y ago
I was taught 'an hotel' in Scotland by a very old-fashioned teacher. She could, of course, have just been plain wrong and I've been carrying this with me for decades repeating the mistake. Checking the UK newspaper style guid
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by sambeau 12y ago
Fair enough! As you can see from the rest of this conversation (and the way my points for the article has swung violently from -1 to +6 and and is falling back again) I'm clearly no expert despite having been born to it! :)
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by sambeau 12y ago
UK newspapers all seem to agree on 'a hotel' but disagree on 'an historian'. http://www.theguardian.com/guardian-observer-style-guide-h http://www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/about-us&#x2
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by sambeau 12y ago
Indeed I do. Bloomin' autocorrect changed all sorts of words I missed that one :)
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by sambeau 12y ago
Interesting. As I said - my view is from the UK - I should have put 'often' or 'sometimes' before it (although I was taught 'an hotel' at school).
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by sambeau 12y ago
OFF-TOPIC FOR ENGLISH-AS-SECOND-LANGUAGE: For HN'ers who are still learning the finer points of English this title shows one of the many weird inconsistencies of the language. Normally, when trying to say 'a thing' where the
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Former Nokia boss Stephen Elop's pay-off rises to $33m(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by sambeau 12y ago|0 comments
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Sony predicts bigger full-year loss(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by sambeau 12y ago|0 comments
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by sambeau 12y ago
The section, somewhere near the middle of the podcast, where each panelist describes the random harassment they've had to put up with should be prescribed listening for all guys in tech — especially those who go to a conferences.
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by sambeau 12y ago
On the page. Under the heading 'Transcript'. :)
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by sambeau 13y ago
Being moral isn't the same as being naïve, no matter how much harsh people tell you it is. It is a sign of moral strength to not immediately bite back.
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by sambeau 13y ago
English is not my native language (although this is not an excuse of course) I'm a native English speaker and I believe that that is a valid excuse.
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by sambeau 13y ago
See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_Montgomery Which is wrecked in the Thames Estuary with 1.4KT of TNT onboard. * 286 × 2,000 lb (910 kg) high explosive "Blockbuster" bombs * 4,439 × 1,000 lb (

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