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by sambeau 13y ago
Looks good! The one thing I'd like to see changed is that the button to create a new card is dangerously close to the button that deletes a column. Adding a card is a frequent action so deserves such a prominent spot, deleting a column
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by sambeau 13y ago
I suspect this is an effect of our Foveal Vision: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fovea_centralis We only see things in the centre of the eye crisply and the effective 'resolution' reduces the further away we ge
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by sambeau 13y ago
"are" And it's totally fine "They are" has been used in the way for hundreds of years.
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by sambeau 13y ago
>Is the gender of said author supposed to be curious or worthy of attention? It shouldn't be. There are two things going on here: * Perception of our industry as all-male biases women against joining * Default use of 'He'
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by sambeau 13y ago
You're better-off using "they".
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by sambeau 13y ago
What API call is needed to see what salaries they're offering?
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by sambeau 13y ago
I don't think so. They seem to have an agreement where Waterstones sells kindles & e-books but that's about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterstones
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by sambeau 13y ago
Bookshops (at least here in the UK) have been almost totally eradicated by Amazon (especially on the high street) so it's nice to see Waterstones (pretty-much the last survivor) poking a little fun at its exterminator.
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by sambeau 13y ago
Those drones aren't fully-autonomous they are flying in an intelligent room with cameras and special lights attached to the walls. The control computers are also not on-board.
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Introducing O.W.L.S.(waterstones.com)
50 points by sambeau 13y ago|7 comments
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by sambeau 13y ago
Here's how I would do it: I'd sell/give away clip-on baskets with a fat QR-code or similar imprinted on the inside bottom (or with embedded iBeacon-like-tech or even infrared lights similar to the Wii) to all customers who wa
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by sambeau 13y ago
To add a little perspective I live in rural England in a small thatched house that appears on a map dated 1420. That's 30 years before Christopher Columbus was born — and Richard III; 100 years before Queen Elizabeth I was born. It was
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by sambeau 13y ago
As a Brit I'm totally baffled that Texas is happy for its citizens to own guns but baulks at them owing beakers… …baffled and saddened.
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by sambeau 13y ago
It seems universal to you because it is all you have ever known. If you had lived in a time before the Romans chances are you wouldn't understand money at all, let alone capitalism. If you grew up in any small community throughout most
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by sambeau 13y ago
Capitalism is a human-created system that stratifies and organises the behaviour and status of people. How could that be anything other than a political system? Capitalism is neither eternal nor universal it is merely a system that most hum
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by sambeau 13y ago
Camlistore: http://camlistore.org/docs/contributing Docker: https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues?labels=Help-Wanted...
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Silicon Valley: How can it attract and keep more women?(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by sambeau 13y ago|0 comments
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by sambeau 13y ago
Looking at it right now they seem to have got it right: Chelsea Elizabeth Manning[4] (born Bradley Edward Manning, December 17, 1987) is a United States Army soldier who… Compare it with: Sir Elton Hercules John CBE (born Regin
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by sambeau 13y ago
I'd like to disagree. I prefer the improved version. One of the great joys of manipulating a globe like this is being able to rotate it into completely novel views: not just upside down but at totally arbitrary angles. The improved ver
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by sambeau 13y ago
I'm pretty sure this would cause the PET's monitor to catch fire. My friends and I (as kids) would dare each other to type this into any SuperPet we saw in a computer shop but thankfully we were all too sensible to give it a go.
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by sambeau 13y ago
POKE 59458,62 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_poke
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Twitter shares priced at $26 each(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by sambeau 13y ago|0 comments
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by sambeau 13y ago
So, clearly, I'm not 'an adequate javascript developer'. Luckily an inadequate javascript developer can write naive code in Go that reads from disk or writes to a socket without worrying about needing "a class which you
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by sambeau 13y ago
If I was starting from scratch today I'd use Go. Go makes writing fast, scalable and reliable servers as easy as it is possible to make it. At least that is my experience. I started out writing CGIs and servers in C many years ago and
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by sambeau 13y ago
I feel I have to make this clear: I submitted this because I'm appalled by it and I feel it merits discussion by the startup community — not because think it is a worthy piece of journalism. I find it shameful that this is the one tim
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The Sexiest Startup CEOs Alive(businessinsider.com)
5 points by sambeau 13y ago|4 comments
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by sambeau 13y ago
- Rank. It's hard to climb a ladder when you're jumping off of them. My experience has been the opposite. To move up a rank I've had to shift company. In pretty much every company I have worked in I have moved further
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Germany allows 'indeterminate' gender at birth (bbc.co.uk)
2 points by sambeau 13y ago|1 comments
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by sambeau 13y ago
For the lazy commenter: <insert snark about Apple here />
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by sambeau 13y ago
According to this, C-- is still a large part of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. It looks like (Fig 5.2) code goes into C-- before being translated to LLVM. http://www.aosabook.org/en/ghc.html

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