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by sambeau 14y ago
I suspect that what you are witnessing is nothing more than the Thanksgiving holiday effect.
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by sambeau 14y ago
…and Philip Wadler principle designer of the Haskell programming language. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_Java_(programming_langu...
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by sambeau 14y ago
Pretty much spot on.
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by sambeau 14y ago
There is more subtlety in my comment than that. Most people and politicians generally do not understand the difference between a measurable statistic and a physical event. Often in the eye of the law and the lawmakers there is none. Everyth
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by sambeau 14y ago
It's fairly simple. A crime is just a crime statistic. The more police you have the more crimes are recorded so crime goes up. CCTV is like adding an extra cop (sitting in front of 30 cameras). CCTV generally does not deter any crimes but i
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by sambeau 14y ago
I worked on the original 1990s UK CCTV research. The UK CCTV is widespread in large cities and operated BY THE POLICE FORCE. It is also on most major roads: look for the blue cameras. CCTV does not 'cut down crime' in fact it does the oppos
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by sambeau 14y ago
Surely this more like suing a bank that lends the money to a project that abuses a patent?
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by sambeau 14y ago
Arf! A proper point properly made.
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by sambeau 14y ago
US Supreme Court Justice Holmes was using it as an analogy. I was not. I was using it as an example. US Supreme Court Justice Holmes was wrong. His analogy was bad one that was thankfully rejected. I may be wrong in this case about whether
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by sambeau 14y ago
Thought crime is making thought illegal. This is about free speech versus 'hate speech'. Civilised society must protect thoughtful speech but cannot protect all speech. We are not (and should not be free) to: * Make up (and spread) lies w
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by sambeau 14y ago
1) The human rights act isn't quite as clear cut as you make out and it makes for an interesting read. I was surprised to see that it it explicitly allows for governments to shoot and kill rioters for instance. 2) I never said it was a thre
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by sambeau 14y ago
This article misses two important points: 1) Britain has never had free speech. 2) This was not a thought crime. It was a deliberate insult: an act of insensitivity and rudeness intended to give offence. You cannot walk onto a cinema and sh
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by sambeau 14y ago
It wasn't totally clear to me what tools you'd get if you joined. After a bunch of clicking I found this: "The Windows Phone SDK 8.0 is a full-featured development environment to use for building apps and games for Windows Phone 8.0 and Wi
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by sambeau 14y ago
If you haven't already, you must watch "The Saga of Biorn", it is surprisingly relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV5w262XvCU
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by sambeau 14y ago
It's like Bango! numbers, all over again… http://bango.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/115/~/what...
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by sambeau 14y ago
That's really nice. I'm wracking my brains trying to think of a good use for it. There must be one.
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by sambeau 14y ago
This is fascinating as I discovered exactly the same thing this week (sadly after applying loads of javascript to swap retina images). I found that a 30 jpeg at retina size generally looks better than a scaled 80 and is smaller. Plus you ca
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by sambeau 14y ago
Citation! <anecdote>
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by sambeau 14y ago
Now I see that all icons are lies! A calculator with four buttons isn't useful. Why is my letter flying off into the sky. This minute hand is 20 minutes to the hour but the hour hand is clearly at 10. Why hasn't this little green Android's
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by sambeau 14y ago
If you want to keep the @name you could always go in reverse: com.example@abc Although I think that would just confuse most of the world. We could go oldschool with a newline: abc example com ;-) More seriously, I wish the
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by sambeau 14y ago
Generally on-the-fly by the web server, although you can, in theory, zip manually and serve. The big speed bottleneck when serving pages is the network so the smaller the file you send across the wire the faster your page will load. This go
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by sambeau 14y ago
Well done. This really works. The first recommendation was an instant purchase. So far I have spend £15. Please consider two things: email alerts. I'f happily be spammed every time a new album from my most-played artists was released. A mon
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by sambeau 14y ago
I take that is the entire 'industrial' design team? There must be more software designers, surely?
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by sambeau 14y ago
Why Rebol was never open-sourced I will never know. I guess Carl came from a different time and the non-Unix/non-academic world where software tools were sold at a high price. Rebol has so many interesting ideas in it that it really could h
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by sambeau 14y ago
I'd like to put in a word for "A Transatlantic Tunnel, Hurrah!" a superb piece of speculative fiction and possibly the first Steampunk novel. (also more boringly called "Tunnel Through the Deeps") http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_Throug
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by sambeau 14y ago
I am one of the lucky people to have been taught Functional Programming by Philip Wadler back in the 1990s. He's a brilliant, funny lecturer. This quirky talk is very similar in style to some of the lectures he gave me in 1st year.
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by sambeau 14y ago
As (a non-religious) someone who tried fasting while holding down a similar job, my advice is simple: don't break your fast every night. It only takes 24-48 hours for your body to adjust, your fat to start melting and your blood-sugar level
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by sambeau 14y ago
Although, confusingly, ASDA is actually the Walmart of the UK and Fresh & Easy is the Tesco of the US.
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by sambeau 14y ago
And why would you say that, Chris?
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by sambeau 14y ago
14th century knights had the physiques of professional rugby players: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10138060 http://www.stirlingcastle.gov.uk/home/newsevents/bbc2history... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1279306/Face-mystery...

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