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by sambeau 14y ago
Woah. I would have liked a warning about the picture of a kid with his arms blown off. I realise the internet is full of this but I try my best to avoid it. I don't want to become immune to the shock. The thought of this little guy's pain a
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by sambeau 14y ago
Samuel Goldwyn should have gone with: "The luckier I got, the luckier I get"
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by sambeau 14y ago
"Most users won't get any effect at all unless they're playing top-end video games." I have 14 browser tabs open. Safari is currently using 17 threads. Webprocess is using 10, Pluginprocess is using 22. I shudder to think what those numbe
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by sambeau 14y ago
That is a truly wonderful infographic. I'd never seen it before. Thanks.
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by sambeau 14y ago
1:4400 (0.02%) http://www.universetoday.com/65588/what-percent-of-earth-is-... Of course, a sample taken from the Earth's surface would provide a widely different result (ranging ~0% to ~100%) depending on where it was taken.
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by sambeau 14y ago
What a load of nonsense.
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List of people who have declined a British honour(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by sambeau 14y ago|0 comments
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by sambeau 14y ago
Cough. Splutter. While the lower orders of knights are generally given out on merit the higher orders are not. At least as far as I'm concerned. The UK Class System is inherently based on a pecking order and the top of the pecking chain is
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by sambeau 14y ago
It's either 100% lack of spine or 100% no clue. Look at how well startups apologise when they get things wrong compared to long-established companies. They admit wrong and seek to put things right as soon as they are called on it. This is n
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by sambeau 14y ago
The most important point in this post is this: "an interview is a two-way process". I am constantly surprised how many people come out of interviews without asking detailed questions about the company, job, culture and work atmosphere. You
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by sambeau 14y ago
I wonder if they will eventually license the self-driving software in an Android-like model?
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Google gets Nevada driving licence for self-drive car (bbc.co.uk)
2 points by sambeau 14y ago|0 comments
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Quantum computers are leaping ahead(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by sambeau 14y ago|0 comments
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by sambeau 15y ago
What should be an interesting blog is, sadly, ruined by terrible image quality.
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UK ISP starts Pirate Bay blockade(guardian.co.uk)
4 points by sambeau 15y ago|0 comments
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by sambeau 15y ago
No, that's because it is normal behaviour to be chatting with one person and say "I must show you a picture of it". Ditto Movies. Will I really start showing movies in a pub because I can? Would I choose my phone over my HD TV or iPad when
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by sambeau 15y ago
This sounds great at first but I'm unclear about how usable it would actually be. Any pressure on the device would cause the screen to jump about. I could see it being ok in start-then-put-down mode for Movies and Slideshows. But how often
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by sambeau 15y ago
Unity http://unity3d.com/unity/pro/#extend
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by sambeau 15y ago
I believe that the Go creators have embraced this principle. http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#What_is_the_purpose_of_the...
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by sambeau 15y ago
Read "a right pain" as "genuinely frustrating" or "really annoying".
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U2's Bono and the Edge invest in Dropbox(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by sambeau 15y ago|0 comments
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by sambeau 15y ago
A warrant would still be needed to read emails, but this essentially will give the government access to your browser history.
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by sambeau 15y ago
A small number of geeks and a fair number of households own more than one iOS device. Most people don't.
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by sambeau 15y ago
A Mono-a-like is not required as Apple has fully open sourced it. Instead there's GCC, Clang and http://www.gnustep.org/
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by sambeau 15y ago
I was slightly baffled and then amused to read the phase "And can you take it up to monkey here [at MIT]?". It took me a moment to work out what that meant (even though I could have read the next sentence for a clue).
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by sambeau 15y ago
Sadly, that is mostly due us being over-sensitised to dodgy sales techniques, e.g. "Is this the best car seat cover ever?"
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Is this the end of games retailing?(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by sambeau 15y ago|0 comments
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by sambeau 15y ago
Agile and Scrum have some good things going for them. They teach developers that building things is always an iterative process. A well designed product will still require incremental on-the-fly improvements to get it right just as code doe
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by sambeau 15y ago
A true, if slightly pedantic point. I naturally defer. :)
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by sambeau 15y ago
You now have my $0.99, Shay Pierce.

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