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by sharpn 17y ago
Hmmm, this smells like opinion presented as fact to me. For example, 'an historic' is good English (in England, not sure about US-English convention) in the same way as you can say 'an honour' or 'an hour'; ie. because the 'h' is pronounc
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by sharpn 17y ago
wow, yes - they weren't there when I posted the link. Swivel-eyed loons :o
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by sharpn 17y ago
Not to split hairs, but a pardon is an action & implies regret - ie communicates something tangible explicitly. Whereas an apology without pardon is 'just words' & implicitly declines the opportunity to pardon. I can't speak for tho
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by sharpn 17y ago
Well perhaps 'gimmick' is a loaded word; what I meant was that a full pardon would have been more fitting, and also that he's apologising for something done by someone else long ago - I can't think of a better word, but I do take your point
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by sharpn 17y ago
Political gimmick, but I remember the petition for this was posted here & I guess this apology was prompted by that campaign.
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Gordon Brown apologises to Alan Turing(telegraph.co.uk)
109 points by sharpn 17y ago|26 comments
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by sharpn 17y ago
Just in case anyone else is thinking of getting 4 steps, it's $10 cheaper from here (not an affiliate link) than Amazon: http://www.cafepress.com/kandsranch.58024175
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by sharpn 17y ago
Thanks for the tip - I'll check VLC out.
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by sharpn 17y ago
I don't usually like techcrunch but this hit the spot for me. Itunes is broken for my (simple) needs. A 'lite' option that is basically a file manager would be very welcome.
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by sharpn 17y ago
On a related note, it would be useful to have more fonts. I went to try using the font my company's logo uses and it wasn't there. Good apart from that, though.
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by sharpn 17y ago
the browser: http://thebrowser.com/
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by sharpn 17y ago
Here's some more colour on this from a US (investor) perspective: http://www.distressed-debt-investing.com/2009/09/possible-eq...
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by sharpn 17y ago
What evidence I can find indicates it was actually the other way around - that Henry VII co-opted the legend to reinforce his legitimacy, rather than being inspired by it. If anything, the other part of your original point (having strong pr
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by sharpn 17y ago
Geoffrey of Monmouth (Wales != England) did not invent the Arthurian legend, he reinvented it. The Arthurian legend predates him & appears to have been based on a 'Roman' soldier who remained in the British Isles after the first Rom
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by sharpn 17y ago
Ok, to continue your (excellent) mountain-climbing analogy, the ultimate goal is to climb the mountain and return safely . Encountering potentially fatal difficulties near the summit will result in you turning back to retry later if you ar
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by sharpn 17y ago
That's willfull. Having the discipline to wait until spring (no matter what the cost) would have been determined.
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by sharpn 17y ago
Good points well made. An interesting second-derivation of this is with co-founders. Two (or more) people who share a goal can spur each other on via internal competitiveness & a symbiotic pattern of compensating for dips in the other's
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by sharpn 17y ago
Oops, thanks - I didn't mean to misattribute the quote.
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by sharpn 17y ago
I enjoyed that. Money quote: "There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficienc
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by sharpn 17y ago
I agree a small truly random sample can often be reliably extrapolated - but in this case the 136>7m figure was based on research paid for by the BMI (who lobbied heavily against file-sharing) in a report still not fully published, ba
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by sharpn 17y ago
Agreed. I don't want anyone to be able to guess my cell number & spam call me, why would anyone want that?
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by sharpn 17y ago
Ok, the chance your idea is stolen is not zero - but it's a lot lower than you think. That said, there are a few things you can do without revealing your idea; use google trends to identify search volume for the problem you're solving, sear
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by sharpn 17y ago
Run an internal competition (with a significant prize) to come up with a product that would outdo the existing product. Assuming the winning idea is good enough, that becomes the template for version 2.0
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by sharpn 17y ago
OPM
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by sharpn 17y ago
Some useful data in that article, thanks!
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by sharpn 17y ago
We've had an acredited distance learning university in the UK for 20 years - the degrees issued are considered equal to the equivalent course in normal universities (although less prestigious). The idea was copied/partnered in the US - I th
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by sharpn 17y ago
I can't find the full paper online, but it does seem to be a very narrowly defined idea of language aquisition. It deals only with children learning to read their native tongue. No allowance is made for any learning outside of the classro
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by sharpn 17y ago
User support differs from many other roles in that a standard interview actually can be a very good way to evaluate a candidate: it gives you a chance to demonstrate clarity and succinct answers to questions you initially have no control ov
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by sharpn 17y ago
Glad I'm not the only one who thought this article demonstrates the decline of the NYT more than the decline of Facebook. The plural of anecdote.
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by sharpn 17y ago
My findings would be a bit esoteric for this arena, arcane stuff about when Italian music scholars started using counterpoint, previously unknown ancient Irish nature poems by bored medieval monks etc. And I'm only just evolving my methodol

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