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by shrikant 9y ago
Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. Cineworld in the UK released an "app", which is just a WebView for their mobile website, so it replicates all the horrible aspects of that experience.
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by shrikant 9y ago
Interesting that he makes an AMA appearance, roughly a month after the BBC File on 4 (top quality investigatory journalism) piece: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09tdyjz
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by shrikant 9y ago
> Your future benefits are fixed, regardless of market conditions. Unless the pension can't afford to do so because of a market crash, and declares bankruptcy. In which case, anyone left holding the bag will be screwed. AFAIK, &quot
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by shrikant 9y ago
FWIW, I've been on the site a long time, and have seen parent commenter['s original account] get flamed (and presumably, nope out of those threads) for offering up her (inherently non-inflammatory) opinions / experiences.
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by shrikant 9y ago
I would strongly second this. I had some down-time between jobs a couple of years back, and used it to volunteer at a charity to help out with some basic IT work. There was some indeed an element of fixing and securing their WordPress-based
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UK’s Royal Mint Launches Gold-Backed Cryptocurrency(cointelegraph.com)
1 points by shrikant 9y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 9y ago
I came across this at a MongoDB conference last year, and thought the demos / videos looked bloody cool. Here's some more detail on the tech works: https://www.mongodb.com/blog/post/oxford-nanopore-techno
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by shrikant 9y ago
It's here now: https://www.digitaldrex.com/single-post/2014/07/08/Why-I-lef...
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by shrikant 9y ago
I do this almost every day. The old Great Western Railway fleet (which is still most of the services out of Paddington) has these horrible door handles.
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The big con: How tech companies made a killing by fudging their numbers(mashable.com)
4 points by shrikant 9y ago|1 comments
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How to think, in eight easy steps(timharford.com)
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by shrikant 9y ago
Completely off-topic: All five people mentioned as experts on CSS Grid towards the end of this post are women. (I don't have anything else to add, just found this interesting.)
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by shrikant 9y ago
> Google Play Music doesn't even have basic "search inside my library" functionality. Is this within some custom app that you've got? I'm a heavy user of Google Play Music to listen to my library across various l
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Google Thinks I’m Dead(mobile.nytimes.com)
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by shrikant 9y ago
Google Home is alright, but you definitely can't buy Chromecasts on Amazon UK. Any that you do see there are fakes, with misleadingly similar branding and design. Which -- given that they clearly allow these obvious knock-offs -- puts
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Apple wins EU trademark case against Xiaomi(reuters.com)
2 points by shrikant 9y ago|0 comments
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Learn just enough Linux to get things done(alexpetralia.com)
353 points by shrikant 9y ago|133 comments
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by shrikant 9y ago
You can use this service to extract the RSS link from iTunes podcasts. http://itunes.so-nik.com/
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by shrikant 9y ago
It's a fairly common practice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackout_(broadcasting)
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by shrikant 9y ago
Related Radiolab episode: http://www.radiolab.org/story/ceremony/
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by shrikant 9y ago
Probably worth mentioning that you work for Zoho as well...
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by shrikant 9y ago
"Moocha" is the colloquial Tamil word for urine. I giggled like a child.
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SQL Server 2017 adds Python, graph processing and runs on Linux(zdnet.com)
2 points by shrikant 9y ago|0 comments
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by shrikant 9y ago
This sounds similar to what I saw at a client a few years back. All XML responses from a REST API were inserted into a single VARCHAR(MAX) column (one row per response, but a response could have multiple "records") in a SQL Server
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Future of Fake News(futureoffakenews.com)
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The Full 10-Page Anti-Diversity Screed Circulating Internally at Google(gizmodo.co.uk)
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Visual Studio Code: the editor I didn’t think I needed(hackernoon.com)
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by shrikant 9y ago
#SavedYouAClick: The condition is rhabdomyolysis: > [...] a rare but life-threatening condition often caused by extreme exercise. It occurs when overworked muscles begin to die and leak their contents into the bloodstream, straining the
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Switching from Unity to Gnome-Shell: first challenges(insights.ubuntu.com)
12 points by shrikant 9y ago|0 comments
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PayPal sues Pandora over similar logo(nypost.com)
3 points by shrikant 9y ago|0 comments

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