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by shubb 12y ago
When people gain a certain authority by being very smart in a narrow field, they often use it to talk about the problems of society in general. Because though they are an expert in their small field, but no more informed or unbiased than yo
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by shubb 12y ago
This guy made an attempt - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil Reading 'round trip' translations via Ithkuil is interesting. Our father in heaven hallowed be your name May the [metaphorical] environment whic
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by shubb 12y ago
>>but you're not seen yourself. I always find it interesting when people say that. When you pass a man in a suit in the street, mostly see an office worker. When you pass a kid in a baggy old hoody and a haze of weed smoke, you w
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by shubb 12y ago
This £4.2bn scheme for instance: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Tideway_Scheme However, following the 2008 crisis, the government followed a strategy of immediate spending reduction (as opposed to US stimulus spen
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by shubb 12y ago
On BBC news a couple of weeks ago, there was some footage of lab workers in the effected area testing samples. They were wearing a plastic suit, heavy gloves, mask, and goggles. About half way through the footage, one of them removes his go
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by shubb 12y ago
Also, you can't lose sight of the fact that some people can do some things (like work independently) better than others. Ability to work independently isn't the same thing as good performance either - comparing myself and a co-wor
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by shubb 12y ago
In a software company, or a product company where the product has software in (like a car), where to developers sit? I know at many engineering majors, engineers are seen as a cost - if you can do the same work with less engineers, then you
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by shubb 12y ago
What is interesting with MapBox, is that they essentially offer functionality similar to Geoserver + Openlayers, but with a far more focused, nice, modern user experience. Certainly in terms of government systems, I think companies sell to
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by shubb 12y ago
Why does finance need all this technology? In a world where real bank transfers between businesses (i.e. real trade) take minutes or hours, why does trading in tiny fractions of the ownership of that business need to be in true real time? H
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Paper: Effect of social media on identity (UK) [pdf](gov.uk)
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by shubb 12y ago
'They have tools to listen to network traffic. But we told them not to. It's fine.' 'So... if they don't intercept network traffic, they were trustworthy and it wouldn't matter. But if they are not trustworthy.
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by shubb 12y ago
I wonder if there is an ironic mirror syndrome, for Americans who grew up on Japanese media, working as English teachers in Tokyo. Symptoms include a sudden need to acquire custom bingo cards.
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by shubb 12y ago
Not web dev question - I'm curious, what is the advantage of using a font rather than images?
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by shubb 12y ago
At 15cm resolution, I'd say that the high resolution imagery is arial photographs. Satellite imagery doesn't get much better than 0.5m because of physics and govmint[1]. Sxfh refers to skybox. They are very exciting, offering sate
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by shubb 12y ago
It would be useful for someone who knows to confirm whether after an incident like this, airlines change the route that they send the planes. Taking a bit of a detour would seems sensible.
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by shubb 12y ago
Maybe they can't write it in a personal way because as long as they treat it as a technical process, they don't feel responsible. Even CEOs need to feel like a cog in a machine sometimes...
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by shubb 12y ago
They do have that reputation, especially when it comes to medical study results. Here is a list of things they have said 'cure' or 'cause' cancer: http://kill-or-cure.herokuapp.com/ I'm not sure you
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by shubb 12y ago
For most people, life can't be a constant progression to higher status jobs, with ever greater pay. Stuff gets in the way. Maybe they find a cieling - there is a limmit to how much highschool teachers get paid, and also by definintion
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by shubb 12y ago
Yeah, those are for statistical use only. The employer can't discriminate in either direction based on that information (which is why it gets a special section of the application for that can get torn out). But they do need to record t
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by shubb 12y ago
Or sometimes their software licences apparently: http://www.businessinsider.com/why-marissa-mayer-bought-a-30...
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by shubb 12y ago
Strikes me folks here are really complaining about a broken cable market, made up of local monopolies. I googled the American cable market a bit, and some of what was described - the cable majors carving up the country so as not to compete,
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by shubb 12y ago
Can anyone think of any advantages to a non-neutral internet? I can think of a few - Netflix and Skype would work better. Most likely, we'd be able to pay for priority traffic, just like we pay for a large AWS instance. Non-priority tr
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by shubb 12y ago
Any idea where this guy got the data? He mentions rating distributions. I though the majority of IMDB data was not downloadable?
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by shubb 12y ago
There is some truth here. In a large organisation, the people running it will not understand the problems they are solving as well as the people under them. The Head of Sales (US) understands the US market better than the Director of Sales,
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by shubb 12y ago
The issue he is referring to is the 'age cliff'. When one child came in, the proportion of children to workers suddenly dropped. That was very useful for productivity, as people were working not caring for children. The other side
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by shubb 12y ago
What are you saying? That trusting income from Google is a bad bet? Or that he should not have threatened the spammer? With regards to the threat - he did have a valid claim against the guy - he could have complained to the registrar and ev
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by shubb 13y ago
To be fair, if the innovation we are crediting Occulus is successfully popularizing VR, I think we are being premature. There have been VR headsets available for years, at comparable prices. They were less immersive, but we will see the Occ
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by shubb 13y ago
Two more: * FME - a lovely GIS data proccessing language - http://www.safe.com * IEC_61131-3 - the main way of programming industrial controller devices - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_61131-3
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by shubb 13y ago
My favourite is the sunken ship packed with explosives in the Thames estuary. As it rusts, it could explode at any time, sending a small tidal wave up the river and into London. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Richard_M
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by shubb 13y ago
Thank's for the links. It was the annual returns that I was talking about. I was concerned that they might have sold the documents to Duedil cheap in a bulk deal that the public didn't have access to. However, looking into how Due

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