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by singular 15y ago
> programming is a great way to have the zest for life sucked straight out of you Sounds like you're in the wrong field. Just because you find the thing a drudge doesn't mean others feel the same way, and personally I find the cynical '
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by singular 15y ago
yeah, Exeter's a great town despite focusing on the deficiencies of the police (more a comment on the police in general), and is a way nicer place to live than Plymouth. As I say in another comment I think Plymouth has more issues because o
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by singular 15y ago
I'm not surprised that it mostly happened in Plymouth really, it certainly seems to have a great deal more poverty and thus criminal/anti-social issues than Exeter, largely relating I suspect to the reliance on the military docks down there
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by singular 15y ago
Ouch. Sounds like you've had a particularly bad time - was that in Plymouth specifically or Exeter? I can imagine racial issues being far more serious in the SW given the absolute lack of racial minorities. Luckily I never witnessed it/plus
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by singular 15y ago
I'm from Exeter and that sounds full on. Luckily never had my bike nicked, but I was assaulted when I was working in a supermarket there one summer and the police turned up, basically told me it was pointless going after the guy and didn'
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by singular 15y ago
Seconded: Glasgow also has some of the most amazing architecture, especially in the Park area [1]. I think a lot of the talk about the rough side of Glasgow has been overblown. Every city has rough areas and dodgy people. There are parts
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by singular 15y ago
Hm, well after reading the wikipedia article (link in my parent post) actually I am not sure as to whether it's been demonstrated scientifically that it is always there, so perhaps then one should go into it with no expectations whatsoever
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by singular 15y ago
Though I agree this is a good idea, I've had the experience of doing a lot of cardio exercise and having it not improve things, which was crushing given I had assumed it would make a big difference. In the end I crashed out of training
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by singular 15y ago
Me too, but my point is that you have to do that to begin with. If anyone is interested, this gets rid of the splash screen + chrome:- (setq inhibit-splash-screen t) (if (fboundp 'scroll-bar-mode) (scroll-bar-mode -1)) (if (fb
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by singular 15y ago
Yeah, both 21 -> 22 and especially 22 -> 23 were vast improvements. Appearance issues aside however, emacs is starting to feel a little like windows in a way (uh oh downvotes ahoy), in that it's lumbered by backwards compatibility c
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by singular 15y ago
Agreed emacs 23 is a vast improvement, however the UI elements i.e. menubar, scrollbars, etc. still suck, as does the initial splash screen. OS X is better than linux for defaults, but no matter what you do have to work hard to get a decent
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by singular 15y ago
Talking about earphones, good earphones can give quite stunning results. You'd be very surprised. I have been gradually working from the soft stuff (~ £20 earphones) to the crazy, crazy hard stuff these days (~ £400, Shure SE535's [1]), but
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by singular 15y ago
I deeply love emacs, but its crustier elements really bite on a regular basis. The amount of effort required to make it non-ugly is just... unpleasant (a problem I've noticed with a lot of gnu ui stuff, both with applications and websites -
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by singular 15y ago
That sounds like Alvin Hall[1]. He's not done a show (in the UK at least) for a while, but he's definitely done that type of show. [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_hall
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by singular 15y ago
Video discussing lotus's steering wheel - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58Zkbbfygjw and one with Lewis Hamilton discussing his - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcMvt0rO20g - though he does get talked over in Italian (I think it is).
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by singular 15y ago
I'm not informed enough about linguistics to be able to determine whether what you say is true or not, but it is certainly irrelevant to what we're actually discussing - Chomsky does supply evidence to back up his political claims.
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by singular 15y ago
> It's more like listening to Einstein (or Chomsky) on politics -- very good in one field, rather over-confident in another. Chomsky is very careful to heavily reference and back up his political opinions, so I'm a little confused as to
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by singular 15y ago
Dvorak has actually been shown to really be no better than QWERTY - http://reason.com/archives/1996/06/01/typing-errors/3
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by singular 15y ago
I'm not contesting that entities which receive government money shouldn't charge also if the economics implies it, rather focusing on the fact that they take a vast amount of taxpayer money which then helps fund greedy companies who deliv
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by singular 15y ago
Please don't do anything illegal. It's not good for you (obviously!), and it eliminate any legitimate moral ground in the debate. We're trying to do what's right + good here, not to be underhand + malicious.
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by singular 15y ago
This is unbelievable. Do you think, if I decided to catch coaches/buses everywhere, I could get back some of the money they get from me? The fact that a publicly-funded organisation refuse to allow access to data because they have been crit
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by singular 15y ago
Stunning. I wasn't actually aware of the slight surplus of protons vs. anti-protons, that is just mind-blowing. What is most amazing about all this to me is that we can know any of it at all and that it happens to fit into comprehensible la
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by singular 15y ago
Using VARCHAR(MAX) still seems to have a significant performance impact, however - http://richardlees.blogspot.com/2010/07/varcharmax-performan... - perhaps the fact it has to check whether the varchar exceeds 8192?
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by singular 15y ago
Aha! I didn't realise they had resources on algorithms, very nice, nice to have some overview slides on the fundamentals.
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by singular 15y ago
Ouch that's terrible. I guess there are always ways around things... I had always assumed you were protected. I guess that, no matter how protected you think you in the eyes of the law, being a wage-earner is more of a risk it seems to be.
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by singular 15y ago
Personally I've always been put off by the perceived (let me know if I've got this wrong) ease with which American companies can get rid of you, and the short notice they can give you (2 weeks is what I've heard) - here in the UK the law is
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by singular 15y ago
> You're paying a price for this speed: the Go compiler is single pass, which considerably cripples the language and imposes a lot of weird asymmetric features. That's just not true - go is not single pass (as I understand it). There ar
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by singular 15y ago
It's a more restricted version of duck typing and requires an interface specifically to be set up for the type, though not for the type to explicitly implement it, so it's not quite the same thing.
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by singular 15y ago
Don't get me wrong, I didn't mean to downplay his achievements - The guy is a legend. I'm British. I was being understated :)
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by singular 15y ago
Other reasons to like go:- Bold, delicious digression from oop - there literally is no relation between objects by identity , only by behaviour via interfaces - not your usual crappy java/c#/etc. interfaces, but rather 'true' interfaces,

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