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by sjclemmy 10y ago
That would make more sense. So it's actually much more sinister. The Dursley abode is symbolic of all that is bad with the modern world. Bitter people, living in a soulless landscape obsessed with meaningless possessions and social sta
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Kidlington's mystery tourist influx continues to baffle locals(bbc.co.uk)
60 points by sjclemmy 10y ago|44 comments
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Isn't the thing about startups that NO-ONE knows whether the startup is nice or need? I think the way investors pump money into a range of ideas/startups tells us that.
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
I'm partial to a good conspiracy theory and this one has it in spades... The circumstances of Kelly's death are very odd. And didn't Robin Cook (most prominent and influential opponent on the front bench) meet with an accide
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
Yeah, the link titles language is terribly pejorative.
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Kidlington 'mystery tourists' baffle Oxfordshire village(bbc.co.uk)
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Mind the GaaP: UK.gov needs to get a grip on digital(theregister.co.uk)
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
It doesn't matter how many arguments there are. My point was that calling the function will mutate one of its arguments and in fact, in the example the returned value of the function is irrelevant because nothing is assigned to the ret
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
maybe I'm wrong but the last example of pureFunction mutates and returns one of its arguments. That's not a pure function.
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Gove's response was even better than that; “I think people in this country have had enough of experts."
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
To be fair, there was a consistent universal message saying it would be bad for business.
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
I've been using ng2 for a few Ionic 2 Projects recently and its fantastic. Rxjs is an absolute must - it allows amazingly precise code to manage mutation. The way everything is a component is great. I can write a frontend app in a cou
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
Please don't down vote me for this, I'm reporting what my family tell me in response to the question. I voted remain, but my parents and sister both voted leave. The argument my father gives is that the EU is an undemocratic organ
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
PR doesn't work for binary questions, it works for electoral representation. Referendums are a blunt instrument. In the general election the winner takes all and the losers are marginalised. Big majorities in first past the post are
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
The problem with England / Britain / UK is representation. Every time we make any big political decision 50% of the electorate is marginalised and ignored for 5 years. We need a better system, one where representation is proportio
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How far is too far? The distance workers commute to UK cities – mapped(theguardian.com)
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
I used to busk, playing guitar and singing in Bradford (UK) city centre in the early 1990s. I wasn't very good, but it was funny. £30 on a good day? Not bad for a couple of hours.
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
Free market capitalism. You can't have it both ways.
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
I'm glad to see Css source diffs in there. My workflow consists of tweaking Css in dev tools and then updating source. I've found that if I map directly so Devtools updates the source file I get lost very quickly. Incidentally I&#
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
My rule of thumb for budgeting is that a car is going to cost me about £1000 a year to keep and maintain. This includes road tax, insurance, tyres, brakes and servicing etc. This will average out over time.
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
I'm in my 40s, I've got a kid in college and another about to go, and I'm considering doing this with my wife. We have a bit of a joke that we'll write a book titled: 5 years, 5 cities.
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
> “I thought, holy smokes,” he said. “It’s going to be too expensive. It’s not propulsion. It’s not environmental control. It’s not power. This software business is a very big problem, and that nation couldn’t afford it.” I think the dif
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Why Do the Poor Make Such Poor Decisions?(medium.com)
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
My grandfather who fought in WWII (British) developed a close friendship with a German veteran in his later years. I think they met in southern Spain where they both spent a lot of time in their retirement in the 1980s. I doubt their story
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Switzerland basic income: Landmark vote looms(bbc.co.uk)
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
Great work! I love this sort of stuff - Reminds me of the chart in that Jack Black film (School of Rock) that sub divides all the bands into genres and sub-genres. Minor bug - I tried to search for Hüsker Dü and Husker Du and neither showed
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
Looks like D3.js is used.
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
Yeah - I think FP forces you to think about state and state transition while OO forces you to think about your abstraction and modelling. So if you do OO without consideration of what's going to happen next - the compilation and what t
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
My take on this is that computation is the act of describing different states that the processor can be in - or describing the path from one state to the next. I think an understanding of state is fundamental - one thing that brought this h
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by sjclemmy 10y ago
This is a great link!

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