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by smackay 14y ago
Any wave of disruption cast towards recruiters is going to have to destroy consulting houses as proof of it's efficacy. The time and effort required to find work/workers that bartonfink mentions has to be expended by either the employer or
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by smackay 14y ago
It wasn't intended as a compromise but as a way for the council to use the situation to their advantage. If the selection of food is as they claim then they could use the massive coverage the blog had to show that perhaps the photos were be
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by smackay 14y ago
Bureaucracies are probably doomed to failure in this type of situation. A better solution to all the ass-covering and denial would have to simply ask Veg to write the occasional post, with photo of course, of the healthiest meal she could p
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by smackay 14y ago
A "reasonable expectation" can only ever be a standard for conduct rather than a law. The important part of this perspective is that members of the general public are allowed to conduct their affairs without monitoring or intrusion by defau
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by smackay 14y ago
I would contest that even in a public space you should have a reasonable expectation of privacy to accept anything less is to concede defeat the in entire argument. For example if I trip over my shoelaces while walking along a street then m
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by smackay 14y ago
If you have a copy of Jakob Neilsen's "Designing Web Usability" to hand there is a detailed critique of the MapQuest user interface of the time. In comparison Google Maps really was a breakthrough in usability.
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by smackay 14y ago
Just enter "monsanto sues farmer" into your favourite search engine. The wealth of results, mostly partisan in nature however, would suggest that this is a significant issue.
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Hewlett-Packard to cut 27,000 jobs by the end of 2014(bbc.co.uk)
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by smackay 14y ago
Perhaps not in the USA but in the UK everyone I knew was glued to the TV to watch the Apollo launches. Of course there was a big layer of Cold War propaganda added, but it was an exciting time.
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by smackay 14y ago
Just use a little bit of detergent without any water. Scrub then rinse.
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by smackay 14y ago
Being from the very far north of the UK mainland the changes in time were always welcome. We still went to school when it was cold and rainy but at least it wasn't dark (though it was on the return trip). In the summer being able to play ou
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by smackay 14y ago
This is not as much of a burden as would first appear. The vast majority of Flash files (except those that rely exclusively on actionscript for rendering) are based on as relatively small set of primitives/instructions: place object, move o
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by smackay 14y ago
It is a similar situation in Portugal with one extra month paid in the summer and one at Christmas. It seems an eminently practical idea so that lower paid people would have ready cash for holidays and Christmas. However given the furore ov
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by smackay 15y ago
The full statement is probably "I would pay X more for animal-friendlier meat if it was sitting next to the animal-unfriendly meat on the supermarket shelf". Not an indictment per se but it usually takes a lot of work on the producer and co
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by smackay 15y ago
The following description (from a BBC documentary I think but I can't find the source) sums it nicely: If you dropped a mouse down a mineshaft it would bounce then scuttle away into the darkness, a man would be killed and a horse would spla
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by smackay 15y ago
Of course not, Daisey gets all the publicity for his shows, reaching out to an audience that share his views and This American Life gets to clean up the mess. He will probably end up more popular as a result. C'est la vie.
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by smackay 15y ago
Sure there's plenty of carbon in paper but mining the kaolite used to make it and the paper plant itself generate quite a bit of CO2. The dioxins and other chlorinated by-products of paper-making are also pretty hard on the environment and
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by smackay 15y ago
Probably for the same reasons that programmers don't - for all but the simplest of procedures there may be unforseen complications, particularly since they mostly deal with legacy "applications"
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by smackay 15y ago
This short excerpt from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy seems appropriate: “`...You hadn't exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them had you? I mean like actually telling anyone or anything.' `But the plans were on display.
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by smackay 15y ago
The result of the last conflict was not as clear cut as you suggest. The UK military were severely stretched last time around and given the changes in defence spending a repeat operation might not be possible. The main point is that I think
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by smackay 15y ago
There is a window of opportunity opening up for Argentina regarding the Falkland Islands on the diplomatic front and militarily too. With the Cold War safely out of the way the interests of the United States lie more with good relations wit
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by smackay 15y ago
The sense of solidarity between the robot makers and the lower ranks of the profession might not be a strong as you might like.
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by smackay 15y ago
How soon will it be possible to pick-off Mechanical Turk tasks using computers - assuming it is not being done already? Is this a real opportunity or is the big money going to be made in helping businesses design their work so it can be aut
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by smackay 15y ago
emacs org-mode works great for this by showing the status for each item in the list. No mess, no fuss and a great way to review progress or refresh the status of a task you've left for a while.
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by smackay 15y ago
This really needs forward and reverse play buttons to allow you just sit and try and comprehend what is zooming before your eyes.
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by smackay 15y ago
Great work on the graphics - concise and informative. Coverage in western Europe for wind speed and pressure on the advanced map is limited to the North Sea, and Northeastern Atlantic. Is this due to limited access to the data or because Sc
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by smackay 15y ago
Stress, at least in family groups, is highly contagious hence the emphasis on Psychosocial factors in the article. It is certainly worth exploring in more detail however.
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by smackay 15y ago
The end of the Flash banner ad era is in sight. The sentiment is that this is simply replacing one evil with another but I think it will accelerate the migration from Flash so overall this is probably a good thing.
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by smackay 15y ago
Well everyone from the UK sings with an American accent (except the Proclaimers, of course) so I don't think must adjustment will be needed.
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by smackay 15y ago
I agree, but I think that threshold was crossed with the invention of the bow and arrow.

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