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by smackay 8y ago
This is just anec-data but from a friend who has spent a lot of time in London this year. It appears that the EU nationals are leaving in droves. As a result many IT departments are becoming seriously understaffed. So there may be a boom in
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by smackay 8y ago
That kind of depends on how the political process plays out north of the border where 65% (or thereabouts) of the population voted to remain within the EU.
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by smackay 8y ago
I thought that "the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs." was the very definition of tehnical debt - which took 40 years to finally resolve. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jvchamary/2018&#
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by smackay 8y ago
Indeed. This, https://phys.org/news/2018-10-portugal-wild-circus-animals.h... made my day. Portugal is a little on the conservative side and taking the kids to see the elephants at Christmas is very much a tradition. T
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by smackay 8y ago
The article touts the business model as the underlying failure of Open Source. However I think this is missing the forest for the trees. If you add up all the value that Open Source delivered by giving millions, yes, let's go for milli
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by smackay 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote_attack has a wealth of information on the topic. It seems likely that the attacks are due to animals becoming habituated to being in close proximity with humans and is probably exac
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by smackay 8y ago
The names are either old celtic or norse names. If you check out the Wikipedia page for Papa Westray, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papa_Westray , then follow the links you get quite a history on the origins of the name
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by smackay 8y ago
The problem here is not the tool but the process that comes with it. From the managers in the bigger company's perspective integrating your team into the larger structure makes a lot of sense. What they are probably missing though is t
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by smackay 8y ago
Seed-eating birds spend a lot of time gathering insects to feed their young. I presume also seed plants are dependent on pollinators. Certainly this is just an armchair comment but I would have expected the effect to show up across the boar
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Is Science Slowing Down?(slatestarcodex.com)
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The Battle for the Home(stratechery.com)
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The iPhone Franchise(stratechery.com)
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Uber’s Bundles(stratechery.com)
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by smackay 8y ago
Do you know what the effects of this "on the ground" are? Is it getting farmers to change what they grow to better adapt to the new local conditions? What affect does it have on agri-business as opposed to family farms, where the
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The ArdaCraft project seeks to recreate Tolkien’s Middle-earth in Minecraft(ardacraft.me)
112 points by smackay 8y ago|37 comments
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by smackay 8y ago
Not to worry, we take our revenge with every game of football England plays by supporting the opposing team.
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by smackay 8y ago
As the parent comment states, the biggest killer of efficiency is communication, particularly across disciplines and across domains. Reducing the overhead of communication and reporting would seem to the the skill most essential to manageme
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by smackay 8y ago
For me (Vue + Vuex) the choice was simple: you get undo for free. Having a shared store really does change the way you look at web apps - it's almost a completely different paradigm. If you can avoid re-loading the data for a view if y
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by smackay 8y ago
Another small, fishing town in the north of Scotland alumni here - Wick, Caithness, this I suspect is "much" further north than arethuza. He lived near the Big City of Aberdeen ;) Just to give you a sense of how local accents can
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The GATTACA Trilogy(slatestarcodex.com)
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by smackay 8y ago
There is definitely a "museum mentality" where is something is worth collecting it gets collected. That does not sit well with, shall we say, an over-sensitivity to the plight of individual animals while blithely ignoring the fate
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by smackay 8y ago
It's much simpler than that. You are a part of something that's bigger than yourself. Whether it's a team, a congregation or a community. The advantage that religions have is that they are to a certain extent aspirational in
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by smackay 8y ago
But the essential difference is that process applied to manufacturing is about repeatability, quality, reliability etc. where process in software is more about communication. Eventually, maybe, a software process will be more like a manufac
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Drones predicted to give British economy a £42bn lift by 2030(theguardian.com)
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by smackay 8y ago
You still have the issue that the content must be of a form that a) attracts advertisers and b) attracts readers, so ad-blockers are only partially effective, you are still consuming content that is written with (consumption of) advertising
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Should Psychiatry Test for Lead More?(slatestarcodex.com)
77 points by smackay 8y ago|51 comments
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The Bill Gates Line(stratechery.com)
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UK government plans new legislation to tame internet's 'wild west'(theguardian.com)
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Basic Income, Not Basic Jobs: Against Hijacking Utopia(slatestarcodex.com)
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Varieties of Argumentative Experience(slatestarcodex.com)
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