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by smackay 9y ago
There a long history of planned towns and cities, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_planned_cities . The USA appears to be one of the most innovative but that is hardly surprising given the availability of land. In
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by smackay 9y ago
Municipal broadband is probably a useful example here. The technology is sufficiently well developed and there are enough technical skills available that communities with the resources can make this happen - assuming the usual political hur
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I agree and as far as I can squint there is no real solution to this. Commercial platforms put their commercial needs ahead of anything and everything else. For that to work effectively they need mainstream content that the majority will be
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Therein lies the disconnect between what we want to achieve as a profession and the commercial needs of companies. Too often these are conflated in our view of what we do and that creates unhappy developers pushed to deliver stuff quickly i
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by smackay 9y ago
On a given feature branch the history is only important if there is more than one review until the work is complete. What the developer does in between these visible/public events is almost always not important. For example in a "
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by smackay 9y ago
You are right that in order to make any progress there needs to be a way of disentangling this mess but you cannot simply create distance from the distasteful situations described in the article. It is important to realise that regardless o
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by smackay 9y ago
There is one cardinal mistake that management makes (and development blithely accepts): * Management is always right. This truism is built into the entire fabric of software development: whether your process is an agile one where the produc
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by smackay 9y ago
Whenever an idea about API versioning springs into mind it is always worthwhile to watch Rich Hickey's Spec-ulation talk, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLBGkS5ICk for an alternative view of the world.
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by smackay 9y ago
One problem with creating an island of reason in what is apparently a sea of chaos is that the values that are cherished: reason, truth, rationality and merit are quite possibly the very things the regime is trying to suppress - or at least
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The 187M Dollars Gmail Bug(thehftguy.com)
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Not true. Chile was a vital ally, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falkl... The United States secretly provided satellite imagery and telecommunications during the conflict but was caref
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Docker in Production: An Update(thehftguy.com)
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Getting a product out of the door is more a human problem than a technical one. Sure there's the cliche image of the older, embittered dev who is set in there ways and refuses to change but it's just a caricature spread by by youn
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by smackay 10y ago
Trump's campaign was based entirely on persuasion (populism for want of a better term). That "alternative facts" exists as a thing is just another play in the persuasion handbook to discredit the idea that there any real fact
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BAE outlines laser-based deflector shield concept(theengineer.co.uk)
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If £280 is the retail price then it's £233 before VAT (20%) is added. At the current exchange rate that's $283 (US).
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Jeez, everybody is all bent out of shape on this. The Republican establishment hate Trump nearly as much as they hate Clinton so with Republicans controlling The House and The Senate how much "damage" is President Trump going to b
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Microsoft Puts Slack in Cross Hairs with New Office Chat App(nytimes.com)
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Potential volunteers might want to read the following before signing up: https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/
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by smackay 10y ago
This decision is probably for political reasons in favour of two groups within Norway: hunters who probably want to shoot more deer and elk or perhaps moose and the Saami who get paid by the state based on the number of reindeer they have r
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by smackay 10y ago
You do not seem to provide much direct sales potential but perhaps a future mrsweasel, employer or insurance provider might find that information very useful, valuable even.
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But surely the purpose of the manifesto is to skew that curve to the right.
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The goal of the legislation was reduced use of plastic bags. I am saying that at the rate we accumulate reusable bags, the price of 10 cents is simply too low to force people to remember to carry a reusable bag when visiting the grocery sto
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by smackay 10y ago
This is anecdotal and all but I am not so sure ban on plastic bags is that effective (though the figures given for Ireland seem substantial): The free, single-use plastic bags were perfect for our 20 litre garbage bin. Now I have to buy 30
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I agree with your points but the genetic modification is not just about tinkering with the existing set of genes that the plant has but adding new ones from sources that would never happen naturally, https://www.organicconsumers.
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Grant MacLennan? Ah kent his faither!
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Broadwell-E arrives: Testing Intel’s 10-core, $1700 desktop CPU(arstechnica.com)
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Principle of least astonishment(en.wikipedia.org)
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Most of the hate for GMOs are rooted in politics - the science often has little to do with it. Monsanto's business practices and their early attempts to create complete lock-in for farmers along with trying to get the EU to force GMOs
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by smackay 10y ago
Scott Adams's blog, http://blog.dilbert.com/ is an immensely interesting and entertaining source of information on the whole Trump phenomenon. If what he says is remotely true then politics is never going to be the sam

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