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by takno 10y ago
If you're looking for a non-coding hobby, why not make your own T-shirt though
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by takno 10y ago
The world doesn't need another CV or an application form where I talk about a particular challenge I faced and how I overcame it. I still fill those out.
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by takno 10y ago
Most recruiters I've met never stop recruiting and spend a great deal of "social" time talking to people in relevant areas and trying to figure out how to get them a job. It's usually quite obnoxious, but definitely does
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by takno 10y ago
My main issue with the whole thing is that it is immediately used as an excuse to do down and prevent real engineering that can actually happen in the next 30 years like HSR. Blue sky thinking is good, but you can't sit back doing noth
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by takno 10y ago
MAU stats could illustrate this entire narrative completely. Instead I feel like somebody is attacking me with random statistics until I agree with them more passionately or something
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by takno 10y ago
Why? Everything else being equal that would just mean you'd get a completely blank page because the database connection would have died in the initial request rather than the ajax request
37.
by takno 10y ago
So it's happened 3 times out of a possible 30. Doesn't even seem that dramatic when you put it that way.
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by takno 10y ago
This always drives me mad. It's particularly bad if I'm trying to read content sites on a train or somewhere with patchy reception - open half a dozen tabs to give me something to read while I'm disconnected, and then switch
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by takno 10y ago
They're actively adding features. It's a little more complex than it used to be with the manifest, and needing a service worker and encryption for a lot of features, but it's all still there
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by takno 10y ago
Firefox has it but it's not as tight yet. In particular it doesn't have a good splash screen experience or notifications on android
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by takno 10y ago
So the whole "pay peanuts, get monkeys" thing now has the additional problem that the monkeys will sue you for a fair wage, and possibly more tyres on ropes in their enclosures?
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by takno 10y ago
Chrome has that sorted already on android, where you can run up a site with a home screen link, different icon and separate listing in the task list. Given the work they've recently put in on full screen mode on desktop it looks like t
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by takno 10y ago
This isn't a press release, it's a review
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by takno 10y ago
The one at SFO is pretty standard. What's irritating about the one at EWR is that it's so unecessary . The loop seems like it's there because they couldn't get somebody to accept the supporting pillars in their precious
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by takno 10y ago
Given that it's incredibly important that the planes don't under any circumstances stop they have their own limiting factors. high speed trains using short or ideally variable block signalling and running on segregated high speed
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by takno 10y ago
How many airports are landing anything like a 747 every 1.4 minutes? Especially given that the Shinkansen runs in both directions, so your airport is going to have to handle exclusively 747s, with high loadings and a headway of around 40 se
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by takno 10y ago
I hate the monorail at EWR with a passion - the slow speed, the long stop at a parking garage before the terminal, the insane loop round some kind of junkyard/parking lot it takes on the way to the railroad station, but all told it&#x2
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by takno 10y ago
Given that buses usually don't beat rail in speed terms, and are usually less environmentally friendly, the only real reason for buses to exist is price. If they can't beat rail on that they simply won't run.
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by takno 10y ago
London is three times the size of Houston. If you did the same comparison for, say, Birmingham you could easily afford to live in a good suburb within a 30 minute commute of central Birmingham
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by takno 10y ago
The taxes thing was a pain when I worked in stores in Canada. You'd get about 10 customers a day presenting some kind of ID and claiming to be exempt from either gst or PST, and as a till monkey you'd have no knowledge or training
51.
by takno 10y ago
Does anybody at all know what more than 2 buttons do on their microwave? I thought they were mostly there for decoration
52.
by takno 10y ago
It uses a UK phone number and supports an EU banking initiative, so I would guess so. Why is that relevant?
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by takno 10y ago
But it didn't sound any easier than calling the pizza shop, which is something I hated doing before the internet solved that problem for me. The unpleasant experience was caused by the cognitive load of having an unpredictable real-tim
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by takno 10y ago
Certainly this seems like the way it should work. In order for it to actually work like this it would require the marketers to actually understand retargeting rather than believing the hype spread by ad networks, and it would require the
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by takno 10y ago
To be fair even Creed was made manager for a while, but I don't think he ever showed any signs of being upwardly mobile.
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by takno 10y ago
They are, last I checked, members of society. It's also unhelpful to assume they have the time to spend on this - low income already means that basic things like shopping and getting around take a lot longer since they can't pay f
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by takno 10y ago
Maybe OP was talking about a new show in development. It possibly follows the lives of the lawyers from LA Law who, having fallen on hard times, are forced to steal bread and break spontaneously into song to survive.
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by takno 10y ago
Logically I can't see why trying to escape from prison would be an offence in itself anyway. If somebody successfully did it they wouldn't have undertaken the punishment for the original crime though, so you'd send them back
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by takno 10y ago
Ignoring the government's costs, people on welfare in the UK can easily end up spending 20 hours a week on claiming that welfare, spread between having to transport themselves to attend a weekly signing on session, making a set number
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by takno 10y ago
I think you need to view state pensions and minimum income for pensioners into the numbers. You would also want to increase basic rate tax at least to the point where you'd reclaimed the money from anybody at or above the higher rate t

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