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by timje1 11y ago
A tangent, but when did 'cargo-cult' become a verb and not a noun?
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by timje1 11y ago
Scott Hanselman hacked a light outside his home office to indicate his Lync (now Skype for Business) status. I always though this was a novel way of indicating to the kids whether he could be disturbed when doing remote working. http:&#x2F
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by timje1 11y ago
iPhones are still pretty poor value for money compared to cheap androids, as long as you can get reasonable pay-as-you-go contracts as well. I'm not sure how that situation changes in the US, where there doesn't seem to be the sam
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by timje1 11y ago
This NPR podcast posits that the source of the current male / female divide in computing began in the early 80s as a result of home computer and videogame marketing. It's definitely worth a listen. http://www.npr.org&#x
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by timje1 11y ago
One study isn't what convinces me, it's the existing body of evidence that does so. Organisations like WHO don't recommend a minimum of 6 months of exclusive breastfeeding because of a single study, and I don't claim to
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by timje1 11y ago
Around half of all eggs laid in the UK come from free range hens (1) - I believe this increasing proportion is partly due to a sticker requirement to mark eggs with 'Eggs from caged hens'. I wonder what effect there would be on th
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by timje1 11y ago
I think the data's pretty unequivocal about it affecting the IQ of the baby. This study's *1 got the result down to 7 points increase for 90% of babies when breastfed, whereas the figure I hear thrown around most often is 4 points
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by timje1 11y ago
Ouch, I guess I don't have any friends then. Well shit.
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by timje1 11y ago
This sounds amazing, brilliant recommendation! If anyone is into similar stuff I recommend Meshuggah - Catch Thirty Three -> it keeps me programming for hours at a time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mfMC2DIA1A&lis
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by timje1 11y ago
The English crime statistics have violent crime happening to men at almost twice the rate of women. What I found interesting was a recent study that found rape has a much higher rate of PTSD occurrence than other crimes - maybe it's so
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by timje1 11y ago
The worst has surely got to be the 'Buckets for the Cure' campaign by KFC. http://media.onsugar.com/files/2010/04/16/5/301/3019466/0d0b...
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by timje1 11y ago
I think this is also why home ownership is prized so highly in Britain - at least since the rental market was deregulated.
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by timje1 11y ago
Net neutrality matters wherever you are. Picture if BT started offering higher bandwidth speeds or lower costs for Youtube, Netflix and Facebook usage. Yes, us superusers would switch away, but a large proportion would think that this is a
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by timje1 11y ago
Programming is an industry where taking a 3-4 year gap is career suicide, because of the constantly shifting practices and technologies. Some women in tech notice this and move away before raising a family crashes their career. Some don&#x2
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by timje1 11y ago
I guess that's the difference between this and say, threadless. Threadless has amateur custom designs submitted and voted on, and the top designs float up to the front page. Because most people simply aren't very good designers...
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by timje1 11y ago
He does mention in the comments that he only published the story once he was out of the country. Certainly publishing it while in Mexico would be courting disaster.
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by timje1 11y ago
Comcast can charge a crapload of money for cable. If they offer internet services at netflix prices and are highly successful (lots of signups) - if this allows a small fraction of their cable customers to cut ties, Comcast loses money.
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by timje1 11y ago
This is spotify's approach.
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by timje1 11y ago
He says 9 pounds for two pints. £4.50 a pint sounds about right for London.
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by timje1 11y ago
Probably £55 - £80k a year, depending on how 'hot' the stack you're on is and how willing you are to work for hedge funds / banks.
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by timje1 11y ago
Yep, age will. If the average age of an American woman has changed from, say, 30 years to 50 years (aging population, changing demographics etc.) then this could contribute to weight differences because people tend to become more overweight
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by timje1 11y ago
I craft a playlist of new tracks that I like and then hit 'start playlist radio' to let Spotify find me other emerging bands that sound like this. This is a pretty solid way to discover new music, but you do need that jumping off
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by timje1 12y ago
There are plenty of American shows that should have been cancelled after a single season, but weren't because they were popular. Stuff like Prison Break, Heroes. In fact Prison Break's season 1 had a very clear, obvious conclusion
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by timje1 12y ago
By then, of course, the sewer people will have risen up and reclaimed control of the overworld. A slippery slope. Frightening.
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by timje1 12y ago
Yes but if you make up the 'price' of licensing the various IP from the tax haven subsidiary each year, and the eventual profit equation for the UK subsidiary adds up to 0 every year over several years, it's clear that the IP
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by timje1 12y ago
As far as I can tell, they shift profits overseas by shifting extra, semi-fictional 'costs' to the UK subsidiary - for example, if the UK subsidiary of Starbucks makes $100m profit, but has to pay the Canary Isles subsidiary $100m
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by timje1 12y ago
Excellent stuff, thanks for responding
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by timje1 12y ago
I'd really love to know the library used to get these lovely pixelated graphics - did this gentleman write his own, or are there mature options out there?
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by timje1 12y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, the fish head upstream to die. None of them will encounter the cannon twice, unless the same river has multiple dams on it.
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by timje1 12y ago
This seems to be very laggy (on chrome), getting a very low framerate considering the simplicity of the polygons on my fairly beefy machine. I might have been spoilt after seeing the unreal 3 demo on asm.js ...

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