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by tomgp 6y ago
I’m a long time Safari user and find the nibs very variable especially the thin ones which seem more common these days. I prefer the thick and find one in five or six have that horrible scratchiness. What I do love is the shape of the grip
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by tomgp 6y ago
it's a port-manteau of spectacular and debacle i.e. a spectacular debacle
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by tomgp 6y ago
I thought that book was great, it's on my must-have-ready-access shelf. As an overview of the perils of misunderstanding statistical uncertainty and how it manifests it's second to none. HOWEVER in spite of the title the actual ad
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by tomgp 6y ago
Yeah some of the best, most creative and insightful developers I know have virtually no social media presence beyond git hub and a dormant twitter accounts
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by tomgp 6y ago
My guess is the latter. There are several woods and parks around where I live in Harringey that are showing no trees on the map
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by tomgp 6y ago
Where do these terms and figures come from? I’ve never heard them terms before but it’s an interesting framework with which to think about different peoples experiences with UIs. it strikes me that most people probably exist in both categor
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by tomgp 7y ago
The question is; sub 1sec for who? A lot of people aren’t going to be loading that page over the same quality of network connection as your average hacker news reader. Many’s the time I’ve cursed web developers when I’ve been on a train try
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by tomgp 7y ago
> 4:00pm – 7:00pm Dinner with wife & friends Do people really eat dinner at this time on the weekend? What about on weekdays; you have 30 mins to 'hang out with wife' then it's meditation and algorithm practice till be
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by tomgp 7y ago
Yeah, I used a windows phone for 18 months. There were some fantastic ideas in there and when it worked well it felt like the right way to do things BUT: in practice It was a mixed bag, where the back button would take you at any given mome
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by tomgp 7y ago
This really scratches and itch for me. I've felt similarly about RSS readers, they kind of work but as you point out most news feeds privilege the most voluminous posters at everyone else's expense. Love it.
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by tomgp 7y ago
Abysmally poor? Wow! I love Stapledon’s writing, the opening sentences of Starmaker are up right there amongst my favourite opening passages. Sure, if you’re looking for plot or characters look elsewhere but for sheer poetry Stpledon has fe
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by tomgp 7y ago
It's got England and Scotland but no Wales :(
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by tomgp 7y ago
Agreed, Observable fixes a lot of the problems I've had with other notebooks. It can still be fiddly for code over a certain size/ complexity but the ability to import from npm modules goes a long way to fixing the problem. The us
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by tomgp 7y ago
For illustration the iPad pro is my go-to production device.
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by tomgp 7y ago
Spot on. I've been using an iPad Pro for 3 years now I use it every day and I love it but I still can't reliably get two apps to sit side-by side on the screen.
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by tomgp 7y ago
Tangential: Reading to my children has been one of the unexpected joys of raising them, the oldest is now ten and I still typically read to her for 30-45 minutes a night. It gives me a chance to revisit books I enjoyed decades ago and compa
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by tomgp 7y ago
We used a similar setup to co-ordinate a project team split between New York and London. At both locations, at the end of the row of desks, we had a monitor at about head height on a stand running a google hangout. You could immediately see
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by tomgp 7y ago
"the average value of the work you and your peers do"... minus whtever the bosses feel they can cream off the top.
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by tomgp 7y ago
Kudos! I love the simple style and mechanics, I haven't played much but will give it a proper go when I get home.
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The future of my games on Apple and what this means for art games(nathalielawhead.com)
211 points by tomgp 7y ago|259 comments
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by tomgp 7y ago
Looking at the report I don't really understand where your scepticism comes from there really does appear to have been a 36% reduction in NO2 readings over the period under consideration, an acceleration of an existing trend which the
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by tomgp 7y ago
There's speculation that this some yew trees may be of similar age to Methuselah, notably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llangernyw_Yew & http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/taysi
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by tomgp 7y ago
So glad this site still exists. I've used it 3 or 4 times over the last 20 years and it just does what i need it to with no fuss.
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by tomgp 7y ago
yeah, I haven't read much Bukowski but what I have is often characterised by a distinct lack of empathy. Especially for women.
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by tomgp 7y ago
I have a similar set of experiences but have a feeling that it's at least partly down to the sheer number of people writing Javascript and the very public nature of much of that code that so much of it is a mess. I don't think the
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by tomgp 7y ago
This chimes with my experience after 2 years of React dev I like it, it's fine, but on most projects I haven't really needed it and have found the tooling overhead can become quite onerous. Right now, for me, the main reason for c
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Google Walkout Organiser Leaves Google(medium.com)
3 points by tomgp 7y ago|0 comments
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by tomgp 7y ago
on this site... https://www.shipmap.org "You can see movements of the global merchant fleet over the course of 2012, overlaid on a bathymetric map."
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by tomgp 7y ago
When they started making editorial decisions about which videos to promote and to whom -albeit via an automated process.
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by tomgp 7y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head. Having recently finished reading Natash Dow Schüll's excellent _Addiction By Design_ it's startling to read this take on where ethical responsibility lies; it's startlingly simila

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