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by tomgp 6y ago
My partner works for a big accounting firm and when a member of staff wants to leave their people-manager, will if they wish, actively help them find a secondment to another firm (not a competitor). People sometimes want to leave a job and
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Grid display doesn't require you to specify number of rows so you can just delete that from the CSS if you don't want it. Likewise you can generate several differnt grids and put them inside media queries to get the grid to behave
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I'm guessing the BBC journalist and photographer got some free cake, so I guess it just depends on the 'influencer' in question.
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yes, that is the assumption, but I couldn't find anywhere in the paper that they controll for time as suggested by the upthread posts -- I admit to only skimming it though.
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A tangent, and somewhat philosophical: is "The primary purpose of software testing" really "to detect any potential defects in a program before it reaches its intended consumers"? I would argue that whilst that is a comm
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The idea that a company which spent $200000 on political lobbying last year[1] is somehow above taking a political stance is utterly laughable. Coinbase is an intensely political company. From where I’m standing this all looks like a move t
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Magical thinking and maintenance. On Excel-gate(medium.com)
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These are really really important points and the fact that Facebook is launching products without solid and convincing answers to these issues is a big worry. This is a fascinating product and potentially of great value but the size and vis
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I really like svelte (returning to react recently after 3 months of svelte felt like a real drag) but you’re right, this article is a mess - I really hope the confusion doesn’t put people of giving it a go.
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Built to Last – Mar Hicks on COBOL(logicmag.io)
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It’s still being projected onto a screen though so you’re still using a projection. There are some pretty extreme trade offs you accept when using a orthographic ‘globe’ projection, not least of which is that you can’t see half the planet f
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That's a good point re the fact that Apple offers the only viable mobile paid software market place. For me it raises the question of whether forcing them via law/regulation to change their model would in practice have the knock o
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Loads of games in the 90s used null modem cable for multiplayer I played I played a bunch of stuff that way on both PC and Amiga. Populous 2 was a big fave but definitely played more than one flight sim that way
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I’m going to blame typing ‘sign of’ instead of ‘sign off’ on autocorrect.
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I once mentioned the rapper xxxtentacion in a text message. Now whenever I sign of an email or text to my wife with an ‘x’ iOS decides that what I actually meant to do was write ‘xxxtentacion’ and I’ve normally pressed send before I notice.
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Also VC backed online therapy providers are mentioned. Are these sustainable businesses (no one knows) and, crucially, if they fail will they do so before they wipe out independent therapists having used their purchasing power to raise ad p
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My guess would be that the average user doesn’t know about AMP or have any opinion about it.
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Journalists like twitter because it allows them to “build a personal brand” i.e. they are less beholden to the publication/broadcaster which they are employed. It allows them a direct line to their audience to promote their work and ne
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The reason why people cut a cross in the base of Brussels sprouts is so they tough part cooks faster so the more delicate leaves don’t go soggy the evil spirits thing is just a nice story
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Yeah, I know that but it the physics and 3d first and the other stuff is optional -- the price of entry is being able to navigate a 3d world with pretty janky physics inside a computer. It's certainly a flexible toolset (though there a
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Yeah, it seems insane to me that the whole thing is predicated on the idea that simulated physics is the best way to play a board-game online. (i guess this is the nature of current game engines, when you have a hammer everything lookslike
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Unity was approachable in its early days. Now it’s a mess , not to say that there aren’t many fantastic games produced using it, but anyone coming to it now is going to find it very hard to get a foothold. Having had a good experience with
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It's a mixed bag. The ideal usecase for Flash vs React is very different. 10 years ago with AS3 I could put together a graphically rich game with decent sound or an intercative graphic very quickly, it would be performant and available
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News papers business is selling ads, that’s Google’s Business too. Google has an advantage over individual publications in that it can track user behaviour across multiple sites. So news outlets have made deals with google to act as brokers
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Crime prediction technology reproduces injustices and causes real harm(medium.com)
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Alison gopnik’s ‘the philosophical baby’ is excellent
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The linearity and randomness aren’t the main problems. Play length and run-away winner are far worse issues. It’s possible to lose the game in the first couple of trips round the board and still have a couple of hours of slowly being ground
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I’d argue the third ‘new’ bubble type is actually the platonic ideal underlying the first two types.
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Users more likely to flag moderate news sources in a bipolar network(blogit.itu.dk)
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I love this idea. I've been jury-rigging this functionality in Affinity designer for a while: I can never remember where particular commands lie in the menu system so I click on the help menu, search and activate from there. If this ca

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