tommorris

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by tommorris 10y ago
Also, doctors who specialise in hearing loss (given the volume we pump into our ears to block out the noise in open plan offices), as well as pharmaceutical companies making any drugs that deal with increases in stress (another fun side-eff
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by tommorris 10y ago
A much better paper came out last year that used tweets from Deepak Chopra and quotes from a random "new age wisdom" generator. PDF: http://journal.sjdm.org/15/15923a/jdm15923a.pdf And there's some
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by tommorris 10y ago
Summary: phpMyAdmin but written in ASP.NET/C# and supporting actually good databases.
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by tommorris 10y ago
Once done with that, Wikipedia kinda has a backlog too... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Backlog
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by tommorris 10y ago
Buzzword compliance and never being able to remove private information.
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by tommorris 10y ago
> I absolutely agree with that and the fact that fighting death is so low on social priorities is something that boggles my mind. Really? Because the amount of money put into researching how to cure life-threatening diseases, as well as
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by tommorris 10y ago
The only real change in the last few years is when Kier Starmer, then Director of Public Prosecution (now a Labour MP), released a set of guidelines on what criteria are used to decide whether to bring a prosecution in a case of assisted dy
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by tommorris 10y ago
Quite a lot. One example: WhatsApp is one of the primary messaging services used in Brazil, with something like half the population using it. The vast majority of which don't speak any languages other than Portuguese. When the courts i
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by tommorris 11y ago
The not-so-funny refutation. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Quick_Response_c...
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by tommorris 11y ago
Or it's just a message to his friends and colleagues that's not intended for wider distribution. Just a little public blip of "hey, I'm not at this company anymore, but I still exist and I'm doing something new&quot
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by tommorris 11y ago
Here in the UK, one advantage to using a credit card (even if you don't need credit) or a charge card is that the Consumer Credit Act 1974 gives you a whole bunch of extra consumer protections that you wouldn't get if you paid cas
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by tommorris 11y ago
> I'm not sure why some people find open office plans so unpleasant. Funnily enough, I recently outlined the reasons here (applicable specifically to those with hearing loss as well as everybody else), with reference to a whole rang
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by tommorris 11y ago
How about "the experiment failed, your idea was a good hypothesis, better luck next time"? Instead of "you suck at SQL", how about "you should probably read up on the difference between GIN and GIST indexes in Postg
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by tommorris 11y ago
I believe the current answer to that is to make vague promises about how the vapourware known as the Lightning Network will solve all the problems.
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by tommorris 11y ago
I use my iPhone to collect data for OpenStreetMap. If you ever find yourself in London using an OSM-based map, some chunk of it will likely have been created using my pointless silly Facebook twit-machine.
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by tommorris 11y ago
Yeah, before the smartphone, all photography was serious. Nobody wandered around with a 35mm compact taking photos of their friends and family and holidays in Disneyland. Everyone was trying to make great works of art with their cameras.
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by tommorris 11y ago
Better email the Smithsonian and tell them to take all that photography out of the American Art Museum. Ansel Adams was merely under the illusion that he was creating something, but it was just an annoying act of self-delusion. Photography
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by tommorris 11y ago
Apple would rather be profitable on 10% market share than unprofitable on a 90% market share.
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by tommorris 11y ago
The point of a lot of tef's writing and speaking isn't that he's a bad programmer, but that he is tearing a large hole in people who claim to be great programmers. tef is actually a pretty good programmer; good enough Heroku
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by tommorris 11y ago
Could do, but you'd still have to validate it.
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by tommorris 11y ago
Schema.org RDFa isn't hidden. JSON-LD in a script tag is but that's equivalently goofy. "stems from another way of thinking about metadata"? Nope. It was a clumsy hack because they actually just wanted to put the <rdf
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by tommorris 11y ago
It is wholly pointless. It is virtually never parsed as RDF. RDF-in-HTML-comments is a horrible antipattern that has no use in the RDF community outside of the weird legacy use case of Trackback. It is hidden metadata (which can and does br
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by tommorris 11y ago
It isn't in the HTML specification. It is a W3C Working Draft. W3C isn't just HTML: they also publish the specifications for CSS, ARIA, XML, XSLT, XQuery, XProc, RDF, SVG, WOFF and so on. Some of which (like the XML-related stuff)
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by tommorris 11y ago
Here's one simple thing: really good SQL export. I can imagine using this as a way to get users to build simple prototypes. They can chuck data at it for a few weeks, then hand the data off to developers to build a first cut of a web a
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by tommorris 11y ago
Slack is classic "shadow IT". It isn't introduced or managed by IT. It is introduced by users. If IT departments were in charge of Slack, you'd have to have seven layers of managerial interference before you could open a
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by tommorris 11y ago
> another incarnation of IRC chat bots, email listservs, and stuff that's been around forever as commodity autoresponders, only now it's worth millions in investments to write the equivalent of a weekend hack IRC bot because of
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by tommorris 11y ago
There's also Bitcoin mining equipment for sale in BTC. Because it isn't a ponzi scheme at all.
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by tommorris 11y ago
It isn't there for 11 months of the year.
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by tommorris 11y ago
Transport for London is a publicly-owned non-profit. They tend to make decisions that are in the long term interest of the city's transport users rather than improving quarterly profits...
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by tommorris 11y ago
Transport for London really take it to the limit with contactless. You scan a contactless card and they do a £1 authorisation the first time you use it (on Amex at least, I've heard it is different on other card networks). They then to

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