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by tragic 12y ago
And think about it in the longer term (talking from a Brit perspective here). In ye olden times, when everything was made of wood, people could still go down to their library and look through newspaper archives and find out stuff about what
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by tragic 12y ago
Really? £1.40 will get you from Lewisham to Newington Green if you're prepared to take a bus[1]. By comparison, back in my lovely hometown of Plymouth, a two and half mile bus hop will set you back 3 quid. (Fortunately, the taxis are c
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by tragic 12y ago
I'd completely forgotten about that. Yes, it's a great bit of tourism - very interesting building. On the over-arming of ships going spectacularly wrong, see also the Mary Rose[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by tragic 12y ago
Let me take you round the streets of Shoreditch. Although it's more full beards at the moment than moustaches. Which I, for one, consider an improvement.
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I wouldn't want to work for a start-up that wasn't happy with a box of Micro Chips and a tin of special brew.
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by tragic 12y ago
As others have said: for the time being at least, we have an NHS in this country. See your GP . Tell them you've been having those kind of thoughts. You will be referred to somebody who can help. Reflections on associated issues: Ther
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by tragic 12y ago
As I understand it, if copyrighted material goes up on Youtube as things stand, the copyright holder has the option of either requesting a block/takedown or entering into the ad revenue scheme for a cut of the ad clicks. That choice is
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by tragic 12y ago
I feel there's a little of the old 'liberal Canadian' stereotype slipping in here. Toronto in particular has a very pious history. IIRC, there's one borough of Toronto (around High Park) that was officially dry until the
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by tragic 12y ago
As someone of "the anti-capitalist / left'ish wing ilk", the problem with my dear comrades is often that they get a little bit too excited about things like Twitter, which leads them to forget that a) Twitter's job
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by tragic 12y ago
> Sometimes this can be a good thing but imagine Microsoft would re-arrange all the items in the menu system for ‘Word’ at random and would rename a couple for good measure. Perish the thought!
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by tragic 12y ago
Hell, even Britain - looking around at junior dev jobs at the moment, and the salaries are in the region of £25-30k (ie, $35-45k US). Perfectly livable, of course, even in London (for comparison, the median wage is £20k, or $30k in 're
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by tragic 12y ago
It may be a standard thing for all I know, but I think they nicked the layout from Jeskola Buzz[0], where I cut my teeth many moons ago. Anyone who hasn't tried it should give it a whirl - it's got the hexadecimal-happy vertical s
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It's a nostalgic symbol of the myth of 2,000 years of history. (Although I think in practical terms the earliest anyone even remotely sensible would date the history is the Anglo-Saxon colonisation, ~1500 years ago.) The idea that th
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by tragic 12y ago
London, will consider remote within a couple of timezones, FT Stack: Ruby/Rails, Python/Django, Javascript/Coffeescript/JQuery/Angular. Got the accessory skillset down - Git, XUnit/Rspec, enough bash to get by,
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by tragic 12y ago
Most advice would be jurisdiction specific. General advice: get a good accountant, whose job it is to know stuff like that, and keep apprised of when it changes.
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by tragic 12y ago
To be instrumental about it, English (and the arts/humanities subjects in general) teaches the skill of decision making under conditions of uncertainty: we are required to make inferences on the basis of ambiguous 'data' (a l
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by tragic 12y ago
> If you want the best people working at your company, you should want a group with similar demographics as the customer population, and if you disagree with that, you either believe there is something inherent about certain groups that
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by tragic 12y ago
I'm talking Voodoo 1 here. ;-) Voodoo2 I think was 800x600, but you could push it up to 1024 if you had two chained up with SLI. Of course, when I first got a Voodoo card, it was plugged into a 15" cheapo CRT which couldn't e
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by tragic 12y ago
Like many, I am suspicious of the rather overbearing claims made on behalf of the SPA architecture. I just launched a website. It's a weekly periodical with political analysis, word-count on articles 1500-6000. It needs to carve up the
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by tragic 12y ago
> Nobody talks about duckduckgo because they're search results are better than google's, they talk about them because duckduckgo is all about your privacy. 'Nobody' is such a strong word. http://devblog.avd
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by tragic 12y ago
My abiding memory of the first 3dfx cards - apart from total envy - was that you then had a spate of games that went way overboard on the coloured lighting effects, so whatever you were playing had this acid-fried psychedelia look to it. Fo
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by tragic 12y ago
The best thing Python has going for it is that it's an exceptionally good learning language. It's very easy to go from zero coding experience at all to making a simple hangman type game, and from there introduce OO concepts and so
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by tragic 12y ago
Democracy is rule of the people, by the people, for the people. It entails the subordination of political minorities to political majorities by definition, as majorities represent more of the people. Saying that the people are all well and
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by tragic 12y ago
I mean: I try to get into the BIOS, and I'm asked to enter a password, which I've not been given. Never had this problem with any other computer company. I thought it might just be the dodgy vendor I got it from, but my girlfriend
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It's interesting to see the disparity between the comments here and on the post. Nearly everyone below the line on the post is a Linux refugee that's pitched up on a Mac. Here, not so much. For my part, I have always had a deeply-
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Wait, I have to do more?
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For sibling post: "Turtles all the way down" is a "a jocular expression of the infinite regress problem in cosmology posed by the "unmoved mover" paradox."[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T
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by tragic 12y ago
> Citizens who are concerned about browser standards? I'm having a hard time picturing this. It's hard enough getting developers to care about official standards. Are not the hundreds of people who responded to this thread citi
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Where did I blame Soros? I even own a t-shirt that says "don't hate the player, hate the game."
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Believe me - plenty of us have choice opinions about the Lords. It is difficult to do much about them when you have a duopoly on elected government, and a big part of both parties' power-broking is doling out lordships to a) their form

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