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by treerock 13y ago
Still struggling to figure out why it's so popular. I read the other article[1] on the front page suggesting that the reason for the popularity is that the app works on low end handsets. But then so does SMS. Is the design of WhatsApp
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by treerock 13y ago
As a beginner PHP is still way easier to get started with for Web Development. I can take a new machine, or shared hosting and be pretty confident that I can get a PHP "Hello World" on a web page working. I'm still not sure w
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by treerock 13y ago
Just reminded me of a story about the designer Peter Saville (from the film 24 Hour Party People) Tony Wilson: "You've got the posters? It's the fucking gig!" Peter Saville: "Yeah, I know - it just took ages to get
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by treerock 13y ago
>"Having established that the number of minimum wage workers is small and shrinking, that most minimum wage workers are not poor, and that most of them are young and working their way up the ladder" Except it doesn't. It s
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by treerock 13y ago
I can imagine that conversation. > Well, they can just leave the number blank and we will allow NULL on the database. > No can't have that. Staff are lazy and won't bother entering the number. We must make it mandatory and f
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OpenDesk: a revolution in furniture design - video(theguardian.com)
1 points by treerock 13y ago|0 comments
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by treerock 13y ago
I doubt it. Or I'm going to have some trouble. I reckon a large proportion of people will opt out and I wouldn't be surprised if they try to remove the opt out option in the future.
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by treerock 13y ago
Ironically, my work filters mean I can't access the site. But if it does bypass censorship then it makes a good political point. How much has this cost? How much publicity has it got Cameron? If it can be bypassed without any trouble t
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by treerock 13y ago
[aside] What's going on with the Udacity website? I've tried disabling all script blockers and it still isn't working, half the links do nothing. Even getting what looks like AngularJS code showing on the page. e.g. {{hovere
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by treerock 13y ago
I wonder about the design choice of commencing a week before Christmas.
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by treerock 13y ago
You can do this with bank cards[1][2] in the UK. I've seen them used in Gregg's. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contactless_smart_card [2]: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18265388
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by treerock 13y ago
I did wonder that too. But it looks like fiction. Strangely, can't find any of Miracle Jones' books[1] on Amazon. [1]: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/29497
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by treerock 13y ago
So what is your view on the law? Those with a utilitarian view would probably say that what 'benefits the public' is really the main aim of the legal system. I take it you disagree?
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by treerock 13y ago
Bitcoins can be stored offline, making them as safe as any other possession. How many millions in cash have been stolen in the last week? Jewel theft totals $100 million each year[1]. That doesn't stop people from using cash or buying
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by treerock 13y ago
>If no one will do a job that pays less than $2800 per month, then how will those jobs get done? Then we will have to pay more than $2800 per month (or the job simply won't get done, which isn't necessarily a bad thing).
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by treerock 13y ago
I was curious about this. The grey on white has a ratio[1] of 8.6:1 which should be perfectly fine. The footer, light blue on dark blue, has a ratio of 3.8:1 which fails WCAG. I can read both fairly easily. Contrast ratio maybe not a good m
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by treerock 13y ago
It's behind a paywall, but basically the article is suggesting that the success of House of Cards is down to Netflix's data mining. "In the case of House of Cards, the data signalled that fans of the original BBC series also
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Emmy Awards brings the computer algorithm to Hollywood(thetimes.co.uk)
1 points by treerock 13y ago|1 comments
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by treerock 13y ago
Not a huge leap. Studies suggest that US car dealers regularly practice price discrimination based on race. [1]: http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
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by treerock 13y ago
Not the original commenter, but if you are looking for the intellectual underpinning of conservatism then I'd guess Edmund Burke would be a good start. I'd summarise as 'don't tinker with things you don't fully unde
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by treerock 13y ago
Okay, call me dumb, but I don't get it. I looked up wikipedia, and I still don't get it. What, in economics, is analogous to fermions and quantum state?
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by treerock 13y ago
The article isn't clear on the current copyright status for the song. It was first published in 1918. Copyright for songs published prior to 1978 runs out after 95 years. Therefore it should fall into the public domain this year, regar
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Crowdsourcing: Inventing the question to fit your answer(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by treerock 13y ago|0 comments
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by treerock 13y ago
I'm having a problem with not overriding the browser shortcuts. One of the shortcuts I'm supposed to be learning is shift-ctrl-T, but when I type that in a plugin window opens instead (in this case LastPass). And ctrl-U (soft undo in sublim
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by treerock 13y ago
Here is one example. "A female council boss has been suspended for biting a 24-year-old junior employee so hard that she drew blood through his underwear. "The worker was taken to hospital, after the incident, for a tetanus injection. "A co
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by treerock 13y ago
I would love it if there was a way of testing these things out. I've a sneaking suspicion (based on absolutely no reason) that the company 'full or retards' would outperform the company of nice, respectful people. But the real world is a bi
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by treerock 13y ago
http://eyetap.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/physical-assault-by-mcd... Not Google Glass, but similar.
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by treerock 13y ago
if you took it too far the entire human race would die out.
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by treerock 13y ago
You'd be hard pushed to find a buttery actually made of butter these days. Even the local bakers are using vegetable oil and fat. Still, they are beautiful, flaky rolls of salty tastiness.
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by treerock 13y ago
He says on hackerNews with it's 9pt text and 8pt headings.

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