urbanjunkie

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Leap Motion hands-on(youtube.com)
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by urbanjunkie 14y ago
> Depending on what part of the nation you are from, there are places where boys are preferred to girls. Preferred to the extent that female babies are often aborted. Female foeticide has been described by Manmohan Singh as a "national
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by urbanjunkie 14y ago
> The question I would have like Schmidt to answer is this: is Pakistan a country? Given that there is no real agreed definition as to what exactly a country is, it's unlikely that Schmidt could answer that. Also your definitions about
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by urbanjunkie 14y ago
> Corruption is everywhere Of course there is corruption everywhere, but in most countries it's nowhere near as endemic or systematic as it is in Pakistan (and India and China). I can get by in my life here in the UK without needing to
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Satellite Eyes(satelliteeyes.tomtaylor.co.uk)
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by urbanjunkie 14y ago
And for the most part those situations are not ones where the presence of QR codes would be of significant benefit. Note that I think QR codes are great for things like airline tickets or baggage tracking tags.
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by urbanjunkie 14y ago
If the price I have to pay is that people like you think I'm an idiot, I'm sure I'll manage. I am curious though, how do you distinguish between people "talking out loud to their phones", and people talking out loud to other people using th
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by urbanjunkie 14y ago
Here's how the future will be: Long home button press. <beep> "Siri (or Android version, or WP12 version) , search for <whatever the thing is>" <beep> <Here are your search results>
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by urbanjunkie 14y ago
> I understand that the BBC is the voice of the state You understand incorrectly. The BBC is funded by a compulsory license fee, but it's certainly not a communist era Pravda-like entity. Each of the UK's political parties generally thi
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by urbanjunkie 14y ago
Wow, there's a lot of hate for Tracey Emin here, from people who probably know little about her work. All I will say is that I have several of her pencil sketches in my house, and they are poignant, provocative, angry and fragile. To me, th
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by urbanjunkie 14y ago
The text of the original statement is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4115852 This is the version that patio11 is quoting. After this, the shitstorm intensified, and the council leader appeared on Radio 4 to state that this woul
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by urbanjunkie 14y ago
Normally a fair comment, except in this case the school was actually supportive, and it was council officials (unelected local government workers) who imposed the ban. The leader of the council (Roddie McCuish - an elected politician) was i
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by urbanjunkie 14y ago
Roddie McCuish, the leader of the Argyll and Bute council, on Radio 4 has stated the he has "instructed senior officials to withdraw ban" Finally, some common sense.
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Statement on school meals from Argyll and Bute Council | Argyll and Bute Council(argyll-bute.gov.uk)
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by urbanjunkie 14y ago
That might well have been a reasonable compromise, but I disagree that bureaucracies are doomed to failure in situations like this. I absolutely expected them to say they're reconsidered and were prepared to let Veg keep photographing food
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by urbanjunkie 14y ago
For me, the money shots are "we had to act to protect staff from the distress and harm it was causing "In particular, the photographic images uploaded appear to only represent a fraction of the choices available to pupils, so a decision has
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by urbanjunkie 14y ago
And the response from Argyll and Bute http://www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/news/2012/jun/statement-school... Argyll and Bute Council wholly refutes the unwarranted attacks on its schools catering service which culminated in national press headl
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by urbanjunkie 14y ago
It almost certainly wasn't 'politicians' - just overzealous local council officers. And instead of using a poor secondary source, why not link to Veg's blog post - http://neverseconds.blogspot.co.uk/2012/06/goodbye.html ?
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by urbanjunkie 14y ago
That's how I first heard about her - adorable. An utterly bizarre and idiotic decision by Argyll and Bute council to stop her taking photos of her food and essentially stop her blogging.
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Local government bans a 9 year old girl from blogging about school lunches.(neverseconds.blogspot.co.uk)
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A Cloud of My Own (Pinboard Blog)(blog.pinboard.in)
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by urbanjunkie 14y ago
Why would he be going to prison in Singapore? Is he known for breaking laws? It's also amusing that you denigrate Singapore for their "numerous and extremely punitive criminal laws" when the incarceration rate in Singapore is roughly a thir
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by urbanjunkie 14y ago
I assume that this means that versioning of CSS / JS files now works - one of the problems I've experienced with Cloudfront is updating files that don't normally change very often (eg CSS). As Cloudfront doesn't support query strings, chang
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Nick Carr: Pay Up, Yochai Benkler(roughtype.com)
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Bitbucket Links: link bitbucket commits to Jira issues(blog.bitbucket.org)
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A detailed look at BBC's evolving online technology strategy(bbc.co.uk)
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JSON or XML: Just Decide(mnot.net)
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Climbing a Shard of Glass(placehacking.co.uk)
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by urbanjunkie 15y ago
Have you not used any of the Spotify Apps (e.g. MoodAgent, Last.fm, and, of course, sharemyplaylist)? If not, then I highly recommend you do - be interesting to see if the experience changes your opinion. Seems to me that the Spotify API op
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Chris Pirillo’s father tries Windows 8 (fixingwindows8.com)
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