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by willyt 14y ago
Navigational accuracy? Do we still need accurate time to compute longitude relative to a point on earth?
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by willyt 14y ago
You are forgetting the negative effect of the ridiculous ranking systems that determine teachers performance evaluations. Why would a school select software which will make thier grades go down? If your grades go down it decimates the schoo
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by willyt 14y ago
Honest question; I havent tried to script xl or word for years. What is this doing that I couldn't do with IronPython or IronRuby?
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by willyt 14y ago
Why not show the result in real time as you adjust the sliders? You can still show the preview off to one side or whatever. It would help develop a tighter iterative loop for experimenting and save the cognitive overhead of trying to rememb
845.
by willyt 14y ago
This couch doesn't have drop shadows and an unnecessary 'loading' animation, metaphorically speaking. This article is a great description of the product of what good designers do. It's cheap to manufacture. Easily deployed and assembled.
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by willyt 14y ago
London has a massive affordable housing shortage. London councils are moving tenants to other cities because of new government limits on state aid for rent payments[1] Earning £35K, expect to spend about 2/3rds of your salary on rent. A 1 o
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by willyt 14y ago
I think there is a statutory requirement for an arbitration clause in UK construction contracts.
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by willyt 14y ago
I use soulver instead of calculator. It's sweet.
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by willyt 14y ago
The bigger problem in my mind is that so many of our prime ministers and other government ministers come from a very select elite background. But then America has this problem too, even though there is supposedly no class system in the US.
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by willyt 14y ago
What can they sell me based on the fact that I just liked someones wedding photo / baby picture / witty comment? I like my friends businesses and other local peoples businesses on Facebook because I want them to do well. I've never gone on
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by willyt 14y ago
Yes, there is a lot more techno 'theatre' in the '69 photo. Obviously it's low tech compared to now but it looks more dramatic. People will be launching rockets from the conference room of the Cape Canaveral Holiday Inn in 10 years time ;-)
852.
by willyt 14y ago
'69 looks more futuristic somehow.
853.
by willyt 14y ago
Civil liberties covers more than just tracking. The UK police are a lot more likely to automatically fine you for speeding or for forgetting to pay you vehicle tax. But on the plus side, they are a lot less likely to shoot you if they come
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by willyt 14y ago
You are assuming that the person being shot deserves it. UK police shot about 5 people a year. I can think of at least 3 instances where this was totally unnecessary. I.e. drunk man with table leg in his backpack which was mistaken for a sa
855.
by willyt 14y ago
I always seem to lose data connection just when I really need it with google maps on iOS. The whole data everywhere thing works great in big mostly flat low density cities like LA but it doesn't seem to work so well in London and barely wor
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by willyt 15y ago
Yes but just giving examples of shit design doesn't make all design shit. Read Eric Gill on typography or look at an Edward Tufte book and you will understand how much design has gone into books over the ages. One of the ways you can tell w
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by willyt 15y ago
Yes it is, but people only understand model numbers if it's something they take a deep interest in. I'm into smart phones and computers so I know how the naming conventions work. But, I don't know or care about the naming conventions for th
858.
by willyt 15y ago
Oh. That wasn't popular, why? My thinking was that, say, a successful headteacher could stand for a place on a national committee which decides education policy. Which would lead to an elected committee of experts deciding education policy.
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by willyt 15y ago
Perhaps to would be better to split governments up into areas of expertise. Foreign and Diplomatic. Health and social services. Transport. Justice and policing. Each has it's own remit and representatives from each region. They meet in a fo
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by willyt 15y ago
Maybe its different here, but I've been ordering from RS in the uk for years as a private entity. The site is targeted at B2B and makes it seem like you have to be a company but actually you don't really. I think I just put in n/a or someth
861.
by willyt 15y ago
Well just hijack a regional Canadian/Mexican/Whatever flight then.
862.
by willyt 15y ago
In England and Wales your door layout needs to comply with these regulations: Part B Fire safety: http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/br/AD_B_v1_wm.pdf http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/uploads/br/AD_B_v2_wm.pdf The actual regulatio
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by willyt 15y ago
I think he was making the point that you are fighting against psychology with your approach to pricing.
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by willyt 15y ago
Meta comment: This is a perfect hacker news submission. I started reading hacker news because of articles like this.
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by willyt 15y ago
It alerts you if you have typed stuff and try to go back
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by willyt 15y ago
Roundabouts typically take up a bit more room. You would need to cut chamfers off (demolish and rebuild) the corners of buildings at junctions to make enough room for a roundabout that's more efficient than traffic lights.
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by willyt 15y ago
Go to film festivals; Sundance, Cannes, Venice, etc talk to young directors/producers making shorts. They know lots about how to run a production. Hollywood is insanely inefficient. For $2m a shot you could throw away 49 out of every 50 fil
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by willyt 15y ago
Did you mean you spend less time on reading one liners? Yes me too, but there are lots of one liners now and not so many well written comments. Regarding your second point. At the scale of HN now, I think we have to consider people not as i
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by willyt 15y ago
I've noticed this with my comments too. My hypothesis is that if a person wants to optimise comments for upvotes, they need to be quick one liners because the discussion and therefore the eyeballs move on very quickly. If you write a high q
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by willyt 15y ago
There was plenty of research behind introducing bendy buses. The main argument being that they transit the route faster overall because they have a much shorter dwell time at stops. The introduction of bendy buses was a rational evidence ba

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