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GlenAnderson
14y ago
I don't know what your station is like but my wife and lots of others do this from Bristol to London (~235 mile round trip by road). http://goo.gl/xscqD - image search for Bristol Temple Meads bike rack Fortunately my trip between uni/chi
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14y ago
What would you use instead? LoC isn't a perfect metric but it is very easy to relate to. Given some extra context like the type of application, the size of the company or the age of the codebase one can mentally account for some of the weak
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14y ago
What's worse, in my experience, is when people are unable to provide the necessary information, even when questioned directly, because they don't understand or appreciate the assumptions they've been making.
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14y ago
That's the case - no adverts any of the bbc's television channels or radio stations in the UK. Most broadcasts are available on iPlayer too, always without adverts.
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14y ago
My mother doesn't even know what a VPN is. Even if she did, she wouldn't know how to use one to watch the bbc coverage abroad as a license fee paying UK-citizen.
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Austrian driver allowed 'pastafarian' headgear photo
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That wasn't supposed to be a comment on the material, simply the way it's being presented. This was a discrete mathematics course, don't have time to look it up right now. (edit: Relatives are faffing - here it is: http://www.udacity.com/o
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And if you encounter a term that you missed by skipping the introduction it's easier, with a book, to quickly find where it's defined courtesy of the index.
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udacity has gone too far the other way for me. It seems very slick but I switched off after a couple of minutes because I felt like I was watching a kids tv show.
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I've been watching the lectures for the same course. Having them split into short self-contained videos (~5-15mins) has made it very easy to fit in around university and a toddler. For example, whenever I do the washing up I put my tablet o