Jamiecon

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by Jamiecon 13y ago
I think that the tax break the article is talking about is the fact that in the UK, if your 'main residence' is elsewhere, you only pay income tax on your UK earnings. That's different to the US where (I believe) citizens a
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by Jamiecon 13y ago
It's a straightforward way to tax people who have homes that are worth a lot of money. Not entirely the same as being rich. What if you live in one of the leafier parts of the east end, where only 30 years ago you could buy a house on
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UK to create new cyber defence force
1 points by Jamiecon 13y ago|0 comments
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by Jamiecon 13y ago
IMO, war is nowhere near as clinical as it would need to be for remote controlled tanks, helicopters and other vehicles to be effective. I've just finished reading Generation Kill for the second time - I highly recommend it for an id
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by Jamiecon 13y ago
This was my favourite Reader replacement. I suppose losing it serves me right for not donating earlier!
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by Jamiecon 13y ago
Problem with SNI is that you lose IE users on XP. In the UK at least, that means entire organisations with thousands of employees such as Lloyds bank and the NHS. According to our stats anyway.
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by Jamiecon 13y ago
To be perfectly frank it was a throwaway comment - I was being facetious. I don't consider accusing someone of naivete to be particularly pejorative but if you are offended on his behalf, I suppose I would qualify the comment by saying he s
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by Jamiecon 13y ago
Scoble - enthusiastic about everything , always all-in, naive, friendly, innocent, perfect teeth, health obsessed self-publicist Paxman - cynical, jaded, sarcastic, hates politicians for a living, lives on tea, coffee and cereal* This is l
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by Jamiecon 13y ago
For those visiting London (or who live here), I highly recommend a visit to Greenwich. There are several museums, including one at the Royal Observatory, a planetarium, a brewery that sells its own creations at the naval college and a huge
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by Jamiecon 13y ago
I actually remember first using this by dialling 2580 about 10 years ago. At the time it felt truly magical.
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by Jamiecon 13y ago
Nottingham, United Kingdom - full time, on site See Tickets ( http://www.seetickets.com ) are a stable, profitable and technology focused online ticket retailer covering the entire live events market in the UK and select events across Europ
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
Not to defend the indefensible, but why not make a couple of discussion points... If you have a huge application and a high staff turnover you want to minimise the amount of information in your developers' heads. Strictly architected code c
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
> well, you've been fired from the company you worked for for 5 years, but hey, at least you have fresh drinking water I'm not sure whether it's my brain, or 'me' that's saying it, but this is pretty much what I tell myself every time s
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
Agreed. I love Tesla. I'm really excited by what they're doing, and have nothing but admiration for Elon Musk. However, Top Gear have made their reputation winding people up. He was being pretty touchy by responding. Here's what I posted at
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
I haven't downvoted you, but I would hazard a guess that the reason for the downvotes as at least partially due to the combative nature of your tone. As to your point, I have no idea about the legalities, but it seems to me that if law enfo
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
Economist articles have no byline as editorial policy. Can't comment on the rest of your points.
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
Just wanted to add my thanks for a great product. We are a pro license holder where I work, I believe. Not sure if this was your point, but I assume that you are using a lot of MSI and Windows API hooks, in which case this is a great exampl
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
What's the point of having open, published standards if you only have one implementation? You might ask, what's the point of having more than one rendering engine implementation, but look what happened with IE6. Edit: Fixed formatting and r
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
Difficult to disagree I must admit, but what do you think happens to their web stack in your future?
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
Yes I do, although in fairness my experience has been that Verisign and Thawte at least will ring the number you provide at some stage. I guess they also do a Companies House[0] lookup in the UK as they request related details IIRC. What's
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
I have been a paying GAFYD user for ~ two years and wasn't even aware there was an 'account PIN'! I fear for most people this simple solution may come with the benefit of hindsight.
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
> I think the fundamental problem with noisy people is (...) that they don't have any train of thought to interrupt I must say that this choice of words rather took me aback as well. The problem is, it's difficult to call someone breath
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
In fairness, if the parent was referring to online services you are absolutely correct - Google are streets ahead with their data liberation work. Microsoft and Apple are worryingly closed in that area.
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
The huge number of hooks that Windows provides to third party developers is both its blessing and its curse. I highly recommend Raymond Chen's blog for a (often hilarious) description of this world. AFAIK, Windows 8 takes interoperability f
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
I've believed that building a payments platform is the road to riches for Facebook for a long time. They have such a headstart on the fraud and identity issue, and they have both the merchants via FB connect, and the customers (obviously).
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
Where I work, our > 15 year old ticket retail system was developed on a platform called Dataflex [0], which provides a character mode user interface. We have since migrated the datastore from the embedded ISAM database to Postgres, and
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
Would love to see technical detail on this if anyone has a source.
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Nestlé runs GPS-fitted chocolate bars competition(campaignlive.co.uk)
1 points by Jamiecon 14y ago|1 comments
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
Weird that I agree with all three parents at once (no pun intended). Grownups can make their own life choices to some extent, but society everywhere forbids certain behaviours and activities. An OS with a software distribution platform that
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
Anyone that wants to administer HP network gear via a web interface, to pick one example. But yeah, I take your point.

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