SamColes

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by SamColes 7y ago
My wife read this exact article from 2013, purchased a 'Finnish Baby Box' from a private company that makes and exports them from Finland, and our baby slept in it for his first seven or eight months. It actually turns out the ide
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by SamColes 8y ago
There are free to access castle ruins and buildings of a similar age and much older all over the UK, they're hardly in short supply. Maybe you didn't intend it but this comes across as overly pessimistic. It's hardly as if
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by SamColes 8y ago
31 years native. That's the first time I've ever seen someone write 27:00...
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by SamColes 8y ago
It's an opinion piece by a single journalist.
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by SamColes 9y ago
Because in practice it usually makes little difference. Ground rents are often as little as £10 a year.
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by SamColes 9y ago
https://www.gov.uk/marriage-allowance
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by SamColes 9y ago
I turned 30 this year, born 1987, and I had no idea that I missed out on this kind of education by so few years. I remember there were a couple of BBC Micros sat getting dusty in the corners of a couple of classrooms in both my infant (year
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by SamColes 9y ago
TIL: There are fried chicken shop clouds over London.
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by SamColes 9y ago
Try that at 3am and see if the cab driver cares.
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by SamColes 9y ago
Pre-uber I'd take the night bus, as I'm not paying £50 or £60 for a black cab from town to my home. Post uber that same journey is now less than £25 and well worth paying for to avoid the occasional horrors on the night bus.
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by SamColes 12y ago
1) I've never had to use ExpandableListView. ListView I use all the time. 2) Most often, BaseAdapter 3) Both options. XML if I had to pick.
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by SamColes 13y ago
That picture is of Oxford Circus, one of the busiest intersections in the UK. There are very few crossings similar to that one here. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Circus
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by SamColes 13y ago
The problems are greatly exaggerated. I imagine there's little difference to the "fragmentation" problems developing for Windows.
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by SamColes 13y ago
IDEA-57233 Editor font antialising/appearance problems on Linux http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-57233
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by SamColes 13y ago
I find Three has superb coverage throughout London. Elsewhere it's not so good.
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by SamColes 14y ago
He tours the world giving talks and speeches.
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by SamColes 15y ago
Shocking (yet unsurprising) that almost everything I click on is an eldery pedestrian or cyclist, or a motorcyclist.
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by SamColes 15y ago
TWENTY TWO GCSEs? Christ... You didn't go to a comprehensive!
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by SamColes 15y ago
Are OS updates really that important for most consumers? I have a Desire running Froyo. I don't think I've really missed out on a huge amount by not getting Gingerbread.
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by SamColes 15y ago
If your OS version isn't supported, you can't see it in the market or download it.
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by SamColes 15y ago
You have no idea what you're talking about
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Steve Jobs vowed to 'destroy' Android(bbc.co.uk)
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by SamColes 15y ago
> a school that teaches where to find the font choices in Word as part of an English class That's taught in an IT lesson, not English!
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by SamColes 15y ago
I have the same experience (no complaints or problems) using it at home on my Ubuntu machine, also with the OpenJDK. When I tried it recently on my Windows 7 machine at work the autosuggest will regularly lock everything up for about 10 sec
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by SamColes 15y ago
24 yo from London here. That language is completely standard to me. I've been saying awesome with a straight face for as long as I can remember. I'm not sure it's the best way to have made the point.
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by SamColes 15y ago
This is an excellent video that explains it very well - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNu8XDBSn10
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by SamColes 15y ago
Why, The Principality of Sealand, of course.
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by SamColes 15y ago
I prefer the former myself, but I would guess a lot of people would have more trust and faith in the latter.
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by SamColes 15y ago
Similar concept but much more expensive than Graze - http://www.graze.com/
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by SamColes 15y ago
Anyone have a screenshot on OSX for comparison? I'm on Windows and I think the font looks fine...

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