andyjenn

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by andyjenn 3y ago
Try reading just the Grand Inquisitor chapter and see what you think.
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by andyjenn 5y ago
There are almost constant rule changes around the tackle laws, the breakdown and de-powering the scrum to reduce the amount of potential head trauma, but the professional era it's like an arms race. Even padding and head-gear, players
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by andyjenn 6y ago
I've not heard it before. I was an Application"s" DBA for several years, but this was specifically for Oracle's ERP suite of business applications. The role mixed straight DBA responsibilities with middleware and busines
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Nuclear Fusion Project, Iter begins assembly(theguardian.com)
73 points by andyjenn 6y ago|31 comments
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by andyjenn 8y ago
https://www.tssa.org.uk/en/Your-union/your-workplace/employm...
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by andyjenn 9y ago
It's the 4 engines which gives airlines A380/747 fuel cost problems. Both fulfil relatively niche markets and are gradually being displaced by the more-efficient and flexible twin-engine A350/787 types. We're just starti
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by andyjenn 10y ago
Same. Very interesting reading events as described in the theguardian.com and then its foxnews.com equivalent.
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by andyjenn 10y ago
Holidays are a lot more relaxing and refreshing without the constant thought you're wasting money. Although, this does take a while to sink in.
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by andyjenn 13y ago
The US ExIm bank also provides billions in either direct loans or loan guarantees to foreign companies; this keeps the export market artificially high and effectively subsidises non-US operators and lessors too.
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by andyjenn 13y ago
This is implemented over Ku-band by Row44... http://new.row44.com/faq/
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by andyjenn 14y ago
Define funny
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by andyjenn 14y ago
I'm flying to SF the next day for Startup School.. could be all HN'd out by the end of the weekend..anyone else going?
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by andyjenn 14y ago
Something I've wondered, presumably for several hundred years, Ptolemy's observations could be thought of as the standard model, and consistently day after day, year after year, the sun rose in the east and set in the west to 5 or 6 sigma e
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by andyjenn 14y ago
Do your accounts, chase invoices, quarterly returns etc.. pay her a salary reduces corp. tax liability and enfranchises her into your startup.. it's working out for us both.. so far
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by andyjenn 14y ago
I remember the "Wow!", when I discovered the AUTO command!
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by andyjenn 15y ago
"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." - Dostoyevsky.
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by andyjenn 15y ago
"Patrick founded Auctomatic and joined Y Combinator as a Winter 2007 company. Its path would not last long. At the age of 19 and ten months after incorporating, the company was bought by Live Current Media for $5MM where Patrick became the
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by andyjenn 15y ago
Never realised Larry Wall was a Young Ones fan.
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by andyjenn 15y ago
Thanks for the notice, will watch that tonight. Sounds like an example of mediocre journalism picking up on well worn themes: brilliant outcast genius, untimely death and potential riches lost, extrapolated and simplified. As an aside, and
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by andyjenn 15y ago
I watched that sketch with my wife and in-laws when I first started working from home... I think my silence was deafening
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by andyjenn 15y ago
I started on the training for the 2008 race, however after 2 sessions, the Global Challenge business folded due to lack of a headline sponsor (it had previously been BT). In your training manual the first page has the perfect quote.. "Ther
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by andyjenn 15y ago
"I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I wasted” - George Best
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by andyjenn 15y ago
...funny, I kept on thinking of the line in WarGames when WOPR says the only way to win is not to play.
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by andyjenn 16y ago
I went on a rugby tour there from UK around the time of the last foot 'n mouth outbreak... australian immigration were very concerned of the mud on our team's rugby boots so they cleaned all 26 pairs! I'd never played with such spotless (an
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by andyjenn 16y ago
I think it's called a "Berliner"....
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by andyjenn 16y ago
My dad was involved in the network architecture of ATMs/cashpoints for UK banks in the 80s.. not sure if this ever happened, but there was an urban myth of some early installations where one ATM was distributing 200 pounds no matter what wa
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by andyjenn 16y ago
...an infinite loop, so no chance of answering correctly - C.
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by andyjenn 16y ago
Agreed. This chap http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_Eady needs sorting also...
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by andyjenn 16y ago
"If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster and treat those two Impostors just the same" - Kipling.
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by andyjenn 17y ago
Interesting post, thanks. However if, like me, you'd never heard that phrase before - http://detavio.wordpress.com/2009/05/21/did-you-move-the-nee...

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