anexprogrammer

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by anexprogrammer 8y ago
That is exactly free speech. A right to express an unsavoury view without the system punishing you. Never gave you a right not to be ignored by your neighbours, or not banned from the bar, or not having others nudge their friends to make
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Google collected NHS records of 1.6M patients on “inappropriate legal basis”(arstechnica.co.uk)
4 points by anexprogrammer 9y ago|0 comments
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by anexprogrammer 9y ago
Me, I'd rather emulate a few classic games. But it had me wondering for a while if I'd get any value from this, before deciding "no". I find it interesting that so many of the people making YT videos and in the current A
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by anexprogrammer 9y ago
For those who weren't around, Usenet was built on uucp in the early 80s. As messages were store and forward you had to wait a good while for your messages to propagate - many servers only connected daily! Oh, and better set cron to dia
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Well the luck of finding a place that can deal with a middle-aged apprentice means I'll be collecting those skills for a while yet! I came across the opportunity whilst looking for options and directions for degrees to drive the career
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
This has come up a few times!... I left because I was utterly sick of churn, NIH, and the endless succession of this week's magic (javascript framework etc) bullet. OK. It's different. It's almost never better. Also felt
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
> Hmm, this donut's a bit stale, I'm not prepared to pay anything for it thanks Mr.Tesco. You go to the customer service desk, say "This doughnut is stale" show your receipt along with the partly eaten doughnut, then
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
The Amiga kernel and Intuition (the GUI). Partly because it was just so damn clean and intuitive. Equivalent Windows apps were an order of magnitude larger, but seemed to offer less. Partly because each was almost entirely the work of one -
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
In the case of Google, and to a lesser extent Microsoft, I don't have enough trust they'll keep their offering around to ever start using and relying on it. Google and to a slightly lesser degree Microsoft have horrible histories
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
..and despite the Readme implying it may not be stable yet and it being prerelease I've found it flawless for the 2 or 3 weeks I've been happily running it!
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
To start I'm probably outside the usual IoT demographic - it mostly doesn't deliver what I'd like. I looked at your campaign and thought it interesting, but didn't back it. Here's some entirely personal thoughts, ma
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Well there's been several pretty negative pieces on the Guardian front page in the last month. OK they're left of centre, so will undoubtedly have a view on the sexism aspect of recent events, but it's not been just those asp
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
I've seen a few large, well-known places downgrade candidates from certain places by dint of ability or technology stack in use. Or to be honest, just plain prejudice. So they'd be less likely to get interviewed in the first place
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Before it was FB/Internet/Phone games, it was TV, so we're perhaps just continuing further down a well worn path. See Roger Water's underrated Amused to Death album or the book that inspired it Neil Postman's Amusin
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Hah. We got rid of the tv a decade or more ago. Though being pretentious wasn't part of the decision. :)
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
...and how much steel goes into your typical 50 or 60,000 ton oil rig? They're mostly steel after all. Given we're starting from nearly all fossil of course fossil fuel needs to burn to do just about anything. So long as there is
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Surprisingly the Daily Mail has a much more extensive write up of the vehicle and drone [0], along with plenty of photos. Normally I'd avoid linking to the Mail! Jag's SVO group does some remarkable vehicles from the gorgeous F-Ty
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
> So? Millions of users do want it, judging from the huge popularity of Dropbox Yet just about everyone uses local FS with cloud for backup or sharing of a small subset. Giving us an odd cloud first strategy seems more suited for a phone
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Did you ever hear of a man losing his job, or getting ill, then shortly after his wife leaving? It's quite common. It's very much both sex's perspective of role. Clichéd it may be, but there's a truth behind women pref
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Except no. Plastic milk containers and bottles have to be thoroughly washed before recycling as the plastic is incredibly easy to corrupt with contaminants. Every roadside recycling scheme I've been a part of has required all tins, bot
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
There's been a number of pieces that bread prices, or water, can be indicators of likely conflict. It's also revealing that so many regimes subsidise wheat prices. Try this [0] Mother Jones piece on "Bread Prices, A Measure o
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‘Shell knew’: oil giant's 1991 film warned of climate change danger(theguardian.com)
8 points by anexprogrammer 10y ago|1 comments
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Mozilla is growing, experimenting more, and can acquire startups. Mozilla doesn't have the resources to continue with Thunderbird. I am increasingly baffled by their decisions and how they relate to the strategic plans [0] they've
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Sometime in the 80s or 90s there was interest in introducing the same as plastic was starting to be used for more bottles. From memory it was very popular with the public at the time. Nothing ever came of it, so presumably the Thatcher govt
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
We're still asking the wrong question. The frustrating thing is we were doing miles better in the 80s, even though to be evironmentally aware then meant you were thought of as some sort of hippie or anarchist type. Lots of supermarkets
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Personally I yearn for a dumb-ish phone. That's as much due to form-factor as features. Essentially the entire market is candy bar touch sensitive, sealed battery and so on. I can't be unique in wanting something that's not a
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Quite. The smell was strong from the very first announcement. Didn't stop the media proudly telling us how wonderful and flexible this was. Frankly the whole thing stank and you can be fairly sure the navy wanted cats. Sandy Woodward a
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
That is hilarious and depressing in equal measure. One of the much trumpeted features of the QE class is they were going to be modular and upgradable to cats and traps for little cost. When new govt tried to exercise that option turns out t
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by anexprogrammer 10y ago
Chile had a key role in helping out the Brits in the Falklands. The US, or more specifically Reagan, offered Thatcher use of a carrier or two if one of ours was lost. Supposedly it was going to be navy to navy with as little involvement of
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Two words, Mozilla: SPEED NOW Quit fiddling and get serious(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by anexprogrammer 10y ago|0 comments

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