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by anomie 3y ago
This feels very disingenuous - seems reasonably clear that the activity apple is concerned about is encouraging people to agree to meet strangers while committing in advance to bringing large amounts of cash.
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by anomie 4y ago
Went out for a meal with my 77-year old father last week and as always he brings a magnifying glass and flashlight as the restaurant lighting is too dim and menus too small almost universally for people with poor eyesight. He’s pretty tech
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by anomie 4y ago
The UK equivalent has just announced it’s closing down for many of the reasons people comment here - https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2022/07/12/why-weve-decided-to-decom...
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by anomie 5y ago
Are they being humiliated though? Feels like they get lots of press when announcing this kind of stuff which sits well with some target part of the electorate, then when the whole thing gets abandoned it happens with almost no attention. Th
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by anomie 6y ago
The Uk is making decent progress on this already. I live in a London suburb and there’s been a huge rollout of charging points already - within a few hundred meters of my flat there are at least 6 high voltage charging points. There’s also
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by anomie 10y ago
> I'm somewhat indifferent on the issue; I reckon leaving will send a signal about reforming the EU ... Do I think that's worth the hassle of actually leaving? Pretty marginal. It's this which upsets me as someone in favou
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Performance Testing Results of Adaptive Media Streaming Over HTTP/2(bbc.co.uk)
46 points by anomie 11y ago|4 comments
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by anomie 11y ago
I've found the authors proposed approach at the end of the article to be a very useful one, even if you're not using TDD. A very regular piece of advice I give to new developers is "breadth-first not depth-first" - i.e.
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by anomie 11y ago
Speaking personally, I voted lib dem in 2010 on the basis that they were a party broadly of the left, but distinct from the Labour party of the time in a number of positive ways. To then form a coalition with the party of the right and supp
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by anomie 12y ago
When my grandparents died and we sold their house (in the uk) we had some builders in to tidy up some stuff and they discovered that in a big part of the house the earth was actually wired to live in the sockets. They'd lived with it f
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by anomie 12y ago
http://pleasingfungus.com/Manufactoria/ is another great game along the same lines
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by anomie 12y ago
We've been using a similar tool ( https://github.com/BBC-News/wraith ) for a little while now and it's transformed our way of working - 50 page layouts x 5 responsive breakpoints verified with a high degree of
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by anomie 12y ago
When I read the title I assumed it was an article about the unfairness of the education system, and the whole-life impact of an assessment carried out at an arbitrary point in your 18th year. Perhaps that's an even more pernicious exam
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by anomie 13y ago
I used to worry about this too, but finally concluded that me not understanding it was in and of itself grounds for rejecting that review. 90% of the time well structured code (and tests, and good comments, etc etc) should be enough on thei
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by anomie 13y ago
My father was a surveyor in the city of London who worked on new office construction. He used to tell me how back in the days of nationalised phone service the first thing you did when you were building a new office building, before you'd e