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by arctangent 6y ago
Julian Jaynes' book is of course relevant. [1] Further to that, I've read on several occasions about lone survivors of disasters who report encountering a person who wasn't there who helped them to survive. The most common I&
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by arctangent 6y ago
> So we need to be on call continuously, 24/7, meaning we can't ever be off the grid or unavailable? The well-established solution to 24/7 availability is to operate a shift pattern.
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by arctangent 6y ago
The excellent novel "Snow Crash" was directly inspired by "The Origin of Consciousness": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash
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by arctangent 6y ago
Fred Brooks said [1] that there are two types of complexity, accidental and essential. While accidental complexity can be reduced the theory is that the essential complexity cannot. "Accidental complexity relates to problems which engi
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by arctangent 6y ago
> where we compete for votes and the top comment haha I don't think this is the reason most people post here.
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by arctangent 6y ago
Apparently it is Chinese internet slang meaning: "If you can do it, then you go and do it. If you can’t do it, then don’t criticise others." via: http://www.chinesetimeschool.com/zh-cn/articles/chinese-in
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by arctangent 6y ago
While OODA is an interesting and increasingly popular concept, it is really only useful when applied to very short intervals of time. You can and should expect that an opponent with "a reasonable amount" of time will make the corr
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by arctangent 7y ago
This is why we have release management processes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release_management
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by arctangent 7y ago
I can't view the video but since Pinker is mentioned in other comments I assume it is a summary of this (not yet read) book on my bookshelf: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur...
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by arctangent 7y ago
I don't know for sure but I strongly suspect that Pratchett was heavily influenced by Operation Black Buck: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Black_Buck In particular, this diagram from that page makes the p
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by arctangent 7y ago
While I recognise the valid points made elsewhere in this discussion about this guy’s luck and/or cheating, I can’t help wonder about how we would react differently to an AI “oracle” that gave useful solutions to problems we can’t &#x2
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by arctangent 7y ago
Cold weather causes more deaths than warm weather. See for example: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/30/excess-winte...
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by arctangent 7y ago
For the benefit of some below, the design shown in the news article is only a concept image [1]. The final design will be revealed nearer the time the new note is issued. [1] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2019&#x
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by arctangent 8y ago
This is a very difficult question to answer comprehensively because our "website" does a lot more than just present information to people! Most of the content you can see on www.nhs.uk is Python/Django/Wagtail plus a who
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by arctangent 8y ago
I'm the tech lead for the NHS website (www.nhs.uk) and I oversee the team who are building this frontend library. With respect, I think you fail to appreciate the importance of effective communication of health and care information to
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by arctangent 8y ago
I'm the tech lead for the NHS website (www.nhs.uk) and I oversee the team who are building this frontend library. Your comment is a good explanation of how things work. My employer, NHS Digital, is working on this frontend library as a
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by arctangent 8y ago
I'm the tech lead for the NHS website (www.nhs.uk) and I oversee the team who are building this frontend library. I largely agree with what you have written above, however things work very differently now in NHS Digital. Every piece of
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by arctangent 8y ago
I'm the tech lead for the NHS website (www.nhs.uk) and I oversee the team who are building this frontend library. I'll be making sure we remove our jQuery dependency when I can. For now the team is simply aiming to get to an MVP t
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by arctangent 8y ago
I'm the tech lead for the NHS website (www.nhs.uk) and I oversee the team who are building this frontend library. I will pass on your comments about RSS to our architect (who gets to decide these things). We do syndicate all of our con
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by arctangent 8y ago
I'm the tech lead for the NHS website (www.nhs.uk) and I oversee the team who are building this frontend library. I'll be making sure we remove our jQuery dependency when I can. For now the team is simply aiming to get to an MVP t
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by arctangent 8y ago
I'm the tech lead for the NHS website (www.nhs.uk) and I oversee the team who are building this frontend library. NHS Digital are working on a "Standards Library" encompassing how to go about building healthcare websites and
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by arctangent 8y ago
I'm the tech lead for the NHS website (www.nhs.uk) and I oversee the team who are building this frontend library. We have a full-time and fully-staffed team comprising developers, designers, user researchers, product/project manag
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by arctangent 8y ago
We syndicate our content in a different way: https://developer.api.nhs.uk/
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by arctangent 8y ago
www.nhs.uk/news exists specifically to debunk false health claims (I'm tech lead for this site)
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by arctangent 9y ago
This happened to me too, so I'm in the process of switching back to Apple Music. I scrobble to last.fm so I can still get decent recommendations over there.
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by arctangent 9y ago
A good rule of thumb is that a Django "app" should be (1) standalone and (2) reusable. If you were to write a Django project to automate some complicated internal process at your particular company, it's likely that you'
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by arctangent 9y ago
Yes, there's a whole universe of them. Here's a good place to start looking for things to help make development easier: https://djangopackages.org/
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by arctangent 9y ago
You've caught a lot of flak for your statement. With the knowledge I have now it would easy for me to say "and rightly so", but I think I can understand where you're coming from. Django didn't always have schema mig
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by arctangent 9y ago
So much hate in this thread! @Perihelion: Allow me to be the one who says "thanks for your efforts" and "keep up the good work". My team are using GitLab to manage development and we're happy with how it's goin
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by arctangent 9y ago
My team at NHS Digital is building a replacement for the NHS website [1] in-house. [1] http://www.nhs.uk/

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