cally

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by cally 5y ago
I have many problems with google as a company, but as a product, google search is fantastic. To say it's shit is a huge, huge, huge over-reaction.
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by cally 6y ago
"I’m one of a few that saw the power of RSS, which is now coming back in the shape of podcasts" I don't think the rise of podcasts is massively due to RSS. I think it's because of the low cost / high creativity bal
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by cally 6y ago
I wonder what would have happened if the allies had screwed Belgium over and not advanced to protect it. As well as the crazy political situation in France, their army was also far too top heavy and old, and relied on ww1 era comms. I saw
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by cally 6y ago
True. Most likely he was well educated and taught skills that enhanced his ability to work hard in a stable enviroment.
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by cally 7y ago
Average salary for a tube driver is £55k. Here's what TFL say; “The average base pay of a Tube driver is £55,011. The overwhelming majority earned total remuneration – including base pay, overtime, employer pension contributions and
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by cally 7y ago
I've worked remote for 5 years. In my case it's not flexible. I think if I was a pure developer it would be, but I have to be avaiable for requests/customer calls etc same as I would be in the office
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by cally 7y ago
I don't use wordpress/yoast so am probably wrong. But I don't think splashscreens on shareware is 'ugly', I think it's fair enough. In some instances - such as Sublime Text - I am amazed at how discreet it i
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by cally 7y ago
shout out to the other gen xers out there ignored by every generation before or since.
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by cally 7y ago
really? I mean, I get the aircraft carrier examples above but I reckon most business have internet access now. I reckon (in the UK) loads of one man bands run everything off their phones. They're probably more likely to have access
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by cally 7y ago
Yeah, but surely the vast vast majority of dropbox's business has to come from PCs. Given how hard (and wrongly) they are pushing to be a collaborative space for work documents, I think I must be correct about this. I know it's