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by grovehaw 2y ago
In the UK guidelines are published by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence. Guidance is available to all in html and pdf formats.[0] [0] https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance
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by grovehaw 6y ago
Dyalog is an APL vendor, they also offer a non-commercial license and high quality documentation. They have a case study of a school management system that is a record keeping system [0]. [0] https://www.dyalog.com/case-stu
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by grovehaw 6y ago
The document was created in Adobe InDesign CS2 (4.0.5). This means all the features you find unappealing are the result of conscious decisions. The strange use of empty pages is due to being a print on paper document governed by the strict
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by grovehaw 7y ago
You don't have to own land to plant trees. The Colne Valley Tree Society has planted more than 300 000 since the mid 60s.[0] It has made a big difference to the quality of life in the area. [0] https://colnevalleytreesociety
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by grovehaw 7y ago
The UK government design system site is a good source for this kind of information [0]. [0] https://design-system.service.gov.uk
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by grovehaw 7y ago
Some people feel at home with APL (A Programming Language) or its descendants. It was first developed by Ken Iverson as a notation to be used on paper for communicating procedures and algorithms. It was the subject of a book published in 19
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by grovehaw 8y ago
Unlike the US which painstakingly separated powers into different branches of government, the UK habit of governance is to fuse powers together. This gives rise to the concept of the King or Queen in Parliament. That is to say absolute auth
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by grovehaw 8y ago
In the UK the definitions have a fair amount of consensus and the loss of productivity is one of the motivations for a range of employers organisations to support this initiative. The UK's Mental Health Foundation gives these figures:
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by grovehaw 8y ago
It is not so much about changing the beliefs of a potential voter as modifying their behaviour. In this case giving them enough of a reason to stay at home rather than vote. As the article states: > During the campaign, Trump used Fa
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by grovehaw 8y ago
You may want to check out Typed Racket as an example of what people can do if they decide they want types in their lisp. [0] [0] https://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/
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by grovehaw 8y ago
One way to use Common Lisp with a more immutable flavour is to use the folio2 library.[0] I have enjoyed exploring it a great deal. The project's readme, explains it better than I can: "folio 2 is a collection of small libraries t
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by grovehaw 8y ago
Ten years earlier a book was published which was a work of sociology based on participant observation, an approach many here would regard as unscientific. It was very much an explanation of behaviour in the real world. Erving Goffman's
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by grovehaw 9y ago
The Potato open source chat platform has a Common Lisp backend and a Clojurescript frontend. There is a fascinating talk by one of the authors on Youtube [0], and the code is on github [1]. A relatively new Web Application Environment calle