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by jgranby 10y ago
A nice thought, but I think that, in reality, those counties' leaders' overriding loyalty will be to staying in the EU. Look at David Cameron's stance throughout the run-up to the Brexit--he'd never have undermined the E
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by jgranby 10y ago
Some pictures of London coal plates here: https://twitter.com/hashtag/opercula?src=hash They gained some brief national attention in Britain (at least among those who follow politics) when Jeremy Corbyn was revealed to
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by jgranby 10y ago
The other one I'm reminded of is Tic-tac, the bookmakers' sign language that John McCririck helped to bring to popular attention on Channel 4 Racing in the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tic-tac
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by jgranby 10y ago
Exactly -- the latest major release is Darwin 15 (corresponding to OS X El Capitan / 10.11). I'd love to see this (or a similar) project succeed and remain relevant, but it just seems to be falling further and further behind the o
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by jgranby 13y ago
Not quite. Comprehensive (non-selective) schools are the norm and have been for many years. Grammar schools only remain in very few areas, where the local authority has chosen to keep them. For the majority of the country, there isn't
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by jgranby 13y ago
'Remembering' as in 'bearing in mind' rather than 'looking back nostalgically' (i.e. as in 'remember to look both ways before you cross the road'). My first instinct on seeing the title was the same a
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by jgranby 13y ago
Serious options: Aeropress or Hario V60 drip filter (or similar -- Chemex, &c.), and a good hand-grinder. I use Hario's skeleton/skerton. Does anyone know of any services similar to Tonx that will ship to England?
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by jgranby 14y ago
Congratulations. From an idea to an App Store app in 2 weeks is very impressive, but it's 10x more impressive given that you were learning along the way. Simple question, though: what's the story behind the Metro article? Your story is inte
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by jgranby 14y ago
Here's a sound guide: http://www.booksatoz.com/witsend/tea/orwell.htm
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by jgranby 14y ago
The analogy went some way to showing how the argument based on there being "no direct competition" is a fallacy. I find it very hard to believe that MS hasn't had a good look at Apple's OS X pricing strategy before making this move. It migh
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by jgranby 15y ago
The whole app feels like an imitation of a Mac app. Most obviously on 10.7, the window chrome is wrong. Other small things like incorrect and wrongly sized fonts inside controls, or the whole menu bar disappearing when you use an extension
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by jgranby 15y ago
I wonder whether this latest proposed redesign will finally have Firefox behaving like, y'know, a native OS X app, or whether it'll be just as shallow as all previous efforts.
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by jgranby 15y ago
+1 Herzog. His latest 'documentary', Cave of Forgotten Dreams, is wonderful.
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by jgranby 15y ago
In this case, Australia is a common law country. Its legal heritage is English, not civil/Roman.
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by jgranby 15y ago
Pretty easy, and superficially appealing, but I find that there must surely be exceptions to a rule such as this. Nuclear weapons (and similarly, some chemical weapons) are the obvious special case. Edit: reminded reading a comment below th
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by jgranby 15y ago
If you want to be pernickety, 'alternative vote' is also a misnomer: the word 'alternative' comes from the Latin 'alter', which means 'the other of two [options]'. There are more than two voting systems, so AV is incorrect as a name, at lea
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by jgranby 16y ago
The "constitutional" aspect (if there is one) isn't the issue, though. The issue is whether I, you, or anyone else, wants a web host that takes down web sites it disapproves of. A web host can take down websites for misusing apostrophes, if
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by jgranby 16y ago
Indeed, and this trend also seems to prefer large-ish font sizes.
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by jgranby 16y ago
Don't make him self-conscious.
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by jgranby 16y ago
Sparkle (the update framework) uses WebKit, so everything that uses Sparkle links against it.
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by jgranby 16y ago
It seems to be. He has more photos of her on his blog, too: http://stellerphoto.com/blog/archives/207 And revenues of $200 million for the company who puts the pages up! http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/16/business/fi-demand16
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by jgranby 16y ago
The most interesting part for me was the link to the stock photo of the girl on all the expired domains. I wonder if she knows that her photo is everywhere.
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by jgranby 16y ago
http://daringfireball.net/2008/11/treating_url_protocol_sche...
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by jgranby 16y ago
OmniWeb 5.10.2 sneaky peek (v622.11 r128512): 113 (not in the rakaz.nl list)
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by jgranby 17y ago
Not necessarily. The idea that higher education should be organised with all the best professors &c. in one place, and students come from all around to a centralised place of learning, isn't crazy at all. And, as gfodor pointed out, tho
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by jgranby 17y ago
Whereas the BBC displays no bias whatsoever with respect to AGW. Do you seriously think that the article you linked to doesn't have its own (pretty obvious) agenda?
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by jgranby 17y ago
I quite like the iPhone's compromise: it stores and indexes the most recent 50 or so messages, and when searching provides a "Continue search on server" button. Thunderbird (or others) could have a larger store of recent messages, but this
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by jgranby 17y ago
A couple rely on hypothetical hardware features and so really belong on an iPhone feature wish-list. Nevertheless, I thought there were some good ideas.
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by jgranby 17y ago
So, you wouldn't buy a copy and yet you claim others have never read it? My parents buy it, so I've read it fairly often at their house, but, no, I wouldn't buy it myself. So yes, I have read it on many occasions, while most of those who
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by jgranby 17y ago
"Attention grabbing"? It's a tabloid paper. That's what tabloid papers are for. As for "wildly inaccurate", it simply has quite a strong bias, but so do lots of papers. The Guardian is no less partisan. I wouldn't buy a copy of the Mail, bu

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