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by jumblesale 11y ago
It's a really great read and did a lot to inform my approach to writing all kinds of software. It's a shame that I cringe to recommend in now due to the politics of its author.
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by jumblesale 12y ago
Brum did not have a song.
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by jumblesale 12y ago
This must be amazing to have inspired so many people to sign up about the same time this got posted and share their brief opinions on how cool it looks.
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by jumblesale 12y ago
Are you still in London?
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CrnklR is hiring(refectoryofajumblesale.wordpress.com)
1 points by jumblesale 13y ago|0 comments
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UK intelligence and security committee to review legality of PRISM(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by jumblesale 13y ago|1 comments
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by jumblesale 13y ago
It's ok because it's legal. It's legal because we've made laws allowing it. I hope they find time soon to get round to addressing if it's ethical, or if the people want it.
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by jumblesale 13y ago
July 13, 2012 A few of us kicked and shouted about this when this was proposed. If you'd like an example of how this is being abused, El Reg has a good article from 2009: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/1
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by jumblesale 13y ago
I don't remember but did the BBC run the story on TV? I don't remember it being discussed but I might not have seen the news that day. My point was that none of the other papers picked this up. There's been a lot of talk onli
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by jumblesale 13y ago
It's staggering that there's no discussion on this. I remember seeing the newspapers on the day Snowden broke the stuff about GCHQ. The Grauniad was indignant; nobody else even touched the story. Why aren't the government bei
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by jumblesale 13y ago
This is a little condescending. I live frugally but have spent the money I've saved on a house for my family to live in. I've contracted the last year to be able to afford to travel around the world next month. "You can enjoy
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by jumblesale 13y ago
Snowden said some unwise things in his past? Well that definitely makes it ok for the government to spy on me! Seriously Ars? You don't feel it's a little ironic to be raking through his communications like this?
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by jumblesale 13y ago
Mehran Karimi Nasseri's story is often misreported - he was free to leave the airport for a long time but was prevented from doing so by suspected mental illness. His eventual hospitalization finally removed him from the terminal build
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by jumblesale 13y ago
Really depends on the type of phone interview I think. If it's really basic HR, do-you-fit, core competency stuff then no, I don't think it makes sense to replace the phone interview. If it's a technical assessment then maybe
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by jumblesale 13y ago
This is really great, Wendy's a total hero, it's inspiring to see democracy producing some good results right now. But surely filibusters generally are a really terrible system. Had it been the other way round and another politici
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by jumblesale 13y ago
"To protect our liberty, it is essential that we root out these threats by any means necessary; and if the Constitution gets in the way, let’s ignore it — just for a bit — until we can get the problem squared away. Then things can get
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by jumblesale 13y ago
This is the main topic of Graham Greene's excellent Our Man in Havana. I doubt much has changed in the competency stakes between then and now.
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by jumblesale 13y ago
Merkel isn't exactly a proponent of digital privacy[1][2]. It's unbelievable that the government of a country where the Stasi were operating in living memory aren't incensed by this. If anyone's interested in a film sh
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by jumblesale 13y ago
It's disappointing that the reaction to PRISM outside the US has not been one of fury. Non-US citizens have been hit worse by this but nobody in the mainstream European political landscape is making any noise about it. Is it because th
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Python-ish Decorators in PHP(refectoryofajumblesale.wordpress.com)
1 points by jumblesale 13y ago|0 comments
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by jumblesale 13y ago
That's really bleak. I wonder what kind of disease can kill you in 30 days but otherwise leave you well enough to write and travel? It doesn't sound like he has a history of anything. Does anyone have any experience with this kind of thing
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by jumblesale 13y ago
I live in London.
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by jumblesale 13y ago
Very well written article, I always enjoy reading stuff from the intersection of writers and coders. What I found startling was how different my experience has been to that of the author's at the start of the article. I've put up with some
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by jumblesale 13y ago
This is really beautiful and an effective advert for blooki.st. Doesn't look like this has appeared on HN before[1] but apparently it's been created by a couple of Slovenian entrepreneurs[2]. So far as I can tell it's all sitting on top of
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by jumblesale 13y ago
Good point, thanks for the reply.
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by jumblesale 13y ago
Genuinely interested: how would it be more usable if the buttons remained clickable after they'd been clicked? If you lost your connection, wouldn't you expect some kind of error? In that case how would it be more usable to be able to click
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by jumblesale 13y ago
Yeah, that clock is more than just an inaccurate way of telling the time, it's an iconic image from the BBC's history.
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by jumblesale 13y ago
This is really cool! The only thing that makes it a little ugly for me is that when I click on it, my browser puts an ugly grey box around the text like I'm selecting it. Could this be solved by immediately changing the focus of the input?
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by jumblesale 13y ago
We shouldn't write maintainable code because the idioms might not seem fashionable at some point in the future? Never mind that code is read way more than it's written and that maintenance costs way more than development. Building up massiv
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by jumblesale 13y ago
This is a really cool idea. I like how it plays on the idea of NT properties being boring fusty places where you go for rubbish school trips. I don't know if it's a function of age but I'm actually quite excited about visiting a National Tr

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