mdcurran

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by mdcurran 7mo ago
The US also incurs a toll of $40 for visitors using ESTA.
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by mdcurran 1y ago
'Go put your shoes on' is sensical in British English. If I heard someone saying this, I wouldn't bat an eye.
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by mdcurran 2y ago
I feel embarrassed! Despite being from Glasgow, until now I've never made the connection between the River Kelvin (and the surrounding Kelvingrove and Kelvinbridge), the statue in the park of someone called Baron Kelvin, and the unit o
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by mdcurran 2y ago
This doesn’t totally solve the issue of SELECT’ing first then filtering, but for complex queries I’ve found CTEs very useful (whenever the database/SQL dialect supports it).
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by mdcurran 2y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39762495
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by mdcurran 3y ago
The Times could perhaps be leaning “right”. But the FT is, in my opinion, a legitimately neutral publication. At least through Britain’s default neoliberal lens.
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by mdcurran 3y ago
I visit the British Library often. It's a great place to work if no meetings are on your schedule that day. The library has been noticeably quieter the past few weeks. Perhaps it's the time of year, but many individuals use the li
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The Great War: The WW1 video game that's eerily accurate(bbc.com)
2 points by mdcurran 3y ago|0 comments
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Programmers should stop celebrating incompetence(world.hey.com)
20 points by mdcurran 5y ago|3 comments
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by mdcurran 5y ago
I used the 2nd edition of this textbook in my undergraduate studies extensively (linguistics). Coming from a non-technical background and starting to take technical classes, certain chapters were wonderful ways for me to bridge that gap. Sp
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by mdcurran 7y ago
I think there's a much deeper problem at Scottish Power than just IT systems. I spent close to a year trying to get them to fix an incorrect bill and nobody I talked to had any idea what to do (probably 6 or 7 people across various dep