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by mdh 8mo ago
Really liked both of these sites. Some great photos on there.
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by mdh 8mo ago
https://ho.dges.online I use it as a digital scrapbook of pictures, projects etc rather than a blog. I clicked on a random sample of the links posted here and really enjoyed seeing the diversity of things people post about and t
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by mdh 1y ago
Working on restoring my late father-in-law's Lambretta scooter that he bought new in 1958 and rode all over Europe with my MIL before storing it away in a garage in the mid-60s. Frame and bodywork are solid and it's mechanically s
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by mdh 2y ago
Sad news. '4 3 2 1' is one of my favourite novels with its variations on a theme of a single person's life. The same character's showing up in each thread but in totally different contexts worked particularly well.
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by mdh 3y ago
Thank you for sharing this. I have nothing but admiration for your resolve to turn your previous experience into a superpower.
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by mdh 3y ago
Thanks for sharing. I enjoyed (and agree with) the 'Photography In Plato's Cave' post.
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by mdh 3y ago
Love this. The colour Seoul series is my favourite, but all of the pictures are really interesting and engaging.
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by mdh 3y ago
https://ho.dges.online Only pictures I made and commonplace book posts. I've tried long-form blogs in the past and just couldn't find a groove that was interesting enough (to me) to pursue. The pictures I've made
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by mdh 4y ago
Go to an art gallery and look at the art. See what you find beautiful, see what you find boring and see what you dislike. Don’t worry about understanding its deeper meaning - just see how you react. If you find something you like, google th
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by mdh 4y ago
IMO, art may have those characteristics - good art will often obviously have >1 of those. Art in its most basic form is anything that engages you beyond a strictly functional level.
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by mdh 4y ago
“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realise how seldom they actually do.” David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest.
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by mdh 5y ago
I love ‘In Our Time’ - it strikes a really good balance between being academic and accessible. The range of topics is so broad too that you find yourself learning about things you didn’t even know you wanted to learn about. For example, scr
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by mdh 6y ago
Very cool. I like that the interface is super simple and it seems to do what it claims to do, both with objects and OCR. It might help to have an explanation somewhere in the app to explain that documents get saved as pdfs and photos as JPE
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Artificial Intelligence – Insanely Complicated, Hopelessly Inadequate(lrb.co.uk)
39 points by mdh 6y ago|15 comments
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by mdh 10y ago
But all sports are bizarre if you boil them down in this way. They all rely on arbitrary limitation of participants or equipment to prevent them descending into a total free-for-all and becoming pointless. Its the same thing as art being ab
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by mdh 10y ago
Agree with this but I would also ask the auditor to be very specific about the risk that she believes your organisation is exposed to. If its a specific concern about the suitability/support of certain tools in use in your infrastructu
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by mdh 16y ago
Have you tried taking control of his perception of your working day? I've had bosses in the past where the only way to manage them and their expectations was to maintain a narrative of what you were up to. Perhaps you could schedule a weekl
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by mdh 16y ago
Its a noble sentiment but i think it does risk creeping out the people the who did download it which would rather defeat the object of the exercise. Why not include a "Thanks to everyone who downloaded v1.0" message in the About screen in t
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by mdh 16y ago
This is assuming that once it's all about glass there isn't anywhere to go... Agreed. Apple has a patent on multi-touch in three dimensions already[1] so maybe the next i-device will move away from the screen and towards a more touchy-fee
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by mdh 16y ago
horses-for-courses i suppose - i find that i quite like everything gathered into the Instapaper 'magazine' just because it tends to gather up that week's articles. Perhaps i just need the discipline of the old content being archived!(you ca
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by mdh 16y ago
The instapaper workflow mentioned in the article is awesome. Instapaper will send articles daily or weekly (to suit your reading habits/desire to avoid the download charge) and the device treats it just like the magazines and newspapers you
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by mdh 16y ago
I'd previously assumed that we just had lazy cleaning staff at the office. now I realise...:-)
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by mdh 16y ago
This can apply up the chain of command as well as down: managing expectations, working within the limitations of an individual's world-view and dealing with the tantrums are all areas where in the past i've found applying the experience o
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by mdh 16y ago
This. My experience with non-geeky friends is that they check facebook for messages and interact with friend/family through comments and wall-posts. Some of them get email notifications for these things but they use them as a prompt to go t
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by mdh 16y ago
Oh. Yes, that would seem blindingly obvious wouldn't it? OK, I'm an idiot (in my defense, i've been awake since before 4am this morning. Be gentle with me). Isn't technology wonderful that our biggest issue is which app we have to launch to
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by mdh 16y ago
(genuine question) don't the wifi/3G draw power? or is your 'weeks' assessment including normal wireless use? Oddly, i feel must less strongly about Amazon's hold over the the platform the Kindle represents than i do about Apple and its hol
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by mdh 16y ago
"Another roof, another proof." - Paul Erdos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Erd%C5%91s
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by mdh 16y ago
Stuff i've learned from having (two) kids: i) Take photos . Its amazing how much your child will change and how things that are front and centre in their/your life will fade when day-day life demands attention. Take as many pictures as you
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by mdh 16y ago
My grandmother's catchphrase to all of her children and grandchildren when they're struggling with their little ones is "You're enjoying this. You really are. You just won't realise it for another 20 years".
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by mdh 16y ago
I'd distinguish between a right and an obligation . If you have something worthwhile to say about Mohammed and his teachings (be it for or against) and a depiction of him will help, go ahead and draw him. If however, you're doing it just

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