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by nicksellen 6y ago
You can try this twitter thread from Kate Raworth https://twitter.com/KateRaworth/status/1239596817463103489
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by nicksellen 6y ago
You're welcome to join our team chat and we can discuss further (send me an email, address in profile, then I can invite you). (most relevant, but dated, PR is https://github.com/Trustroots/trustroots/pull&#x2
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by nicksellen 6y ago
The open source bit allows the ultimate step of forking the whole project, and that is important to me to be able to do that, but it's not a trivial step at all, and a lot of the usefulness is in the name recognition and the userbase.
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by nicksellen 6y ago
I'm one of the Trustroots contributors, we have an old work-in-progress pull request to import couchsurfing data ( https://github.com/Trustroots/trustroots/pull/1086 ), but it needs some love. As mentioned
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by nicksellen 6y ago
I'm one of the Trustroots contributors, you're right about the governance topic, we have a do-ocracy approach right now (described a bit at the bottom of https://www.trustroots.org/faq/foundation ). I'm a
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by nicksellen 6y ago
I'm one of the developers working on Trustroots. We're working on references :) I merged this PR yesterday https://github.com/Trustroots/trustroots/pull/1413 , there is a bit more to work out for dis
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by nicksellen 7y ago
> This is the real issue. Governments restrict housing supply for whatever misguided reasons and prices go up, those prices make it a good place to park cash. Government should stop picking winners and losers. Restriction of housing is n
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by nicksellen 10y ago
> the final chord tells you the key That makes it sound like a definitive rule, but it's just a common convention.
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by nicksellen 10y ago
You can extend this argument to banking though: If the U.S. pumps an endless supply of money into Haiti, how could Haitian banks hope to compete with their loan offers?
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by nicksellen 11y ago
it declares jquery as a requirement but doesn't actually use it - https://github.com/gitboard/gitboard/blob/master/src/js/comp...
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by nicksellen 11y ago
> Deaths per 100,000 people is probably the wrong figure to look at to determine the safety (or lack thereof) of driving. Kind of. It's useful to see the per distance and per population figures. You are likely to drive more when you
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by nicksellen 11y ago
The political country I have citizenship in has a name, it's written on my passport - it is not "England". Maybe you can see the problem if I explain it in this way: you can become British (meaning "UK-ish"), but yo
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by nicksellen 11y ago
The full name of the country is "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" - calling it "Great Britain" is just wrong (it excludes Northern Ireland and all other smaller islands). You would also hope an offic
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by nicksellen 11y ago
Use of ES6 classes would have been nice and I'd prefer to work with simple javascript objects to hold data vs rich model objects ( http://foam-framework.github.io/foam/tutorial/2-model/ ). I don't thi
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How to manage private npm modules(nicksellen.co.uk)
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by nicksellen 11y ago
Congratulations for your hard work and achievements :) I presume you know other people with your background that haven't managed to achieve this, do you have any insight into what the differences are? Innate abilities? specific values?
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by nicksellen 11y ago
I tried googling for H2 KVEngine but didn't come up with anything, did you mean http://www.h2database.com/html/mvstore.html perhaps?
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by nicksellen 11y ago
How would you compare and contrast this with http://openhft.net/products/chronicle-queue/ ? (which I knows does a bunch more but seems like it could be used for this purpose too).
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by nicksellen 11y ago
The conclusion is a lot more moderate than the title, the author actually uses dependency injection: While DI has benefits in some circumstances, such as shown in the Copy program, I do not believe in the idea that it automatically provide
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by nicksellen 11y ago
Changing the presentation often involves more than changing the CSS alone. For example, you might have a table of data that you want to change into a bootstrap .row/.col structure. The data itself has not changed, only the presentation
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by nicksellen 11y ago
The idea was approximately that html was the data and css was the presentation. In reality they are quite connected and you have to write the html to support how it will be presented, a change to the presentation often requires a change to