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by nvn1 17y ago
Perhaps I should embark on a start-up that sells strengthened chambers capable of withstanding explosives to replace traditional seating that the attendants lock you in before take-off. EDIT: Or redesign the seating layout to turn the cabin
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by nvn1 17y ago
'Listening to her Dutch friends, she assumed that Americans were fat, loutish, naive and sexually repressed. “But then I came here and found it was all false,” she smiles.' So very true. The same would apply to British attitudes towards the
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by nvn1 17y ago
Neither can I. EDIT: Doh! I wasn't clicking on myself first. Never underestimate the stupidity of users.
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by nvn1 17y ago
Not sure how accurate it is but I enjoyed Thirteen Days: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0146309/ Fog of War also features the subject and is excellent: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0317910/ EDIT: Falcon and the Snowman is also great and it'
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by nvn1 17y ago
It's more of a 'link-bait-and-switch' title.
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by nvn1 17y ago
' while the more educated ones come up with elaborate rationalizations' - one or all of which might be correct?
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by nvn1 17y ago
Seriously, it ain't that bad! But I wouldn't complain about an update if you feel so inclined :)
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by nvn1 17y ago
Thanks, that's a great appraisal of the two and sums up most of what I've read so far nicely.
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by nvn1 17y ago
I thought it was a recent fork of the project - I stand corrected. Kohana certainly does look good. I'm just getting to grips with CI now. Authentication has been a matter of bolting on a 3rd party library. Would you recommend a switch to K
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by nvn1 17y ago
That's based on Codeigniter, right? How do the two compare?
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by nvn1 17y ago
Coming from having done a Bioinformatics PhD and Post-Doc, I reckon getting in touch speculatively with people in Bioinformatics should work. You might get a lot of knock-backs but there's definitely a need for people with IT skills and a g
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by nvn1 17y ago
Wow, the economist link just gave me a 503 error with a 'Guru Meditation' message. Not something I would have expected from that site. It actually made me chuckle. Error 503 Service Unavailable Service Unavailable Guru Meditation: XID: 1498
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by nvn1 17y ago
At the risk of getting downmodded because people disagree with me, it's hackneyed dull crap. Hey, my opinion's as valid as yours, right?
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by nvn1 17y ago
Is there an equivalent library for PHP? It might save me a lot of time.
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by nvn1 17y ago
The Bladerunner soundtrack has worked wonders for focusing my mind since about the age of 15. Gastr del Sol's Camoufleur LP also performed admirably during my arduous PhD write-up.
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by nvn1 17y ago
Thanks. I also found this whilst hunting around, which I found utterly fascinating: http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2002/sep/22/featuresre...
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by nvn1 17y ago
Thanks, I'll check these out.
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Ask HN: Best software for schematics/diagrams?
5 points by nvn1 17y ago|5 comments
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by nvn1 17y ago
Could you elaborate about the 'business revelations'? I'm really intrigued.
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by nvn1 17y ago
Perhaps the causes or whatever drives people to be religious or criminal are not the same? Perhaps removing criminals from British society was enough to 'reform' a lot of them.The puritans chose to go to the US, I believe. If we had sent al
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The Hidden Cost of IPhone Apps(theappleblog.com)
2 points by nvn1 17y ago|0 comments
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by nvn1 17y ago
I wouldn't be happy if, say, objections to an unpopular scientific theory were simply expressed by scientists down-voting and burying it. Unless the idea's completely insane or facetious, I'd want them to respond to it with a measured discu