pauljburke

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by pauljburke 6y ago
I don't follow medical tech religiously but read the original article and thought it relevant (I have a friend that actually has both conditions and the treatment for it is brutal). Looks like I have more to read up on, thanks!
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by pauljburke 6y ago
Wonder what impact that could eventually have on people with Sickle Cell or Beta thalassemia (or the rare case that hits the genetic jackpot and has both).
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by pauljburke 7y ago
It's really not. There were people long retired before I hit the workplace and I'm fast approaching 50. There is a combination of seemingly relentless growth in demand and people deciding they've had enough and hitting the m
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by pauljburke 8y ago
http://www.dirtydicks.co.uk/ Bishopsgate, nearest tube is Liverpool Street. Mind your head there are some low beams in there.
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by pauljburke 8y ago
http://www.fantasyliterature.com/author-interviews/jim-butch... technically two bad ideas.
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by pauljburke 12y ago
I was working at a university in the UK and got to see Mosaic in 93(I think, it was a very early beta). I said to the main sysadmin "It's very pretty, but it will never replace gopher". He still reminds me of that fact occa
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by pauljburke 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton's_fork
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by pauljburke 13y ago
I think the NSA would know if that was the case and be able to pass that information along.
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by pauljburke 13y ago
>As an aside: don't forget the largest major anti-condom propagandists is not African at all (ie, the Catholic church). That would be the curch that also goes on about abstinence before marriage and monogamy afterwards? Never under
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by pauljburke 13y ago
Ballmer a visionary founder? That's wrong on at least two counts out of a possible three.
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by pauljburke 13y ago
A machine with an NVidia Titan card is top end? I'd have said overkill. I'm not sure why you'd want that for a gaming rig over a GTX780.
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by pauljburke 13y ago
Please let it include DocBook.
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by pauljburke 13y ago
You actually expanded it into something that by definition is less succinct.
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by pauljburke 13y ago
It's even funnier if you google the name of the MP in question and include the name Stemcor. This interview was particularly entertaining. http://www.channel4.com/news/margaret-hodge-tax-affairs-stem...
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by pauljburke 13y ago
It's entirely possible for her to be sarcastic about it after the fact while recognising that's what she's done.
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by pauljburke 13y ago
>> What makes you think she was naive about it? Actually I read the line "I forget that Disney's goal is to make money without concern for integrity. Silly me." as implying exactly that.
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by pauljburke 13y ago
I was just thinking I know quite a few runners that would want this option.
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by pauljburke 14y ago
I'm sure they gave the client a discount to reflect that. 2,083% does seem a little low. I started out in a consultancy that did the same sort of things. There's only so many times you can bill more than your annual salary every month an
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by pauljburke 14y ago
"I've spent 25 years studying excessive video game playing," he said Certainly sounds like someone has a problem
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by pauljburke 14y ago
Funnily enough I finally picked up clash of clans because a guy in the office kept pestering me to give it a go. It's very nicely put together and I can't remember the last time someone in the office harassed me into picking up a game. Pa
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by pauljburke 14y ago
" for engineering managers the comprehensive knowledge of the code base and engineering team is usually more important and difficult to acquire than knowledge of how to run scalable engineering organizations" I know many people who can get
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by pauljburke 14y ago
I'm aware this is not adding much to the discussion but I couldn't shift the intro to futurama out of my head while reading the post.
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by pauljburke 14y ago
How do you get to write as well as George Carlin unless you push, practice and get feedback?
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by pauljburke 14y ago
I don't think unhappy is the right word (and even the post doesn't claim the always part) but the first line of Derman's book springs to mind as a partial explanation. "Ambition is a state of permanent dissatisfaction with the present - Ema
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by pauljburke 14y ago
Up until the final clause of that sentence I didn't have a problem with it (well as a blanket statement it is pretty snarky but a touch of monomania combined with massive self belief isn't necessarily a bad thing when running a startup). A
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by pauljburke 14y ago
I always took it as read that it's a charity because of the tax arrangements (i.e. if they didn't benefit from setting it up that way, they wouldn't be a charity at all).
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by pauljburke 14y ago
Self timing toothbrushes are already a thing. I'm sure one that posts it to facebook can't be that far behind (pretty sure there's a market for that actually). I think the real money is in tracking how long people's children brush their t
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by pauljburke 14y ago
>Maybe I lack imagination, but I cannot imagine a plastic piece of junk that need to be tailor-made poorly. I know a bunch of people printing off models of their characters from the game 'City of Heroes' (incidentally if you ever want t
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by pauljburke 14y ago
I have to admit I completely misread that as "FB launches..." and didn't think anything of it, other than that $1 billion was a bit excessive.
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by pauljburke 14y ago
Well if I wasn't in the UK I'd probably use it to save carting the "recruiter" phone around with me as well. Of course, that would probably annoy recruiters but I think I can live with that (I don't mind them calling me in connection to a

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