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by simpleigh 5y ago
That's not right, I'm afraid - the Underground is usually profitable and subsidises loss-making forms of transport (particularly buses). Here's some high-level, pre-pandemic figures: https://diamondgeezer.blogspot.
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by simpleigh 9y ago
> The point of looking at the monetary value is that it's a way to quantify how unavailable they are. Land costs money. Where land is scarce, it becomes expensive. Where land is abundant, it's cheap. If landing slots can be acq
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by simpleigh 9y ago
I'm a big fan of The Old Reader. The UI is quite similar to Google Reader (as I remember it), and because it's only focussed on feeds it's not cluttered with other functionality. There's even a working Windows Phone app
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by simpleigh 9y ago
"Submit autopsy report" is in the top navigation bar, although it links to an external form service: https://siftery-track.typeform.com/to/n5IT7u .
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by simpleigh 9y ago
If you're a "data controller," then you may be required to register with the local DPA (Data Protection Authority). In the UK, for example [1]: "The Data Protection Act 1998 requires every data controller (eg organisatio
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by simpleigh 10y ago
I don't agree with this strategy. A spare PC under a desk might work perfectly for years without any trouble. Alternatively you might spill coffee over it next week and destroy the server - and your business. If you don't know how
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by simpleigh 11y ago
Clearly it's possible for the Swedish prosecutor to find a means to interview him in the embassy. They could use the telephone. They could use a videoconferencing system. They could get on a plane. Why should they? They have a valid ar
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by simpleigh 11y ago
> The reasons given, that XUL requires maintenance that Mozilla engineers don't enjoy doing, is a joke considering the amount of effort to maintain XUL is less than 1% of the amount of effort to move Firefox to HTML. Ah, but maintai
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by simpleigh 11y ago
Although they don't seem to be in any rush - only 19 of 28 EU countries have joined the Euro according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone .
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by simpleigh 11y ago
Why not just expand the original query? A search for "devise ruby" works pretty well ( https://duckduckgo.com/?q=devise+ruby ). I've long given up searching for trendily-named JavaScript libraries without addin
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by simpleigh 11y ago
A few years ago there was a series of adverts in the UK advertising exactly this danger. You might think you're OK with only a broken nose, but you've just crushed the person in front of you to death. Sorry to sound so melodramati
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by simpleigh 11y ago
Are you sure the button becomes difficult to use? I might be very wrong here, but I'd at least hope that "release easily even when hanging upside down" might be a design requirement of the average safety belt buckle. Perhaps
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by simpleigh 11y ago
I agree with this - the right place to restrict the number of concurrent database queries is the database, not the whole IO layer!
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by simpleigh 12y ago
The article addresses this: > The -F for grep indicates that we are only matching on fixed strings and not doing any fancy regex, and can offer a small speedup, which I did not notice in my testing. I guess grep is probably clever enough
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by simpleigh 12y ago
I agree with this completely. I think the point of all interviews should be to start a conversation - and the sort of broad technical conversation this question inspires is a really good way to see both what candidates know and how they com
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by simpleigh 12y ago
I found sed great for messing around with SVN repository dumps. Delete a few lines here to remove the commit that added a directory... change a few paths to pretend the files in that directory had always been somewhere else... add a few lin
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by simpleigh 12y ago
> Of course I know about HTTP verbs PUT and DELETE and HEAD-- is there really any web dev who doesn't? Yes: I've interviewed some. Very few realise there's any more than GET/PUT/POST/DELETE, which astonished
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by simpleigh 12y ago
Only the other week I managed to mouse-twitch into existence a file that rm refused to remove.
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by simpleigh 12y ago
Personally I much prefer the Bakerloo. The seats are much more comfortable than anything more recent. The Bakerloo is pretty low down the list of an upgrade, apparently. Counter-intuitively this is because the trains need substantial refurb
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by simpleigh 12y ago
Care to share any? Reasons I can think of: Existing automation may be insufficiently good to cope with adverse weather and unplanned situations. Technology has moved on considerably since the Victoria, Central and Jubilee stock. We're
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by simpleigh 12y ago
Communication from CloudFlare to your server is over the open Internet, whereas that from an ELB to an EC2 instance is within Amazon's datacentre.
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Ubuntu Security Notice: The Unity lock screen could be bypassed(ubuntu.com)
1 points by simpleigh 12y ago|0 comments
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by simpleigh 13y ago
It is an option, but not always the best option. I think it was one of the Mars landers where they disabled error detection for landing. If the system reset near the ground then the lander would crash before the controller had rebooted, whe
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by simpleigh 13y ago
But those frequencies don't get to the speaker 'cause the amplifier doesn't send them...
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by simpleigh 13y ago
I've always thought it a nice feature of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer (bear with me here...) that the general confession covers "those things which we ought to have done" before mentioning "those things which we ought
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by simpleigh 13y ago
I'm not a pythonista but would question your recommendation of mod_python - the (current) top post at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6616550 (also on the front page right now) states that "mod_python has bee
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by simpleigh 13y ago
Microsoft have lots of driver issues too: hardware manufacturers build buggy drivers that break Windows. They're making progress on this via WHQL and Windows Logo labelling. Unfortunately it's not obvious that a "Works on Lin
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by simpleigh 13y ago
... and ignoring case obviously gets us down here: ^[a-z]([a-z]+|\d+)@[a-z]+\.[a-z]+$
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by simpleigh 13y ago
I might be wrong, but ISTR that no longer works 'cause RFC822 has been superseded (the new RFC extends the domain of valid addresses). The term "works" is relative of course - I don't suppose anyone actually uses that re
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by simpleigh 13y ago
I don't think it can - the local-part of the original matches as (a letter followed by letters) or (a letter followed by numbers): [A-Za-z]([A-Za-z]+|(?:\d+)) => [A-Za-z]([A-Za-z]+|\d+) Your version doesn't mat

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