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vermooten··on Terry Davis Confirmation: Man killed by train had tech following
Thank you :)
vermooten··on Yahoo, Bucking Industry, Scans Emails for Data to Sell Advertisers
Does anyone still use yahoo for email? It's a place where spam goes to die.
vermooten··on Can zoos be redesigned for a more ethical generation?
yes, by closing them down and returning the animals to where they belong
vermooten··on The mysterious heart of the Roland TR-808 drum machine
Not available in UK.
vermooten··on Supreme Court Rules Police Need Warrant to Track Your Cellphone
... in the US.
vermooten··on The Manchester Baby was the first stored-program computer
I think we're each alumnus of UoM, as a group we are alumni.
vermooten··on An amateur investigator's hunt for the Zodiac killer
He spoiled The Pledge for me.
vermooten··on Be likeable or get fired
All I see here is: I

I did this. I did that.

Not much mention of the team as whole. Author tells us he's cleverer than the team, and how weird! they don't like it. I hope the lesson learned is to put your ego to one side when working in a team.

vermooten··on Wizard for Mac – new kind of statistics program
no screenshots?
vermooten··on The Agile Fluency Model
I've had a downer on Scrum for a long time - and yes I'm a Scrum Master - but this article has crystalised my thinking. Also the site someone posted below with a profame name - awesome. Enough already jeez.
vermooten··on The Stack Overflow Age
Remember when the url made it look like Expert Sexchange? :)
vermooten··on Vintage Cassettes: 1963-2010
+1 not sure why they bothered, they're hardly Getty Images material.
vermooten··on Debt Collection Companies Have Hijacked the Justice System
Debt collection companies in the US have hijacked ....
vermooten··on Ian Knot
Poor Ian, bless 'im.
vermooten··on The Quorn revolution: the rise of ultra-processed fake meat
+1, much tastier than quorn - and meat.
vermooten··on Cognitive training helps regain a younger-working brain
I downloaded the app in the hope of getting back my fizz from my 20s .... but it just seems to be a timer.
vermooten··on Britain's Next Megaproject: A Coast-To-Coast Forest
Yep, looks like they plan to plant trees in the Dales too WTF. I can't see *why& they're doing it. (I'm naturally suspicious of anything a Tory govt would do something which, on the surface, seems pretty cool.)
vermooten··on From inboxing to thought showers: how business bullshit took over
cones
vermooten··on [dead]
heh heh me too the irony was delicious.
vermooten··on Dock-less bike share is ready to take over U.S. cities
Mobike didn't work too well in Manchester hoo boy: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/16/manche...
vermooten··on Show HN: Discover, Listen and Discuss Classical Music
Great idea, will keep looking in on it for content. Thanks OP!
vermooten··on How to respond when you are asked for an estimate?
I don't do estimates any more but I use forecasting. Like the weather, it's an idea of what might happen given what we know now. I once laughed in a job interview when the interviewer said that they expect 'accurate estimates'.
vermooten··on Neil Young’s online music archive is here, and it’s fucking incredible
+1 it's superb. Some of the songs not available here eg Hey Hey My My or whatever it's called. But still, awesome.
vermooten··on Show HN: iOS music player, like a virtual record collection
Do people still listen to 'albums'?
vermooten··on Documenting the Web together
Are they still pushing Edge?
vermooten··on A successful Git branching model (2010)
mabbo you are right, it's how we do it and it's hyper-efficient. Last place I worked used OP's model it worked ok but wasn't as efficient.
vermooten··on New and improved bike routing, with low stress options
Why's it better than ridewithgps, which is superb?
vermooten··on Safari Should Display Favicons in Its Tabs
This is the single reason I don't use Safari.
vermooten··on [dead]
tl;dr

Step 1: make a really good video

Step 2: make it go viral

vermooten··on Why Capitalism Is Just Shitbag Science
Bravo!
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