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"To build world class software, we need everyone to be inside this building."
Developer: *Installs 9 trillion packages written outside this building"
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Just turned on breakfast news half way through a feature on a new Pixar film about a furious toby jug that comes to life and can’t find its way back to a mythical kingdom and then I realised it was just Mark Francois interview.
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The final vote on the EU #CopyrightDirective is happening THIS WEEK!
Dozens of MEPs are undecided on how to vote on the EU's disastrous #CopyrightDirective. Here's how to call them now, and how to tell them to delete #Article11 and #Article13! saveyourinternet.eu
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Please retweet if you think @DailyMailUK should sack Michael Gove’s wife for this incendiary and irresponsible tweet xitter.gq/westminsterwag/status/…
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“We want to be innovative! Teach us how!
But first go through 90 hours and 7000 steps to get set up in our procurement system.” - Large Companies
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Jacob Rees Mogg any day now on @BBCr4today : "Other planets much closer to earth than so-called experts make out", "all aliens will be keen to do trade deals with UK", "All life forms understand English if spoken loudly enough"
Harrumphries: "Fascinating. Come back tomorrow "
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“If I get deported to Jamaica it’s a ten-year-ban before I can come and see my children again,”he said. “They will be in their late teens.
“The home office said to me you can bring your children up by Skype. That’s totally outrageous.
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So @QuinnyPig noted that from the US, Googling for "how to tell if you're running docker" brings up a suicide prevention web site as the first result. The *really* weird thing, though, is if you do it from the UK you get the NHS equivalent(!)
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I love this thread 🦅 🐦 🦉
Last April I was recovering from one of the worst bouts of depression I'd ever had. I could barely move, my thoughts were dangerously dark & I was unable to work or enjoy anything.
Before I became ill I had read an academic article from @UniofExeter about how seeing birds...
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It’s also only a fraction of the financial cost and hassle. Before we can even BEGIN the process we need to get her new biometric ID. And that’s aside from the sheer immorality of asking someone who’s lived here half a century to apply to stay in their own home.
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The guy at the next table goes like
"OK Google. Call my mum."
And MY phone calls MY mum and they call it artificial intelligence ffs. – at Camden Town, London
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If you are a man who is upset about the Gillette commercial, you should smile more. You are so much prettier when you smile.
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This is why techy 'solutions' for ageing and emergency care scare me. This one went out of business and this poor woman probably died thinking someone had been called.
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NHS starting salaries:
Nurse £23.0k
Paramedic £23.0k
Midwife £23.0k
Junior doctor £27.1k
Radiographer £23.0k
Healthcare assistant £17.5k
Physiotherapist £23.0k
Dietician £23.0k
Occupational therapist £23.0k
Are you actually *trying* to destroy the NHS, @sajidjavid?
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- turns on Attenborough’s Dynasties to get a break from British politics
- watches as two packs of same family of wild dogs gets embroiled in civil war, while beset by hyenas and crocodiles
- sighs
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The replies to this quite restore one’s faith in humanity.
Have you experienced a petty crime in London? Click to tell us your story.
(Your submission may be selected for publication.) nyti.ms/2RWvCGF
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We're hiring a technical lead at @LocalWelcome. We're both a startup and a charity helping refugees. Classic scaling and membership challenges. Tiny team. Huge energy. Funding in place. Opportunities like this are rare - you should apply :) localwelcome.org/blog/2018/1…