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Lakeland is how wainwright referred to the area in his guides, which is probably the main reason the author is using it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictorial_Guide_to_the_Lake…

Crossrail will eventually (hopefully this year now) make it trivial for you to catch a fast, direct train from shenfield/romford to Bond Street - even today this is a straightforwa…

There is surely a distinction between vintage and timeless, where the first is representative of the time it was written (and may offer relevant insight for today), and the second …

Erm: https://www.gov.uk/search/all?keywords=faq&order=relevance

If anyone is interested in understanding more about art and human perception of art, then this book is as good a starting place as you'll find: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_St…

> DynamoDB Global tables took 4/5 years to be available in Cloudformation. DynamoDB global tables launched in November 2017, it isn't four years old yet. CFN lag is an issue for su…

This piece is based on learnings from working in a government beauracracy but has lessons for any large organisation. https://profserious.substack.com/p/10-things-i-learnt-in-gov..…

The bbc publishes a monthly list of urls removed by google. It is pretty instructive: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/83c19e58-e131-47...

Puzzled by the relationship of SAM and Cloudformation in lambda ecosystem. SAM seemed like an effort to create an open spec for this type of App but looks more and more bespoke to …

> How many people want to buy gold but don't want to have third party trust with an organization that holds gold or have to hold it themselves. How is this different with Bitcoin? …

To be clear, this isn't a news article written by our journalists - it is a piece written by the team themselves that we felt may be of interest to others, and that might help us d…

It's having to look away from the primary activity of getting through the barrier that is the problem. Not sure how this will go down at 8am at Waterloo.

It's not just the accuracy, but the context switch. Apple Pay only works because you don't need to look at your phone to make it work.

If this slows people down going through barriers on the tube there will be barely (but just) contained rage across London

Not tried google home, but Spotify support on the Echo is pretty good - aside from the ability to create an on the go playlist (please add this!) its actually working really well f…

Will be interesting to see how that pans out. If google makes a different search ordering solution for me its ok because i get to choose on the results page, whereas with this its …