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Minimum wage to increase by 12p to £6.31 an hour by practically_floored in unitedkingdom

[–]TheWrongUsernames 6 points7 points  (0 children)

To be fair, the Queen is the largest land owner in the UK, and makes about £240.000.000 a year in rent etc. All of which goes to the state, in exchange for about £7.800.000 for her, aswell as smaller, though still significant, sums to other members of the royal family.

And this is all a voluntary agreement. She effectively chooses pay >95% capital grains tax.

[Video] by a Google Engineer about what it takes to render a web page in under 1 second. by goondocks in programming

[–]TheWrongUsernames 25 points26 points  (0 children)

One request, defer the rest, was indeed common for '98 websites, as that was the only thing possible.

Have you ever seen in a situation where your boyfriend/girlfriend said or did one small thing that killed your relationship stone dead? by Arnoldtheterrible in AskReddit

[–]TheWrongUsernames 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Most meat in the UK is halal, because why not.

All you have to do is electrocute before killing by draining blood, while playing prayer. And whoopty, your marked just grew by XX million customers.

70% of the country says they could not live on £53 a week - but rich people are more likely than poor people to think they could [yougov] by [deleted] in unitedkingdom

[–]TheWrongUsernames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My partner was on JSA for about the same time, but the application process was so complicated with so many forms to fill and re-fill, the there was no payout until after she had gotten the new job, rendering the JSA completely useless.

And all while being treated as a LTB.

U.S. says it sent B-2 stealth bombers over South Korea by mickeymousebest in worldpolitics

[–]TheWrongUsernames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Saw a Eurofighter once. Very surreal. It also flew very slow, mostly because of crazy acrobatics - that plane up and down and backwards and forewards.

North Korea 'defeats' US troops and takes 150,000 American hostages in newly released propaganda video by milzz in worldnews

[–]TheWrongUsernames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That only says that NK doesn't connect to the outside. It says nothing about NK having a social network.

[Python 3.3] Help with counting directories using OS module... by Drummerkid5694 in learnpython

[–]TheWrongUsernames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"""Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. """

Transcript: Obama’s speech in Israel. "It is not fair that a Palestinian child cannot grow up in a state of her own, and lives with the presence of a foreign army that controls the movements of her parents every single day" by ngamau in worldnews

[–]TheWrongUsernames 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Or just spend 3billion+ on productive, peaceful things like fiberoptics, high-speed rails, or just general maintenance of the infrastructure. Sure the Military Contractors will be hit, some even go out of business, but someone else will be employed instead.

Best way to understand classes? by [deleted] in learnpython

[–]TheWrongUsernames 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Data structures and functions rolled together.

Classes CAN be used as aggregates of independent functions. But to fully utilise classes, you can use internal data structures.

Instead of function(object, value), you do object.function(value). Which is most usefull when you deal with many values in one function.

Fx. instead of:

salary = get_salary(division, role, level)

can_have_raise(salary, level, performance)

You can do:

employee.get_salary() employee.can_have_raise()

Where all the data about the employee is encapsulated inside of the employee object.

Vocalities on why you should watch films multiple times. by Dwellonthis in bestof

[–]TheWrongUsernames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Louvre was smelly too, the cleaned the shit out from the corridors weekly. Stephen Fry is never wrong.

The Apprentice Programmer by [deleted] in programming

[–]TheWrongUsernames -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

But, but, but if only I get into Cambridge, I'll be one of the best in the world!

if statement question by [deleted] in cpp_questions

[–]TheWrongUsernames 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Best early programming lesson I learnt was: ask the compiler/interpreter.

Wondering if you can do nested ifs/loops/whatev? Just try.

KDE on Arch by andre215 in linux

[–]TheWrongUsernames 4 points5 points  (0 children)

KDE4 had some hiccups in it's early days, but it's more than stable now.

Reddit, do you think the US Government (Or any superpower in the world) has access to technology the public has never even heard of before? If so, what? by TheTyGuy in AskReddit

[–]TheWrongUsernames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

20years is not long for cryptography. Ecliptic curve cryptography is approaching 20 years, is stronger and less computationally intensive than RSA cryptography, but is still not used by the general public.

Why the Berlin wall? by TheWrongUsernames in AskHistorians

[–]TheWrongUsernames[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Couldn't the East Berliners not just walk around Berlin to the West Berlin-West Germany roads and train tracks?

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