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This review of Deepdale Shopping Park originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan.
Strange mixture of the kinds of shops you expect in a retail park plus a few out-of-place “for trade” outlets. Insufficient parking at peak times, presumably because they keep building more outlets on what was car parking space, and terrible traffic: avoid coming by car, if possible, especially on match days at the nearby football stadium.
This review of Cutteslowe and Sunnymead Park originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan.
Beautiful sprawling Oxford park with a huge variety of things to do: the modern railway (check opening days in advance), aviary, duck pond, sports courts, and multiple children’s play areas including sandpits and – in the summer – a new ‘water play’ area (bring a towel and a change of clothes!). Central cafè is good for snacks and ice creams but less-good for hot food. Parking is priced as you’d expect for Oxford: bring change for the machines as they don’t give any and while you can pay by phone there’s a service charge for doing so.
This review of Avenham and Miller Park originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan.
Sprawling park near Preston city centre in the style of a London park: long boulevards, well-manicured lawns, fountains, a folly, and a riverside walk. Recently enhanced with the addition of children’s play areas and a cafe, but the real joy here is the timeless pleasure of a meandering walk through the various gardens.
This review of The Jolly Boatman originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan.
We’d visited before and enjoyed ourselves on several ocassions previous, but our last visit was appalling: incredibly slow service (despite booking and it being relatively quiet) and a disappointing mixture of dried-out-by-reheating and just-plain-cold food alongside the kinds of things you’d get at any chain pub for a lower price.
This review of The Blackpool Tower originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan.
Compared to trips here in my youth, this iconic tourist attraction now seems very expensive (with ‘modular’ pricing: no more can you just buy a ticket and enjoy the day, you must buy tickets for each individual experience, and activities like Jungle Jim’s – which seems much reduced from its origins layout – have time limits). Long queues, particularly for getting up to and especially getting down from the tower itself.
This review of Miller & Carter Kidlington originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan.
Shared a delightful tenth anniversary meal here recently. Hadn’t booked, but despite being busy they managed to squeeze us in. Enjoyed the third-best steak I’ve ever tasted, plus delightful deserts and a range of exciting cocktails all at a price point that’s very reasonable for what you get.
This review of Cygnet Nursery Kidlington Ltd originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan.
Loving, friendly staff provide a great environment for fun and development for babies through preschoolers. Failed an Ofsted inspection in 2016 but were swiftly able to act upon the report and make the necessary changes and have since gone from strength to strength (once this is out of recent memory, I’d upgrade my review to 5 stars).
Of particular credit to them is the diversity of play and learning activities they provide and their thorough feedback to parents on their children’s development.
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Wow, I was really blown away by OMGYes. The concept sounded novel but I wasn’t prepared for how completely engrossed listening to the interviews, watching the examples, and getting to practice the different techniques on the interactive vuvlas would be. This is genuinely an invaluable resource for folks looking to learn about touchin’ twats. OMGYes…
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This was a talk I gave at an internal R&D conference my last week at Workiva. I got a lot of positive feedback on the talk, so I figured I would share it with a wider audience. Be warned: it’s long. Feel free to read each section separately, though they largely tie together.
Why do you work where you work? For many in tech, the answer is probably culture. When you tell a friend about your job, the culture is probably the first thing you describe. It’s culture that can be a company’s biggest asset—and its biggest downfall. But what is it?
Culture isn’t a list of values or a mission statement. It’s not a casual dress code or a beer fridge. Culture is what you reward and what you don’t. More importantly, it’s what you reward and what you punish. That’s an important distinction to make because when you don’t punish behavior that’s inconsistent with your culture, you send a message: you don’t care about it…
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I really wanted to believe that Mancunians could be trusted with nice things. Just over a fortnight ago, a Chinese company called Mobike brought 1,000 shiny new silver and orange bikes to my city. Unlockable with a smartphone and available to rent for just 50p for half an hour, they could be ridden wherever you liked within Manchester and Salford and, crucially, could be left anywhere public once you were done…
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Yesterday, a hacker pulled off the second biggest heist in the history of digital currencies.
Around 12:00 PST, an unknown attacker exploited a critical flaw in the Parity multi-signature wallet on the Ethereum network, draining three massive wallets of over $31,000,000 worth of Ether in a matter of minutes. Given a couple more hours, the hacker could’ve made off with over $180,000,000 from vulnerable wallets.
But someone stopped them…
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It’s inevitable these days: we will see an article proclaiming the demise of Ruby on Rails every once in a while. It’s the easiest click bait, like this one from TNW.Now, you may say “another Ruby fanboy.” That’s fair, but a terrible argument, as it’s a poor and common argumentum ad hominem. And on the subject of fallacies, the click-bait article above is wrong exactly because it falls for a blatantly Post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy plus some more confirmation bias which we are all guilty of falling for all the time. I’m not saying that the author wrote fallacies on purpose. Unfortunately, it’s just too easy to fall for fallacies. Especially when everybody has an intrinsic desire to confirm one’s biases. Even trying to be careful, I end up doing that as well…
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