Comment on Checking your tech privilege… by daramcq
I think people can overestimate the amount of mathematics required for programming. For high-end algorithmic stuff you would need to be quite competent, but that’s not everyone’s job in IT. I do web...
View ArticleComment on Aftershocks from the LPT… by BB
Yep, here we go. It is refreshing to have a forum which opens up commentary, debate and criticism rather than closing it down. We may not agree with one another but at least this enables us to end up...
View ArticleComment on Interview with Declan Ganley… by irishelectionliterature
The MC for the meeting in Dublin last week was Niamh Uí Bhríain! Good article on Ganleys meeting in The Examiner....
View ArticleComment on Interview with Declan Ganley… by doctorfive
This was posted last week. His posters apparently being distributed from life house https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BL8VnM4CAAATB-0.jpg
View ArticleComment on Aftershocks from the LPT… by John
Im in agreement with you about the fight against water charges a lot of it will be down to the upcoming water services legislation; for example if Irish water were to be given powers to deduct from...
View ArticleComment on A city of our future… after humans… by rockroots
Not forgetting Chernobyl: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/patrick-mcginnis/frozen-in-time-chernobyl-_b_885558.html#s299244title=The_Entrance_to
View ArticleComment on Aftershocks from the LPT… by richotto
Its always being said by those on the left that democracy is more than being accountable at elections every four or five years. You can see a discernable conversation between mainstream parties and the...
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by Michael Carley
Coleman, let’s see: we have a cretinously illiterate misinterpretation of `in the long run we are all dead’; the claim that public sectors workers say `in the long run we are all dead’; the claim that...
View ArticleComment on Let’s talk about traditional news media online… by WorldbyStorm
That worries me. Locally is where so much happens. The IT isn’t really interested in it except where it’s political. On the other hand, take the CLR. There’s so much to discuss huge stories just sail...
View ArticleComment on Checking your tech privilege… by Michael Carley
You don’t need much `maths’ in the usual sense to be a very good programmer. Much of what I do for work is essentially applied maths, but much is programming, and they are two different things. If you...
View ArticleComment on Aftershocks from the LPT… by CMK
Paddy made something up, something he knew not to be true, in the process kicking a good socialist when he’s down. I called Paddy on it and he’s trying to muddy the waters. The claim Paddy made is...
View ArticleComment on Aftershocks from the LPT… by RosencrantzisDead
<i>Its always being said by those on the left that democracy is more than being accountable at elections every four or five years.</i> This is a pretty blatant moving of the goal-posts,...
View ArticleComment on Sunday Independent Stupid Statement of the Week by doctorfive
Mark Fielding may have trumped the Sindo http://www.thejournal.ie/isme-minimum-wage-joan-burton-953660-Jun2013/?r_dir_d=1
View ArticleComment on This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to… Declan O’Rourke by Seán...
Is the album of him in the NCH available to buy?
View ArticleComment on This Weekend I’ll Mostly Be Listening to… Declan O’Rourke by...
http://shop.rte.ie/Product/Declan-Oand39Rourke-Live–CD/1741/2221.7.14
View ArticleComment on Is the Seanad really a dumping ground for Failed Dail candidates?...
Keep the Seanad, abolish the Dail!
View ArticleComment on Is the Seanad really a dumping ground for Failed Dail candidates?...
+1 And to keep the Seanad. I like to watch the Seanad; it seems far more ‘personable’ than the Dail proceedings. The Dail can seem to be far too regimented and deliberately restricted in expression....
View ArticleComment on Cutting out the chatter? Well, not quite… by hardcorefornerds
well, the decline appears to be from 2012, so it’s not from pre-recession spending, but you’re right that it’s the elephant in the room (the china shop in the bear market?) it makes me think how in...
View ArticleComment on Aftershocks from the LPT… by que
Okay that email was private, and now removed but if its the genuine email the utter contempt shown by Gallagher for someone based on the fact that they are from the countryside was nothing short of...
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