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andrewducker

Interesting Links for 18-05-2015

May 18, 2015 12:00

I concise guide to the current UK Cabinet. Well worth a read. (tags: uk politics conservatives ) JavaScript at 20 (tags: javascript ) Exercise alone won’t make you lose weight. (tags: exercise weight ) Beware Eurosceptic versions of history and science (tags: history science Europe ) How Many Americans Are Married To Their Cousins? (And how ( Read more... )

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fub May 18 2015, 12:49:03 UTC

I live in Nijmegen. I remember those years that the openings in the walls leading to the river were closed off to keep the water out of the city (though the city itself is built on a hill, so the water would not have filled up the city like a bathtub, which would have been the case elsewhere in the Netherlands ( ... )

cmcmck May 18 2015, 13:32:28 UTC

Re 'historians for Britain' (and even as a specialist in the 17th century civil wars of these islands, I'm NOT a member) I'm deeply disappointed in David Abulafia, whose work I otherwise respect.

Whiggish claptrap!

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cmcmck May 18 2015, 16:09:08 UTC

For sure!

I specialise in the study our 17th century civil wars and while they have unique features, I also need to look at other contemporary European wars to make any sense of them.

Context is central to understanding any nation's history!

momentsmusicaux May 18 2015, 15:36:36 UTC

That JS page is just shit. Took me over a minute to realize I was meant to press the right arrow key for it to do something.

andrewducker May 18 2015, 15:42:56 UTC

Sorry, I knew it was a presentation, I should have said so in the description!

momentsmusicaux May 18 2015, 16:12:33 UTC

Ah, right. I took it to be just a random internet page... with context it makes sense!

apostle_of_eris May 18 2015, 18:58:29 UTC

nope
Even as a presentation it's shit. A small script with "entertaining" illos?
But the problem is that the author has no idea what his whiz-bang technology is for. If sophisticated users can't figure out what the thing is, or how to make it go, it was done wrong.
I'm used to things occasionally not working in firefox, because I have so many anti-malware addons that kinky javascript doesn't work. I saw about 5 words, with no scroll bar or controls and did Show Source. There's a lot of source, with weird, avant-garde tags. So I tried it in chrome. same nothing. IE?? same same. But somewhere I happened to hit Page Down. And it went to another cutesy screen. oh Page Down and Page up are the only way to go through the thing.

Something no ordinary user has ever heard of, and is given no slightest clue of.
The creator may be a wizard of a coder, but he's utterly useless as a programmer.

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