ElliotH

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   by ElliotH 16y ago

   Just noticed I am now only a couple of weeks over my first year here on HN. Its been fantastic, regardless of anyone who says the site is going downhill, its as good now as it was 381 days ago. Happy Christmas All!
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   by ElliotH 16y ago

   This could be really useful. My university campus for example, is shown in much greater detail on OSM.
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   by ElliotH 16y ago

   There is a distinct difference between making something illegal and making writing about something illegal. There are all sorts of films and books that show crime being committed, sometimes even with the criminals being the good guys. The
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   by ElliotH 16y ago

   I used this before I switched to an Android phone, highly recommend it.
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   by ElliotH 16y ago

   ASE( http://google-opensource.blogspot.com/2009/06/introducing-an... ) Lets Ruby and Python run among others. It may not be ideal for distribution to end-users yet, but it seems pretty good.
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   by ElliotH 16y ago

   Typically the internet has been referred to as 'routing around' things like sites being taken down or things like the AACS encryption key being banned. I don't see it as too far a leap to say its an 'immune response'. But I think perhaps it
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   by ElliotH 16y ago

   A link to the original discussion thread and/or an explanation of what this is actually for would be great! (The about page is no help).
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   by ElliotH 16y ago

   Well the ads are there to support the unlimited free music they're giving you, so you can't complain too much. On the adware front - the app doesn't auto-run, doesn't self install, is easy to uninstall and doesn't show ads when it isn't run
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   Ask HN: What do you wish you'd known when you were 18?

   12 points by ElliotH 16y ago|14 comments
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    by ElliotH 16y ago

    I'm also reading Gödel, Escher, Bach The first few chapters were invaluable to me with discrete maths - it was far easier to think inside a fixed formal system when I had experienced it within the book first. The remaining chapters are all
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    by ElliotH 16y ago

    Surely if its in common use and is well known, then there's plenty of evidence of prior work? That would make it unenforceable surely? In which case Colgate have just spent a smallish chunk of money on publishing how to make a powder that m
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    by ElliotH 16y ago

    I'm dissapointed its been increased. I try and only speak when I have something especially interesting to say. But I regularly vote and in my opinion, vote sensibly. Its a shame to be penalised for quietness.
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    by ElliotH 16y ago

    One thing I personally like about HN is that, in general, I can read the comment and form an opinion about it before I read who posted it. If the username was 'in your face' it would be harder to not let that colour your reading. For exampl
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    by ElliotH 16y ago

    I couldn't agree more with the middle paragraph. But 'no classes' and 'no functions'? class NewClass: def NewFunction(arg0, arg1): print("Hello, World") Python has both. Pointers wise, I think you can learn them fair
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    by ElliotH 16y ago

    Here in the UK it is incredibly common, especially with cases like injury at work. Known as 'No-Win No-Fee' in adverts.
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    by ElliotH 16y ago

    Surely some level of self-censorship is desirable. If you disagree with something and doing it politely you generally won't get hit too hard from what I've seen (though I appreciate my account is fairly new). Saying things like 'groupthink'
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    by ElliotH 16y ago

    Wouldn't that take a very long time to re-encrypt a whole drive with a new key?
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    by ElliotH 16y ago

    Exactly how I learned mine. My times tables were abysmal until I did A level maths, there's only so many times you can use your calculator for 6x7 before you just remember it as 42.
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    by ElliotH 16y ago

    Not to mention its uses for those who physically can't use a mouse or 'scary buttons'. One of my cousins is severely disabled and can only really use one hand with limited movement. They are completely unable to use a normal computer withou
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    by ElliotH 16y ago

    Except DDG has features other than a good privacy policy, so he's not just marketing to what you suppose to be a niche market - he's just adding them to his target market.
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    by ElliotH 16y ago

    Because you affect the person running the exit node - not just the people exiting from their IP.
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    by ElliotH 16y ago

    I use DuckDuckGo for pretty much all my day to day searching. Sometimes if I'm looking for a very specific page I still use Google - but just sticking !g on the end of your search makes that very easy.
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    by ElliotH 16y ago

    The argument about keeping an email around is a bit silly. Most large file attachments the theoretical affected users are going to send are going to be some kind of document. You can just resave those. Besides I've yet to find an email clie
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    by ElliotH 16y ago

    I like first one. However, while the second one is fair enough for the example of rural WISPs - if my ISP starts killing connections as a matter of common practice then I'd be looking for a new ISP.
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    by ElliotH 16y ago

    I would pay a good price for a decent iPod touch style android tablet. 7" seems to be the pattern which is too big really.
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    by ElliotH 16y ago

    PNG is lossless compression so you won't get the artifacts you do with JPEG. (e.g the noise around the text at the top of your first screenshot) EDIT Better explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Network_Graphics#Compa...
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    by ElliotH 16y ago

    Yup, the companies namespace is theoretical (containing presumably every company in existence) and contains a class YourCompany - that represents the interviewer's company. Because companies doesn't actually exist there is an import e
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    by ElliotH 16y ago

    Hardware: - Core i7 920 - 6gb DDR3 RAM - ATi 5970 for graphics - currently RMA'd - 19" HP Display awaiting upgrade. Software: - Ubuntu for working (GNOME) - Arch for hacking (GNOME) - Windows 7 for games Portable: - Dell Mini 10v base model
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    by ElliotH 16y ago

    Ads aren't reliable in this version (from the Spotify site) - so they can't make it available for free users. Remember Spotify still works really well under Wine.
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    by ElliotH 16y ago

    I paid the money - so evidently I think its an acceptable amount to pay. But we're talking about something that is competing with a free application.