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by ErrantX 14y ago
HN is so popular that really good stuff disappears (and ironically, relatively "humdrum" stuff such as this gets to the front page :D). His article on "how to land a plane" is a brilliant read, for example: http://eduardo.intermeta.com.br/
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Anonymous hacker group: Two jailed for cyber attacks(bbc.co.uk)
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Show HN: Prelaunching "How Not to write an Ad" ebook(freelancefrontier.com)
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If I have not bought a vacuum or a vacuum accessory from you in 5 years, that doesn’t mean you should try harder! Just take me off your list. For everyone like you who has not bought a Hoover in the last 5 years, there are 10 more who's c
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by ErrantX 14y ago
I think it's fairly clear, based on his long held views of computer fraud laws, that the second part of this will conclude something like: the charges were fair and justified in law, but the proposed punishment (both its severity and scale)
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France tells Internet service provider to end ads block(bbc.co.uk)
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How to get your first freelancing clients(freelancefrontier.com)
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Reading through, Nathan wasn't expecting any realistic answers to this question. It was just an ice breaker to establish contact for the follow up call. As to your last paragraph; this is solid advice. I've picked up a few software ideas by
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Also in the UK. Apart from lengths (feet vs. metres) I don't really find myself needing to calculate between the different units. I couldn't tell you how many litres in a 4 pint bottle of milk (or a pint of beer :)) but all other milk (or b
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by ErrantX 14y ago
You could break servers down that way too; each new server has a footprint in terms of the energy it uses, and the carbon footprint in creating and transporting it. If 10,000 people take this pledge, and take it seriously, does that materia
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by ErrantX 14y ago
That's actually interesting on a wider note: are those FSC woodland?
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by ErrantX 14y ago
That figure was what actually sparked this thought in me - because that's a meaningless statistic without something showing this is a worse impact than using all digital :)
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by ErrantX 14y ago
That all makes sense. To be honest, my innate feeling so far is that servers > paper. But this happened to spark the question in me; is this actually true? Thanks both for the info!
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Why? To save trees/paper? Or to save the planet? Where is the evidence to help me decide whether this pledge is worthwhile? Is paper production a major polluter, and does it impact deforestation (I remember reading somewhere a while back th
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by ErrantX 14y ago
At the time that the Svbtle "copycats" emerged my thoughts [1] were that it identified the differences between designers/brand people and programmers. Nate (who coded Obtvse) seems very much a programmer, whereas Dustin is a hands down desi
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Show HN: My own year in review(errant.me.uk)
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Creepy I guess. But not uncommon, and I don't hold it against him. Ultimately we have to procreate to continue to species. And I for one can't claim to never have felt those social pressures or biological impulses.
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by ErrantX 14y ago
At the death, as it were, you've produced one of my favourite posts of 2012. I don't have kids yet, in the works, but this resonated with me a lot.
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Not really. #2 is a narcassist because having kids is all about him and his fulfillment/ego.
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Even "Western Europe" has a range of very different cultures.
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His redesigns are very clearly significantly better So some extent, yes this is true. However he is a designer and not a marketer, this is clear. For example; Exec has a brilliant and clear marketing message, which gets completely lost i
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Other suspicious things... William Stott of the Lancashir Fusiliers was a private, never a paratrooper, and died fighting on the front. The Fusiliers are a line regiment, they had no airborne element. There is no such thing as 'K' Sector No
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by ErrantX 14y ago
It's total nonsense. He claims they are Word War I codes (for some reason I can't quite fathom) but then says it includes the word "Jerry", which was not commonly used until WW2. Lots of other incongruities as well suggest this is someone a
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Content is already hard enough (i.e. nearly impossible) to keep accurate and updated. If all of us wanted to record the tree in our garden... it would be too much noise compared to signal. The "aha" moment with Wikipedia is realising that i
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Absolutely; NTLM has been attackable for ages. Running on a Quad core machine it can be cracked in a reasonable amount of time. The cost/time trade-off for such cracking makes this rig pointless for such cracking, unless you absolutely mus
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Cooking often requires hacking. Engineers love to cook. Also, startups often look for cheap/simple food to sustain them. Cooking/food articles consistently do well here.
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by ErrantX 14y ago
"I don't like my tech articles biased by hormones"; is the most sexist thing I've read in this thread.
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Reading the threads on this page the comments appear genuinely interested in this tech, and related themes. Asking intelligent questions Etc. In fact, the only awkward thread, which seems a little sexist is this one... Food for thought.
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by ErrantX 14y ago
Nope! I live with my girlfriend :) You lot seem to be spending a lot on toilet paper!!
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Multibuy is your friend! I sat down and worked out our real toilet roll cost and it is lower than $5/mo

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