ErrantX

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by ErrantX 15y ago
although that didn't stop me from signing the petition. Agreed :)
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by ErrantX 15y ago
The petition itself is marred by a rather confused statement of its aims which seem to cover teaching children to code and doing something about the gender gap in IT. This was my first thought too. A noble aim to be sure, but it would be
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Brilliant.. I'm smiling. And will definitely be buying a few as soon as I can get my hands on them - plenty of educational and home uses spring to mind! The especially nice thing is that last week when Raspberry Pi were mentioned here (a co
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by ErrantX 15y ago
I think he's identified the root cause of the ongoing failure of our modern education system.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Yes, you're dead right there... I guess we are all lying to each other.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
I was musing on this the other day (beware; anecdote alert!). I went out for some drinks with a friend of mine from a long time ago - he is certainly not the sharpest of individuals, but a laugh and good fun in small doses (even if a lot of
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by ErrantX 15y ago
This is not uncommon. Or, rather, whenever I see these self-help/express yourself better/empower yourself authors they all look very attractive and poised. Female and Male. Which annoys me. The advice in this case is good, and it doesn't
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Better to have posted it after you've actually written it...
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by ErrantX 15y ago
They aired Walking Dead season 1 in the UK earlier this year, awesome stuff. It was the first time I turned my TV on for about 3 months & worth every minute :) Very glad it is coming back for a second season.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Yeh; but there are numerous alternatives. Nochex, Moneybookers, Google Checkout, 2CO Take your pick :)
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Ignoring the fact that setting up a merchant account is not a good way to get a startup going... We have just had an identical problem with Lloyds: - It took ages to get the application sorted in the first place - They demanded changes to t
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Hoi! I am an EE "cast off" :) But, yes, you are probably right. When I was taught embedded systems we did do software work, usually on small memory footprints, and state machines were what was taught.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
http://www.wikiversity.org is trying to head down that sort of route.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
If it drags in my interest I might try to rescue the article tomorrow. The lack of sources at the moment means it runs a reasonable chance of people mindlessly !voting delete. (but to echo tptacek; if you are going to follow this link and c
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by ErrantX 15y ago
The Derren Brown episode he mentions is well worth a watch if you enjoyed this - he doesn't deal so much with the mathematical side, but the idea of using misdirection to show something unlikely happening simply through consistent trial. Ed
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by ErrantX 15y ago
This is just the tip of the ice berg; the most disparate crime/punishment of many. Don't get me wrong; I've always been in favour of effective punishment - but this is totally the wrong time for our justice system to "go spare". Firm but fa
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by ErrantX 15y ago
2 years. But I expect they'll be out befor that, or more likely overturned on appeal - once the heat/fear has calmed down then there will be less pressure for panic over reaction.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
The mobile Wikipedia site is being worked on, I think. At least, the tech team were rolling out updates the other day (which ended up displaying for normal Wikipedia too, oops). I'm not sure if there is anything more to come.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
You know. The interesting thing here is; I had a Droid via work when it came out (and it was a beast). I also got my personal contract iPhone 3GS the same time. Thew droid felt defunct somewhere in the middle of last year (and thus I upgrad
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by ErrantX 15y ago
I suspect it is a little from column A and a little from column B; he did also talk about it being good for the user experience etc. They get patents and a manufacturing arm (which then gives them control of the entire product cycle for And
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Only part of Motorola, and not generally the part considered the "original". :) Motorola mobility was spun off of the main company in January - I think at the time there was commentary on the stock markets that it was done with the aim to g
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Ahem. This is why I should check my numbers, I'm told it is a 17,500 word dictionary (and we check 3 re-combinations). Sorry about that :S
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by ErrantX 15y ago
<scrubbed answer> You know what; it's been so long since I played around with this stuff (it's even a separate company now, that we just consult for) that I'm way out of touch with my thought process :) You're right; there is nothin
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by ErrantX 15y ago
> Start with: You don't know the dictionary I used, but have to use one that seems 'good enough' (i.e. a superset of mine, if possible). People are likely to use a standard English dictionary. In my experience (which is exactly within t
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Not a good idea, sadly. In fact I'd go so far to say this is a really bad suggestion ; because it gives a false sense of security. There is potentially a lot less entropy in this password than "Tr0ub4d0r&3", assuming the hacker is smar
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by ErrantX 15y ago
There are lots of problems in this and no real solutions. If there were real, easy, or plausible solutions, they would already be here. I think this is largely the point the author is making, if subtly - that the solution is hard, so we
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by ErrantX 15y ago
That's what I mean by context - if he is giving me this sheet after recognising the type of person I am, awesome. If he is handing them to everyone indiscriminately, uh oh.
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by ErrantX 15y ago
If I'm honest from the sounds of it this guy just gave out the standard sheet to anyone her interacted with - which is a bit of a douche move. This attitude is the right one. But it must be pitched to the employee in the right way. This for
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by ErrantX 15y ago
Yes.. that's the thing of course. And I suspect that the majority of people that say the things in the email the OP posted are... basically assholes. However some aren't - and for me they are the people I want to work for and learn from. As
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by ErrantX 15y ago
The thing is, Paul; I am fully willing to believe that TC are grabbing the sensational as best they can - and twisting the story. I more than believe the spokesman spoke in careful legal terms and inadvertently caused the fuckfest. I can to

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