EwanToo

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by EwanToo 14y ago
Next week on HN, C++ released! :)
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Trusting Amazon (no longer)(boards.fool.co.uk)
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Spoiler Alert ... 3D printing(blog.gardeviance.org)
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HD CCTV - Safeguard against crime, or end of democracy?(theweek.co.uk)
1 points by EwanToo 14y ago|0 comments
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Yes, because I can't guess what the world will be like in 20 years time, but I am 100% certain that I'll want to be working with the insanely powerful computers that we have then.
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Calls for Ultrabook price cuts are short-sighted(itproportal.com)
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by EwanToo 14y ago
I think there's something to it about the active choice of a shaved head - I started going bald fairly early (around 18), and shaving my head really seemed to change people's perceptions of me for the better. Of course, it could just be tha
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Try paying with a US dollar anywhere in western europe. I'm pretty sure you'll end up with a weird look, unless perhaps you're massively overpaying.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Off topic really, but there's people willing to write pretty much anything for $15 an hour. That's what you'll pay the company that employs them, they obviously won't get paid it... Here's 1 easy to find example, note the advertised rate on
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by EwanToo 14y ago
If the new Samsung Chromebook could run Windows, I'd get one of them, and stick a bigger SSD in it. Even in it's current crippled form, I'm tempted by putting Ubuntu on it. http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/laptops/1293349/samsung-serie...
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Hibernation over shutdowns massively improves the shutdown and startup times of my work PC. Primarily because I have SQL Server on it for development - the services have a extremely long shutdown and startup time, which doesn't need to happ
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Love it, would be even better if you could upload a photo and have that as the face
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Amazon RDS - Now Available in the AWS Free Usage Tier(aws.typepad.com)
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A death blow for PPTP - cracking PPTP as a service(h-online.com)
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by EwanToo 14y ago
If they wanted it to be revenue neutral, they'd simply say "Any .co.uk now gets .uk free, except where there's a conflicting .org, .me or .ac", where there'd been to be some kind of conflict resolution process (possibly as simple as oldest
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by EwanToo 14y ago
By default, Android devices are locked down in 2 ways - you've not got root, and you can't install unsigned non-market apps (though trust of market apps is somewhat of a joke). You can obviously gain root, and you can easily tick the box to
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by EwanToo 14y ago
The detachable keyboard models are nice, but to me, the only thing that makes the Transformer a tablet rather than a laptop with a detachable screen is the OS used. Assuming Windows 8 does ok, I think we'll see a lot more devices in this fo
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by EwanToo 14y ago
This reads like a nice revenue grab by Nominet. You'll still need to own your .co.uk if you're a business, or else you'll have a squatter on it before you can blink, but now you'll be paying Nominet's fee of around £20 a year for a .uk, and
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by EwanToo 14y ago
If you have a tablet, and almost always carry a keyboard to go with it, then really aren't you saying that a laptop would be the right solution? Tablets are definitely moving towards being general purpose computers, but they're not there ye
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Looks like it's just a few quotes ripped from other sites like this one: http://www.wordpower.ws/quotations/richard-branson-quotes.ht...
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by EwanToo 14y ago
It's not meant to be easy, and it never will be, but it has to be the goal. If you want to make niche software, Yahoo is not the place to go it, anymore than Unilever is the place for people who want to make small amounts of high qualty han
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Page and Brin started work on BackRub in 1996, and it was publically usable very early on. http://alpha.google.com/ was launched in 1997. http://web.archive.org/web/19990125084553/alpha.google.com/
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by EwanToo 14y ago
To me it would inspire ambition, not fear, but I guess it depends on the listener. If you work at Yahoo (or Google, or Facebook), and the product you want to work on ins't going to affect 100 million users, then you should probably be worki
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by EwanToo 14y ago
This has got less floating point calculation power than a single mid-range Intel processor, let alone a high end GPU that people use for bitcoin mining.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
It's just misleading nonsense to call this a supercomputer, with or without the quotes around it. I dug out this article from 2007 about building a 26 gigaflops "supercomputer" called the Microwulf Supercomputer which cost under $2500 [1].
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NFC enabled business cards(moo.com)
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by EwanToo 14y ago
Asus have aparantly already denied this, not that it means much. [1] It seems pretty unlikely to me, most of the $99 tablets available on AliExpress are significantly underpowered, especially around the areas of battery and screen quality.
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by EwanToo 14y ago
My HTC One S is scuffed all over
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by EwanToo 14y ago
It's meant to work, for example see here https://github.com/hotsh/rstat.us/issues/387
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by EwanToo 14y ago
You're right, but at the same time email addresses have worked pretty well for the last 20+ years, even my parents cope with it...

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