HarrietJones

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by HarrietJones 12y ago
By and large, Google (and the Google Play Store) play nice with other content distributors. Amazon don't. I installed instant Video a week ago, and I was astonished at the lengths it went to to enable the Amazon App store. I can see wh
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by HarrietJones 12y ago
You're right. As a wealthy person with technical knowledge, nothing is stopping me from doing this. I'm not entirely sure what your point is.
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by HarrietJones 12y ago
The world is cracking down on the Internet, and each country is bringing its own tool set to achieving that end. That Russia, Thailand, China, The Middle East, etc use the rule of law isn't suprising. It's how these countries work
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by HarrietJones 12y ago
You may like this letter Huxley wrote to Orwell: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/1984-v-brave-new-world.... "Whether in actual fact the policy of the boot-on-the-face can go on indefinitely seems doubtfu
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by HarrietJones 12y ago
The only tech I see from the MoleSkine side is the positioning of dots on the page. Adobe use these as guide marks for scanning, sizing and rotating. I'm wondering how easy it would be to just draw the dots in the right place, and hav
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by HarrietJones 12y ago
Mozilla: We are sorry we said stuff you disagreed with. We know we published two opposing articles, and by being vague about this we hope you will assume that we're apologising about the one you personally disagree with. That was a ter
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by HarrietJones 12y ago
Really impressive, and I really liked it. The search narrowed down pretty quickly to working out that I liked Kandinsky and Klimt. This is awesome accurate on the one hand, but annoying on the other hand. If I wanted to know which artists I
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by HarrietJones 12y ago
Pricing for the UK seems kind of expensive. Letter sending is often touted as being one of those things that's actually a lot more expensive than you think it is, and I think Lob are leveraging that common "wisdom". I don&#x2
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by HarrietJones 12y ago
Nice. I currently use http://nitrous.io for ad-hoc linux terminal sessions with an integrated editor, and it looks like this does pretty much the same at what will be (for me) a fraction of the price. I like nitrous, so am unlik
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by HarrietJones 12y ago
First they made music a subscription service. And because I like music but I'm a poor struggling author, I didn't listen to those greedy musicians who said this was unfair. Screw you musicians. This Fantasy novel isn't going
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by HarrietJones 12y ago
Thanks for the sarcasm. We're not talking about egregious examples of bad behaviour. These subtle-isms are vague; they're hard to identify and explain; they crop up unconsciously. It's not bad manners if you don't know y
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by HarrietJones 12y ago
Well today's my day to be the not-so-subtle-ist asshole at Hacker News. It's one thing to recognise that systemic forms of bias and discrimination can be subtle and invisible to those trying to fix them, but all this sort of thing
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by HarrietJones 12y ago
A lot of talk of passwording concentrates on threats at the technology end, and they ignore threats at the user end. Emailed Passwords are a failure from a tech point of view, but they allow users to create more complex passwords without pu
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by HarrietJones 12y ago
Shoot me down if I'm missing something obvious here, but: One solution would be for Apple and Android to have an "environment" section for applications. You'd be able to set these environment keys when publishing the app
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by HarrietJones 12y ago
Gorgeous. Two minor points... It would be nice if it checksummed the card to ensure the entered number was a valid credit card number on form exit. You can get 17 digit credit card numbers now.
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by HarrietJones 12y ago
I'm not creeped out by it, but I can understand why other people may be. Total searches: 68452 That is a lot of searches.
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by HarrietJones 12y ago
How many extra calories does ketosis burn? I've read that it's only about 300 per day. Again - I suspect that most low carb diets work because you're eating less calories. Mainly because people don't realise how many cal
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by HarrietJones 12y ago
200 calories a day equates to one pound loss every 16 days, but to reach that level of metabolic slowdown, you need to be thin, and you need to cut your caloric intake down by about 1000 calories a day. So yeah - it's a marginal effect
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by HarrietJones 12y ago
Saying that fat contains twice the calories as carbs ignores the plain fact that carbs contain a hell of a lot of calories. This is the problem with modern eating. We don't realise how many calories there are in a slice of bread or a b
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by HarrietJones 12y ago
If only there were some kind of structured query language we could invent that allowed us to choose the fields and records we needed to look at. We could get some kind of standards institute to ratify it so everyone used the same interface.
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by HarrietJones 13y ago
http://uncrunched.com/2014/04/06/the-hypocrisy-of-sam-yagan-...
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by HarrietJones 13y ago
\o/
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by HarrietJones 13y ago
"This one cool trick about viral content may make you angry. But the last minute will make you cry."
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by HarrietJones 13y ago
Someone explain how this is different to pyCon's well received feminist lounges? Safe(r) space + discussion of issues. What's not to like.
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by HarrietJones 13y ago
It took me two minutes to find a speech from Gordon Brown on the labour UK website: http://www.labour.org.uk/gordon_brown_conference Saying "The opposition Labour Party has eliminated all news items from before Ed Mili
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by HarrietJones 13y ago
TAAS - Tumblr as a Service.
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by HarrietJones 13y ago
So does BT (In the UK) http://www.btwifi.co.uk/ It's a good feature. The open wifi is separated from your wifi, and it doesn't use your bandwidth. Plus - If you have BT wifi, you get to use all those hotspots for
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by HarrietJones 13y ago
Mailpile sets off alarm bells for me. The web page seems big on promises, and decent webmail isn't the eaiest thing in the world to make a decent UI for. Never mind that it's all wrapped around some kind of seamless background app
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by HarrietJones 13y ago
Go over your managers head. Go to the person who is in charge of your manager, and tell them what's going on. Inform them that your manager's messing this up with a secret side project. I'd also be tempted to go back to your
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by HarrietJones 13y ago
Heh - This was first posted to hacker news over 1500 days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=574854

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