Jamiecon

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by Jamiecon 14y ago
All fair points. My response was a little harsh and possibly ad hominem. Apologies for the aggression. In fairness their explanation is not a model of clarity, but the impression I get is that there are legacy concerns here. Perhaps they ar
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
Looking at your profile, which indicates you are technically proficient, I'm struggling to understand how you have come to the conclusion in the headline. Unless you're just looking for attention, in which case er, well played. The two host
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
<flippant>But par for the course for a consumer entertainment products company</flippant> In my blinkered world, Google and Facebook seem to be the companies to beat in the area of security for consumer services. 2-factor au
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
Appreciate you're possibly joking, but the problem is that it is not possible to support the entire world in this manner. Assuming we all share the goal of a famine free world, with its people living lives of relative equality, then the exc
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
Absolutely wonderful. I have been looking for something like this for a long time. You may want to consider contacting some of the London / tube bloggers for advice or assistance if you haven't already: http://london-underground.blogspot.c
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
He's a successful and no doubt intelligent person - I'm sure he's thought it through and taken advice. As a live entertainment fan I hope he succeeds - just adding my thoughts. Collection at box office can be quite chaotic in volume and, in
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
Retroactively cancelling tickets is a non-starter. Labour intensive and prone to embarrassing false positives. There are two simple, proven ways to avoid ticket re-sale. The first is to use "print at home" tickets. People are unwilling to r
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
Based on the job adverts I keep seeing in London for mobile and Xbox developers at Skype (and some common sense), I think it's fair to say that Skype will be a first class citizen on WP (and Xbox) in the future. Skype is fairly poor on WP7.
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
I remember Digitiser, it was wonderful. I get the feeling that Ceefax / Teletext was perhaps a redoubt for those who wanted to avoid too much editorial. And, another use for the reveal button: Bamboozle!
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
> This post is going to baffle a lot of US readers. I must confess, this may have partially motivated my submission ;-) I also loved the style the article was presented in. Does anyone remember 'Bamboozle'?
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Ceefax - A love letter(bbc.co.uk)
60 points by Jamiecon 14y ago|37 comments
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by Jamiecon 14y ago
This. Only partially related, but I'm sick of people coming up with more, 'better' ways to communicate which are then embraced by a subset of my friends and colleagues. My email arrives on my phone, on my laptop, on my (and any) PC, in an e
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by Jamiecon 15y ago
Normally I'm the person who makes this type of comment. I'm not a fan of resistance to change, or contrariness in general - especially the particularly annoying and overly dramatic Internet Blogger brands. However for me the crucial missing
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by Jamiecon 15y ago
Conveniently enough, this article has a helpful graph of the most common screen resolutions on Windows: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/26/improvements-...
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by Jamiecon 15y ago
Yeah, when you put it like that I see your point. Publishing the password was a silly thing to do. But I can't get angry about the reporter being non-technical. Most people are non-technical. To me, it was the responsibility of Wikileaks t
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by Jamiecon 15y ago
A minor nitpick, but the author also breathlessly describes how he realises he was one of the "few people in the world" to have access to this information, in spite of the whole reason it is available in the first place being the breadth of
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by Jamiecon 15y ago
I believe that they also told the Guardian that the password was "time limited", whatever that means. There was probably some melodramatic chat about it self destructing in 10 seconds. I don't see The Guardian as being on the hook for this.
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by Jamiecon 15y ago
Agreed. And not only does the ribbon increase accessibility for novice users, it also encourages advanced use by displaying keyboard shortcuts to a wide variety of functions in an intuitive way.
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by Jamiecon 15y ago
I've watched, and enjoyed, Top Gear for a long time now, since before they introduced the new magazine format. I saw this episode when it was broadcast and enjoyed the electric car segment. The programme is an entertainment show and part of
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by Jamiecon 16y ago
Onerous labour rules restricting economic progress in Europe? I for one am glad we've moved on.
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by Jamiecon 16y ago
We're using ASP.NET 4 and MVC 3 in production. New features in both made it very worthwhile to invest the time in conversion. We are not using Razor yet, but it's feasible they are. Take a look at this: https://github.com/telerik/razor-con
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by Jamiecon 16y ago
I would imagine that they calculated it would be cheaper to scale up their application servers and backend caching than pay for the development resource to facilitate this change.
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by Jamiecon 16y ago
AppFabric Server is closer to Memcached than Redis. However since their persistence layer is SQL Server, they could have used AppFabric in place of Redis. I'm guessing they didn't want to use a technology that is so recently out of beta per
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by Jamiecon 16y ago
Only for terms that are worthless.
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by Jamiecon 16y ago
There are better ways to make what is a valid point. Only geeks can forgive legacy baggage, but inevitably whatever MS do OS-wise is a balancing act. There's nothing new here.
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by Jamiecon 16y ago
I think the questions are more revealing than the answers. Interesting stuff whichever way you look at it.
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by Jamiecon 16y ago
I hadn't actually read that Q&A - very interesting and a reasonable point in his answer to the figurehead question (although I would suggest that Wikileaks could simply lower its profile and become an anonymising conduit, thus negating
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by Jamiecon 16y ago
No worries, I wasn't clear.
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by Jamiecon 16y ago
Am I just cynical, or does anyone else get the overall impression that this is a bunch of geeks running around fantasising that they're in 'The Matrix' or something. And doing it thanks to the efforts of a single confused 22 year old (Manni
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by Jamiecon 16y ago
It's a fairly accurate summary of British University, for many anyway. And yeah in the UK it's cheap. I graduated with about £15k of low interest debt, and my parents probably spent another £10k

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