JohnLBevan

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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
When searching for friends by name, if I have a friend called Jonathan Smith and I type Jon Smith the filter stops the moment I hit space. It would be good to put wildcards around spaces, or build a dictionary of synonym names (not sure wh
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
Another nice feature would be a price range filter.
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
Great site - unfortunately I'm based in the UK and a number of the recommendations only exist on Amazon.com; not .co.uk. If you could make this international that would be great - though I suspect that's lower on your priority list than it
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
If you're not worried about the time; just proving the recording is continuous simply play it back through speakers and record from a microphone near the mains supply. The current mains noise will be significant enough to drown out the noi
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
@shocks: you only get this on certain OSes; it seems this is on *nix systems, but the teleporters are currently unable to get through gates / into windows.
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
I think it's good to qualify your opinion with your level of expertise. There's no rule that says HN should only be for discussion by experts (hopefully there never will be), and if you don't know something for sure it's best to say so tha
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
Would it be possible to claim to own Google's IP, then on receiving the packets intended for Google forward them on to the real IP (without accidentally forwarding them back to yourself)? That way someone could hijack & interrogate the
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
Is there some way to say "ignore DNS results from this provider", such that were you to spot an issue you could block that provider's information (and anyone replicating their version of the truth) and thus find a valid path. If that were
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
David Mitchell (British Comedian)'s view of Mensa: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPMKqyaXtHI
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
My guess is he's a self employed guy without the contracts coming in, or employed PHP web developer who also works in the evenings & weekends for a fixed annual salary which is then taxed?
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
Nice design, but not sure about the concept: this doesn't calculate what you're worth or advise whether the figures you're stating are realistic; it just does what you could do in 10 seconds in excel. My test-self is worth infinity per hou
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Chrome Web Lab British Science Museum(chromeweblab.com)
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
How about adding context (e.g. similar to wordpress's category tags). People can then filter the streams they subscribe to. For example were YouTube to post an OStatus message when a new video were uploaded I could subscribe to GeekAndSu
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3D Virtual Store on MS Kinect(youtube.com)
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
Given the number of people on here who appreciate a good life hack, has anyone got any ideas for other solutions? My family's currently going through the to home or not to home question. Arguments for standard solutions are essentially: -
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
We had an interesting experience at the start of the year where people were being "encouraged" by the project managers not to be negative on the project. It felt like being part of the Chinese Cultural Revolution where everyone was getting
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
Awesome - thanks for the link :)
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
ps. for anyone interested there's some useful info on streaming in education here: http://www.teachingexpertise.com/articles/grouping-pupils-ab... One option not mentioned there is getting the top pupils to assist in teaching the others;
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
I had a similar experience in school - though no yelling. I often achieved A4s; A for academic grade, 4 for effort (1 being putting in all you've got, 4 being the opposite end of the scale). I took pride in this saying it showed I could d
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
My thoughts precisely. The code is still out there though - just waiting for someone to pick up where Google left off. . . http://incubator.apache.org/wave/about.html My plan is to try to rewrite this as a sharepoint add in, so that all t
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
The robot cheating isn't the interesting thing here. Implementing that would be a simple case statement. This is a demo of fast digital signal processing (DSP) combined with fast mechanics/electronics.
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Wired: Sci-Fi Scribes on Ray Bradbury(wired.com)
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
Was the IPO Hackathon his stag do?
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Google Knowledge Engine(googleblog.blogspot.co.uk)
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
This was also recently mentioned by YouTuber "CharlieIsSoCoolLike", who's taken to putting videos online every day for a week to overcome his perfectionism, but who's also been following the technique for a much longer time to keep himself
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
That raises another good point - privacy. I take a pic of my girlfriend on the beach, and some random guy on the Turk gets a copy to distribute / use as they like. This means building this functionality into a standard camera would need a
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
Agreed, the concept's great but really you're just taking a picture then asking someone to describe it & printing that; that tech's been around for a while. A more practical approach may be to develop a camera with access to the web. W
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
Readers who viewed this may also like. . . http://www.brandongenerator.com http://darkhorse.geekandsundry.com/
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Google Events: London UK(campuslondon.com)
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by JohnLBevan 14y ago
Sounds like an opening for an App. Gabriel's put a lot of effort into creating his flashcards, but they'd be the same for everyone - so you could allow the community to generate the cards, and the part of the community for whom this is thei

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