JohnLBevan

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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
With regards to the retirement problem, that's only an issue because people are still thinking like mortals. Were we immortal I'd expect gap years to replace retirement. Many people would choose to live their lives in cycles, retraining e
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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
Agreed - in fact, in the UK the Data Protection Act makes this a legal requirement (not that Google have to abide by UK law). You could change it such that users can only see the individual pics they're tagged in, and not all pics in the pa
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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
They should give it a more dot netty name, by picking a letter (maybe F, as it's a functional language) and putting a sharp on the end.
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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
Another thought. . . could you take advantage of the thermoelectric effect to cool a system and make it more efficient in the process?
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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
This gives me a thought. . . could Dyson Air Multiplier technology be scaled down to be used in computers? http://www.dyson.co.uk/technology/airmultiplier.asp#HowItWor...
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G+ Circles Summary(ansonalex.com)
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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
Perhaps Google Venn's required?
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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
Thanks esrauch - agreed, they're just there for security at present, but have a lot of potential to be a lot more with just a few tweaks to existing functionality. One of the big differences of having circles which could be used as tags is
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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
Good point, perhaps the naming of this functionality would need to be changed to avoid confusing users. . . Personally I'd prefer it all to be under circles, since to me it's all a way of organising collections of contacts, but I admit I th
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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
Hey Alec, Thanks for your thoughts - I see your point, though think the functionality could be made available without increasing complexity. Circles would work in exactly the same way as they do now; there would just be an extra button ava
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Altruist Programming Projects(catchafire.org)
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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
One other thought around circles. It would be cool if some kind of backwards circle functionality could be created. For example, I post a few links to my feed about tech stuff which only a handful of my friends are interested in, so I hav
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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
A suggested improvement to circles. . . Have 3 types - personal, group and owned group - defined by a simple editable property. * Personal work as circles do currently - i.e. its your way of organising your own contacts; no one else knows w
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Colo(u)r scheme cheat sheet(paper-leaf.com)
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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
Looks like an awesome book (along with the others recommended on this site). Unusual for scientificly minded cookbooks to be affordable - the only other ones I know of are way out of my price range: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Big-Fat-Duck-Co
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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
Hmm, looks like a gap in the market. . . though I guess banks wouldn't be too willing to provide an API to third parties who'd offer this service, so it would require a bank to fill this gap, rather than an independent.
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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
Those are great links - thanks for the info :) I'm thinking of looking into accountants after I start to make money; up 'til then I'll just keep records, since I'm assuming that I won't be making enough to cover the costs of accountants for
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Ask HN: Good resources on the Business / Legal side of a UK Startup
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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
Spending more than you earn? Idiots in charge. Cut back on essentials, keep the things that make you happy, still get re-elected. Hmm, anyone else see a minor flaw?
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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
I think the point of the argument is less about getting into fights, than it is about harassment; on the internet it doesn't really matter how big each person is (except where spam is concerned); so long as address info is private, even the
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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
One advantage of publicly disclosing information about gender is that you know it's public. It's possible to glean someone's gender from the language they use (see http://bookblog.net/gender/genie.php ), meaning people who kept their gen
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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
Talking of the DST point, how do you manage this in your apps? Say we're in the UK, you schedule something to run at 9am GMT. In the summer, the timezone changes to BST, so 9am GMT is still 9am UTC. I've never seen a scheduling app where
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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
It's about time someone posted about this. Great summary - when I first started working on an international system I was hunting for this kind of article. Now if someone could only do one on languages, regional settings, character sets and
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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
Hey Miahi, I agree with what you, but I think Ifran's question is about why the light had to travel so far in the first place. If you assume(?) that the maximum speed anything can travel is the speed of light, and ignore factors such as spa
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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
Hey Miahi, good point, but if the light set off at .77bn years, and we assume it's on the edge of the far side of the universe to us, we'd be at most 1.54bn light years apart (were it not for Inflation) when the light left. We'd be moving a
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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
It could be due to Inflation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflation_(cosmology) ). This is where the universe expands faster than the speed of light, since it's not the matter moving, but the space between it that's expanding. Not my ar
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by JohnLBevan 15y ago
There's also a language/tool called Monkey Coder which attempts something along these lines; though it's more aimed at creating apps for the different kind of platforms (iphone, android, html5, mac/pc/linux app, etc). I haven't played with