JonAtkinson

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by JonAtkinson 7y ago
Why should it be banned?
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by JonAtkinson 7y ago
Why?
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FBAlpha Emulator lead breaks non-commercial license terms for new Capcom device(twitter.com)
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by JonAtkinson 7y ago
The authors argument that Markdown should be discarded because there are several competing implementations isn't valid. For many years (even now), we have several competing implementations of HTML, yet the HTML document is the dominant
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by JonAtkinson 8y ago
Windows 10?
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by JonAtkinson 8y ago
Your demo video completely undersells the potential here. The hook for this product is an emotional one, a way to understand and better connect with remote colleagues, and removing miscommunication anxiety -- so where are they in the demo?
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by JonAtkinson 9y ago
Possibly, but as mattlondon's sibling comment alludes to, the statement of a single rape prosecution in more than 300 years is still a long way from the truth.
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by JonAtkinson 9y ago
> In the entire history of the hackney carriage (black cab) license - going back to 1662 - I know of only one case of a driver having been prosecuted for rape, about 5 years ago. That's absolute bollocks. https://en.wikip
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by JonAtkinson 9y ago
I love the sound of this and have subscribed - an intersection of quality journalism and podcasting is a fantastic concept. Do you have any plans to provide an Alexa skill? "Alexa, read me something interesting" is a service I wou
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by JonAtkinson 9y ago
"But I'm probably wasting my time with you, looking at your comment history you seems to be a typical pro-Blockstream troll." Is there any need for this kind of incivility? Around here we don't call people with differing
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by JonAtkinson 9y ago
According to my Safari console, it's loading the page on average in 50ms, with some samples as low as 20ms. That's considerably less than the blink of an eye (at 100ms). I doubt that a decade-old CPU/OS and a decade old brows
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by JonAtkinson 10y ago
Surely the idea is that it is useful to your future colleagues?
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by JonAtkinson 10y ago
I recieved this reply from nic.io support a few minutes ago: http://imgur.com/a/wV2Kk
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by JonAtkinson 10y ago
I agree with this to an extent, but a controlled burst of ego can sometimes signal to the rest of the business that they're deeply off-track: "I/my team are better than spending time realising this ridiculous requirement&#x2F
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by JonAtkinson 10y ago
We recently upgraded one of our sites in development from 3.2 to 3.3. There's a really appreciated level detail orientation in this release; the speed increases also help. It's a pleasure to see Django CMS mature into something th
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by JonAtkinson 11y ago
"They say a good landing is one where no one gets hurt, and a great landing is one where they can re-use the plane." Hat-tip: Cabin Pressure, BBC R4
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by JonAtkinson 11y ago
Private Eye. The Week. The Spectator. The Information. Monday Note.
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by JonAtkinson 11y ago
Every program attempts to expand until it can display a fireplace. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
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by JonAtkinson 11y ago
As another poster points out, there aren't a lot of CMS-related posts on HN, but I'd like to share a little of our experience with Django CMS. I've been using Django CMS since early in the 2.x releases (the earliest Django CM
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by JonAtkinson 11y ago
For those looking to research this further, there was also an excellent piece on the Private Eye podcast which explores this in more detail: https://soundcloud.com/privateeyenews/page-94-episode-8
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by JonAtkinson 11y ago
> We need a real open-source alternative to flash player. We quietly built the alternative to Flash over the last 10 years. It's called the web. A standard document in the web browser can play audio, video, display vector graphics,
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by JonAtkinson 11y ago
It looks like a tidy application, and I'm assuming it's functional - good job. You're probably going to need to deal with the WhatsApp legal team very soon. I recall several HN threads discussing various shutdowns of 3rd part
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by JonAtkinson 12y ago
I didn't know it was non-fiction! To be honest, I've not read the book for probably 15 years, but that adds a really interesting spin on it. Thanks for pointing that out!
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by JonAtkinson 12y ago
The author, Clifford Stoll, is quite a character. He wrote "The Cuckoo's Egg", which was (I think) one of the first hacker-thriller novels, which I hold directly responsible for getting me into UNIX as a 12-year old in the 90
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by JonAtkinson 12y ago
Cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by JonAtkinson 12y ago
I think given Mojang is making hundreds of millions of dollars a year, and they're reportedly in talks to sell the company to Microsoft for $2billion, he can probably be forgiven for not 'knuckling down' and just following hi
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by JonAtkinson 12y ago
Developers, Designers, PM's, UX, DevOps - FARM Digital - Manchester, UK We're a highly technical agency, specialising in Django. We work for various start-ups as their technical team, we're the agency of choice for several pu
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by JonAtkinson 12y ago
I just setup Sparkleshare ( http://sparkleshare.org/ ) this weekend. I wanted something which wasn't Dropbox, and preferably open-source, and while Sparkleshare has a slightly clunky pair mechanism, it works beautifully.
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by JonAtkinson 13y ago
I've had the same problem with the last 3-4 Apple power adaptors. I usually walk into an Apple store and start complaining noisily, in close proximity to store staff who are demonstrating laptops to new customers. Then I leave with my
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by JonAtkinson 13y ago
FARM Digital - full-time Lancashire/Hampshire UK or REMOTE We're a fast-growing digital agency (Wirehive 100 "One To Watch" in 2012), we build interesting sites for brands and apps for businesses. We're primarily a

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