Paul_S

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by Paul_S 14y ago
It's depressing when all the biggest governmental agencies in the world can catch are a few teenagers with scripts. At the same time we just accept multimillion crime groups and governments wrecking havoc because they're just too darn hard
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by Paul_S 14y ago
Log in to read the article.
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by Paul_S 14y ago
Telecommuting isn't on offer. Back in the 80s, when they promised that by year 2000 almost everyone would be working from home, they were lying. I feel more cheated on this than on personal jet-packs. I don't work in a startup, it's just a
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by Paul_S 14y ago
Hmmm, gives me an idea. Maybe if I ran all the songs through sox to create a spectrogram for each and then use graphicsmagick on the spectrograms to count up the black pixels (silence or quiet sound) I could create a playlist of solid and c
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Blade Runner predictions that came true
1 points by Paul_S 14y ago|0 comments
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by Paul_S 14y ago
I'm fine with you not supporting my browser but if you use a whitelist and block me from the website just based on my user agent string then I'll spoof it. Some websites already do that and it pisses me off when the website turns out to be
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by Paul_S 14y ago
I do actually sometimes do that - move the work over to the afternoon but I don't want to do it as it means staying longer at the office. The work efficiency difference is massive but it's my time.
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by Paul_S 14y ago
My current, not very imaginative solution is to use headphones and listen to heavy metal music. I use regular, closed back, circumaural headphones. IEMs aren't comfortable enough to use all day, and noise cancelling headphones don't work on
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Ask HN: How do you cope with a loud office?
10 points by Paul_S 14y ago|23 comments
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by Paul_S 14y ago
How about Guildford? I'm being serious - fulfils all your requirements.
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by Paul_S 14y ago
I think it's lovely, dubstep notwithstanding. What if this campaign proved to bring positive results - would it be OK then? Or do ends not justify the means?
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by Paul_S 14y ago
Is this meant to be for real? I thought it was just conceptual. I'm really conflicted, I like the concept (bitcoin and mesh-networks, yay!) of a card like that but I don't believe it's feasible and hate the business plans for it.
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by Paul_S 14y ago
Starts out awesome and then turns Orwellian evil.
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by Paul_S 14y ago
Infringe away. Once the code is out there there's no one but the end user to sue and I don't think you can.
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by Paul_S 14y ago
I don't think courts are in a position to rule on quality of products unless it's blatant false advertising. I'd love to discuss this but my next job is likely to involve Unreal as well. All hail our lords at Epic. So instead I'll disagree
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by Paul_S 14y ago
Are there any devices that can take advantage of those speeds? Maybe in the future but then you should wait because the cards will get cheaper every year.
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by Paul_S 14y ago
Unreal would be my first choice. A company recently sued Epic for how crap it is but they lost. Still, the fact that they did sue them in the first place tells you a lot but I'm not allowed to have an opinion. If I could sue a language I'd
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by Paul_S 14y ago
That's some hilariously bad maths. Or am I missing the joke?
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by Paul_S 14y ago
You'll get more specific answers if you give more background. What country are you coming from (or at least is it a EU country)? Where in London do you want to live and do you want to flatshare? The first person pronoun 'I' in the English l
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by Paul_S 14y ago
Flawless and clear presentation, instant results. Sorry, can't see anything wrong with it so can't offer constructive feedback. Maybe ditch the background? Seems so out of place. Sadly it reminds me how badly I'm doing.
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by Paul_S 14y ago
Netbooks are not desktops. The market rejected netbooks altogether in favour of notebooks and tablets. What's the other thing holding Linux back from the desktop in your opinion that ranks higher than either of reasons I mentioned?
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by Paul_S 14y ago
This is really good news. I think the second most important thing holding Linux back in taking over the desktops (after OEMs) is gaming. But if you look at Humble Indie Bundles and kickstarter (so many projects using Unity and/or promising
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by Paul_S 14y ago
How can you unsubscribe from spam? If you didn't subscribe to it in the first place then no amount of pleading will make them stop and if you did subscribe then it's not spam. The only things that help is aggressive filtering and and a good
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by Paul_S 14y ago
Or minimize the number of spinning elements to one giant fan. Everything except power supplies you can get in passively cooled versions. SSDs instead of HDDs and if you need storage get the slow spinning ones. Then you can keep the case ope
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by Paul_S 14y ago
The selection of languages seems arbitrary (at least not explained). If he used the TIOBE index he wouldn't have missed other popular ones: JavaScript, Visual Basic, Objective-C, Logo, PL/SQL, Lua. And a minor irritation: "C, C++, JAVA, LIS
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by Paul_S 14y ago
I'm unfair judging this by the press article rather than the study itself but isn't that like saying kids who are smarter do better at math later in life? IQ tests of small kids are wildly inaccurate because of how kids develop at different
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by Paul_S 14y ago
It amuses me that people are considering whether some of this business should be taken out of the private sector. And given to whom? The army? We're not living the cyberpunk future, yet, but sometimes the only thing I think we're missing ar
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by Paul_S 14y ago
I was about to say I just spent my lifetime without social media but I had no idea Hacker News was social media too. I guess that's good. Means I'm getting on with the times and not living in the 80s as one commenter put it.
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by Paul_S 14y ago
Which specific ones do you mean?
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by Paul_S 14y ago
The best thing about how big skype is is that they have to maintain backwards compatibility (hardware skype phones that can't upgrade) so you can use whatever old version you want and it has to be supported by them. Which means you can stic

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