Swannie

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by Swannie 16y ago
More detailed information/discussion from fellow geeks in NANOG (North American Network Operator Group). This is the go-to mailing list for me when anything weird happens on the internets. Connectivity status for Egypt - http://mailman.nan
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by Swannie 16y ago
I'm sure they are. And regular old phones are apparently working (who'd have thought it!!!) so modem to modem, bbs style, is an option to bridge wifi/packet gaps.
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by Swannie 16y ago
I tried, I couldn't cope with the writing style. Is it really worth me pushing through it?
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by Swannie 16y ago
There's a 14 day expiry on that domain name (at least on 8.8.8.8, google's DNS server). So you should be good for something close to that, my guess, up to 14d - 6h from when the BGP routes were dropped. So your main issue is for .eg urls th
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by Swannie 16y ago
Getting quite OT here. I was looking at building a AX.25 node 10 years ago, with a 15km range on a basic amateur license, with maybe 28kbps. Almost all integrated into a radio with a digital output that cost the same as a PC. That's what I
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by Swannie 16y ago
Good idea, sadly OpenBTS being 1/10 the cost of existing infrastructure, still makes it (ballpark figure) $5k to operate something like the BurningMan 1 BTS network (so cheap in the telco world! Ohh, I'm not considering the power system in
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by Swannie 16y ago
The problem is, running something like this would be a) illegal due to frequency problems and b) if we leave aside the legal implications, you might be killing valid emergency service calls. That said I think it's excellent for the direc
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by Swannie 16y ago
I seem to be posting this a fair bit recently: * http://www.villagetelco.org/ * http://www.open-mesh.org/ But yes, I've been considering getting one on and off for 12 years. Sadly data over amateur radio doesn't appear to have progresse
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by Swannie 16y ago
Well Simon touts Lanyrd as a "wikipedia for conferences". Well that's selling it a bit short. But Wikipedia manages to survive quite happily without being a "viable business".
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by Swannie 16y ago
Because lots of people on Hacker News love this site, and quite frankly want it to succeed, because no other site really comes close.
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by Swannie 16y ago
Not sure why this was down-voted. I'd love to see this extended to a post-grad program too.
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by Swannie 16y ago
This is approximately a "double major". For those in the UK unaware, "X and Y" suggests an approximate 50:50 split. "X with Y" suggests a heavy emphasis on X, more of a 75:25 split. And as others have pointed out, in the UK, apart from in s
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by Swannie 16y ago
"e.g. I can echo any evil input if my character encoding is enforced and HTML special chars are escaped as entities." FAIL :-P AFAIK You need to JS escape anything that goes into a JS context too.
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by Swannie 16y ago
Regardless of that, many mid-career, 5yr+ experienced friends of mine are in the 55 - 65K USD range. cry at rubbish rates of pay in the UK
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by Swannie 16y ago
And there we go. Taking a short-cut when the well established long route is clearly more sustainable, more likely to produce results and going to be cheaper. Hacks are just that, hacks. Used short term to solve a problem, not fix the cause.
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by Swannie 16y ago
Yep, he certainly worked hard to game the NYT best seller list... just like everyone else who wants to be #1 in their section!
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by Swannie 16y ago
The problem is how it's measured. Is that measured as door to door at the gym? Weight room door to weight room door? Or time on the iron? If you measure time on the iron, it is very short. The reality is a lot of your time is spent between
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by Swannie 16y ago
It is a case of letting the best people determine when a new tool will speed up a process and having the environment where they can take the time to write the tool. Too often the environment is hostile to what might be a risky investigation
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by Swannie 16y ago
A number of good responses about writing good tools. That's a no brainer. It's scary to how many project managers I've had to explain why I have allocated 20% of my project planning to writing a new tool. They see it as wasted time because
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by Swannie 16y ago
I strongly agree.
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by Swannie 16y ago
Whilst I won't attack it quite so strongly(!), I must admit I got bored and didn't finish reading the last third. The writing style was a bit too full on and did verge off into ranting.
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by Swannie 16y ago
I agree. I'm not sure what the whole buzz about Q&A is right now. Stack Overflow certainly fills a niche that had, before, been filled by lots of independent "specialist" forums. Having that community under one roof is great, there are
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by Swannie 16y ago
:-) It's a personal peeve! It certainly could do with some usability improvements, but nothing really sticks out as "bad" interaction at the moment. So I think they are correct in focusing their efforts elsewhere! Edit: that said, Si &
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by Swannie 16y ago
"UX overhaul" - I'd suggest what you are talking about is actually "visual design" and not "UX". Lacks focus? Disagree. Lacks the touch of a seasoned designer, agreed. sigh "UX" overused and generally misunderstood.
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by Swannie 16y ago
Interesting approach to sharing data Simon :-) Really like the fact that you're pumping out the micro formats.
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by Swannie 16y ago
It might be an naive assumption, but aren't shares for options usually set aside relatively early in the process? Interesting comment, just provoked me to do a little research, as I had initially thought that stock options would be accounte
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by Swannie 16y ago
Could it have something to do with the reading speed of users? I know that I read a lot faster than some of my old school friends. And not as fast as some old uni friends. But I'd guess the average HN reader was a fair bit faster reader tha
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by Swannie 16y ago
You'd hope so! I know most of Facebook would be classed as engineers, vs. a lot of Yahoo as sales, support, etc. But really? 1/10th the employees, you'd expect their salary bill would be less.
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by Swannie 16y ago
One step closer to a Bladerunner future!
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by Swannie 16y ago
Not in the grand scheme of things. Yahoo! Market Cap: 22B. Revenue: 6.5B. Employees: 13,900 Facebook valuation: 50B. Revenue: 2B. Employees: > 1,300 OK, so the costs of running Facebook from a pure employee point of view are smaller tha

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