Tim-Boss

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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
4 hours 20 mins to go to the 18th (Here in the land of GMT at least!) a little late in the day for announcements like this isn't it? Not that I'm in any way upset they're taking action, I truly believe it should be 'all hands on deck' when
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
Honestly after all I've seen, I'm convinced that even global thermonuclear war wouldn't stop The Pirate Bay... If there were only 1000 electrons left in the world, someone would be using them to download the latest Justin Bieber abomination
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
This has been discussed in another post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3475587 Personally, I think it's nice that they're taking some sort of action by putting a notice on their front page, but as people have said before, an awful l
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
I'm pretty sure that either the "PERB" would need to be so massive to get enough of a pressure differential to cause lift that the FAA(USA) or CAA(UK) would require you to jump through very expensive hoops, and also that I struggle to think
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
Not on my phone!
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
What I took away from the article is that done right, 503 error, SEO wont be damaged (long term at least) and everything will be back to normality again within a couple of days.
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
Agreed, I've seen a greasemonkey script that can do it, but honestly I can't see a reason why this isn't adopted as standard! https://gist.github.com/1522657
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
Afaik this is all for the 18th January 2012.....or Wednesday as we mortals call it
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
Very useful for new founders, although as you quite rightly point out if you pay a half-decent accountancy firm to handle your company finances they should be sorting most of this out for you!
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
Has HN really deteriorated to the point where people are submitting smoothie recipe articles?!? Oh no, my mistake, just another thinly veiled advert for a personal blog.....
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
I absolutely agree with the comment from EhVedadoOAnonimato: "I think it is more likely that Mr Jit there didn't know what you were talking about, and just gave you a standard "finish the discussion with client happy" answer." I've spoken w
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
Step 1 on the path to motivation: Ingest coffee/red bull...
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
Opensource it?
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
Old news... foxcon's sketchy practices has been widely reported on in the media, yet I believe people are willfully blind to "remote" concerns/issues when someone hands them a new 'shiny' (ipod/ipad/whatever) for a few hundred dollars!
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
"How can we turn garbage into energy?" Burn it. "Why do cats purr?" Evolved basic social actions, display of affection/assuagement. "Is it better to boil or bake?" Boil water, bake cake (or get bake). "Can robots change their mind?" Only if
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
If "climate engineering" fails and the planet gets warm enough to melt the polar ice and heat the sea beds to release the trapped methane, its probably inevitable! ("Methane is one of the most potent and influential greenhouse gases on Eart
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
As has been said: Good written documentation is essential. If only for ease of looking at an index to jump straight to a specific section instead of having to 'guess' what part of a video I need to skip through to watch a specific bit... ..
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
Does anyone have a link to the latest list of websites taking action on the 18th?
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
Chrome isn't much better...
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
I hope its just a random error that keeps getting the discussions and links to this article killed and not something a bit more systematic... or "evil"....
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
Move to Canada, the UK or any other western nation....free healthcare is a massive load off the mind in lean times!
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
The missing third option: Yes, already left GoDaddy!
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
This has been on the cards for a while now, the way I see it only big brands (or the ones that can afford the huge fee) really stand to benefit from it...
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
I would doubt it: I think what they're arguing in court is historical, e.g. BigCorporation sold(past-tense) units of our product that infringed(past-tense) our I.P. [disclaimer: I'm no lawyer]
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
Without support for Flash I'm not sure this could realistically be considered a "browsing computer", especially for less-than-technophiles!
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by Tim-Boss 15y ago
Why so cynical!??? Surly these are just philanthropists supporting the Raspberry Pi foundation and their charitable work? :)