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aaronbasssett
13y ago
Hash the numbers and compare hashes instead.
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I wonder how much their conversion was impacted by internationalisation problems. It looks like they were attempting to target the US, but their pricing page wasn't localised for that market. Unless they really were charging one thousa
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www.twig-world.com - Glasgow, Scotland, UK Twig is an award winning educational video streaming company. We have two main products aimed at Primary and Secondary school kids. www.twig-world.com and www.tigtagworld.com We practice CI and our
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> Fred Wilson coined the term over 2 years ago What? No. That's ridiculous. For as long as people have used the phrase "logged in" there have been logged out users. A simple Google search for the phrase turns up a thread†
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Made by beevolve a company who: > Monitor your brand mentions, schedule and launch social media posts and measure resulting sales and engagement for those posts - all in one easy-to-use platform. Designed for SMBs. Yeah,sure. Why don&#x
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14y ago
Some cars already come with HUDs which are projected onto the windscreen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1s6SZ73i8A
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So I take it you never go outside? CCTV is already omnipresent. I'm not saying I agree with it, just that there are larger surveillance battles to be fought.
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I know some incredibly talented younger people. People who without a doubt will be brilliant developers, much better than me I am sure. Would I hire them into a senior position right now, no chance. Sometimes being good or even gifted is si
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Yes, and they are hired into a graduate position, if they are lucky. Most are brought on as Juniors because they do not have the required experience.
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It actually looks easier than this. There appears to be only 30 possible values for the slider. Send a random number between 0-29 and you have a 1 in 30 chance of being right. In reality you can probably remove the extreme values as it is u
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"I don't know what my IQ is. People who gloat about their IQ's are losers" – Stephen Hawking
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none of the examples allow you to select text within the input field. (Chrome 22.0.1229.94 on OS X 10.6.8)
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Hey guys you know what is a cool name? HeyZap. There's a lot of names you could call your company, like Zap Hey, or Hi Nap. But I really like HeyZap. You know what looks awesome? Lighting bolts. You know what name has a Z which looks like a
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Correct, and that is why they are much better examples than curing Malaria. That was my point about the blog post, it says "Be like these guys!" and then presents problems which the target audience has no realistic chance of fixing, so they
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Because the guys building Facebook for dogs, or working on faster games have the transferable skills required to work on a Malaria vaccine.
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Have you disabled the ability to select text on purpose? Because that is really annoying.
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"exotic personalities common of the 80s". He would have been a baby/toddler in the 80s. You do know he was only 30?
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But it is not even encrypted. And AFAIK most (sane) sites do not store you account information encrypted in the cookie, they store a session id. This session id is then used to find the relevant session information which is stored on the se
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I'm from the UK, I know all about stiff-upper-lip but even to me this seems like unnecessary martyrdom. I would feel that I had failed my staff if any of them thought that our product was so fragile that delaying launch by a week so they co
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Scotland also a pretty active tech/meetup community. Living in Glasgow I'm mostly familiar with the ones which happen here, but if you're interested in tech startups or want to chat with some fellow geeks you should come along. Some of my f
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The Scottish government has been pushing to lower corporation tax for a while now. They've been prevented from doing so by the English government as they fear that companies will simply hop the border to reduce their taxes.
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I guess "Will the real app thousandaire please stand up?" didn't have the same ring to it?
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`Uncaught ReferenceError: io is not defined`
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What about 1 time use codes many console games come with now? I can see the multiplayer codes being safe as they can claim you are purchasing access to the servers. But what about codes which unlock extra characters or other parts of the ga
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Until I can set filters on the file display so I don't see .pyc files I'll be giving Coda a pass.