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by adamt 11y ago
London has become a massive tech hub. The digital technology sector employs 200k people [1] and is makes it one of the biggest global tech hubs outside of the Valley. [1] http://www.computerweekly.com/news/4500248323&#x
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by adamt 11y ago
> If a page is static, then CloudFlare can cache it. But if you set your cache headers appropriately, and use efficient serving code like nginx, I imagine serving static content is pretty darn cheap. With the static content it's not
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Sudanese-American boy handcuffed for bringing homemade clock to school(theguardian.com)
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by adamt 12y ago
I will freely admit I know very little about the pharmaceutical world, but my (perhaps dumb) question is what scope is there to disrupt these typical costs. For example it used to be that space programs cost billions, yet India has just put
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by adamt 12y ago
Because of the way cgi works you could just set a user agent or other http header to contain an 'rm' or'nc' command or something in to download and run an attack tool. E.g. You could run netcat to listen on a port or con
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by adamt 12y ago
On most systems I've found this works: LC_TIME='() { :;}; echo vulnerable' ssh <hostname> Not sure of the impact of this, as the user would need to have a remote permissions anyway for the SSH login to occur. But if
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by adamt 12y ago
As I understand this, any CGI script could be affected. Even if written in a different language if it turn does an os.system (or equivalent). More info here: https://securityblog.redhat.com/2014/09/24/bash-sp
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by adamt 12y ago
A startup can easily take 10 years from funding to the point where it's purchased or no longer needing more investment. My first business was founded in 1995 before being sold (for decent money - e.g a successful outcome) in 2011. Wa
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by adamt 12y ago
Since the 1980s http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/trial
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by adamt 12y ago
I think the compelling case for this is less about shops - most of which (at least in the UK) already have some form card processing - but more about things like tradespeople (plumbers, decorators, electricians etc) or other physical servic
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by adamt 12y ago
There are various BGP looking glass servers that can enable you to see the output of various things like this. Better still is some of the 'bgplay' tools that are out there. For example, RIPE hosts one here: https://sta
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by adamt 12y ago
Whether or not VAT is payable is independent of what currency is used to bill in. If you're using a VPS in the UK then there's almost certainly VAT payable by the vendor. If they are in another EU country, and you're VAT reg
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by adamt 12y ago
The British list would appear to have some omissions. E.g. online real-estate site Rightmove (LON:RMV - has market cap $3.76Bn) is bigger than JustEat and Wonga.
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by adamt 12y ago
I am not pretending everything is perfect, but economically the UK is projected by the IMF to grow faster than any other developed G7 Economy in 2014; and at twice the rate of the Eurozone [1] Debt is high, but the key metric of net debt as
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by adamt 13y ago
This is Sequoia's blog post. It was enough to make me slightly overcome my complete shock at the valuation ... http://sequoiacapital.tumblr.com/post/77211282835/four-numbe...
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by adamt 13y ago
I'd never thought I'd say this after the years of aggressive (and at times anti-competitive) dominance but I think the world needs a strong Microsoft again. Although Microsoft remains very strong in the corporate world, its presen
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by adamt 13y ago
The government banned people from wearing any form of headgear (eg masks/blalaclavas) during protests. Some protestors have been wearing silly things in their heads as a form of humorous defiance.
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by adamt 13y ago
The numbers you cite are PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) which is not really relevant to this discussion about the size of a market as it weights GDP by cost of items/living etc. Mine were straight from Google (e.g. https://www
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by adamt 13y ago
"If a startup wants to reach a similar customer base as a startup in the US it will always have to deal with 50 different markets with 50 different legal systems, 50 different marketing channels, and 50 different social networks."
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by adamt 13y ago
Personally I think the Bootstrap templates at wrapboostrap ( http://wrapboostrap.com/ ) look far better and give you a much better starting point. Sure these are not free, but for a one-off website typically cost about $20 w
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by adamt 13y ago
If you have the private key of a trusted CA (e.g. a CA in the browser), then you can sign a certificate for any site. E.g. if your browser trusts RSA as a CA, and I had RSA's private key. Then I could create a new certificate for any s
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by adamt 13y ago
The NSA doesn't need to break Google/Facebook/Twitter's private key. They just need to have bought/stolen/subpoenaed/cracked the private key of any CA that is in your browser. E.g. a mole inside GoDaddy&#
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by adamt 13y ago
If you scroll 'down' to the bit about expansion it says it has gigabit Ethernet.
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by adamt 13y ago
I suspect though that that US Supreme Court ruling has little impact and no jurisdiction on an HMRC (HMRC = Her Majesty's Revenue and Customers, the UK's equivalent to the IRS) investigation into the tax practices of Google's UK subsidiary.
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by adamt 13y ago
In my experience Cambridge is a lot cheaper than London. Both in terms of both living costs, and costs of employing people. It depends also on the skill-sets you're looking for. London tends to be trendier and have people with who are into
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by adamt 13y ago
Furthermore - the US has a big advantage. Many of the companies that handle digital communication services (Facebook, Twitter, Google etc) are US based and have to by law co-operate with the US law enforcement agencies. So if the FBI (or ot
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by adamt 13y ago
Whilst I applaud the efforts of PyPy, I've always been disappointed with the performance benefit it's given me with real world code. Specifically: * PyPy Dict performance is very slow (slower than Cpython). A lot of the code I need to write
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by adamt 13y ago
That is the way it is pronounced in the uk.
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by adamt 13y ago
Exactly. Furthermore - if you go to the link below, you appear to go straight through to his survey which now has over 400 responses. The results stil show a slight 'no' bias, but 59% of women in the $75k-$99k earnings bracket said yes they
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by adamt 14y ago
What library/code are you using to draw tho maps with the pixels? Is it all your own?

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