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by ajtaylor 13y ago
The most interesting part was at the end when they talked about a proposal & vote to upgrade the payment network (and not even real-time like England's) which failed to pass. A later survey found that the prime reason was cannibali
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
While I would agree that smartphone cameras are "good enough" in most cases, they still pale in comparison to a DSLR. But then you can't put a DSLR in your pants pocket either... I think his closing argument that laptops are
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
It often is, but I'm in pretty decent shape. I cycle regularly (my commute is 34 km one way), am not overweight and eat decently. For as long as I can remember, I've always started sweating very easily.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
My body naturally gets very warm, very quickly, with very little exercise. If they can make this work, I might actually be able to wear a suit all day! Luckily I don't need to but that's beside the point. Assuming they can get the
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
Pure genius, and funny too! I couldn't resist posting that link on facebook.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
Great ideas and tips. As I read through it, I found myself mentally saying "yep, did that" for most of the sections. One thing I disagree with was what to do when a new resource is created. I think the Location header is a great i
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
Right after seeing Bender dance, that was the very first thing I noticed as well.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
This is particularly true for electronics. However, I've noticed that if the fulfiller is Amazon then there's a better chance of shipping an item to Australia. I can't remember what it was now, but I remember one item where s
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I was going to post the same thing but since you've beaten me to it I'll simply say I couldn't agree more.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
That's going on my to-watch list tonight. Thanks for the pointer.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
Only 17.5k/yr? You got off easy! Our first quote at $work was 6 figures, though we ended up settling on a figure more than yours and less than $100k/yr. We've now switched to OSM + MapQuest open tiles + leaflet and couldn&#x2
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
"If your goal is freedom, you need to buy that freedom." nailed it! I couldn't agree more with you. The timing couldn't be better because I just finished a spreadsheet for a new family budget. Once I got past the scary b
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
The facility requires 65 megawatts continuously to run... the mind boggles!
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
At $work (in Australia) we use EWay as our payment provider so the Stripe integration obviously won't help me. However, dunning emails would be very helpful to our head of sales in her qoal of meeting monthly sales targets. Is there
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
As a non-Twitter user, I had always wondered how they were going to be generating long-term revenue. The possibilities for real-time interaction with TV audiences via a hashtag/tweet on a TV program sounds pretty enticing to me. It wil
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
That was my first thought as well. Please don't tell me no one in Sydney managed to think of this.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I was working in Ireland until 2011, under the older work permit scheme. The major downside to this scheme was that the permit was tied to the employer - lose your job and you have to start all over. This is what happened to me right as the
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
Thanks for the link. I've sent an email to our $work hosting provider with some ideas to upgrade our TLS support, among other things.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
If there were a correspondence between the two, it wouldn't surprise me. But you'd think that even if the selection process was political you'd dole out some juicy areas too. Maybe I'm asking too much of a politician...
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
One of the most interesting reads was Internode's submission [1] under the "Take 2" heading. Even a layman like myself can see that Telstra's behaviour was anti-competitive and bullying. I can't imagine the headache
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I felt exactly this way too. You know how you just cringe about something, knowing exactly how awful it's going to be or feel? That describes most of my reactions to Allan, and is part of the reason I quit watching. The other was that
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
Was the reason to try and find the most challenging installations and do them first? Availability of local contractors to do the actual work of digging holes, stringing fiber and connecting it the the equipment? I'm honestly curious be
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
One thing that always puzzled me about the NBN rollout was why they chose to do the least populated areas first? It seems that it would have helped to allay the cost concerns if they had brought it to more populated areas where the customer
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
Don't forget that this is in the UK, so in addition to the things mentioned above there are quite likely a ton of CCTV cameras that could be utilised better. Or based on the hospital data new ones could be installed as deterrents.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
So sad to read this. It seems that every day I hear of a cyclist being killed (both in Australia where I live and elsewhere). As a cyclist myself, it saddens and scares me. I'm acutely aware of how exposed I am while cycling. Thus, my
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
This is certainly great news for the people of Kenya! I've always wondered how they estimate how long a water resource can last. In this case, they said 70 years. But does that take into account the increased usage/population the
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
MapQuest Open is very hit or miss. In Australia, the directions & geocoding are pretty good. However, in India it's atrocious - but still good enough for what we need.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
I really don't see the difference. Either way you're agreeing to abide by a set of rules by the owner of the service. If you don't like their rules, use one of the alternatives.
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
As one example, at $work about a month ago I switched us from our $$$ Google maps implementation over to OSM + Mapquest Open. In some cases the geocoding isn't as good, but it's good enough for the important sites (AU based). And
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by ajtaylor 13y ago
At $work we had an IOS application developed. Test Flight wasn't too bad to setup, but it was a bit of a pain having to click the link in the email from within the IOS device (an old ipod touch in my case). Once Test Flight was setup,

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