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by alastairpat 15y ago
(Sarcasm)
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by alastairpat 15y ago
"Tell Ixoth to see the top story on Hacker News. It's pronounced "Icks-auth", and Siri picks up easily once our SMS number is added as a contact." It's probably best if you read the article before asking a question that's answered within it
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by alastairpat 15y ago
Just curious - does it recognise 'full stop' instead of 'period'? It's very unfortunate that it doesn't transcribe Australian English that well - do you have a particularly broad accent, if you don't mind me asking?
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by alastairpat 15y ago
There's also the work that Apple did on LLVM/Clang, as well as Grand Central Dispatch. They weren't obliged to release that.
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by alastairpat 15y ago
I only found it by Googling in desperation; they don't exactly advertise it (which I guess is fair enough).
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by alastairpat 15y ago
This x100. I love GitHub's user interface but as a poor student couldn't justify them for my private projects (until I found their free student plan), so I used BitBucket. BitBucket is very good from a pricing and support point of view (and
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by alastairpat 15y ago
MSE is an excellent antivirus programme, particularly given the price. As the article says, it shares its engine with Forefront Endpoint Protection, an enterprise solution used by thousands of businesses world-wide. This is a once-off mista
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by alastairpat 15y ago
I like that the OSI raised the WTFPL licence at a 2009 Board Meeting. I feel the outcome, 'Reject', is a loss for open source software - I'd love to see a programme with LICENCE.TXT containing that.
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by alastairpat 15y ago
Seriously contemplating subcontracting my next audit assignment to the authors… They must be either students or otherwise in the industry (I say they; could be an individual.)
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by alastairpat 15y ago
I realise that it's not the most reliable source, but I read a rumour [1] that Apple offered $800m to acquire Dropbox and they declined. It's possible it simply wasn't enough, but perhaps they're not interested in selling. [1] http://www.m
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by alastairpat 15y ago
I didn't read it until I saw this comment - the report is remarkably in-depth and demonstrates an intimate knowledge not only of the company but also of accounting/audit principles. Anonymous (if it's correct to refer to them as a unified o
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by alastairpat 15y ago
It's an interesting idea in theory, but I honestly think that the number of people who care enough about privacy to want to log out (or otherwise stop the cookies from being sent to Facebook) would be so low that it wouldn't be cost-effecti
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by alastairpat 15y ago
Tracking by IP is a ridiculous idea. My mobile phone provider uses transparent proxying for its mobile Internet - I must share the same external IP as thousands of other people when I browse the web via my phone. Not to mention that househo
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by alastairpat 15y ago
I'm dual Australian/UK and just tried it with my British passport (and Australian address). Almost immediately I got an email saying that "Unfortunately, we won’t be able to respond to your email directly, as this form is only applicable in
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by alastairpat 15y ago
As somebody else mentioned, it's not just about money. Here in Australia, we have four massive banks. They're some of the most profitable in the world and three of them are currently in the process of major technology renewal programmes. Th
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by alastairpat 15y ago
I just looked at the requests using Web Inspector on Safari. iPhone user agent: 37 seconds load time, 1.31MB transferred 93 network requests. Desktop user agent: 15 seconds load time, 839KB transferred, 130 network requests. … WHY?!
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by alastairpat 15y ago
I'd be very interested to know this as well. I'm yet to use their framework, but am going to integrate it into my next project and these reporting features look very attractive from a production perspective - and for free! Does anybody kn
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by alastairpat 15y ago
I've only been active on HN for a few months now and didn't realise there was such animosity towards Gruber, although I had picked up on the Apple discussions - sorry if I was feeding this.
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by alastairpat 15y ago
I've been reading Gruber for a couple of years now and I really believe that it's not nearly as critical/analytical or interesting as it used to be. While previously he would write much more in-depth articles (often of a technical nature re
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by alastairpat 15y ago
The network graph makes for interesting viewing. I suppose it comes as no surprise that Linux makes extensive use of Git's features.
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by alastairpat 15y ago
They have put out a statement[1], although it's in Dutch. Assuming Google's translation conveys the gist and tone of it, they seem more irritated that the browser vendors are removing the root certificates than anything else. [1] http://ww
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by alastairpat 15y ago
I'm not sure what you do with Excel, but another major downside for the Mac version is it doesn't have statistical analysis like its Windows counterpart does. Not a big issue unless you're doing psychological research or work in finance.
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by alastairpat 15y ago
I have to agree with you. I've tried phone support with other brands and it's been terrible. With Apple, I can take a 20 minute drive and speak with somebody who is knowledgeable, polite and actually able to authorise almost anything on the
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by alastairpat 15y ago
It's not a uniquely American thing - Telstra/BigPond in Australia do it too, partnering with Yahoo search. It's frightfully annoying (but easily disabled for the technically-aware), because it actually redirects - this means fixing newss.yc
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by alastairpat 15y ago
No, they haven't; if you open it in a new tab the referrer goes (at least in Safari), so you get 'false' - just click on the link in the same window and you'll get 'maybe'.
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by alastairpat 15y ago
From what I can understand, that's actually a difference between Commonwealth and American English. I'm Australian and always spell out acronyms when speaking them - saying something like 'sequel' or 'scuzzy' just sounds weird to me.
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by alastairpat 15y ago
A/B/C testing: http://goo.gl/68ZXm I'd be curious to know which version was the most effective in the end.
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by alastairpat 15y ago
The whole student management system at my uni (which was implemented at the start of this year) is like this too, down between 2am and 4am to 'synchronise the timetabling system'. I think it's to do with the massive Oracle backend, but I do
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by alastairpat 15y ago
I think Fairfax as a whole is fairly lax when it comes to comment moderation. As much as I despise The Herald Sun and News Ltd., they do the whole online community thing better and the site is better for it.
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by alastairpat 15y ago
The title should read "Jobs on the importance of saying 'no'" - the apostrophe is incorrect.

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