alexhawdon

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by alexhawdon 12y ago
I can identify with this. As is typical when I started college (UK college; 16 year's old) I became more politically engaged and found my views tended toward the left. I read the Guardian but before long realised that sagely nodding al
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
Novel. I like it. Has me thinking about a 'slow' messaging app: basically email but in daily digest format. E-mail, but with the latency of physical mail. You may reply at your convenience. Your message will be received at the tim
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
Another big thank you from me, too! Your site was indispensable when I was studying CV at university.
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
Also not an expert. My impression was that the high cost of fission plants can be attributed to safety features that aren't required with fusion. (And arguably aren't required -- to the extent society demands them -- with fission
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
I wouldn't say this parallels with skydiving as it's something new. If I choose to go skydiving I can easily get a grasp on how dangerous it is by looking up statistics and choosing a reputable company with a good track record. If
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
Couldn't agree more wrt the poor camera. My (limited -- from helping friends with their devices which were just doing plain weird/awkward things) experience with early Android devices was that the platform took awhile to catch up.
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
Are you really saying that not much was gained in the punishment of someone who, unprovoked, assaulted a complete stranger? Do you not think their experience will cause them to think twice next time they have an impulse to act like this? No
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
I'm pretty sure that's a tongue-in-cheek reference to the pro-surveillance argument that 'if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear'.
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
Definitely. I would say that an 'app-store'-like way for users to add extra capabilities to the device provided by third parties is going to be crucial to the success of this (or similar) devices. Hopefully they'll go a step
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
Those characteristics including ethnicity can be useful for marketing purposes. I remember reading about a shop that used this sort of technology to profile their customers. It revealed that at a certain time of week they received an unusua
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
Comparing children in some new study against the general population of mainstream children is the general approach we use and it's fraught with problems. The studies are often small sample sizes of children who are often opted-in by th
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
I'm loathe to get involved as I know this is a very emotive subject to you friends over the pond, but from my various (largely anecdotal) readings on the subject I fear the view may be correct. I don't think it's unfair to sa
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
That's fantastic! Thanks for the information and apologies for making assumptions (dangerous things!).
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
If they don't mess up the implementation then it would appear to be more secure than traditional cards. Especially in places like Africa (I assume) and the US where Chip and Pin has yet to be rolled out. I appreciate the point you&#x
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
Seconded. They had more than enough conventional ordnance at their disposal to need to break out something as exotic and controversial as nuclear weapons.
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
I had more than a handful of AIX machines serving literally thousands of printers to deal with at a previous job. AIX was hosting a POS/ERP system which was heavily dependent on printing to trade (b2b/'trade' retail busi
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
I know. I've considered proposing (in as much as one can 'propose'; Ask HN, perhaps) a secondary 'meta' comment collection for each article for this reason. I do get it. HN has a lot of Web devs/designers and w
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
What do you dislike about the messaging app? I initially felt corralled into installing it but now I use it quite frequently to participate in small group discussions with my friends. Actually, I should clarify: it's almost exclusively
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
Is that in terms of capacity and/or speed, or do you just prefer the form factor of a full-size SD card?
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
This is me. I live near the centre of an English town that, due to local geography, isn't far from some quite rural areas and is well-connected via rail links to two decent cities (20-30 mins). I can drive, but I've simply not nee
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
This seems like such an obvious solution and, with the advent of things like MOOCs, something that needn't be particularly costly. (Setting aside the fact that even 'costly' but effective rehabilitation is demonstrably cheape
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
Another thing the article doesn't mention but I've heard is now a common (sorry, nothing to cite) way of stealing cars is to take the keys. Perhaps it's time for manufacturers to start with 2-factor authentication, perhaps th
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
Perhaps less to do with the grid, but more the fact that your road systems were designed for the automotive era. In old residential areas driving can be very challenging after everybody's returned from home as streets barely wide enoug
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
Yup. In audio copy protection this is referred to as the 'analogue hole' ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole ), and there's pretty much nothing you can do about it.
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
Quite. Additionally: "...will also make fraud virtually impossible..." I'm pretty sure this line is trotted out every time a new payment technology is introduced. But one that's tied to some irrevocable, personally-assig
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
I'm struggling to recall if I've seen anyone else use them, but I make perhaps one contactless payment a week. The convenience shops and fast-food places in train stations seemed to be the first adopters, and now even my local pub
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by alexhawdon 12y ago
https://medium.com/@nikkidurkin99/my-startup-failed-and-this... From what I read, the idea was very sound and validated by some great initial success.
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by alexhawdon 13y ago
Very nice. Do you have a NetFlix API key or have you used some other source of info for them?
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by alexhawdon 13y ago
That's interesting. Is this connected to the smoking ban or has it always been like this? (Of course, I'm assuming that Spain has a smoking ban. May be wrong!)
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by alexhawdon 13y ago
https://www.coursera.org/course/recsys will provide you with a good introduction to the topic

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