alexkus

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by alexkus 13y ago
"Move fast and break (other people's) things!" ?
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by alexkus 13y ago
> I also do not understand why a big company would share the same public key across servers? They might not be different servers, just different IPs. Multiple external IPs may all terminate at the same piece of hardware (Firewall, VPN de
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by alexkus 13y ago
For "doesn't use your bandwidth" read:- * The public wifi usage doesn't eat up any of the private bandwidth allowance * The public wifi is limited to 512kbps but private usage gets precedence (meaning that the band
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by alexkus 13y ago
We had a host called 'elvis' for the very same Solaris ping response reason.
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by alexkus 13y ago
Viruses were a favourite for a while (Hanta, Ebola, ...) We had a 'bad idea' theme once which included:- port23 dotat But my favourite for one of our build machines and appeared in -version output of our product was s
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by alexkus 13y ago
The Guardian[1] is notorious for typos and other little inaccuracies (mostly back from the non-digital printing days, but they proudly keep the tradition going even with modern presses.) 1. a.k.a. The Grauniad. www.grauniad.co.uk redirects
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by alexkus 13y ago
And the dreadfully named Pen Island:- http://www.penisland.net/
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by alexkus 13y ago
Cryptocat?
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by alexkus 13y ago
Yes, sorry, got the courses mixed up.
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by alexkus 13y ago
The sieving stage can be massively parallel and doesn't require large amounts of memory, with enough machines you could perform the sieve stage in under a day (and with more machines within an hour). A 100,000 node botnet could be very
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by alexkus 13y ago
It all depends on whether you've got a compelling reason to or not. For us it was a simple decision, we have a mature stable product[1] that's written in C. So the path of least resistance is to write out own web framework (from s
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by alexkus 13y ago
Funny means funny. LOL is just unnecessary punctuation.
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by alexkus 13y ago
(UK) Mortgage is 36% of our combined post-tax wages (there's no tax relief on mortgage interest in the UK). Childcare is another 21%. (Mortgage and childcare combined would be 100% of my post-tax wage!) Seems harsh now but it's wo
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by alexkus 13y ago
Probably because it's linked to in the first line of the original article.
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by alexkus 13y ago
Given that:- sin(x) = cos( pi/2 - x ) cos(x) = sin( pi/2 - x ) you only need one of them.
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by alexkus 13y ago
It's good seeing the major roads so clearly defined outside cities. There are a fair bunch of oddities going on in it though.
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Mapping the World, one Tweet at a Time(ccs.neu.edu)
2 points by alexkus 13y ago|2 comments
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Europe plans to end mobile phone roaming charges(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by alexkus 13y ago|0 comments
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by alexkus 13y ago
Ah, but with the --color=auto option on ls (which I have set in my aliases) there's a difference between "ls -1" and "ls | cat" Indeed there's even a difference between "ls -1" and "ls -1 | cat&q
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by alexkus 13y ago
It's not on my bookshelf but thanks for the recommendation.
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by alexkus 13y ago
> How did you find the OU degree? It was good. I took it almost as slowly as you can (typically one module per year) so it was 8 years from start to finish. In that time I got married, moved house twice and became a father so I wanted to
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by alexkus 13y ago
My favourite seemingly-useless-but-actually-not-useless use of cat:- ls | cat
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by alexkus 13y ago
> Quantitative trading seems interesting because I would hazard that you need strong math background along with solid hacking skills. Strong maths knowledge can be good for general developer roles anyway. It's one (small) reason why
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by alexkus 13y ago
> unless you use a tumbling service like bitcoinfog Which could be run by the NSA... It's turtles all of the way down.
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by alexkus 13y ago
How much you pay in London really depends on how/where you want to live. It's far cheaper if you're happy to spend an hour or more commuting each way. I need to earn £50k to cover just childcare costs and the mortgage (lookin
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by alexkus 13y ago
Royston seems to take the worst of both places and the good bits of neither. (I grew up just South of Cambridge and went to school not far from Royston; and I now live in London. For a while I commuted between the two by motorbike, passing
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by alexkus 13y ago
It asks me to sign in when I click "Request Invite" in a browser that has never logged in to google. Also asks me to sign in if I've signed out of google.
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by alexkus 13y ago
No black snot for me (ever!) despite doing KX/Finsbury Park to Vauxhall (with a further train at each end) and back five days a week for many years. My commute (when not cycling) is now just a single commute from Zone 2 to Zone 1. Never a s
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by alexkus 13y ago
> I've found the drivers in London to be better in general than the rest of the country. There are cyclists EVERYWHERE. No car is surprised to share the road with one and they all know what to expect from them. I'd definitely agree with
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by alexkus 13y ago
There are various "walking tube maps" that show you where it's quicker to walk between two stations:- http://rodcorp.typepad.com/rodcorp/images/tube_walklines_fin...

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