andrewtj

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by andrewtj 17y ago
I don't think there's any shame to discussing this in public and I don't think any less of RWW or Dana for inadvertently sparking it. It affirms what the HN community values and let's "outsiders" know what expectations are. This isn't a wit
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I suspect that if someone were to do this and the content was crass - which it presumably is or they'd post it themselves - it would disappear. Regardless, I think this behaviour should be actively discouraged by naming the parties involved
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by andrewtj 17y ago
The Victorian and Western Australian Police forces have also had a checkered history; the remnants of which may be ongoing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Police#Recent_history_... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Australia_Po
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by andrewtj 17y ago
if's been upgraded in 1.2 to be significantly more useful: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/1.2-alpha-1/#s...
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Can you elaborate on what the "host protected area trick" is?
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by andrewtj 17y ago
The article somewhat implies that running TRIM from Windows 7 on a dual-boot (with OS X) system is useful - wouldn't that not be the case though since Windows 7 is not going to know what blocks are in use on the HFS+ partitions?
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I'd deploy this more if the copy weren't aimed solely at Australians; which it shouldn't be as globalisation means if you're not an Australian, Australia is just a test-case for wherever you happen to be.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Underscores have been allowed in domain names for quite some time. DNS based Service Discovery even requires their use. EDIT: If I'm interpreting the specs correctly, underscores are fine in a domain name but not in a hostname.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Twitter withdrew their SMS service in Australia quite some time ago. Both incoming SMS and calls are free in Australia.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
How would he takes payments without a bank account? http://fairsoftware.net gives me a 503 at the moment.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I understand your sentiment but I think your criticism is a little off-base given this article concerns a startup that's charging for a service and appears to have the beginnings of a sales pipeline in place. No it's not going to be the nex
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by andrewtj 17y ago
You're looking at the high-end of the market - he's using a GSM phone connected via a serial port as his SMS gateway.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I'm connected via a regional Australian ISP at the moment and don't find it slow.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
That doesn't jive with my experiences with EveryDNS. Only recently based on a random tweet (not directed at him) David contacted me offering to bulk change the master for a stack of zones.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I searched for Bangkok Thailand and found the content returned very familiar - it'd come solely from http://wikipedia.org/ and http://wikitravel.org/ . The FAQ confirms that's what the site does. I won't try it again.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Make sure you can really quantify the benefits of phone support as it could be quite a heavy time and dollar sink if you're not careful. Personally I'd exhaust every other avenue - don't forget traditional things like welcome booklets and D
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Seems to me as an ignoramus to these goings on that part of the impediment to progress is ambiguously named forks of the spec. For instance MarkdownSharp on the face of it isn't just a reimplementation of Markdown in C#, it's a fork of it.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
For those not aware the previous government did precisely this via http://www.netalert.gov.au
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I think this is a pretty good indication of where Australia is at - welcome to the nanny-nation. What really grates me about this is the supporters always seem to fall back on saying it protects children. I find this absurd - it amounts to
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by andrewtj 17y ago
There's more than a few accounts of a poor mapping between old and new privacy settings (mine weren't what I'd imagine FB would have picked given I had extremely conservative settings). It seems most folks think there's no problem or that t
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by andrewtj 17y ago
To butcher Hanlon's razor - "Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by bugs".
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Prgmr have been quite accommodating in my experience. I'd have to characterise their support as like working with a peer. Using their support address I was able to provision a couple of instances on separate hardware with an additional floa
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by andrewtj 17y ago
How is the increased salary going to help exactly? If you haven't already I suggest you quantify your dreams and where possible take them for a trial. The former will let you know if they are as far out of reach as you think they are. The l
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Initial thought on reading the title was that it'd be a struggle to run road trains in most of the EU and UK, but thankfully the article wasn't referring to one of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Road_Train_Australia.jpg
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Can you be more specific about what an easy mobile payment solution is and why you're enthusiastic about it? To me it sounds like a system in Australian and New Zealand called mobile EFTPOS (I believe Europeans have something similar althou
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by andrewtj 17y ago
My geo/social situation means I'm not likely to hear about a startup before it's beyond my investment capability; which leaves my own startup, which doesn't really count.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
You're ascribing a social phenomena to a technical implementation.
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Don't use it to the exclusion of external tools though. monit doesn't help if the server has no connectivity or no power. On a similar tangent, configuring a mutual restart policy (eg: if cron fails monit restarts it and vice versa) is also
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by andrewtj 17y ago
I just signed up for your service. The interface is quick, clean and intuitive - frankly, it's a relief to use it. I also have to give you props for having an SMS setup that works internationally. A handy addition for me would be DNS monito
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by andrewtj 17y ago
Google are not beyond reproach. If a Google service drops the ball and people have an alternative they'll move on.

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