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by andy_boot 13y ago
I would tell anyone to watch the 'Lives of Others' - great film about how surveillance can be abused.
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by andy_boot 13y ago
Steam gained some goodwill by doing things like: If you buy the HalfLife2 orange box ulimate set and already own HalfLife2. Then you can give your old HL2 copy to a friend for free. One of the concerns is that people like microsoft wouldn't
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by andy_boot 13y ago
Given the sizes of those 2 companies. I'd vote for https://duckduckgo.com/ to be the ideal underdog.
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by andy_boot 13y ago
Can anyone tell me if fishshell 2.0 works with RVM and Virtualenvwrapper?
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by andy_boot 13y ago
a lot of people on phones trying to source good discounts in every major city in the world.
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by andy_boot 13y ago
I followed that story for a while - it was really interesting. Its a shame that they splinted off to a private forum.
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by andy_boot 13y ago
This is offering a lot more server for your money than Heroku / Gondor.io / dotcloud.
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by andy_boot 13y ago
I think thats done to fool AV software. - AV software will probably flag up any string which equals "AdobeUpdate-Setup1.exe"
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by andy_boot 13y ago
>> if (str1 != "yes") Thats some dodgy java code right there. (You should use .equals() )
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by andy_boot 14y ago
I'm hoping that now that we have the major framework - Django supporting python 3 in Alpha (now) and fully (in v1.6) we'll finally see a slow move to python 3.
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by andy_boot 14y ago
I enjoyed two scoops. I appreciated the terseness of it. If I had one criticism it would be the 'do it this way' style felt a little strong. I would have liked to see a 'some people dont do it this way' star on some of your coding style cho
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by andy_boot 14y ago
someone must offer that on http://fiverr.com/
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by andy_boot 14y ago
given that its from bloomberg.com maybe this is intentional :-)
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by andy_boot 14y ago
I always used to believe happiness was the most important thing for a society. Then I read Brave new world. Happiness taken to extremes. Now I'm not so sure.
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Summarising 10 Gen's online Mongodb course(nuclearcarrot.posterous.com)
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by andy_boot 14y ago
Yes I agree most people are leaving Flash (and Flex) now. I wouldn't use either of them today. But back in about 2006 Flex was a clever tool
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by andy_boot 14y ago
I agree, I thought Flex was a powerful and useful tool.
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by andy_boot 14y ago
There was an interesting reddit thread about a guy who set up a housecleaning service: maids in black i think it was called. People started cloning it and a subreddit was formed http://www.reddit.com/r/EntrepreneurRideAlong/
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by andy_boot 14y ago
I'm having to upgrade my Win XP machine because the new XCom game doesn't run on less than Win Vista. I only use windows for games so I only tend to upgrade when I find a game that wont work.
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by andy_boot 14y ago
Do you mean startups targeting enterprises as customers? If so then yes I'd be interested.
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My awesome window manager background - ideal for beginners(github.com)
1 points by andy_boot 14y ago|0 comments
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by andy_boot 14y ago
Last time I checked this article was about the CIA. One of the commonly accepted jobs of 'CIA' is someone who maintains the existing order and power structures. You won't make many friends in he CIA if you go against it.
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by andy_boot 14y ago
I remember thinking that http://historio.us was a neat idea. But Seen Before requires less effort on my part as a user -> I am more likely to use it. I just continue to google as per normal and now I have an extra option on the right
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by andy_boot 14y ago
Actually these guys are like Square not Stripe - getting my payment companies confused.
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by andy_boot 14y ago
http://www.izettle.com/ Have been around for a while too
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by andy_boot 14y ago
It's not widely used but the investment bank I used to work at open-sourced some of their work. They figured they could get more eyes on the code and find issues with it faster. https://www.openadaptor.org/ source: http://www.computerwor
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by andy_boot 14y ago
1) IntelliJ automatically recompiles your project in the background. Its only when I do something drastic like changing dependencies that I have to hit the 'build' button. I think IntelliJ gets this balance right.
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by andy_boot 14y ago
I'm a London olympics volunteer. I took some time off work. (I contract so its not hard to do). Its fun and makes a change to normality. I think that what you really get out of it [apart from access to some of the events] is a change of sce
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by andy_boot 14y ago
Taking Eliza. Editing the answers to make it raunchier then leaving it running in the computer lab.
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Advertising experiments: Market first product second(nuclearcarrot.posterous.com)
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