andymurd

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by andymurd 12y ago
I use Ubuntu as my OS on all laptops that I own, but not on my desktop (which is Windows 8.1). The reasons for Ubuntu are many: 1. Smaller memory footprint (laptop memory is expensive) 2. Better package management than Windows & iOS 3.
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by andymurd 12y ago
Devices should not store passwords (or password hashes), and so should never need updating. Instead, a unique TLS client certificate should be issued to the device during provisioning. If a device gets compromised, revoke its cert without a
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by andymurd 12y ago
It's my understanding that the spammers parse the form's HTML to determine which fields must be submitted and the URL to which they must be POSTed. Remember, you don't need a perfect solution to this. When you and another per
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by andymurd 12y ago
I second this. I've also noticed that bots always fill fields based upon their name attribute, so call your fields something other than "email" and "username" and reject submissions where fld9624-v2 is not a valid e
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by andymurd 12y ago
First, congratulations! Having too many customers is a great problem to have. Now, you need to unpick the legacy code that makes up your current MVP and turn it into a solid, scalable system. Recognise that this is not going to happen overn
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by andymurd 12y ago
You're not alone - this happened to all parent with very young children that I know, whether both work or not. Keep struggling, it gets better. I have one son, now 3 years old and a spouse who is also a coder. Here's how we did it
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by andymurd 12y ago
Nest's demand response program is called Rush Hour Rewards. They have a good explanation of it on their website [1], but they claim that customers can opt out at any time, customers receive rewards through their electricity supplier. F
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by andymurd 12y ago
Hopefully, your ISP is using TR-069[1] to update your router. It's not perfect but it's not as bad as you might imagine. The router polls for updates and initiates a connection to the ISPs configuration server. The servers are usu
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by andymurd 12y ago
You still need links to rank, just like the old days. However, unlike the old days, you need links from (very) high quality, high relevance sites. Commenting won't cut it, blogrolls won't cut it, site-wide footer links (e.g. &quot
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by andymurd 14y ago
There are some nice, short names available: How about pinjs for a Pinterest widget? And websitejs.com is just begging to be made into a HTML5Boilerplate clone for javascripts. LeanDomainSearch remains my number one resource for domain disco
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by andymurd 14y ago
I agree that women are under-served by technology companies, but I'd argue that it's vital to break the demographic down to actually provide anything useful. Tech firms don't build sites with the stated aim of being "for men", they make sit
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Node.js as a build script(blog.millermedeiros.com)
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by andymurd 14y ago
Love the concept but let me pay via Paypal. I don't trust you with my CC number and I don't see an SSL cert on the payment page. Yes, I got right up to the point of purchase. Let me use Paypal and I'd use this service several times a month.
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by andymurd 14y ago
I agree with the Wikipedia comparison. I'm seeing many of those Google searches that have Wikipedia pages as the first result now with Quora gaining ground fast. There are two things that Quora is doing that aren't novel, but they are doing
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by andymurd 14y ago
I had the same issue when I moved to Australia from the UK. I had to open a new PayPal account (with a different email address), which was a hassle but having two accounts is working fine for me now.
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by andymurd 15y ago
I'm still persevering with delicious.com, which went downhill after the AVOS buyout but has improved considerably since then. It's still not up to the standards that were acheived under Yahoo!'s ownership but I haven't yet found an alternat
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by andymurd 15y ago
You make excellent points, and I'd like to add one more: Google's personalized search is just not as good as their unpersonalized search. The time I was Googling for suitable Xmas presents for my Grandma should not influence my searches for
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by andymurd 15y ago
One of the biggest hurdles that typical programmers must overcome is that SQL is a declarative language, and therefore quite different to the imperative languages they are used to.
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by andymurd 15y ago
As a programmer, I know that DST (and time zones and durations and relative times) are all problems to be solved in the presentation layer. All business logic uses well-engineered, heavily tested third party libraries for time arithmetic. A
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by andymurd 15y ago
An simple improvement to our voting system would be to include a 'none of the above' option on all ballot papers. If 'none of the above' should win, another ballot must be held and the original candidates are excluded from running.
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by andymurd 15y ago
I think the only reason to ask for a card type is to discourage customers from trying to pay with an unsupported one. Merchants can still be charged fees for declined transactions. A few of the larger merchants can benefit from choosing a d
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by andymurd 15y ago
Store them in a hardware security module ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware_security_module ) which never, ever lets them leave. The HSM does the encryption/decryption work for the application.
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by andymurd 15y ago
I second this but I'd love to sort/filter links by quality and/or relevance. Some posts get superseded quickly (drop in relevance) or are debunked (drop in quality) over time so bookmarks should not be just collect-and-forget. I hope Avos.c
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by andymurd 15y ago
Amazon knows where you are, geo-IP databases are fast and accurate.
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by andymurd 15y ago
If you don't have a chip on your card, an ATM must ask the issuing bank to validate your PIN each time you type it in. Almost all communicate using the ISO-8583 protocol. ISO-8583 defines two response codes that cause an ATM to retain your
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by andymurd 15y ago
I suspect that China does not want to censor or influence Facebook, but rather to co-opt its IP, as it has done with other US corporations (sometimes legally, sometimes not) - see Cisco, Google, GM, Microsoft. Holding a good-sized stake in
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by andymurd 15y ago
In addition to the problems raised by other commenters, there is a huge problem for ISPs that rent space in BT's switching centres: BT wholesale will only allow approved parties to enter their premises. AFAIK only BT retail and Alcatel are
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by andymurd 15y ago
The email wasn't indexed but (maybe) a link in the email was. Google honours robots.txt, X-Robots headers etc but everything else is fair game.
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by andymurd 15y ago
Because if you don't provide a machine-readable description of your goods and services, somebody else will. And they'll get it wrong but you won't be able to get them to change it.
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by andymurd 15y ago
Because most web pages are not valid HTML, let alone valid XHTML and you really need XHTML to make the most of those schemas. In other words "RDFa is hard, let's use Wordpress".

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