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by bdfh42 13y ago
Water boarding, sensory deprivation, drugs, electric shock and such all seem popular and are supported by the very best democratic governments - so that must be OK. Me - I think privacy needs to be at the forefront of everything we do for a
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Size matters | Popehat(popehat.com)
2 points by bdfh42 13y ago|0 comments
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by bdfh42 13y ago
Just trying it now - brilliant - TV shows downloaded from BBC to my Nexus 10. Works great although download speeds are way slower than those to my Sky box (format differences I suppose)
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by bdfh42 13y ago
I was hired as a senior manager into a well known company that used psychometric testing to filter job candidates. To start off with I was happy to go along with it when hiring into my own team - after all the filter had resulted in them re
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by bdfh42 13y ago
True but everything is there if you dig deep enough. You say you are looking for an alternative to C# and with Linux support - why is that - what are you looking for in addition to what C# has to offer on that platform? [Edit]Comment indent
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by bdfh42 13y ago
People often describe C# as "Java done right" - so Java? Certainly cross platform.
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by bdfh42 13y ago
When people stop down-voting your comments or the quality is such that they start voting them up ;) then you will reach a certain score (changes over time) and magically you will have this awesome power to down-vote the comment contribution
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by bdfh42 13y ago
After a bit of thought, I acknowledge that you could conceive of a new language with better syntax that had the modern bells and whistles with the added capacity to view spreadsheets and their cells as a standard data type and with one of t
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by bdfh42 13y ago
I suspect that the problem here would be that VBA in Excel is all about the environment (of Excel) and the manipulation of Excel objects and that this would make it an unsuitable target for cross compilation - which is generally successful
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Never Be a Customer's Doormat(inc.com)
79 points by bdfh42 13y ago|41 comments
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by bdfh42 13y ago
May depend upon what data you are storing - particularly customer data. From the UK perspective I suspect that any data that might be deemed personal should not be stored on servers that are outside the UK. The fact that you know that forei
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by bdfh42 13y ago
There is a lesson there - you cant sell a lot of kit (available at some future date) at a price that is over 30% more than a ton of other folks got it for. The reward price "spread" is an attempt to reproduce that initial enthusia
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by bdfh42 13y ago
Ouch - lots of folks (uni graduates a plenty) taking jobs well below their "qualification" level. So - please do not be dismissive of people's skill levels.
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by bdfh42 13y ago
I have no criticism for people who take minimum wage jobs - they are stars because they have motivation and (often) a clear view of where they are going - so all power to your sister. The bug bear is that a very high percentage of the peopl
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by bdfh42 13y ago
In the UK, we the tax payers subsidise the McD's minimum wage so that their employees can actually live. We pay housing cost subsidies and pay the utility taxes and ... . madness - we subsidise their terrible wages just so we can buy a
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by bdfh42 13y ago
So you can make the McD shifts that start or end when public transport does not run?
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by bdfh42 13y ago
Well of course there is no chance that any 5 year old in an ordinary school will learn anything about programming. Just think who will be teaching them - that's right - the normal teachers. How much do they know about programming? - I
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by bdfh42 13y ago
Looks like some misrepresentation going on here. What the download is not is FileZilla - but a piece of software with an Ask.com copyright (as you pointed out). Looks scammy and scummy - why would Sourceforge get involved with this sort of
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by bdfh42 13y ago
I suspect that Assange would love another martyr - just as long as it is not him.
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by bdfh42 13y ago
No never. a) this might unfairly restrict your future job choices or personal development activities. b) It is a classic a *hole indicator - so a good warning about the sorts of people you would be interviewing with. <edit> Using the
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by bdfh42 13y ago
Looks very nice - probably covers the ground for a lot of use cases. Big question for me would be - how do we go through "due diligence"? How do you communicate your bona fides to me the seller and to my customers? I suspect this
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by bdfh42 13y ago
A pencil and paper are the superior solution. When you get to show the results to others - just use whatever you are presenting the rest of the message with - almost all "office" type products have sufficient capacity to manage th
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by bdfh42 13y ago
If we just hooked up some wires between the NSA and the Russian equivalent and then quietly snipped their connections to the rest of us they could happily play together forever. We could get on with our lives and businesses.
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by bdfh42 13y ago
A huge injection of public money into an unproven educational tool - with the profits flowing to a corporation well able to afford the cost should it have any faith in the efficacy of the approach.
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by bdfh42 13y ago
Just ask 1,000,000 people for a single dollar - job done. You might need a good story...
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by bdfh42 13y ago
Whole point is that you involve skilled individuals and (perhaps) long term mentors who will increase the likelihood that you become investable. Their "share" in the business is a positive vote of confidence in the idea and the fo
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by bdfh42 13y ago
I took part in this program http://www.inventorium.org/events/swequity-wales-spring-2013... that runs in Dublin and now North Wales. Great idea - check out the info packs to see how it works. No reason that you could n
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by bdfh42 13y ago
What? This is a social bookmarking site - do you mean you have a problem with the links you have posted? Stand up and be counted my friend!
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by bdfh42 13y ago
wot? you mean a company like Apple would take other peoples ideas and then patent the whole sphere just so they can act like a complete pain in the arse to anyone who might actually develop something new? Can't believe that - oh wait!
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by bdfh42 13y ago
We are still building the MVP but do wonder how we should counter customer partner and potential investor worries about this issue. SaaS still looks like the best way to deliver our software but I suppose now we will have to load the whole

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