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BBC Operations Dealt with 9/11 [correct URL](web.archive.org)
1 points by betandr 15d ago|1 comments
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by betandr 15d ago
On September 11th 2001 a small Operations team at the BBC had the job to keep the BBC on the Internet and keep the servers running. At the time, a lot of the BBC's international-facing server capacity was in THNY, close to ground zero.
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by betandr 15d ago
Apologies, the URL is: https://web.archive.org/web/20031118063127/https://support.b...
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How BBC Operations dealt with 9/11(support.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by betandr 15d ago|3 comments
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by betandr 15d ago
On September 11th 2001 a small Operations team at the BBC had the job to keep the BBC on the Internet and keep the servers running. At the time, a lot of the BBC's international-facing server capacity was in THNY, close to ground zero.
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by betandr 2y ago
It's fascinating that modern gang signs might be considered a recent development although they have probably been always with us.
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by betandr 7y ago
I like this idea although I use vinyl stickers on my MacBook and then, before needing to sell it, I peel them off again. They leave very little residue which I clean with some isopropyl alcohol and they prevent the case from being scratched
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by betandr 7y ago
I totally get all of these points and understand them, and they're really why I do like Go. Implicit interfaces, for example, means you don't need to change code for something to implement this interface. It's a powerful th
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by betandr 7y ago
The term object-oriented has often been misinterpreted. Alan Kay explained that "[the term object-oriented] was a bad choice because it under-emphasized the more important idea of message sending".
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by betandr 8y ago
We really do have to radically re-think our cities but the biggest issues aren't going to be practical but emotional. In London parents drive their children around in 4x4s, knowing that their vehicle causes the pollution that is affect
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by betandr 8y ago
Mentioned a couple of times but it's still raw that Inbox has been canned too. Also the Googlers I know use it and Gmail is some ways back although it has been improved. It's been the best thing to happen to email forever, IMO, an
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by betandr 10y ago
As they say 'convenient is better than better' and I've long looked for a company like Netflix who will allow me to give them money and they will let me watch what I want.
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by betandr 10y ago
I saw Netflix's chief product officer Neil Hunt say a while ago Netflix would "never" offer downloads, but I have to say I'm really pleased with this. Getting the train through spotty service areas effectively rendered N
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by betandr 11y ago
I totally agree. One of the reasons I've started using an Onion Omega is because of this reason. IoT is pointless if you can't connect to the I easily, IMHO.
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by betandr 11y ago
I suppose the interesting point is more that it's being marketed as not really operated by humans as a positive when in many instance in our modern world the reverse is true. And also it's an interesting application of the Turing
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by betandr 11y ago
We do seem to be building in a lot of risk to our infrastructure at the moment from network connections to software delivery and introducing many single points of failure. It's good for a company that wants to control how you connect t
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by betandr 11y ago
It is an inherent issue with the industry, demonstrated by the strategy of adding more people to a project and expecting productivity to increase on a linear scale. Although, intuitively, people surely understand that writing software is a
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by betandr 11y ago
What did we learn today about security through obscurity, children? ;)
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by betandr 11y ago
I would definitely visit a "secret Russian space base"! Especially if it was inside a mountain! ;)
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by betandr 11y ago
Really like this! Merging text with a png to render to the terminal could be the future of cowsay! ;)
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by betandr 11y ago
Great work and think it goes to show we should all be aware of the effects of what we put out into the world. You've just made it a slightly better place to be! :)
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CCTV plan ‘to monitor the whole of Edinburgh’(edinburghnews.scotsman.com)
3 points by betandr 11y ago|0 comments
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by betandr 11y ago
There might be a certain amount of 'flag-planting' going on too. Especially with a new social network, people can register, grab their favourite username, then ignore the network for a while; only coming back when it has gained en