bruceboughton

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by bruceboughton 2y ago
Yes, Yoto! It’s not just for (kids) audiobooks, they have music cards too. And you can upload your own MP3s to their blank cards, or use it as a Bluetooth speaker.
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by bruceboughton 6y ago
Anybody know what they’re using? Presumably something with a small default max file size (assuming each result is not megabytes of XML)? Kafka?
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UK Coronavirus tests not reported due to “max file size”(twitter.com)
15 points by bruceboughton 6y ago|6 comments
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by bruceboughton 7y ago
At my work, we use an internal config store developed by another team for app config management, versioning and audit history. It’s a bit flaky so we’ve been looking to replace it but don’t want to spend the company’s money building it. We’
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by bruceboughton 8y ago
The joke is that the .0 releases are actually beta quality.
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by bruceboughton 8y ago
I estimate it takes 20 mins to buy an ice cream in Japan. If it takes "half a day" that's (charitably) 12x (8-hour days), or (uncharitably) 24x (16-hour days). If I estimate a month to build your feature and it takes me a yea
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by bruceboughton 8y ago
I believe the GP is talking about the trend of adverts for the exact product you just viewed/bought on the exact store following you around the Internet for a few days. e.g. you bought a blue striped t-shirt from H&M and it is cont
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by bruceboughton 8y ago
Most businesses now do support Amex -- there's been a major shift in the last few years.
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by bruceboughton 9y ago
Surely refresh is just kill for web-apps? The app's state is discarded, the code is reloaded and it re-requests the data. I don't see the differentiation Tim is implying.
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by bruceboughton 9y ago
You Americans, thinking you can control everything...
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by bruceboughton 9y ago
I recently tried to use Google Maps offline mode while abroad. I had a local SIM but limited coverage and limited data allowance. I also had created some saved maps via Google My Maps with pins of points of interest. It exposed a lot of bug
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by bruceboughton 9y ago
Quick shout out for Remember the Milk ( http://rememberthemilk.com ) which already does most of this and to which this looks quite similar.
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by bruceboughton 10y ago
My then-teenage brother once went through US immigration wearing a t-shirt branded with the initials of the then-popular brand, French Connection UK. Needless to say the US immigration officials took some offense and asked him a bunch of qu
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by bruceboughton 10y ago
Yahoo hosts all mail for BT Internet in the UK (the former national telecom, now one of top 3 ISPs)
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by bruceboughton 10y ago
Deconstruct will be an operator and this is how C# handles other operator overrides, e.g. equality, implicit/explicit type conversions, so this is in line with what developers would expect.
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by bruceboughton 10y ago
The EU's negotiating position is exactly as weak as it thinks it is and that is why it has to be so hard on us (Britain). The only negotiating position weaker is Britain's.
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by bruceboughton 10y ago
As a Brit, I wholeheartedly agree with the entirity of your comment.
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by bruceboughton 10y ago
Because, like Google with Android, Microsoft enable this behaviour. They deserve to take the flak.
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by bruceboughton 11y ago
>> auditorial Don't you mean oral or aural?
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by bruceboughton 11y ago
Bollocks. Google Maps has just been in a continuous downward spiral on both desktop and iOS. The naysayers at the Apple Maps launch were extremely short sighted. It was always going to improve significantly over time. Mapping and especially
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by bruceboughton 11y ago
Are rumoured to
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by bruceboughton 11y ago
You mean as a server-side developer...
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by bruceboughton 11y ago
iOS disables custom keyboards for password fields, which is a great idea in most scenarios. This is what prevents Agilebits building a 1Password keyboard extension.
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by bruceboughton 11y ago
> I also know of instances where Boeing produced safer designs and had to lobby the FAA to get them to accept them. One example is using twin engines on overwater flights, rather than 3 or 4. The twin engines are statistically safer. Int
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by bruceboughton 11y ago
Do you also want to wear a HANS device every time you drive? That's a big part of the reason drivers walk away from horrific crashes these days. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HANS_device
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by bruceboughton 11y ago
Then the first derivative comes into play: some days you manage to keep it simple, other days you overcomplicate things. And there's no sure way of telling what kind of day you'll get next. This tends to affect future work rather
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by bruceboughton 11y ago
There are plenty of people who use Reddit who have absolutely zero interest in IAmA. Not everyone is obsessed with celebrity culture.
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by bruceboughton 12y ago
The 80/20 rule will be in full force when it comes to driverless cars.
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by bruceboughton 12y ago
Oh the irony.
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by bruceboughton 12y ago
In Firefox 29.0.1, on the new BBC News homepage, wherever I click, it takes me to same story, even if I click on whitespace.

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