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by corford 10y ago
Very true. I run my own business and so get the best of both worlds (UK salary, Lisbon cost of living) but it would be a harder choice if I was in my twenties and earning locally. I sincerely hope that will change for the better over the ne
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by corford 10y ago
From a happy brit expat escaping brexit: give Lisbon a whirl! Moved here earlier in the year and it's been one of the best decisions I've ever made.
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by corford 10y ago
There's plenty of money being made in flights but it requires serious volume. Hipmunk were never able to take enough traffic away from kayak, skyscanner etc. as their only real differentiation (agony search) wasn't a big enough pu
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by corford 10y ago
OT but if you've never heard of Buran, you might like this blog post: http://russiatrek.org/blog/history/two-abandoned-spaceships-... It's rammed with fantastic photos by Ralph Mirebs of the hangers at t
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by corford 10y ago
Haha yeah :) TBH I have no idea what half of them are any more. I've just never gotten around to pruning them since FF works well enough and load up time isn't too bad (< 12 secs).
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by corford 10y ago
I've got 732 tabs open at the moment and performance is still fine. The upper limit for my machine seems to be about 745 ish - much beyond that and FF runs out of video memory or something (new tabs render sites half black).
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by corford 10y ago
Love this question! Most surprising in terms of unexpected returns: learning to build my own PC (Pentium 120MHz) at age 14 or 15 with parts from a local computer fair. Searching and selecting the components and assembling everything by hand
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by corford 10y ago
Agree strongly. I think they will lose this fight which is why I've stayed out of the docker race and am currently pinning my hopes on k8s + rkt.
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by corford 10y ago
lsof -i -n -P is a regular "reflex" command whenever I'm trying to figure out why a daemon I've just setup isn't responding to requests (immediately answers the questions: is it running? and, if yes, under what pr
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by corford 10y ago
Have you seen Zeep? It's literally billed as "A fast and modern Python SOAP client". Python 2 and 3 compatible. Last commit was two weeks ago. http://docs.python-zeep.org/en/master/
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by corford 10y ago
Another +1 for Fastmail. Their IMAP migration tool worked flawlessly shifting multi GBs of emails when I made the switch last month (admittedly not from gmail but from a self-hosted Zarafa install). Re: Drive/Photos alternative. For th
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by corford 10y ago
I'm old enough to remember all the "Debian is dying" posts on Slashdot back in the day. As a very happy convert since the potato days, it's amazing how far Debian has come and a testament to the power of free software. G
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by corford 10y ago
Looks like they've already intervened: "This repository has been disabled. Access to this repository has been disabled by GitHub staff. Contact support to restore access to this repository. "
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by corford 10y ago
Yeah but if the adserver is a black box that's managed by the ad network I would have thought the website could pass the liability on to them (and state this in their ToS somewhere)
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by corford 10y ago
True it would be an issue for CPC/CPM campaigns but less so for CPA. Not sure what the solution would be for CPC/CPM - off the top of my head maybe a random CNAME that pointed to an ad-server controlled IP so they could cross-audi
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by corford 10y ago
Security is a problem but my guess is publishers will care about profit first and worry about security later. Other than proxying I can't see how advertisers and publishers solve the ad-block problem without completely rethinking how a
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by corford 10y ago
Yeah, this is how I envisage it. Publisher gets a docker image (or whatever) from the ad-network and hosts it internally on their network. Then you just need to map a random path from nginx/haproxy. Client IP can be passed through too.
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by corford 10y ago
No idea, I'm not a lawyer. Assuming liability is a real problem presumably this is fixed by ad networks improving their vetting and offering some sort of insurance to publishers in the event malware sneaks through. Alternatively, as me
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by corford 10y ago
It's going to be hard for facebook because they're such a big target. I think where ad-blockers will start to have problems is with the millions of lesser known sites. Once these publishers swap over to proxying ad-content through
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by corford 10y ago
FT says three weeks: https://next.ft.com/content/a0e0134c-4d08-11e6-88c5-db83e98a...
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by corford 10y ago
From a simple usability perspective, definitely agree. I re-purposed a Dell Chromebook with Debian Jessie for my partner last weekend and the hardest thing (bearing in mind I had to delicately pop the case apart and remove a write protect s
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by corford 10y ago
Depends on the type and size of the DDoS and where on the network path it's hitting.
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by corford 10y ago
A ~1 hour response time from identifying to mitigating the DDoS isn't exactly bad. I'd say their engineers did a pretty good job.
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by corford 10y ago
I think Berlin will benefit from brexit but I'm more interested in watching Dublin. Seems to me it should do very well: big tech companies already there, attractive corp tax rates, cheap and easy to incorporate a company (AFAIK?), simi
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by corford 10y ago
Thanks guys! :)
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by corford 10y ago
A bit meta but can someone tell me if Warren Buffet is on course to win his bet[0]? It's set to expire next year. [0] http://longbets.org/362/
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by corford 10y ago
Second this! I loved PSP and used it daily. When I lost the binary I hunted around for a replacement for ages and finally settled on Paint.NET. It's not as good but works well enough.
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by corford 10y ago
For me the most exciting thing about Swift is the recent rumour that Google are looking at adopting it as a first class language for Android. If that happened, you'd finally have an open, fast, expressive, modern language that you coul
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by corford 11y ago
I guess I'm looking at it from where I was back then (a spotty young teenager). I remember Windows 3.1 needed Trumpet Winsock, then came IE 1,2,3 and they were awful, when IIS appeared it took about a decade to become any good versus A
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by corford 11y ago
Early on, Microsoft missed the internet revolution but were big enough and good enough to survive that early misstep. Intel is big enough and good enough to survive their mobile blunder (though, admittedly, they're taking more time tha

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