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by corford 13y ago
I used to work in the aviation industry and had lots of similar conversations with pilots. After a while I began to realise it's essentially just like every other industry: those the flew for well run airlines tended to be happy and th
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'Alien Bugs' Discovered In Earth's Atmosphere(news.sky.com)
23 points by corford 13y ago|13 comments
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by corford 13y ago
Would be nice if they could spread some of this new found IMAP love to Outlook proper. Last time I checked, support for it is still fairly half hearted :(
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by corford 13y ago
Amen to it being harder to _get right_ than first appears... I've been working on a floating/sticky scroll solution over the last couple of days and decided to go with fixed positioning to try and lessen the CPU load. Dealing with
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by corford 13y ago
Fun hack but since it relies on JS it's difficult to see why cutting IE8 out makes sense for such a negligible speed up (assuming said speed up actually exists).
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by corford 13y ago
For JS heavy sites, I've found proxying the traffic through Fiddler is the easiest way to discover the API end points I need to hit.
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by corford 13y ago
>I presume it is to force more Ad views on people? Yep
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by corford 13y ago
I wouldn't call a 1 series luxury?
909.
by corford 13y ago
True but one has to assume he finds it easier to publish his reporting through a British newspaper otherwise why wouldn't he simply be on the NYT payroll?
910.
by corford 13y ago
You may well be right but just to add a small data point in the other direction: I'm solo founding a new start up right now and chose to go with Marionette (which is essentially Backbone + some very handy batteries). Its been bliss (an
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by corford 13y ago
As an Englishman I'm happy to support Scottish independence but only if its done in a binary, all or nothing way. You are either in or you are out and we have no place getting in the way of that decision but if you do choose to go it a
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by corford 13y ago
I think the royal family actually works out as a net positive economically when you factor in the tourism income they generate. It's also quite nice having someone connected with government that has been around longer than one or two p
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by corford 13y ago
Or an arrangement with one or two friendly newspapers that a specific control phrase be inserted in to any editorial covering his death. Then all Snowden would need is one or two cloaked servers somewhere that crawl each newspaper's si
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by corford 13y ago
Well at some point you've got to stand up and put your money where your mouth is. And if you're sympathetic to the Wikileaks cause, you're probably already on an NSA list anyway...
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by corford 13y ago
Lol, no, there isn't a safe, reliable, legal way to do it :) You'll have to find a good dealer since it's a lot less common than weed, ecstasy, coke, ket etc. And if you haven't taken psychedelics before I'd _seriou
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by corford 13y ago
Sadly, I share similar feelings. I last visited the States in 2007 for a friend's wedding and had all 10 of my fingers scanned at immigration when I arrived. I found the whole experience hugely irritating and wanted to say: "My ow
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by corford 13y ago
I'm pretty sure Roberto De Ioris (the creator of uwsgi and lead dev) has complete faith in his code (as he should do because it's awesome). unbit.it (an Italian hosting company) employ him full time to work on uwsgi and they use i
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by corford 13y ago
If anything, I'd say it actually improves my respect for him. 4 years ago it seems he was an idealistic employee working for the secret services to fight the good fight. Fast forward to today and the realities of what is actually being
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by corford 13y ago
I see your point. I guess I feel that the majority of people _are_ capable of realising real life doesn't imitate Hollywood and Snowden quite rightly needs to take some sensible precautions if he is to have any hope of sustaining this
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by corford 13y ago
Thanks!
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by corford 13y ago
I don't know much about this stuff but I love the idea of contributing data. Can anyone with a bit more clue tell me if something along the lines of a DVB-T Stick (great for contributing local ADS-B data to fr24.com) exists in the mete
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by corford 13y ago
Well, obviously. How many sys admins do you know that used to work for the CIA and contract for the NSA? :)
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by corford 13y ago
Why? The data is encrypted so unless he divulges the key, it's useless to whomever has it. Also, we don't know what the data contains. So even if he does give out the key and the media start publishing, who's to say what come
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by corford 13y ago
Looks like it's already in the works guys: http://offpocket.com/
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Programming real-time computer systems (2013^h^h^h^h 1965)(computinghistory.org.uk)
2 points by corford 13y ago|0 comments
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by corford 13y ago
As far as staying in the US goes, rather than rehash grey-area's superb take down of this argument, I'll just point you straight to the source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5928295
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by corford 13y ago
I think a lot of HNers who live in Western countries (myself included) are so jaded with our respective governments subservience to the US that it's very nice for once to see a small country not immediately bend over and lube up the mi
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by corford 13y ago
Unfortunately, the answer can be summed up in one sentence: The US has Europe by the balls. Not a very eloquent way to put it but it's true.
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by corford 13y ago
I use http://www.gliffy.com whenever I need to knock up a network diagram or similar. It's a browser based app but works very well.
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by corford 13y ago
To see how working within the system went the last time an NSA employee tried to blow the whistle, go and watch these videos: http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/06/16/snowd...

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