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by davb 12y ago
> nothing beats japanese brands when it comes to fine paper Any recommendations?
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by davb 12y ago
I'm guessing this is the first example of device created with the Nokia brand as part of the licensing deal mentioned earlier this week [0]. They're simply cashing in on the value of that brand, and I worry ultimately it'll e
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by davb 12y ago
Thanks! Aberlug seems dead (I've visited the IRC channel and it seems pretty inactive). I didn't know about the two other sites, so thanks for the leads.
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by davb 12y ago
This is a great idea. I really wish we had half the community community you guys have, here in Aberdeen, Scotland. You could throw a rock and hit a tech guy in SF. Here, the only groups of any prominence are MS .Net groups. I've been s
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by davb 12y ago
While the article itself was interesting (if not at all surprising), one thing that really caught my eye was the reference to 1 Bessborough Gardens. There are few references to it online, other than a planning permission application [1] men
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by davb 12y ago
For those not familiar, this is a reference to Linus' quote when announcing commencement of work on Linux: >just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!msg&#
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by davb 12y ago
I think the big difference today is that the runtime (often cloud) and toolchain are much more involved. Nothing is self-contained any more. Dependencies are out of control. Web apps make it easy for the user to access almost any service fr
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by davb 12y ago
It's worth noting that with HDR+ enabled on the Nexus 5, you can no longer enable the flash or timer. And the processing time can feel frustratingly long. So leaving it enabled all the time doesn't work for everyone.
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by davb 12y ago
The issue is how to know when the self-signed cert if trustworthy. I agree that the root CA trust system is not the answer, and web of trust doesn't work in practice, but I don't know how we can know if a self-signed cert is trust
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by davb 12y ago
To be fair, I don't personally trust the root CAs that my browsers and OS's trust. There are hundreds of them, from many countries. I think it's a reasonable expectation that at least some are corrupt. Unless I trust each CA,
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by davb 12y ago
I really don't like the sound of this. The SIM card is the one thing that keeps mobile service relatively divorced from the hardware. I can keep the same phone but change SIM whenever it suits. I can also take change hardware and just
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by davb 12y ago
Yeah, the xfce4-screenshooter tool is fantastic. The only thing that would make it more useful would be if the panel plugin had an option to show a drop-down when clicked, allowing you to select screen, region or window. I always forget my
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by davb 12y ago
According to http://motorola-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/nexus-6-from-goo... , yes - starting at $649. I wonder how that'll translate to GBP...
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by davb 12y ago
The Motorola blog post says "starting at $649" http://motorola-blog.blogspot.co.uk/2014/10/nexus-6-from-goo... This was the most disappointing thing for me. While it might be a fantastic device, and I mi
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by davb 12y ago
I wonder how many (huge) sites like imgur it would take saying "we're doing webm, if your browser doesn't support it you get a huge, slow GIF instead" for everyone just to settle on a single format? The whole debate is o
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by davb 12y ago
I didn't realise passing under the Clyde had such an affect, that's quite interesting. I would have thought, however, that being mixed overground/underground (on many London lines) would make air circulation an easier problem
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by davb 12y ago
I did have this thought. I figured people must just accept it (like people living in humid countries might), or shower at work (if they have those facilities). Or perhaps it's only that bad during some months of the year.
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by davb 12y ago
> That is the reason why the tube is closed overnight - as opposed to NYC which is 24/7. AFAIK, this is changing and a number of lines are planning to go 24/7. > So many design choices from the 19th century made still haunt
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by davb 12y ago
I was surprised on my first visit to London to see posters advising passengers to carry a bottle of water and not travel when sick due to the heat and humidity on the underground. We'd get on at one station freshly showered and hydrate
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by davb 12y ago
Another thing I see is that Apple, unlike the vast majority of competitors, have very limited product ranges. This means that as a new iteration is developed, every Apple fan is focussed on that team's output. More so when the company
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by davb 12y ago
> The few people I know in Scotland became terribly hostile over the last week. I mean really anti-English. I'm talking non-patriotic professional people I've known for 20 years. I've seen quite the opposite. A lot of peop
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by davb 12y ago
It could be worse. It could be one of the many buggy, insecure home-grown solutions RGU has used in the past. AFAIK they use Moodle now and it's leaps and bound better (more reliable, more secure, easier to use) than any of the previou
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by davb 12y ago
Yes, it's compatible with standard contactless EMV terminals. However it won't be supported here until at least 2015.
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Blink(1) – the USB RGB LED notification light (Open source hardware)(blink1.thingm.com)
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by davb 12y ago
It seems nice, but right clicking and selecting "View background image" doesn't always give me the current image. I use this so many times a day. I'd imagine breaking this on one of my websites might piss my users. Edit:
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by davb 12y ago
I don't think the EMV PED (PIN entry device) standard supports such a thing. You could certainly verify that by looking up the EMV standards.
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by davb 12y ago
I don't think that's what's going on. I think it's more likely a standard multi-factor risk threshold that's been triggered. A vendor you've never used (or haven't used recently), a vendor category (auto p
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by davb 12y ago
For most users the changes aren't too troublesome (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_and_American_keyboards ) but I'm so used to coding on on the UK one I find it difficult to switch. The \, #, " a
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by davb 12y ago
If you go to the bottom of the page and select "Change location", you might find that it's available in your country. I can pre-order for the UK (however unfortunately it's £49.99, a fair bit pricier than $49.99). I&#x27
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by davb 12y ago
I think the best thing anyone can do to encourage people to learn programming (with what we currently have) would be for Google to include a RAD IDE with a simple interpreted programming language like Python with the OS itself. Something st

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