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by davidhyde 9y ago
This is a fairly objective article but it would be nice if they offered some evidence that legal trade makes illegal trade less feasible (if there is any). When you see pictures of poor rhino on a horn farm your gut feel is to be disgusted
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by davidhyde 9y ago
"An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could execute arbitrary code in the security context of the LocalSystem account and take control of the system." Why would software that is written to scan potentially dan
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by davidhyde 10y ago
I used to read The Economist and it made me feel very informed of the world until one day I realized something. It came about because I happened to know a lot of prior detail about the article I was reading about South Africa and although I
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by davidhyde 10y ago
Purely speculative, just a hunch I have.
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by davidhyde 10y ago
I meant the electorate that bothered to vote. Not the entire UK. Shamefully not the young people.
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by davidhyde 10y ago
Good point, very true.
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by davidhyde 10y ago
Remember that 52% of the UK voted to leave the EU which leaves the other 48% hurt that you paint us with the same brush. Such a big decision should have been a two thirds majority. I live in London and work as a software developer for a big
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by davidhyde 10y ago
Great question. I have a friend who used to work on the human brain project and I asked him a similar question. What surprised me is that the software that gets run on super computers is usually quite simple BUT the computational complexity
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by davidhyde 10y ago
I don't think it is poor reasoning. I was making an observation about their technology prowess. And where most people were expressing their opinion about whether or not ads are bad which has been discussed at length, I thought I'd
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by davidhyde 10y ago
Visiting their website main page consumes 2.2 MB of bandwidth. This is a basically a blank page with some small icons. If these guys can't build a lean website then how are they going to build cross-site tracking technology that will i
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by davidhyde 10y ago
Right now, in London and if you have a 15% deposit, its cheaper to buy a place than to rent from month to month so I guess it depends where you live. I always thought it was better to keep my savings liquid for startup capital but I found m
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by davidhyde 10y ago
Get on the property ladder before you take your sabbatical. I recently took an 18 month sabbatical from my banking software development job and it was well worth the risk. I had been working for 11 years. I ended up getting my old job back
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by davidhyde 10y ago
This guy in Spain created his own internet infrastructure: https://backchannel.com/forget-comcast-heres-the-diy-approac... It's been running successfully for years and has grown quite a bit.
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by davidhyde 10y ago
Old-style science was not as expensive as new style science. If a team does something for commercial gain then it becomes publically accessible 20 years later when the patents expire. Probably sooner if people ignore the patents or find a w
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by davidhyde 10y ago
In South Africa, this scenario is becoming a big problem: A victim's cell phone, in their possession, is triggered to go into no-signal state which is sometimes not noticed for hours. During this time, criminals are somehow able to cap
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by davidhyde 10y ago
This is a great project but why is the example image a raster png rather than an svg?
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by davidhyde 11y ago
TypeScript on JavaScript is like c# on CIL (.net common intermediate language). You are free to modernize the language as much as you want without breaking backwards compatibility. Not surprising Anders Hejlsberg is heavily involved in both
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by davidhyde 11y ago
This post makes me sad. Where we should be encouraging others to join this field, this does the opposite. These are the golden years of computing where we mere humans can still make worthy software (before AI writes our software for us). I