davnicwil

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by davnicwil 11y ago
First sentence.. > In soccer-obsessed Brazil, going to a match means a chance to see some of the best players in the world—and face the possibility of getting beaten up or even killed. To say nothing of the sweeping stereotypes here ther
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by davnicwil 11y ago
This is fantastic, just what I was looking for, a very quick intro to swift that assumes I'm already a programmer. The Apple docs, at least last time I tried reading through them, were like wading through treacle so this is a great alt
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by davnicwil 11y ago
That's an interesting point, replacing a lost key is always going to be the weak point in any security scheme, unless you intentionally make the process hard/cumbersome enough that it isn't, but makes losing the key a very un
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by davnicwil 11y ago
> For the simplest next step web servers can just do simple challenge response over SSL to ensure I hold my "certificates" private key. What happens when you lose your private key? What happens when you change machine?
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by davnicwil 11y ago
> The thing that saves most people is that there is really nothing worth stealing in their house Agreed. I lived in a houseshare a couple of years ago where the housemates didn't want to chip in for contents insurance. At first I wa
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by davnicwil 11y ago
In the first year of my CS degree we studied some rudimentary CS-related mathematics. Some of it I barely used beyond the exam, but there are two topics which rise high above the rest in terms usefulness when working on real-world web apps.
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by davnicwil 11y ago
Reading this back, I didn't phrase this in the right way to get across my meaning. I'm totally not taking the extreme and naively idealistic position that ease of access won't make bad things more likely to happen. It will in
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by davnicwil 11y ago
So true. I once lived in an apartment block where a lot of the other apartments on my floor were burgled one day. The locks did.. nothing. The thieves simply kicked the doors until they splintered at the lock. In fact, one door even snapped
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by davnicwil 11y ago
That's very true - it's the point I address on the next line :-) > Increasingly advanced technology reduces the amount of effort, and to some extent, the prior knowledge about you required to do these things - but that doesn&#x
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by davnicwil 11y ago
It's completely true that these things can (and, to be honest, probably will) be turned into services by companies, that's just one more way in which access to such information will become easier. It doesn't change the point
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by davnicwil 11y ago
I agree that some of the possibilities of such tech are scary. However, putting on my optimist hat, they are only possibilities. Of course it will be possible to do such things. The question then becomes: why would anyone do them, and (some
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by davnicwil 11y ago
> 72% of 18- to 25-year-olds find it easier to express their feelings in emoji pictures than through the written word, according to a survey for Talk Talk mobile. This says it all. Emojis are good for communicating feelings/emotions
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by davnicwil 11y ago
> you can't rob people of their problems This is a remarkably insightful phrase (I'll be stealing it for my own use ;-) and I thoroughly enjoyed reading your comment. I think its core message goes way beyond the dating domain a
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by davnicwil 11y ago
> I also like the idea that relationships should be natural I find this really interesting, as it's a meme that I think most adults still share. I'm interpreting your use of 'natural' as meaning something like 'm
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by davnicwil 11y ago
Futurama's re-work of the 'happy birthday' lyrics, seemingly because they've changed in the future, dodges this nicely: What day is today? It's X's Birthday, What a day for a birthday, let's all have some
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by davnicwil 11y ago
Very sad. The non-wearing of seatbelts in taxis is something I'm acutely aware of at the moment as I'm in Bogota, Colombia, where taxis very rarely have seatbelts in the back seats and driving conditions are erratic. In my experie
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by davnicwil 12y ago
> I just can't imagine dropping everything for 150 days Is this because the 'everything' you're doing instead right now is so awesome that dropping it to do a 150 day hike, no matter how great that would be, is inconc