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A brief lesson in letter-writing(timharford.com)
1 points by dbuxton 13y ago|0 comments
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by dbuxton 14y ago
Not entirely on topic, but I also remember seeing something a few years ago about how you could actually telnet (sic) into some airliner flight control computers if you were able to splice into the physical cables (which run under the floor
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Show HN: Arachnys Compass - Open data available in emerging markets worldwide(compass.arachnys.com)
1 points by dbuxton 14y ago|0 comments
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by dbuxton 14y ago
I use Tru (formerly Truphone) which covers UK, US and Oz, I assume through the sorts of deals that these guys have pulled off. It's a fabulous idea but badly executed (despite the fact that they have raised oodles of VC money) with poor cal
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What University Presses Do(uminnpressblog.com)
2 points by dbuxton 14y ago|0 comments
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by dbuxton 14y ago
Would love to give, but 2 busy Sent from my mobile device. Please excuse typos.
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by dbuxton 14y ago
This is just wrong. Pitch when used as a verb can - and sometimes must - be used without "to" ("He pitched me a new startup idea" vs *"He pitched to me a new startup idea"). As a noun it does need "to".
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by dbuxton 14y ago
Except that I think they are hosting their own DNS... I'm not able to retrieve their SOA information even at the moment.
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by dbuxton 14y ago
I don't know, consumers are told lots of wacky counter-intuitive things about "how to eke performance out of technology in practice". Think of the way that lots of people like to repeatedly run their laptop batteries down because they think
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by dbuxton 14y ago
Came here to post this. I call bs. It's a "case study" in the way that consultancies make them up out of whole cloth - "We analysed the P&L figures from FooCorp's regional affiliates and succeeded in raising revenues by 300%". Really as
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by dbuxton 14y ago
Still, $50/user/year doesn't give you that much room for manoeuvre as a startup...
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by dbuxton 14y ago
Their prices do seem to bounce around a bit, even for countries that use the same currency. There's an issue in that (as I understand it) in Germany you have a quote VAT inclusive prices but in Ireland you can leave off VAT for goods aimed
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Is the Voynich manuscript in fact just gibberish?(nationalpost.com)
4 points by dbuxton 14y ago|1 comments
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by dbuxton 14y ago
It seems likely that any fine that the court could impose would pale into insignificance in comparison to what Samsung's lawyers have rung up, so this is pretty effective.
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by dbuxton 14y ago
hstore is great, I won't hear a word against it, but it doesn't deal with complex nested objects like JSON can (I would love to be wrong about this) - it's just a key/value store with indexing of the objects inside.
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by dbuxton 14y ago
Very interesting! Although as the other reply points out only some of the photosynthetic reactions take place at night. However I assume (but it's not exactly clear from scanning the article linked) that the actual emission of oxygen is lik
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by dbuxton 14y ago
I am not a biologist but my recollection of high school biology is that photosynthesis is basically carbon dioxide + water + light energy = oxygen + glucose. So saying, "About 300 to 500 plants would produce the right amount of oxygen, but
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by dbuxton 14y ago
Actually farmers already pay lots of money for localised weather forecasts exactly because there is a significant amount of information that weather.com doesn't give you. Not sure what 10 racks of PCs will be able to add to the science of w
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by dbuxton 14y ago
What I'm confused by is the way this article talks about lower-latency intercity links as valuable for HFT activities. Surely if you're an NY fund you just buy servers in Chicago or wherever. Can anyone explain why these low latency links c
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11 year old dodges airport security and flies without boarding pass or passport(bbc.co.uk)
8 points by dbuxton 14y ago|0 comments
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by dbuxton 14y ago
Yes, here in the UK cigarettes are legal but smuggled cigarettes are a massive (£multi-billion) business because taxes are so high. Obviously there is a point at which taxation is virtually equivalent to prohibition (1,000,000%?) so the aim
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by dbuxton 14y ago
I got almost halfway through this before realising that it was a press release rather than a techcrunch "news" item. Which shows how little critical thought goes into the majority of techcrunch articles rather than this being remotely modes
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by dbuxton 14y ago
It has long been a feature that you have to activate by clicking (appropriately enough, I guess) a link on an obscure Dropbox support page: https://www.dropbox.com/enable_shmodel
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by dbuxton 15y ago
As a matter of implementation, I wonder if this is in fact true at the moment. Of course in the future there's no reason that national biometrics databases couldn't store unique identifiers that could be used to identify individuals (given
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by dbuxton 15y ago
Does anyone have a lead on a framework or service that can handle the storage, display and metadata management for assets of this type online? On a low (non-institutional) budget? My family has a large number (thousands to tens of thousands
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by dbuxton 15y ago
From the docs ( http://docs.meteor.com/#meteor_collection ): "Currently the client is given full write access to the collection. They can execute arbitrary Mongo update commands. Once we build authentication, you will be able to limit the c
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by dbuxton 15y ago
There is a cool startup that does a lot of the boring legwork of making up memorable images to help with language learning: http://www.memrise.com/
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by dbuxton 15y ago
Well, there is such a word, certainly in the UK. A more constructive comment might be, "the spelling variant you have used is normally a noun meaning 'a person who depends on another for their upkeep or care', where here you want the more n
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by dbuxton 15y ago
Why would anyone use this rather than s3? Especially when I can't find an object durability SLA anywhere (Amazon claims 99.999999999%) and it's the same price or more expensive than s3, depending on whether you go for RRS or not...
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Pricing paintings with red in them(nplusonemag.com)
3 points by dbuxton 15y ago|0 comments

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