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by djhworld 9y ago
I rarely use cash these days, mainly due to laziness, and I like the fact that I can use some software to track all of my transactions across accounts so can rationalise my spending habits and commitments. Cash has that feature too but much
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by djhworld 9y ago
> A potentially bigger shift involves making data portable. Guy Rolnik and Luigi Zingales of the University of Chicago proposed in a recent New York Times op-ed that social media users should be able to re-route all their messages onto
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by djhworld 9y ago
The BNP formed from the National Front, an extreme far right organisation. They have one elected politician, in local government, I think it's fair to say they're an extreme minority voice in British Politics these days. The leade
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by djhworld 9y ago
The packaging change the article is referring to was when Smarties used to come in a carboard tube, with a plastic lid at one end. http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/ae76784029684feb8d06d507f47ff7ad/c... As a child it was
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If you rely on JDBC support, BQ has a JDBC driver but it's written by a third party
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Corporate proxies.
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I really didn't mind the Pocket integration, probably because I'm a Pocket user myself so can't see the problem. This is pretty bad though, I'd say this is worse than the Pocket thing because it's abusing the trust
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It sounds like the marketing department has been left to run amok with little or no oversight
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This is great, I wanted to make something like this once but never got round to it. Mainly because the pricing calculator from AWS is pure trash
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Can someone please explain this to me > For efficiency reasons it is common not to index every single key of the sorted records, rather only the key of every n-th record, i.e., the first key of a page. [1] This helps to significantly red
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by djhworld 9y ago
The article links to a guide on how to mine Ethereum on your PC, is it really viable to do this these days?
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It makes me a bit sad the way bitcoin has gone, I remember buying things with BTC a few years ago. Some sites even built "order status" page that gave direct feedback of the transaction e.g. confirmations. I thought that was reall
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In regards to the volatility? sure. But coinbase goes down for maintenance all the time
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Valve introduced bitcoin payments back in the days when people used to use Bitcoin as a currency
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If you label the nodes in the graph with a value (e.g. 'A') then try running one of the search algorithms (BFS) with 'A' to 'C' or whatever, it doesn't work. I think you're supposed to put a node ID i
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by djhworld 9y ago
Does it support inline images? I'm using Quiver for Mac, but really a cross platform solution would be more appropriate. I tend to take notes/drawings on paper then take pictures of the useful stuff and put it into Quiver so I can
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There are a few "quality of life" tools on OSX that I use, like Alfred that I haven't seen a Linux equivalent. But you're right, I could probably switch to Linux and be fairly happy.
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Is there a risk of information leakage? Say for example a website asks me for something (e.g. an address, phone number, bank account number), I type it in (thus registering my keystroke presses to the keylogger) and then realise oops I didn
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This is what worries me a bit about browser extensions like 1 password and other password managers. Could a website that has a keylogger in it potentially pick up these keystrokes when I put my password into an extension?
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I've got a phone interview with a well known company soon, and the stress of revising for it is really getting me down.
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My Dad was asking me about Bitcoin the other day, he's been receiving spam emails to the point where it's surfacing on his radar as something to be curious about. Not sure if that means the ship has sailed now, or that BTC is hitt
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by djhworld 9y ago
Can anyone in the US explain why the government/FCC is so eager to abandon net netrality laws? Was it demanded by the electorate? A promise in a manifesto or something? I remember the topic of NN coming up a few years ago and was large
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Is that such a bad thing though? Having tickets in JIRA is for the team to track and plan work that needs to be done, not for storing personal garbage.
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I don't think the article is suggesting stop using spreadsheets - it says some companies are adopting "cloud" based solutions that offer collaboration features and other tools. Not sure if these cloud offerings have the same
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I wrote a gameboy color emulator a few years ago https://github.com/djhworld/gomeboycolor Probably would require some effort to get it to build again, but it was a fun, if a little intense programming project. The arch
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We're just in the process of looking into ElasticSearch for an analytics use case, most of the queries we will be doing are simple group by aggregations with count/sums etc A SQL interface would help a lot, even better if it came
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Really surprised codemasters included a telemetry feed from the game, that's so cool. Imagine if more games did that?
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I have a landline, out of necessity becaused I need one to get broadband in my house (via ADSL) The ringer on it is turned off though, I've never given out the number to anyone. Nor do I ever use it. It's nice to know it's th
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> I spend a lot of time outdoors, on public transit, and so on, and the last thing I need is a bunch of bystanders staring and eavesdropping on my calls, and even commenting on what I'm speaking I guess just some people don't
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I like communicating with companies via live chat. You can do it discreetly without bothering people around you (e.g. in an office) and usually your situation can be expressed better in text, and you have a transcription at the end to keep

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