foxylad

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by foxylad 11y ago
One of the challenges of being a power user is accepting you're going to hit the boundaries of whatever product from whatever company it is. And "Google pulling the rug from under your feet"... please let's stop this rid
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by foxylad 11y ago
I'm guessing they see the integration as an iteration. A lot of people would prefer to have a single sign-on, cross-linking etc. rather than having separate Facebook, Twitter, etc.
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by foxylad 11y ago
Adding novalidate to the form tag stops the in-built validation madness, but still gives the relevant keyboard on mobile browsers.
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by foxylad 11y ago
And ESP8266 is now supported by the Arduino IDE. See https://github.com/esp8266/Arduino
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by foxylad 11y ago
Onthe software side, the Arduino programming environment now supports the ESP8266. This makes it very easy to start playing. One hint - to program, reboot with the programming pin (GPIO0) grounded, but take it back to 3.3V before you start
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by foxylad 11y ago
You know you can switch off image optimisation, right?
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by foxylad 11y ago
...for a single server. HTTPS on a cloud platform is significantly more difficult and expensive. We use Google Appengine, and although they have an SSL solution, it was an order of magnitude cheaper and easier to use Cloudflare's SSL.
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by foxylad 11y ago
And this announcement means that if your app is on Google Cloud, you don't need to encrypt between CF and your app. It's now going down a private interconnect, and I bet that interconnect is encrypted (like all Google's inter
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by foxylad 11y ago
SSL. SSL is easy on a single server, but gets complex/expensive very fast on cloud platforms. Cloudflare have an incredibly easy solution (branded "flexible SSL") where they handle the SSL between the client and their CDN, an
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by foxylad 11y ago
For service I use frequently, I pin a tab so they are always open. So for me, the app drawer is rarely used.
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by foxylad 11y ago
My business has bank accounts in four countries, and none of these banks provides a scriptable way to access transaction data. My current solution is to manually download data from each acount for processing, but when I get some play time I
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by foxylad 11y ago
Doesn't MS rely on users too? Users of Windows, instead of users of browsers, but it's still in both of their interests to get developers using their platforms. At the end of the day, all large companies have to dip their toes i
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by foxylad 11y ago
Gmail's value is the service it provides, which relies just as much on the infrastructure as the source code. Back to your original statement - would you consider Linus dumb for open sourcing Linux? Open sourcing a product can be a ver
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by foxylad 11y ago
"How to Talk so Kids Will Listen, and Listen so Kids Will Talk" made a bigger difference to my interactions with colleagues than it did with my kids. It should be on every management reading list.
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by foxylad 11y ago
You're brave - talking long term on HN! But so right, in my view. One of the benefits of the long term view is that it forces you to address sustainability, so you focus on real revenue. Our startup is now 6 years old. We decided early
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by foxylad 12y ago
I'm a c dinosaur, so I've always used old-style formatting because I know it off by heart. Having said that, the alignment operator (<^>) reminds me of my joy when learning python - power and simplicity!
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by foxylad 12y ago
Not a bad idea, although you'd want extra protection for the pylons so a truck running into one didn't take out the grid.
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by foxylad 12y ago
I just bought a Chromebook for my parents-in-law, even though there were slightly cheaper Windows laptops. The reason? I'm off the hook for support. No malware issues, no backups, no nothing - worst case the thing lets out the magic sm
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by foxylad 12y ago
Clicked link hoping to see a muzzle for babies. Was disappointed.
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by foxylad 12y ago
If your data really is that valuable, any compensation promised by an SLA is likely to be meaningless. Far better to use multiple redundant solutions, and although Nearline is only beta* it offers us an easy and cheap way to increase storag
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by foxylad 12y ago
Horses for courses - for high volume sites this would be awesome. My immediate thought was "Great - at last Wikipedia can get rid of the annual begging bowl". It could also be a great solution to the news site paywall debate. I&#x
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by foxylad 12y ago
Unless I'm very much mistaken, blocking ads isn't going to make a whit of difference to tracking. Unless you aggressively block cookies and javascript as well, you're up large on the radar.
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by foxylad 12y ago
Good point - can anyone with an account tell us if you can white/blacklist sites?
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by foxylad 12y ago
I'm surprised that anyone (apart from Apple) is bothering to make smart watches. I stopped wearing a watch years ago, because the extra information I got from looking at my smartphone covered the overhead of pulling it out of my pocket
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by foxylad 12y ago
I remember discovering pivot tables in Excel way back when, and thinking that was a really useful tool. I was amazed to find that Google Sheets could do this too, and to me that marked it's promotion to my first choice for spreadsheet
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by foxylad 12y ago
Remember this isn't about copyright - its that the original company had a contract for a film "based on" the book, and the company that bought out the first company is arguing that their film is not connected to the book to g
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by foxylad 12y ago
> And why is is soe obscure icon of a floppy disk, instead of a button with the text "Save changes" on it? If you've ever tried to use a computer in a foreign country, you'll realise why icons are an extremely good id
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by foxylad 12y ago
Thanks. Being able to provide simple easily verified command on a public forum to detect the most stealthy malware is testament to the brilliant design of unix-style systems. If someone offered a Widows utility to do the same thing on a for
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by foxylad 12y ago
I know what you are saying, but actually this service is free. Blocking bots effectively is in both the website owner and Google's interests, because bots disrupt the value propositions of both. And you could argue that it is in the
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by foxylad 12y ago
On a small scale, it's not too difficult. Detecting form POSTs with a new session catches most comment spam bots, and if an empty input field hidden with CSS is submitted with content, that's also a giveaway. And I wouldn't d

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