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   by gpjt 12y ago

   This, definitely. Whether or not they'll give you a simple percentage number for your stock is a good indicator of whether you can trust them or they're trying to pull the wool over your eyes. There are probably many others. At
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   by gpjt 12y ago

   I remember reading (can't find a reference now) that when Japanese engineers acquired their first western steamship and copied it, their first version included copies of seams from the repairs that had been made on the original's
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   Does #EUVAT make charging Bitcoin impossible for EU digital services businesses?(gilesthomas.com)

   3 points by gpjt 12y ago|0 comments
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   Ask HN: [UK startups] has anyone worked with Growth Accelerator?

   1 points by gpjt 12y ago|0 comments
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   by gpjt 12y ago

   Sounds like a market opportunity for someone. In Russia there is Yandex, in China there is Baidu. The EU has a larger population and much higher GDP (~market size?) than Russia, and a higher GDP than China. (Actually, a higher GDP than t
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   UK Startups Call on Politicians to Improve Visas, Broadband, Skills, Regulation(techcrunch.com)

   2 points by gpjt 12y ago|0 comments
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   by gpjt 12y ago

   PythonAnywhere ( http://www.pythonanywhere.com/ ) - London, UK Fancy helping to build the Python world's favourite PaaS (probably)? We're looking for a "junior" programmer with plenty of smarts to come and
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   by gpjt 12y ago

   Article seemed OK as far as I read it, but then my eyes started hurting so I gave up. Perhaps worth reading in full if you tweak the CSS.
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   by gpjt 12y ago

   And Kevin Warwick is the chap who had an RFID (or similar) chip implanted in his arm and put out a press release declaring himself a cyborg: http://www.kevinwarwick.com/Cyborg1.htm
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    Why heartbleed doesn't leak the private key(blog.erratasec.com)

    8 points by gpjt 13y ago|1 comments
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    by gpjt 13y ago

    "gotten" definitely sounds odd to me (I'm from England) but it's worth noting that we do keep that form in "forgotten". Presumably both were acceptable over here at some stage. "I see no reason why gunpow
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    by gpjt 13y ago

    Interesting! Makes sense given the common heritage in Proto-Germanic.
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    by gpjt 13y ago

    There is a historical basis, yes. The original form for at least some of those words is to start with "hw". For example, the first line of the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf is "Hwaet! We Gardena in geardagum". "Hwaet&q
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    by gpjt 13y ago

    Likewise, Wooster as in Bertie. On that note, I've always found the pronunciation of Towcester amusing. It's a town... and it cooks bread!
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    by gpjt 13y ago

    I kind of felt that the slowness of using the right arrow to scroll was kind of the point. Even holding it down, you're moving significantly faster than light. And it still takes an age to get anywhere.
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    by gpjt 13y ago

    Ironically, this is what I put together in 2009 (ten years after the DHTML demo) and it also crashed browsers then, and it also runs on my phone now: http://learningwebgl.com/blog/?page_id=1217
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    by gpjt 13y ago

    Heh. I wrote a JavaScript DHTML demo in 1999 that I locked to a browser window sized 640x480px because otherwise it made PCs grind to a halt and crashed Macs. Nowadays it runs on my phone just fine... Link for anyone who's interested
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    by gpjt 13y ago

    Yup. Full list of included packages here: https://www.pythonanywhere.com/batteries_included/#a_python3...
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    by gpjt 13y ago

    ...and it's live.
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    by gpjt 13y ago

    We're using PythonAnywhere :-)
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    by gpjt 13y ago

    Yup :-) The repl will be going live later on today.
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    by gpjt 13y ago

    I'm not convinced of the technical chops of the author. Right near the top of the article, we get this: > Since websites designed using the adaptive web design are housed on their own domain, the web pages load at a much faster rate
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    by gpjt 13y ago

    Wow, that takes me back. I was at school with the kids of the guy who wrote that, his study was full of awesome designs and tons of similar stuff.
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    by gpjt 13y ago

    I've seen them described as results for China in the past, not just in Time. Agreed, it appears that that's not China's fault, which makes this article unfair, but hopefully Time publishing this will make publications that h
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    Downtime as a service(secretgeek.net)

    2 points by gpjt 13y ago|0 comments
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    by gpjt 13y ago

    PythonAnywhere dev here: thanks for the shout-out! Just a slight correction -- we're not web2py-specific, just Python-specific. Django, Flask, Bottle, etc -- all are welcome. However we are big fans of web2py -- we host web2py.com gr
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    by gpjt 13y ago

    Sorry to see these guys go, they were a great company to have in the Python space (though they did branch out to other languages, I think). When we started PythonAnywhere they were right up there on the list of potential competitors, though
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    by gpjt 13y ago

    Looks like the experimental designer actually thinks it might have been completely destroyed by friction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Plumbbob#Propulsion_o...
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    by gpjt 13y ago

    I use DigitalOcean for my (rapidly disappearing) PHP stuff and (shameless plug, am co-founder) PythonAnywhere for my Python stuff.
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    by gpjt 13y ago

    Perhaps they bundled it in with China? A political minefield there, of course...