harryf

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by harryf 10y ago
Can't help thinking the underlying cause is here; > my email back ...key negotiations happening over email. Make it face to face if you can or at worst by voice and keep minutes for the record. So much misunderstanding can be avoide
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by harryf 10y ago
Another innovation was popularizing the "2 minute read"- those estimates put the reader at the forefront - we value your time
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by harryf 10y ago
I would suggest we start by blacklisting certain Emojis from being used in Hotspot names such as "️ ... ... ... 🇮🇷" ( image for those with clients that don't support those glyphs - http://i.imgur.com/hvz8yHY
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by harryf 10y ago
> There’s no walled garden for Web crawlers. Their datasets can be freely replicated from the public Web. The same can largely be said of the normal web when it comes to Google, but that doesn't alter the fact that they have a monop
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by harryf 10y ago
Python is trademarked by the Python Software foundation. IANAL but pretty sure that means he doesn't get to call it Python 2.8
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by harryf 10y ago
Likewise moved my Mum to Ubuntu about 10 years ago and it dramatically improved our relationship. Hasn't all been easy e.g. photo management has been a moving target but largely it's "just worked" during that time.
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by harryf 10y ago
Nice! But not sure GEM is a good idea for a name. Searching for "elasticsearch gem" is going to be dominated by the Ruby client
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by harryf 10y ago
And here he is boasting about knowing "all your dark secrets" at TNW - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lALKRayDLuk - meant in jest but shows incredibly poor judgement as a CEO
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by harryf 10y ago
> But they simply weren't interested in even considering it. They just do not believe that machine learning can out perform their current process. Right here is where a startup could be born...
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by harryf 10y ago
Very interesting. Makes me wonder if the same techniques which get people hooked to current forms of distracting social media could be used to encourage better habits, focus etc? Have see some humorous attempts such as http://www
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by harryf 10y ago
> I've read claims that social media is addictive but not that it is engineered to be so. Recommend reading up on the "Hook Model" - http://www.nirandfar.com/hooked - or watch this video - https:/&#x
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by harryf 10y ago
> More of "the kids aren't alright!" reporting they love to do to scare parents and elderly folks. Sadly this is one of those topics, like violence in video games, where we don't get beyond this cycle of "accuse
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by harryf 10y ago
If that's so why are we still using PuTYY / KiTTY (serious question)?
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by harryf 10y ago
How is it possible in this day that Microsoft is not able to provide a decent SSH client for Windows?
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by harryf 10y ago
Drives me wild also. I assume it's because i18n / l10n takes time / money so it's easier to start with English speakers only, rather than something about controlling access to intellectual property or some form of digita
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by harryf 10y ago
The potential to be cryptic argument could easily be applied to Scala but that hasn't stopped it gaining popularity ( http://appliedscala.com/blog/2016/scala-popularity/ )
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by harryf 10y ago
Hmmm take issue with this one - http://uxmyths.com/post/99302792550/myth-33-mobile-users-are... A key point in mobile app UX is being transactional. If you require any input from a user such as a signup form, desi
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by harryf 10y ago
Hmmm under plugins... * Jobs - Provides a simple job queue. * Cache - Provides a simple replicated cache. ...while these look like nice-to-have features which make life easy for developers, IMO having a database which is also a queue and is
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by harryf 10y ago
Why do you assume I'm angry? I'm quite happy while questioning your agenda
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by harryf 10y ago
Oh you mean that thing that is currently everywhere right now? Thanks for reminding me! Almost had my mind off it for 2 minutes while reading this Intercept article about Hillary's relationship with the press https://theinte
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by harryf 10y ago
> embassy employees are no longer allowed to talk about him "no longer" ? It's quite likely that they were never allowed to talk about him
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by harryf 10y ago
The more I look at this, the more it seems like a brilliant move by Assange to force the media to report more on Wikileaks and the Podesta emails, not just Trumps locker-room antics.
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by harryf 10y ago
What's unique about this time in history is the degree of transparency and information we have available... > Our government, in the last 8 years, used remotely operated drones to carry out extrajudicial killings of American citizen
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by harryf 10y ago
> Anything else is just opportunism. But that might be it. Trump clearly lacks a well oiled political machine behind him like Clinton. Should he win power there will no doubt a lot of opportunities opening up for anyone with a cheque and
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by harryf 10y ago
Privacy and security might sell. Freedom from government snooping and similar. Anti-virus software shows how you motivate non-technical consumers to buy - in cynical terms you basically just scare people enough until ready to pay.
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by harryf 10y ago
Design for Hackers is a pretty good book - https://www.amazon.com/Design-Hackers-Reverse-Engineering-Be... Meanwhile https://www.designernews.co is Hackernews for designers
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by harryf 10y ago
I believe in the phone screen Google uses non-technical people to ask technical questions (as engineers are a scarce resource) so they're only able to handle "right or wrong" but you can probably work your way around that by
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by harryf 10y ago
Don't read "How Google Works", "Work Rules" or "In the Plex" then. Meyer was just repeating the Google playbook which places a high emphasis on getting staff in the same physical space
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by harryf 10y ago
Re: boring Smartphone market Why do I still need to carry a laptop and a phone around ? Of the big guys the only ones doing anything interesting here are Microsoft and Continuum https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows&#
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by harryf 10y ago
It's a statistical anomaly

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