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by hopeless 13y ago
To all those that think this is no better than a regex: Yesterday a company invited 7 new users to their account using their email addresses. 3 of those addresses had typos in the domain names which this service would have caught. As it was
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by hopeless 13y ago
Our (Irish) politicians have run away from lots of hard decisions recently but I really wish they'd have the balls (population, economy, armed forces) to tell the US government to fuck off occasionally.
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by hopeless 13y ago
I have the 1997 version and I liked it! I think I might pick up the updated version even though Java is not my currently favoured language. Converting the examples to another language shouldn't be too arduous for anyone familiar with
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by hopeless 13y ago
You're right. I think it's seriously underpriced
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by hopeless 13y ago
(grew up in the UK, live in Ireland) I don't consider the U.S. as the same as China or Russia (or North Korea, etc) but I don't consider them in the same league as any European country either. Having said that, I think the U.S. is
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by hopeless 13y ago
Thanks, that's an excellent tool!
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by hopeless 13y ago
I find the Wufoo guide to be more useful: http://www.wufoo.com/html5
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by hopeless 13y ago
I think you've misunderstood the Pomodoro technique if you think it's 25mins per hour . It's simply 25mins blocks of time, 5mins non-work, rinse-and-repeat. When I timebox, I use Vitamin-R which let's me extend the time slice to finish a t
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by hopeless 13y ago
Um... who called it a tutorial? I thought it wasn't a bad introduction to what the canvas is/does (rather than how you use it).
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by hopeless 13y ago
Summary: Cloud66 is a provisioning service for Ruby on Rails (it installs the servers, databases etc onto your AWS/Rackspace/DigitalOcean server). It seems Cloud66 has started destroying some virtual servers without permission.
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by hopeless 13y ago
Full text of their email to customers: ==================================== Today we had a major service incident on our site. As a result of this incident some of our customers lost their virtual servers. We are still investigating the cau
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Cloud66 major service incident — "missing servers"(status.cloud66.com)
3 points by hopeless 13y ago|2 comments
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by hopeless 13y ago
Why would you want to do this? What's the motivation? If it's "this is a great marketing strategy" well, um, maybe but hopefully you have better ways getting your customers to hear of you. If it's "this would be a fair way of matching value
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by hopeless 14y ago
I thought the most fascinating thing (mostly because I hadn't considered it, despite having 2 kids) was that babies aren't conscious at birth or even, optimistically, before 2-5months. That's kinda neat.
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by hopeless 14y ago
Following the traditional responsibility/accountability dichotomy: They are responsible for storing the cc number securely but you are accountable when something goes wrong (because you gave them that task) Much like Linode are responsi
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by hopeless 14y ago
Like almost everyone else here, I have no real experience or education in this area but... Have you set yourself a realistic expectation? Honestly think about this. If you've lost 4years of learning, is it reasonable to expect that you can
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by hopeless 14y ago
I gave up reading and just did a Ctrl-F for the phrases "profit", "revenue", "business model", and "money". 0 of 0. That's the f%^&king problem!
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by hopeless 14y ago
A PhD is about learning to conduct research — whether or not you actually discover anything meaningful during the PhD is largely consequential.
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by hopeless 14y ago
It's hard to say how that site was compromised though, isn't it? It could just as easily been a weak user password, or an Ubuntu vulnerability or any number of other vectors and then it wouldn't have mattered what the application was writte
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by hopeless 14y ago
I tried to get approval to use an (entirely IBM-developed) open source library at IBM. The process took months and hadn't finished when I finally left. If I remember correctly, it was going to take approval from the team lead, 3 lawyers, an
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by hopeless 14y ago
Yeah, they went to the top of my shit list for not only spamming me but not even taking the time to realise that I wasn't in Silicon Valley. From memory, the email was also pretty obnoxious I heard about the founder on a podcast (= mildly p
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by hopeless 14y ago
I'd prefer to find customers who are richer than I am. That probably means that they have different problems to me, and almost certainly have different worldviews.
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I love what I do because...(teespring.com)
1 points by hopeless 14y ago|0 comments
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by hopeless 14y ago
I used Captured and imgur and it's all working fine for me
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The Fixer's Manifesto(sugru.com)
12 points by hopeless 14y ago|1 comments
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by hopeless 14y ago
I live in Ireland. Manchester was only a short hop and a single night's stay. Accessible in my case was not (just) about money but also about time and convenience
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by hopeless 14y ago
Thanks, I hadn't considered that, and it's a good point. Although perhaps I'm an oddity: I rarely see myself as among the speakers so I don't look at them as a guide. Also, I've been to "gender-equal" conferences where almost the only women
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by hopeless 14y ago
I'm pretty furious about this. I was really forward to having a reasonably-accessable world-class ruby conference in UK. I'm really only care about whether the speakers are interesting and that I can learn from their talk. I hope that race
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by hopeless 14y ago
Thank you for mentioning these. I tried BrowserStack and got so much value from the free 30min trial (found & fixed several IE8 bugs) that it was a no-brainer to sign up for a monthly plan. Even the tunneling to a local Vagrant instance
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by hopeless 14y ago
If it saves me ~30mins/month then it has paid for itself

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