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Apple bends to EU rules on chargers(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by hugorodgerbrown 3y ago|1 comments
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Nuclear reactions found smoldering at Chernobyl ‘like embers in a barbecue’(independent.co.uk)
2 points by hugorodgerbrown 5y ago|0 comments
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Theranos founder hit with criminal charges(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by hugorodgerbrown 8y ago|0 comments
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A simple solution to end the encryption debate(techcrunch.com)
1 points by hugorodgerbrown 8y ago|0 comments
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Statistical and Machine Learning forecasting methods: Concerns and ways forward(journals.plos.org)
1 points by hugorodgerbrown 8y ago|0 comments
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Myki replaces all your passwords with a fingerprint(myki.co)
1 points by hugorodgerbrown 9y ago|0 comments
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As SolarCity Crashes, Is Elon Musk Overrated?(finance.yahoo.com)
3 points by hugorodgerbrown 10y ago|0 comments
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BlackRock CEO's Letter to All CEOs(uk.businessinsider.com)
3 points by hugorodgerbrown 11y ago|0 comments
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Did GCHQ illegally spy on you?(privacyinternational.org)
2 points by hugorodgerbrown 12y ago|0 comments
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by hugorodgerbrown 12y ago
Would be really interesting if people could add their location. Seems like those in US have really long journeys to work?
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by hugorodgerbrown 12y ago
Thanks - that's an interesting article, although the key quote from the original paper doesn't really help make the case: > The only thing that can be said with any certainty, is that not doing any technical debt maintenance d
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by hugorodgerbrown 12y ago
Thanks for the analogy, but this is missing the point - this thread is about the opposite - real, verifiable, experience.
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Ask HN: Do you have real-world experience of technical debt killing a project?
3 points by hugorodgerbrown 12y ago|6 comments
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by hugorodgerbrown 12y ago
Co-founder of YunoJuno here. I thought I'd chip in on a general point (I won't attempt to answer specifics here as I think that's probably inviting trouble for someone like me, with skin in the game.) What I would say is that
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Facebook wants to 'listen' to your music and TV(bbc.co.uk)
26 points by hugorodgerbrown 12y ago|44 comments
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by hugorodgerbrown 13y ago
We (yunojuno) use the following (+ other stuff - https://www.yunojuno.com/colophon/ ) * BitBucket (core app, private) * GitHub (FOSS projects, public) * Trello - tracking progress * HipChat - IM * Basecamp - dates, disc
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by hugorodgerbrown 13y ago
> The use case for these magic methods might seem small, and that may very well be true. I won't spend too much more time on reflection magic methods because they aren't very important If you want a reason to use the instancech
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by hugorodgerbrown 13y ago
I did some JavaCard development on a project probably ten years ago - and the highlight was meeting the "Head of SIM" at a major network, being told how many times a day everyone's SIM card 'crashes'.
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by hugorodgerbrown 13y ago
It's a bit late for you to enter, unfortunately, but the UK does have something like this. I had the great pleasure of sponsoring a team in the Young Rewired State "Festival of Code" [1] in 2012 - which is open to 13-18 year
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Share your Internet connection with uProxy(uproxy.org)
2 points by hugorodgerbrown 13y ago|0 comments
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by hugorodgerbrown 13y ago
That's him - Sir Trevor is a much loved British personality (ex-news anchor); he's enough of a fixture to have been parodied for many years by Lenny Henry (a British comedian) as Sir Trevor McDonought. He's best known for bei
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by hugorodgerbrown 13y ago
In the UK there is a scheme called SEIS (Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme) which gives investors 50% tax relief on equity investments up to £100K per annum. This is great for startups, as it has resulted in a lot of people investing for ta
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Barack Obama pledges greater surveillance transparency(m.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by hugorodgerbrown 13y ago|0 comments
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by hugorodgerbrown 13y ago
> "Things got confusing for a few years (till about 2005)" They weren't that confusing - remember the original "dotcom boom" (and bust) was in the 90s, not the 2000s - and although it didn't end well, people
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Building a Hackproof Network(inc.com)
2 points by hugorodgerbrown 13y ago|0 comments
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by hugorodgerbrown 13y ago
Generics are used to defer type setting from compile time to run time, allowing for flexible, yet type-safe constructs. The classic example is a list (in a strongly-typed language) - without generics you would create specialised strongly-ty
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by hugorodgerbrown 13y ago
I'm pretty sure that the original scraping scripts that Larry Page and Sergey Brin worked on (before Google was called Google) were written in Python. (Although I can't find the reference I read about that, so could be mistaken.) [UPDATE] A
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by hugorodgerbrown 13y ago
(disclaimer: I know the founders; and I wrote the python / django client libraries) When we started YunoJuno we hooked up Sentry, as we are a django app, and it's the default option for error management (oh, and it had an Heroku add-on avai
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Web game extras get Office of Fair Trading scrutiny(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by hugorodgerbrown 13y ago|1 comments
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by hugorodgerbrown 13y ago
Great app guys, congrats on getting it out. In my previous role I worked on myskystatus.com, which was a similar idea, originally built as part of an airline marketing campaign. We could see the potential and were desperate to get them to i

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