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by iuguy 14y ago
I can only talk about my own experiences, but given the pushes for cuts in costs open source is now being touted around some places as being the way to go, regardless of best tool for the job. As I said, HMG is a very strange place and it's
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by iuguy 14y ago
To put this into context, open source was previously deigned not acceptable in large swathes of government due to procurement and liability problems. HMG civil servants have mostly developed an inate and enviable skill in blame deflection,
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by iuguy 14y ago
It's shocking to think about the US Government's casual disregard for all the people that used megaupload legitimately, and indeed the FBI's disregard for the provision of documents that would be expected to be pretty much standard in most
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by iuguy 14y ago
There's a difference between grade and use. Grade implies a certain standard of assurance for a specific market or environment. Use just means it's used by someone, or a group (in this case security). Heck, people could (if they're nuts) ca
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by iuguy 14y ago
Not to mention the people who've paid $99/month for a service. Surely if they're going to shut it down they need to sunset it properly. It's always interesting when the hype meets reality, and it seems that the users of flippa are far more
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by iuguy 14y ago
This is a military chip. It's used in military applications. I'm not saying that the original article didn't use this to sensationalise 'We JTAG-fuzzed a chip and found an AES key', but to deny that the chip is used in the military is ina
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by iuguy 14y ago
Actually what you're describing applies to any service company, including companies separately founded by Thomas and myself on different sides of the globe. Creative service businesses and tech startups are a bit like chalk and cheese, whic
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by iuguy 14y ago
I totally see where you're coming from on this, but I think you're placing an awful lot of importance on things that might not be that important. I'd say starting a design shop could count as company ops experience, but not everyone who sta
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by iuguy 14y ago
> Team has no apparent prior company operations experience, let alone M&A success. The advisors do have M&A experience, and that may well be why they have them. Two of the team founded a company called Moxy, so they'll have some
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by iuguy 14y ago
The term Lifehack is just a catchy term to describe ways of optimising the things you do, that has slowly turned into a way of short-cutting things so you can fit even more stuff that isn't fun into your day. Realistically, the only reason
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by iuguy 14y ago
Living in a multinational household Eurovision is always a fun evening of cheesy euro-pop and European geopolitics. I've always preferred Terry Wogan's humourous coverage of the event, which he's attributed to getting progressively more dru
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by iuguy 14y ago
To be fair, everything is a repost of a repost. The App stores are a copy of previous app stores, running on a gui, the concept of which was 'borrowed' from Xerox. Copycats are the best (and worst) form of flattery, but it's a service probl
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by iuguy 14y ago
This is really cool and is a great educational tool. What would be really awesome would be some sample pages with exercises that teach HTML5 basics. With that, this could be a mind-blowing tool.
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by iuguy 14y ago
It's your bug, finders keepers. I always despair when I hear people talk about 'responsible disclosure', as it's a term so often used by vendors to keep finders quiet. By disclosing it at all you've highlighted the issue and Yahoo have righ
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by iuguy 14y ago
I could be really snarky here, but I won't. My earlier comment was a bit of a response to the article's claim that 1% of network traffic will somehow change the world forever. That there's an 'IPv6 Launch Day' for a protocol that's been aro
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by iuguy 14y ago
Absolutely correct on all counts. Incidentally, for those with a Raspberry PI who want to run old hardware emulators (and indeed those of us without who still want to run them), you can't bear SIMH[1] which will happily emulate a PDP-11, VA
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by iuguy 14y ago
I have some experience with z/OS, but mainly from a security perspective rather than a day to day admin role. I wouldn't say that there's no overhead, but the structure of z series mainframes is completely different to any midrange architec
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by iuguy 14y ago
This isn't a very well written article. Comparing Berlin to Paris isn't a fair comparison. Paris for example, is subject to some of the most startup-hostile laws in the EU. The adage of hire slowly and fire quickly just doesn't work there,
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by iuguy 14y ago
And on June 7th, everyone and their dog will still be using IPv4.
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by iuguy 14y ago
Being able to write well appears to be a shockingly lacking skill in my industry (pentesting and forensics). It's a really rare talent when you find someone that is capable of writing a good report in appropriate plain business English. Hav
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by iuguy 14y ago
For those that are interested, the IBM Mainframe family is a fascinating architecture, completely and totally with nothing in common with modern mid-range or microcomputing. MVS is the ancestor of a modern operating system, z/OS, also capab
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by iuguy 14y ago
Asana doesn't look anywhere near as good as Wunderlist.
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by iuguy 15y ago
I see where the author is coming from. Playing devils advocate as someone who runs a reasonable sized event in London[1] I can tell everyone ere that the single biggest expense is the venue itself, closely followed by all the little bits on
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by iuguy 15y ago
What use is a phone that has a million widgets if you have to go through 6 screens to make a phone call? I had this with Windows Mobile and a HTC Universal. The thing that iOS does really really well is provide an experience that doesn't fe
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by iuguy 15y ago
It seems like Samsung are throwing phones out to see what sticks. While I think projectors could be useful, I'd be concerned about battery life and heat, not to mention what was cut out to fit this in. Hopefully they'll come to realise that
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by iuguy 15y ago
Sorry you're absolutely right. I'm getting mixed up with the use of 64k chips in the 48k model[1], which was a cost cutting exercise allowing sinclair to use potentially faulty 64k RAM in the 48ks. [1] - http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~j
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by iuguy 15y ago
The 48k model only had 32k of available ram, of which roughly 8k was screen memory and system variables. The lower 16k was ROM.
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by iuguy 15y ago
I cut my teeth so to speak on a 48k rubber keyed ZX Spectrum. For years I didn't have an assembler so I had to use the opcode reference in the back of the manual, which would often lead to interesting if somewhat annoying moments. It taught
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by iuguy 15y ago
This is less descriptive to me than read it later, but then again in some respects read it later may be the wrong call to action. I hope these guys get a better uptake, but I've been with Instapaper Pro for so long I'm entrenched.

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