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by joefreeman 8y ago
Isn't 'origin' (not 'master') the convention you're referring to?
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by joefreeman 9y ago
"You are strongly encouraged to backup a database before excising data."
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by joefreeman 9y ago
"Rochefort Trappistes 10 is my favorite beer and I was drinking it while doing the initial implementation at sunday night"
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by joefreeman 9y ago
I guess here: https://tombs.io/ (The coin mining doesn't work for me though - looks like my ISP (Virgin Media) is blocking the coin-hive.com domain.) EDIT: Oops, didn't fully read OPs comment. More stalking... Pro
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by joefreeman 9y ago
Sounds like the assumption is that the lack of focus means that the first password got sent to Slack? But it seems more likely that it was the second entry of the password that was sent to Slack, and it was just that the keyboard input was
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by joefreeman 9y ago
It's fairly common for companies to send automated e-mails from a separate domain to try to mitigate the impact of spam filters. ceo@company.com doesn't want her e-mails to be marked as spam just because some marketing e-mails are
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by joefreeman 9y ago
Sherry Turkle's book, 'Alone Together', is split into two parts - the first is an investigation into how people (mostly children and the elderly) interact/bond/etc with robots of varying sophistication - starts with
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by joefreeman 9y ago
Yep. And the same argument applies to their apps. We need an open standard with an app built by a trusted third party.
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by joefreeman 9y ago
Bit off topic. The article mentions a book about ants. Any ideas what it is?
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by joefreeman 9y ago
Ironically I'm seeing several auto-playing ads (with sound) on this article.
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by joefreeman 9y ago
HireHand | Mobile developer (iOS/Android/React Native) | Old Street, London | ONSITE | https://www.hirehand.co.uk/pages/careers HireHand is on a mission to improve work in the 21st century. We know a growing
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by joefreeman 9y ago
HireHand | Mobile developer (iOS/Android/React Native) | Old Street, London | https://www.hirehand.co.uk HireHand is a venture-backed staffing platform changing the future of work by filling the growing demand of peopl
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by joefreeman 9y ago
I wonder whether the Oxford Circus crossing is actually just an attempt to reduce the number of pedestrians walking around the outside edges of the junction - it's pretty disorientating coming out of the Tube and not knowing which corn
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by joefreeman 9y ago
I guess it's not very clear that the percentages are confidence in the predictions (right?), rather than genetic percentages (i.e., a cross-breed dog being 50-50% of two breeds, which would be super impressive).
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by joefreeman 9y ago
There was a recent StartUp (the podcast) episode about slap bracelets: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/you-have-to-invent-something...
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by joefreeman 9y ago
He means that tax on any additional income over £50k (actually, over £45k) is taxed at 40%.
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by joefreeman 9y ago
HireHand | Software Engineer | Old Street, London | www.hirehand.co.uk | ONSITE HireHand is an angel-backed start-up looking to disrupt the recruitment and staffing industries. We provide staff to independent retail traders, as well as othe
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by joefreeman 10y ago
> Most of these things the HN crowd obsesses over are [not important] Maybe 'most', but some of it is important in terms of developing your skill set. It can be difficult to know which bits are going to become important (popula
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by joefreeman 10y ago
The Dictator's Handbook is a great book if you're interested in the difference between autocracies and democracies. Also, CGP Grey's 'The Rules for Rulers' video is a good intro if you only have 20 mins - https:&#x2
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by joefreeman 10y ago
I discovered recently that the default install of vim on Ubuntu (and I guess Debian in general) includes some customised configuration (/usr/share/vim/vim74/debian.vim), which makes it a bit harder to grasp what&#x2
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by joefreeman 10y ago
I've also had a great experience with Dell customer support (also in the UK). Half my screen was flickering (think it must have got knocked in my bag), posted on their support forum, they sent a guy out to my house to replace the scree
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by joefreeman 10y ago
I think this is more about feeling heavier than it looks. Pretty sure it's heavier than my 13" MBA though (despite being smaller, area-wise).
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by joefreeman 10y ago
I think the main difference with the developer edition is that it comes with an Intel wireless card. Also maybe some different BIOS settings. And obviously Ubuntu preinstalled.
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by joefreeman 10y ago
I mostly used Macs for about ten years, but I don't like the direction the ecosystem is taking (cloud, app store, etc.), so recently switched to an XPS 13 (developer edition) running Ubuntu. (I actually also gave an SP4 a good chance f
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ElixirConf 2016 – Keynote by José Valim(youtube.com)
9 points by joefreeman 10y ago|0 comments
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by joefreeman 10y ago
This looks cool. But are the builds happening remotely on the Exponent servers, or have I misunderstood that? Edit - brentvatne just answered this: "we handle builds for you when you want to ship to the app store, before that you can j
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by joefreeman 10y ago
Does this suggest that the first person got sent 7,618 e-mails?
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by joefreeman 11y ago
There seems to be something up with the display driver in Windows relating to sleep. Sometimes after I login, Windows proudly tells me it's recovered from a display driver problem. Other times the screen just won't turn on (the ke
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by joefreeman 11y ago
I went through a similar process recently after getting fed up with Apple's direction. I ended up getting a Surface Pro 4. The build quality seems good, battery is ok. The software/drivers are terrible - it rarely wakes up from sl
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by joefreeman 11y ago
I really enjoyed Kevin Kelly's 'What Technology Wants'.

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