johnflan

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by johnflan 9y ago
I didn't realise there was such a significant Irish community on HN
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by johnflan 9y ago
If that were true, wouldn't plugging in the phone alleviate the problem (while plugged in)
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by johnflan 9y ago
Also the driving position is great.
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by johnflan 9y ago
When I see the occasional MR2 MK2 around today, I still consider looking to buy one in decent state. >It certainly was a car appreciated by many, but I guess if you asked 100 people what an MR2 was, only ~20% of then would know, so I gue
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by johnflan 9y ago
The Toyota MR2 was a failure?
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by johnflan 9y ago
I was at CCC in Berlin a couple of years back, the conference network was assigned a subnet previously used in Russia - I was getting verification emails from services I use for months after.
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by johnflan 9y ago
Maybe this was due to a sympathetic engineers actions in Intel?
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by johnflan 9y ago
Given this survey is targeted at engineers, the data formatting is terrible.
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by johnflan 9y ago
> I decided Scala made it too easy to write code unreadable for most developers As a side note, this seems to be the biggest detractor for Scala. Any team that I have spoken to with Scala experience seem to have had projects that went to
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by johnflan 9y ago
nailed it
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by johnflan 9y ago
Walmart also launched jet.com
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by johnflan 9y ago
Specifically, the Apple app eco system comes to mind.
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by johnflan 9y ago
That earthquake goes on for way longer than I would have expected.
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by johnflan 10y ago
Thats pretty amazing
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by johnflan 10y ago
I would have to disagree, it may be the best of breed but thats not saying much.
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by johnflan 10y ago
That might be true, all UI development over the last few years has gone into the JS environment. But the responsiveness of native always wins out for me. Nice UI is not good UX
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by johnflan 10y ago
These 'native' wrapped apps on desktop and mobile are always less in some way than a real native app. I know there is a cost benefit argument, but I personally avoid them.
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by johnflan 10y ago
Actually the encryption question is interesting, you couldn't use modes like CBC in out of order. What technique would be used for out of order decryption?
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by johnflan 10y ago
It seems that this app and Slack are hugely influenced from the iPad style of app design. Why can't we have a window per chat session on the desktop and why do desktop users get wrapped apps? Is this an indication of the lack of percei
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by johnflan 10y ago
I think much of this 'freedom' has come from The USA's overly elevated global position coming out of WW2. The USA prospered economically, scientifically and socially all while Western Europe was on its knees. The EU has been,
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by johnflan 10y ago
sudo apt-get install imagemagick?
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by johnflan 10y ago
Wrist damage will be the new back damage.
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by johnflan 10y ago
Apart from venusflytrap90, it seems that not many devs have profitable side incomes -- or maybe are not willing to speak about them.
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by johnflan 10y ago
Interesting point
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by johnflan 10y ago
I don't think he is asking about backdoored functions, but more about specific compute features requested for extremely specific workloads in their datacentres.
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by johnflan 10y ago
Any other big buyer of compute not mentioned.... No Such Agency?
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by johnflan 10y ago
A very simple case would be logging into lastpass.com, your password is passed to lp.com via a https transport.
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by johnflan 10y ago
This is all orchestrated over a HTTPS transport, the transport does not use certificate pinning.
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Lastpass not using certificate pinning, wut?
4 points by johnflan 10y ago|8 comments
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by johnflan 11y ago
I have played around with this a little, using the camera pi module gives good results, but means you must mount the pi close to the camera. I wanted to use USB cameras but the USB bus on the pi is too slow. From a single USB webcam I was g

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