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by kamjam 13y ago
A friend/ex-colleague just added "General Awesomeness" as a skill :)
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by kamjam 13y ago
At a previous job 6 years ago, it was only 4 miles away. I'd do the brisk ride into work, but take a big detour on the way home, riding 20 miles :)
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by kamjam 13y ago
I did the same thing, I started riding into work instead of taking the train from the suburbs to Central London. Door-to-door by train and underground was around 1 hr, but bike it was 1hr 10mins, approx 18 miles. Wasted time became exercise
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by kamjam 13y ago
As other's have said, it's an industry standard term. Whilst in acronym heaven, I actually had to look up what TLA meant. Three Letter Acronym for those wondering.
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by kamjam 13y ago
For a while, it looks like the N4 came with a free bumper. Does anyone know if this is still so? It's advertised separately for $20, and so I assume not...
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by kamjam 13y ago
I was just about to buy one 2nd hand for more expensive! So glad I didn't catch one in time... all those unlucky sods selling their phones just lost out on another $100! I'm gonna keep an eye in the classified, these will go dirt
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by kamjam 13y ago
Maybe Snowden didn't have access to them, but if they existed before the internet revolution, then I'm sure they exist now. I would be very surprised if they didn't, it's better to know about your dirty laundry, than to
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by kamjam 13y ago
What will stop the ball rolling is if vast dossiers of information was released about the politicians themselves, that the "security" program had been collecting on them. As soon as dirty laundry is aired about a huge amount of th
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by kamjam 13y ago
I don't think the irony is missed on anyone, no doubt the AdBlock guys them themselves... and the ability to watch or not watch ads is not the point I was making. The point is we have a choice of whether to use or not use, either Adblo
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by kamjam 13y ago
Actually, AdBlock is making the new ad appear to those who have AdBlock installed I saw the same thing, but that's not exactly the same thing as seeing ads, they're not (AFAIK) only showing AdBlock ads... they're informing
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by kamjam 13y ago
I'm the same in at the immigration for my own country (UK) but as soon as I set foot in the line-up for any other country, it's "yes sir" and "no sir". I'm not a tourist, it's my right to enter my own
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by kamjam 13y ago
So you're telling me that you have never downloaded an MP3? A DivX or streamed a tv series from somewhere? Or skipped those adverts at the beginning of the DVDs? How about recorded something on a PVR and then fast-forwarded when it com
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by kamjam 13y ago
Luckily for you then, since you already have AdBlock installed, you won't see the adverts. Or is their rationale that advertising serves the legitimate purpose of informing users about choices they may not realize they have? Exactly.
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by kamjam 13y ago
I like Baldrik's definition of irony: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awD1gtpdWIA
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by kamjam 13y ago
I'm also pretty sure that in most countries you actually have to agree to the ToS and ensure the user has read it. Just having a T&Cs page on your website somewhere does not count. Most websites don't force me to agree to anyt
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by kamjam 13y ago
So now I really don't understand how this is any different from using Thunderbird and EnigMail/PGP to encrypt your mail - and if I've understood correctly then it actually isn't any different, you are just providing a gl
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by kamjam 13y ago
Even my 18 month old niece can use the iPad to open YouTube, click around a bit, or more likely go to the history and view her previously watched stuff and navigate around that way.
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by kamjam 13y ago
How trust worthy is the js crypto? For a long time people believed hushmail to be safe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hushmail#Compromises_to_email_p... Regardless of how safe it is, the problem is still social engineer
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by kamjam 13y ago
Erm, isn't that what Thunderbird and Enigmail were doing/already do? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/enigmail/ What am I missing that Mailpile will do, aside from possibly a
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by kamjam 13y ago
Following the admission of the CIA and MI5 involvement in the 1953 military coup in Iran, and this has already been known/suspected but the war really wasn't on terrorism. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middl
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by kamjam 13y ago
I wonder if you will make it onto a(nother) watch list, in much the same way as anyone making a donation to Wikileaks?
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by kamjam 13y ago
Me too. But don't be fooled into thinking anything different would have happened elsewhere, this definitely would have happened in the US, and I doubt he would even have been allowed a lawyer and most likely held indefinitely. And we h
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by kamjam 13y ago
Exactly, since when did we declare war on our own citizens, and of those nations we call friends?
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by kamjam 13y ago
Fair enough, and good point on the touch-based devices, I can see how it would be useful for those. I don't use a Mac, so can't comment but same applies.
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by kamjam 13y ago
The scroll bar isn't enough to tell how much reading is left. I hope you're missing a </sarc> tag there...
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by kamjam 13y ago
What is it with these sites that break down articles into several pages? NYTimes is a particular culprit that annoys me. Does anyone find an article easier to read in this format? I presume it is to force more Ad views on people?
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by kamjam 13y ago
I had to learn to pick problems apart Well, that's what all good programmers do, so it doesn't look like not being good at math as been a disadvantage - quite the opposite I'd say. Sometimes you need to tackle things from a
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by kamjam 13y ago
I haven't used them that much, but enough to know I can't reach all parts of the screen with one hand ( http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/04/11/a-widescreen-4-iphone... ). Regardless of the stre
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by kamjam 13y ago
A calculator. Or more likely, the calculator app on his iPhone. Personally, I like the ability to at least be able to get a rough approximation of an answer without having to resort to tech... but hey, call me old fashioned.
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by kamjam 13y ago
I think problem-solving is probably one of the most important skills one needs in his toolbox to succeed in life This is the key statement. But I don't think it needs to be taught through programming, people were problem solving way

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