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by kevinprince 14y ago
It says big things that no mobile operators or traditional hardware manufacturers are onboard.
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by kevinprince 14y ago
RE Nazis: In Germany it is ilegal to display the Swastika and deny that the holocaust happened. Call of Duty sold very well in Germany, the enemies just didnt have Swastika's on and had green blood.
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by kevinprince 14y ago
Firstly good to see that while the UK was asleep the first amendement was busy at work. The UK regardless of what is being stated here has excellent standards of free speech. I can protest government policies (see student protests of 2011
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by kevinprince 14y ago
UK didnt even acknowledge the existing of GCHQ or the Cipher Schools at Bletchley until 70's and 80's.
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How to carve a Pumpkin Skeletor (thelab.o2.com)
1 points by kevinprince 14y ago|0 comments
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by kevinprince 14y ago
US immigration is completely broken. I went to college and graduated in the US on a J1 visa, I paid my fees and when I worked I paid my federal, state taxes + my social security contributions. After graduation I left the US as obviously it
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Ask HN: Getting custom electronics made
6 points by kevinprince 14y ago|1 comments
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by kevinprince 14y ago
This really should be sold as a chat for your business which just happens to use IRC underneath.
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by kevinprince 14y ago
I live at a station without automated barriers. If I don't tap in or tap out I get charged the maximum fare automatically. This is a good enough reason to tap correctly.
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by kevinprince 14y ago
Oyster works in 99% of these scenarios. We use it in London for: Buses - Single Tap / Single Fare Tube, Light Rail, Tram, High Speed Rail - Tap in and Out This is either PAYG with fare calculated by zones traveled in or travel cards per zo
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by kevinprince 14y ago
Massive market than is open for disruption. Especially when you consider the real incombent is Microsoft in most corporates.
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by kevinprince 14y ago
In high traffic caching css and images in varnish as well makes sense as it is much faster at evaluating and responding to the HTTP request than say Apache which will be busy building dynamic requests.
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by kevinprince 14y ago
Most countries prohibit this prior to trial otherwise it will influence the jury pool.
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by kevinprince 14y ago
Ticketing is just plain hard and anyone who disagrees is just wrong. The site is getting a few hundred thousands users a day right now trying to ger a few thousand tickets mostly between 7pm and 10pm. While I agree LOGOC could of got a lot
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by kevinprince 14y ago
Agree with the safe hours piece. People really hate it when you text them at 2am ;)
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by kevinprince 14y ago
We use https://github.com/raykrueger/ruby-smpp in our Ruby Apps to connect to the SMSC gateways. It is not a 2-3 month integration but does require you to have a clue about telco's and depends on how you integrate. If its less than a few
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by kevinprince 14y ago
Depending on what kind of scale you are looking at you can get SMPP connections which should offer lower cost and beter throughput. Depending on what your product is individual operators maybe willing to help. Note - I work in TheLab part o
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by kevinprince 14y ago
Disclosure: I work for theLab who built this :)
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Improve your driving app(drivetoimprove.co.uk)
1 points by kevinprince 14y ago|1 comments
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by kevinprince 14y ago
Thats a cheap gag.
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by kevinprince 14y ago
We use Heroku for our event tools, thankfully we have nothing live this weekend or this would be a disaster.
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by kevinprince 14y ago
I would recommend taking a look at http://hackdaymanifesto.com Also as someone who has runs about one community event be it hackday, designjam or barcamp a month I have learned to cater for everyone as best as possible.
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by kevinprince 15y ago
So this doesn't work for any of the UK carriers you list as the api cant handle UK MSISDN's. I am assuming your not doing submit SM to an SMSC and are abusing the email to text apis?