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   by kierank 17y ago

   Thanks for correcting that title.
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   by kierank 17y ago

   The article also claims huge hosting/bandwidth costs. It completely ignores the fact that Spotify is a p2p application that doesn't seem to use a major CDN. Pricing used is in that article is CDN pricing. For content streamed from origin se
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   by kierank 17y ago

   This isn't the full postcode database. The full postcode database maps postcodes to actual addresses instead of co-ordinates. You could map these coordinates to addresses but you'd need Ordnance Survey data which you've also got to pay for.
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   by kierank 17y ago

   Does he include the value of the significant increase in Google's status as a telco in that comment?
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   by kierank 17y ago

   Twitter don't hide their use and nobody's said anything.
6. 456.▲
   by kierank 17y ago

   A lot of subtitles are extracted from DVDs and Blu-rays in theory content owners could claim copyright.
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   by kierank 17y ago

   Every time DRM comes up the BBC embaresses themselves with their shifty and/or nonsensical stances. It is genuinely appalling so I'm glad to see them taken to task. Their stance is completely weird because it's clearly thrust upon them -
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   by kierank 17y ago

   If you've ever seen any of the comments on failblog/cheezburger etc, you'd realise that Hacker News isn't a good comparison. Having said that Ben seemed like a nice guy when he had a drink with us in London last year.
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   by kierank 17y ago

   Hopefully experts-exchange will be added to that list...
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    by kierank 17y ago

    Facebook connect is horrible. It effectively causes a page reload so once the page has loaded and you start to read; everything gets redrawn with a hovering banner at the bottom and you lose your place. However, it's not as bad as that drag
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    by kierank 17y ago

    This table should be connected to live bus data.
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    by kierank 17y ago

    Bear in mind the time it would take to load the results page on a dialup connection.
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    by kierank 17y ago

    Being Keith Allen's daughter helped too.
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    by kierank 17y ago

    Anything where lower-cost software on commodity hardware could replace very expensive hardware that is commonplace: e.g. Routers
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    by kierank 17y ago

    TV emphasising its difference and its production value compared to social networking. The things people do on social network sites are either worthless or have a value close to zero. Compare this to TV which is made by skilled professionals
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    by kierank 17y ago

    boto and Elasticfox.
17. 467.▲
    by kierank 17y ago

    Surely icc would help more?
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    by kierank 17y ago

    Navteq
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    by kierank 17y ago

    While this is interesting from a data visualisation perspective it just shows further that the things people twitter about are completely worthless.
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    by kierank 17y ago

    A bespoke in-memory database, They use memcached with some nasty kernel hacks. (Caused some friction when they forked an old version, added new code which was then suddenly unleashed on the community without warning. Each new feature then
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    by kierank 17y ago

    dropbox.com seems to be registered through Godaddy; if it were Google-owned it would use markmonitor.
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    by kierank 17y ago

    as soon as the tree dies it will go back up into the atmosphere That implies combustion which doesn't occur.
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    by kierank 17y ago

    I'm going to get downvoted for saying this but this article is clearly diggbait.
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    by kierank 17y ago

    123-reg are ok.
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    by kierank 17y ago

    BBC have one for non-commercial use: http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/feeds/tvradio/
26. 476.▲
    by kierank 17y ago

    It's not actually the programme guide. It's a lot more than that.
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    by kierank 17y ago

    This article is a little bit misleading because it's not really copy protection. The BBC aren't allowed to encrypt content at all but they're proposting to encrypt only HD content over DVB-T2, known as Freeview (OTA for Americans). There's
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    by kierank 17y ago

    This isn't the full database as far as I understand which maps postcodes to actual addresses. This leak only deals with coordinates.
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    by kierank 17y ago

    Yes, Sometimes the software tools you use can mess up. I lost many production EC2 images because of this unfixed bug in elasticfox: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid... (basically if you have similarly named ima
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    by kierank 17y ago

    If CNAMEs worked I would be sold.