kitbrennan

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by kitbrennan 9y ago
Amadeus operate out of their own datacenter http://www.amadeus.com/web/amadeus/en_1A-corporate/Amadeus-H... Maybe if they didn't have a single point of failure and instead used a multi cloud installation
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McDonalds has re-engineered the straw(engadget.com)
2 points by kitbrennan 10y ago|0 comments
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Plead guilty and be sentenced online(engadget.com)
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by kitbrennan 10y ago
In your example I think it's right that the driver is found at fault. The effects of sleep deprivation on driving are very well documented and are comparable to drinking. If a driver is not fit to be driving a car, then they are a da
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by kitbrennan 10y ago
> its continually losing ground to science in every area and its methods are questionable at best Philosophy is a very broad school and many areas do not lose out to science. While science helps answer such things as the free will debat
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by kitbrennan 10y ago
I'm not convinced by the author's argument. The difference between philosophy and physics is that old philosophical arguments do not become less correct over time . In physics, later physicists build on the earlier body of know
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by kitbrennan 10y ago
The publication bias would go in the other direction. A drug company showing the effectiveness of vitamin pills would publish that research to help them sell more vitamin pills; A drug company finding vitamin pills to be ineffective would
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by kitbrennan 10y ago
I'm not surprised. They were sending out free credit emails every weekend for £45 (£15 off three separate trips); no minimum spend, no qualification criteria, just free trips. That's well over £150 of free credit some months! Eve
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by kitbrennan 10y ago
"The patent has just expired, but the troll still has 6 years to ask anyone for the licensing fees or the damages that they incurred during the term of the patent — which is 20 years."
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The secret life of Kim Jong Un's aunt(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by kitbrennan 10y ago|0 comments
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Google to ban short term lending adverts(engadget.com)
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“I Helped 8 People Die”(torontolife.com)
166 points by kitbrennan 11y ago|71 comments
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by kitbrennan 11y ago
Looks like an interesting proposition. Two pieces of feedback: * Alarm bells ring when a company says where they are mentioned in the press but fail to link to any articles. * I really struggled to find your pricing. I saw plans starting a
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by kitbrennan 11y ago
Really this advice is born out of two things: 1. Many investors argue you should build your product in a narrow vertical that has the opportunity to turn into a much larger market. Given you start in a narrow vertical, you should aim to dom
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Car company launches car vending machine(engadget.com)
1 points by kitbrennan 11y ago|0 comments
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by kitbrennan 11y ago
I'm not saying there isn't a line to be drawn - obviously given your example most people would shrink away from the idea of using someones thoughts to convict (literal thought-crime). It's a question of where we draw the line
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by kitbrennan 11y ago
It's a pertinent example because we think of peodophiles making photos - which is something phones are very good at. However, it doesn't require much of an imagination to think of other scenarios: * Keeping records of drug sales o
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by kitbrennan 11y ago
Something we forget on Hacker News is that the vast majority of data and information requests are not made to spy on citizens without due cause. The majority of requests are made because someone suspected of a crime (pick any crime: fraud,
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by kitbrennan 11y ago
For a product focused on improving a user's experiencing of using a computer, it seems odd that they would deliberately override my browsers scrolling in such a horrible way. Not only that - but their scrolling override has also broken
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by kitbrennan 11y ago
As mentioned by many others - there are a number of details missing here that are extremely relevant. What are you selling? Where? To whom? If you had hundreds of charges in your first month, did you migrate over from another payment suppl
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by kitbrennan 11y ago
MacBookPro user - not really sure what I'm supposed to be experiencing? I can click and drag the white box and it moves back to its original position, is that it? I've tried all the standard Mac touch gestures. Is this library onl
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by kitbrennan 11y ago
But the same is true of any backend. Once you know the endpoint being used by the frontend, you can blast the backend with requests and one of two things will happen: * You will take down the site (a DoS attack). * Or the victim has auto-sc
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by kitbrennan 11y ago
Looking at that page I have no idea what they do. It's taking the 'vague' landing page to the extreme in a very annoying way.
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by kitbrennan 11y ago
Likewise, although I'm finding that Telstra throttles me quite a lot. Turns out you can use any network in Australia (with no roaming fee from 3), so I've manually switched to Optus and my speed has dramatically increased.
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by kitbrennan 12y ago
You're confusing 'development cycle' and 'pushing code'. Pushing code too fast is clearly a problem that causes bugs, and neither developers or users are a fan of. The 'development cycle' includes the tota
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by kitbrennan 12y ago
While I understand their explanation - and agree with the theory - in practice the same active choice would be achieved by displaying a $0 button that users have to actively click on. The simple fact is: when I first went to their website I
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by kitbrennan 12y ago
I think you missed the point. The brilliance in To Kill a Mockingbird is the way it makes us feel the confusion felt by a six year old looking at an adult world. At the time, many people did see race relations as 'black or white',
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by kitbrennan 12y ago
It's important to remember that this article is probably simplifying the doctor's advice. I imagine the neurologist ended with: "However, please come back immediately if you feel worse or notice any other symptoms." Obvi
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by kitbrennan 12y ago
noting that this kind of sales volume ranks it as the 13th largest U.S. retailer by annual sales Statements like this are very misleading. Square isn't a retailer, it is a payment processor. The real question is how Square compares a
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by kitbrennan 12y ago
`Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance` The book looks at what it means to say something has 'quality'. It didn't teach me any new philosophical methods or theories, but it did make me look at my own work differently and

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