lewiscollard

26 ms·

181.
by lewiscollard 10y ago
> Usually when someone attaches an open source license to their work, they’re licensing their copyright in that work to others. U.S. Federal government employees generally don’t have copyright under U.S. and some international law for wo
182.
by lewiscollard 10y ago
> I can confirm that nobody that works at rsync.net is not an actual UNIX engineer. You will never talk to anyone here that isn't an expert. Ah, greetings rsync.net person, and thank you for the reply :) That makes sense. Your staff
183.
by lewiscollard 10y ago
I thank the rsync.net folks for getting rid of that horrific scrolljacking on the homepage which was there the last time I looked. Actually, it seemed to have been fixed since I complained about it to them on here.[0] Not sure if those even
184.
by lewiscollard 10y ago
> They don't need to make it impossible, they just need to make it inconvenient enough so for most users, copying stuff out of DRM isn't worth the hassle. I disagree. It merely requires one clever person to crack it and then i
185.
New Chernobyl shelter safely installed over exploded reactor(itv.com)
1 points by lewiscollard 10y ago|0 comments
186.
by lewiscollard 10y ago
I am all into finding stock Androids, and the replacement for my stock-Android Chinese eBay special phone will probably be chosen through your site. :) But I think you might want to put some effort into making this site smaller. It's c
187.
by lewiscollard 10y ago
I have used rsync.net at work in the past, and the service and support is the best I have experienced in any commercial service, period. Good job. On the other hand, we need a word about that scrolljacking on your homepage...
188.
by lewiscollard 10y ago
> I mean surely the actual carriage of the train can be reused, but with just the engine refitted. Vivarail ( http://www.vivarail.co.uk/ ) are doing almost exactly this in the UK with late-70s London Underground trains, fi
189.
by lewiscollard 10y ago
I use a MBP[1] at my day job and Linux on my personal machines.[2] I am a developer at a digital design agency so my priorities may not line up with those of other developers, but MBPs rock for what I do because: 1) Photoshop (the designers
190.
by lewiscollard 10y ago
Text only link works better because then it doesn't hang trying to load the stylesheets: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:VR6mfqY... :)
191.
by lewiscollard 10y ago
That's nice. What about the millions of non-techies who are about to have their stuff deleted because Facebook decided, on a whim, to railroad them into the Moments app? Everyone on HN knows not to trust Facebook with anything of of va
192.
by lewiscollard 10y ago
If people exist for whom Labour supporting state power grabs is a 'wake up call' I'd be amused by the amnesia; one can only be surprised at Labour backing this by forgetting what they did when they were in power not very long
193.
by lewiscollard 11y ago
http://imgur.com/JwidrUy I get the same "about as smart as a very young child" vibe from CaptionBot; the intersection of pleasantly silly and rather impressive. (Photo: Rover P6 on the start line with a Nissan R35
194.
by lewiscollard 11y ago
I shall add to your thanks. Joe's the first thing I install on any new box or server and has been my default "quickly edit this thing" editor for a decade and a half now. Thanks, Joe author!
195.
by lewiscollard 11y ago
This explanation is fascinating. Got further reading for the "detector vans were a hoax" thing? (I may be misremembering but I'm sure those ads were around in the mid-80s too.)
196.
by lewiscollard 11y ago
HN hug of death, so cached version (text-only): http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...
197.
by lewiscollard 11y ago
> over the long term, the value of houses goes up while the value of money goes down That which cannot go on forever, won't. > There's always a chance house prices could collapse, but that's unlikely in the UK. The popu
198.
by lewiscollard 11y ago
I think the pro-user lobby (EFF, Wikimedia Foundation, Internet Archive and others) is strong and organised enough in the US that I don't think such a law would be politically possible today. No individual European country has an equal
199.
by lewiscollard 11y ago
The ad blocking war is going to go hot. 1) Ad blocker usage doubles on the desktop in Western Europe and the US by the end of the year. 2) Websites locking out users of ad blockers becomes routine, rather than exceptional. 3) There will be