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by m0nty 14y ago
Thanks, I'll take a look at the book. Sometimes essays are fine because you can cherry-pick the good ones.
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by m0nty 14y ago
I have always felt that Tommy Flowers' incredible contribution (i.e. building the first electronic, programmable computer) is all-too-frequently overlooked. I suppose it just makes a better story to talk about a lone genius rather than a gr
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by m0nty 14y ago
There's a nugget of truth in their concerns which makes them harder to dismiss. Equally, can you say that local storage is more secure, tapes in a "fire-proof" safe, etc? I have reservations about the cloud (Amazon's outage was a wake-up mo
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by m0nty 14y ago
I work in education so it's a mixed bag. Children like computers for youtube, facebook, etc. They have no inhibitions about technology and don't think it's OK to be clueless. The staff I work with divide into those who use computers all day
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by m0nty 14y ago
I never said they had logic on their side ;) I suppose basically I'm saying you need to make it super-braindead-simple or it won't work. Dropbox and the iPad both do that (I mean it in a good way). I personally don't like the iPad I have at
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by m0nty 14y ago
I would love to be dis-intermediated, but everytime I've tried committing to "cloud" technology (and other innovations) I've loved it and the people I work with have hated it. Here's a list of things people don't get: 1. Cloud-based backup.
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by m0nty 14y ago
The people most likely to maintain several "live" email accounts to get through this situation? Those with criminal intent. So once again this is a perfect way to make innocent people (who value their privacy and won't co-operate) look like
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Text mining: what do publishers have against this hi-tech research tool?(guardian.co.uk)
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by m0nty 14y ago
I hope that will be the case. My ultimate motivation is to get students interested in programming and all the other things (control tech, etc) a cheap expendable PC can facilitate. I could easily get 20 of these if they were available but g
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by m0nty 14y ago
It's disappointing :( I work in education and would like to try this thing out for a variety of projects, but the delays in getting them to market mean I probably won't get one. There are alternatives, not least (for the very interesting or
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by m0nty 14y ago
But still you can't actually buy a Raspberry Pi ...
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by m0nty 14y ago
I like being an introvert; I wouldn't change that for anything. I have learned not to be shy, to function in social situations. I think that's what the article means, learning to function, but unfortunately people will continue to confuse s
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Facebook Instagram deal delayed for up to a year (competition investigation)(telegraph.co.uk)
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by m0nty 14y ago
I really don't care. I was just pointing out that the use of collective nouns can be misleading when you're talking about what "people" said and how "they" are being inconsistent. The rest of your point was well-made (not that I expect you
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by m0nty 14y ago
> Now they complain that they want to use just one everywhere? It's almost like the Internet is lots of different people with wildly divergent opinions!
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by m0nty 14y ago
My "take-away" from all this is that, if this can affect Microsoft so profoundly, how much more damage could be done to startups and small businesses in the technology arena? Most of them couldn't afford the fees to start the legal process,
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by m0nty 14y ago
Censorship is a bit like taxation: knowledgeable people will tend to find ways around it, but they are not the majority. As long as the majority complies, the politicians won't be too bothered. Similar with the BPI (and vested interests in
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by m0nty 15y ago
Well I liked it. Might be worth a re-submission when the USA wakes up.
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by m0nty 15y ago
I got further than just reading the title as well.
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by m0nty 15y ago
> "ban cars" I must have missed the bit where he said that. I thought he was saying that we could find better solutions.
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by m0nty 15y ago
Given all the JavaScript- and Flash-based assaults on the eye today, the blink tag seems charmingly benign.
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by m0nty 15y ago
My first real job in IT was at an IBM training centre, so OS/2 and the PS/2 share the same warm place for me as for OP. The original PS/2 was literally the size of a suitcase, and very, very heavy: but I could lift two at once if I was in a
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by m0nty 15y ago
What makes SF so damn good is its ability to surprise and challenge us. Unfortunately, that's exactly what Hollywood has decided mainstream audiences are allergic to, so they recycle the same old tropes again and again. Anything new and int
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by m0nty 15y ago
> another company started by selling books (a worse idea if you ask me) Nope, IMO it's f*cking perfect. Having worked for a book distribution company: the item is easily packaged, it's easily identified by the purchaser (no brand confus
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by m0nty 15y ago
It has occurred to me that being in IT is possibly one reason I can do this, but otoh I have noticed that companies increasingly want to "commoditise" IT workers, so repeatedly low-ball their offers until they get someone who is willing to
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by m0nty 15y ago
> "our hands are tied, we can only go up to $75k for this position" If I needed $80k, I would then say "I'm sorry, but I have expenses to pay, a family to keep. I can't work for less than $80k." If he insisted, that's when I would shake
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by m0nty 15y ago
Personally, I would not work for anyone who wasn't being honest with me, but I'm a bit old and gnarly like that. I believe integrity to be one of the key ingredients in any work relationship, and I regret all the time I've wasted working fo
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by m0nty 15y ago
A couple of times, OA makes the point that the blackouts are meaningless to people who are not "digital natives". This is wrong. Driving to work this morning, the Wikipedia blackout was mentioned on the BBC Radio 4 news - just one line, but
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by m0nty 15y ago
The Google SOPA protest as channeled via an [sic] satirical alternative reality
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by m0nty 15y ago
I don't know that this social problem has a technical solution, but you're right that the "points" system encourages shallow comments. Unfortunately some people will always see a number as a score, and start gaming the system to increase it

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