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by markwillis82 8y ago
I also did this a few years ago - voice controlled drone, had some keyboard based kill switches, unfortunately the drone is quite noisy so had to talk quite loudly to get a decent STT translation.
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Share This – Data Leak(sharethis.com)
3 points by markwillis82 8y ago|0 comments
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by markwillis82 8y ago
My 3 little ones have to take turns pressing the button, otherwise it gets messy... by the time they have all pressed the button it's time to cross
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SEO Contest Exposes Weakness in Google's Algorithm(searchenginejournal.com)
2 points by markwillis82 8y ago|0 comments
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by markwillis82 8y ago
Interesting, I have been looking at unifi for some time - but it is quite the investment
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Ask HN: Home Wifi Routers
10 points by markwillis82 8y ago|11 comments
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by markwillis82 8y ago
We tend to do a 2 phase project plan. With a fixed $ for the initial scoping and finding out the actual objectives and then work on the $$$ after. Has made our project timelines much more realistic and also a better end product for our clie
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by markwillis82 8y ago
This depends on the use-case. We have recently moved away (slightly) from using MODX as our main CMS, because the clients we have picked up need less content management but more bespoke functionality and better performance so have used thin
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Ask HN: Alternatives to Google suite
2 points by markwillis82 8y ago|2 comments
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MODX – critical update, open exploits(forums.modx.com)
1 points by markwillis82 8y ago|0 comments
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Lush 'anti-spy cops' campaign criticised(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by markwillis82 8y ago|0 comments
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by markwillis82 9y ago
We have an immutable hosting platform with ansible, but some clients are hosted on their own boxes so we still end up logging into their hosting to sort out their issues (normally they have more problems than we do). But they aren't in
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by markwillis82 9y ago
I currently have an issue with my iMac (also happened with the MBP) and iphone 8 (also happened with the previous iPhone 5S) that if I have bluetooth enabled on my phone and unlock it... my bluetooth mouse stops responding on the iMac. Inte
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Ask HN: React Native Performance Monitoring
1 points by markwillis82 9y ago|1 comments
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by markwillis82 9y ago
Notice our backups failing over the weekend. Set up a new account with backblaze and re-ran the backups. It sounded to good to be true, fortunately we were still on the trial.
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The mysqlpump Utility(percona.com)
1 points by markwillis82 9y ago|0 comments
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by markwillis82 10y ago
I used JSMPEG to process a live 360 camera feed and then a canvas to convert the output to the format to work with a google cardboard. I was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the output and speed of which the devices could decode and
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by markwillis82 10y ago
Would this not also depend on whether those companies make any changes to the software that would be worth contributing back? There are millions of websites using MySQL and Postgres that make money but don't contribute back? Add nginx&
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by markwillis82 10y ago
I a similar scenario for my "Linux Foundation Certified Engineer" exam. Except I had to show 2 forms of photo ID for the examiner through my webcam and then put them the other side of the room so I couldn't use them as notes.
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Half of UK electricity comes from low-carbon sources for first time ever(independent.co.uk)
3 points by markwillis82 10y ago|0 comments
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Leaving Rackspace. Joining the Wirehive(adido-digital.co.uk)
1 points by markwillis82 10y ago|0 comments
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by markwillis82 10y ago
I've been using this site for the past few weeks whilst migrating, is an invaluable resource given the ec2 pricing isn't particularly easy to work out in the docs.
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by markwillis82 10y ago
Why is it painful recovering from snapshots? (have just moved to AWS so have not experienced this yet)
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by markwillis82 10y ago
This is buried in the faq as I was interested in this too: https://workplace.fb.com/faq/ == How much does this cost? The pricing model is based on a monthly fee per active user
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Farewell Rackspace, Hello WireHive(adido-digital.co.uk)
2 points by markwillis82 10y ago|0 comments
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Use MySQL Shell Securely from Bash(percona.com)
2 points by markwillis82 10y ago|0 comments
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by markwillis82 10y ago
I spent many hours with the cost calculator going through with our support company trying to find a _rough_ estimate of what our bills would be compared to Rackspace. It's not easy initially but things like http://www.ec2ins
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by markwillis82 10y ago
As a recently new customer to AWS. This service sounds really useful. Quite possibly one of the best pricing pages[1] I've seen in a while too. [1] https://www.s3stat.com/Pricing.aspx
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by markwillis82 10y ago
We are in the middle of migrating from Bitbucket to our self hosted CE version and apart from a few permissions issues on SSH keys we have had no issues with the whole process and updating our deployment system was just a case of changing g
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Percona Free MySQL QA and Bash Training Videos(percona.com)
1 points by markwillis82 12y ago|0 comments

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