mattbee

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by mattbee 7y ago
I know it's the CEO. It doesn't say the devices will be supported for the foreseeable future! It restates the woolly probability that you'll have to partition your system, and lose multiroom at, without stating what features
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by mattbee 7y ago
This non-apology announces no changes, and does nothing for Sonos owners worrying which product get cut off next. They're even still selling the Connect on their site - with no warnings! https://www.sonos.com/en-gb&#x
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by mattbee 7y ago
Since deleting my Twitter, I'm much more motivated to email people out of the blue. It always feels positive, even if I don't get a reply. I had a couple of lovely messages myself after selling my company in 2018 and they did a l
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by mattbee 7y ago
Oh - we're back to talking about trust & Cloudflare again. Cloudflare have always hosted [ ] booter / stresser / DDoS-for-hire sites. Right now I can find 8 sites on their network when I search for "booter" (it
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by mattbee 7y ago
It looks excellent! But I know https://redash.io already and used it in my last business - does this do something different? I'm always hungry for better SQL business admin tools though.
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Xero disables OAuth 1.0, private integrations without notice, breaks workflows(community.xero.com)
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by mattbee 7y ago
This spends too many words justifying the stale "real hacker" tradition of dunking on education, and kindof ignores the problem of how to measure something so subjective as learning. So people who are good at tests get ahead. We
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by mattbee 7y ago
European here, I can help: Yes a click counts as personal data if you can reference it back to a real person. Aggregated clicks probably wouldn't. Selling ads based on personal data is selling your personal data. The personal data prov
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by mattbee 7y ago
Way back Atari didn't used to give credit to individual programmers - these easter eggs were a pretty common response: https://www.forbes.com/sites/sethporges/2017/12/20/the-true-... etc.
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by mattbee 7y ago
Haha yup, on the way back from a beach in Kefalonia, Maps took my family & our hire car onto a track that a goat would have thought twice about - gradually going from tarmac to gravel to dirt on the side of a very steep hill. The car e
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by mattbee 7y ago
_Limonov_ by Emmanuel Carrère is a sensitive and conflicting portrait of an extraordinary Russian (who's still alive).
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by mattbee 8y ago
So... he ordered a T1/T3 line? In 1997? That would have had a lead time of weeks? Surely his rich mother (with a 5-figure credit card limit) chose to fund her son's business, rather than disputing a ridiculous charge & kicki
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by mattbee 8y ago
People see cancellation and asking for refunds as an awkward conversation. Calling a bank is easier, and Amex / other providers have buttons online to say "stop charges" or "dispute charges" - easier still, and
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by mattbee 8y ago
BlueSky Education | Senior Software Engineer | Guildford, UK | Onsite | Full-time BlueSky is looking for its first in-house, full-time software engineer in Guildford, UK. Over 17 years, our pioneering team has made BlueSky the UK's lea
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by mattbee 8y ago
When I was at Bytemark, we decided it was important that you knew up-front exactly what the demands on your time would be, what challenges there would be, and we don't deviate from that: http://careers.bytemark.co.uk/fu
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by mattbee 8y ago
Bytemark | Front-end dev: HTML, CSS, JS, UI design | York, UK | ONSITE, REMOTE, FULL-TIME | Bytemark is the UK's cloud hosting provider with its own data centre & cloud hosting stack, serving cloud-native developers across the coun
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by mattbee 8y ago
That sounds identical to darcs' pitch - http://darcs.net/DifferencesFromGit darcs was an absolute pleasure to use, right up until they got stuck on the "merge of doom" bug http://darcs.net/FAQ
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by mattbee 8y ago
In the middle of this ramble: "I wish developers were more willing to consider the possibility that their favorite computer programming may not be ideal for a world of distributed computing in the cloud. Apparently I’m shouting into th
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by mattbee 8y ago
The whole source is Apache-licensed, so there are no restrictions if you build & integrate it yourself. The restrictive personal license applies to the official binaries.
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by mattbee 9y ago
The problem with any take-home test, ESPECIALLY one that you only expect to take 2 hours, is that you hand people an advantage who do have more time to spend on it. That was what stopped us doing it, and started looking at reasonable test
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by mattbee 9y ago
It is a pretty nice trick, and I use the same i3 config between my laptop & Windows desktop so everything comes up the same. The filesystem is slow though, for e.g. Rails work you will feel the difference between WSL & normal Linu
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by mattbee 9y ago
I think you missed the part of the article where they talked about never having enough cash to buy in bulk, instead buying at 2 or 3x the unit cost in 5s and 10s from the corner shop.
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by mattbee 9y ago
Dude, Cloudflare is just a hosting company, the internet would carry on fine without them. I'm not sure why NYTimes is losing their rag over their long-overdue decision to take down a Nazi site. The famous nazi site is still up, so t
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by mattbee 9y ago
Bytemark | https://www.bytemark.co.uk/ | York, UK | Onsite/Remote | Full-time | Platform Engineer | £32000-£40000 We're looking for a Linux expert to maintain our cloud hosting systems and raise the bar for our in
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by mattbee 9y ago
> I think it's much closer to the truth to say that people everywhere are extremely interested in and enamored of women, but that women provide some kind of easy target for expression of bad feelings or trolling. You're not eve
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by mattbee 9y ago
Heh, Douglas Adams wrote in 1987 "The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders wat
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by mattbee 9y ago
Bytemark's Cloud Servers went all in on network storage from 2012, 10 years after our first platform that only used local storage. The main motivation was so all our servers would be live-migratable in case of hardware trouble, but it
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by mattbee 9y ago
I love using the Boris Bikes in London for the first time a couple of weeks back - nice big sturdy things, but oh my word the system is shakey. The app crashed a lot, then the terminals at the bike parks were "disconnected" and c
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by mattbee 9y ago
Cool observation - not as bad on Android due to a hardware back button, but it still happens. Or another option to solve it??? Just don't show notifications when the user is "obviously" using their phone. e.g. if there'
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by mattbee 9y ago
> A big problem with his thesis is that I see just as much ugly crap in proprietary codebases where there is a clear structure of who is responsible for what. I don't think the contrast he's drawing is bazaar/open source v

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