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by mdisraeli 13y ago
...how very human I see were you are coming from, and for sake of intellectual discussion of speculative fiction even up-voted. But I think there's a whole load of possibilities you've missed. The most basic one is simply that y
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
You and me both, you and me both....
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Your openness and taking of action are very much good things, thank you! :D
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
I don't view it as a conspiracy, only a very strange thing to observe, for a number of reasons: 1. The only thing which clearly marks this as an ad is the comment just above it in the HTML. Which is strange for two reasons... 2. The la
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
With any luck, this post will be killed because these sorts of discussions never go well on HN, and help reinforce all the cultural issues everyone pretends don't exist. In the meantime... Firstly, let's put our journalism 101 hat
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Irony - this developer, who seems to have a good understanding of ethics and web best practices, on a post about advert blocking, has a link at the bottom of their sidebar: "Essay shark - paper writing service!" This is labelled
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
"continuous deployment" is not a panacea to the issue. There's two primary ways of doing it, from what I understand: continuous deployment to a dev/test environment is the easiest for most organisations to move to. Due t
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Pretty much. It's arbitrary, but is fixed, not the first week or last week of the month (often reporting periods), not Monday, and not the weekend. If you then assume that organisations test the patches, that means they can deploy them
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
I've worked with a global services industry organisation based in the UK but with MAJOR work happening in the middle east, India and Asia-Pacific regions. To add to that, because so much of the service industry's core activities t
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
In the IT services industry, we'll often talk about running a "war room" for the hours following a significant change, and then follow with a period of a nominated on-call person who has the authority to wake the project team
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
There's an interesting game one can play with such sites - get a random location, and try to find your way back to an airport without looking at a map ...Of course, this was easier before google indexed so much countryside....
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
WSmall comment on Wisecash and the trend for video demos, not features outlined in images and text. If one is working around other people, listening to a recording may not be possible. Skimming a featureset may also be a quicker way of asse
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
It is worth noting that it is very common for women to be 'promoted' out of technical roles into managerial or administrative positions, often before they have been able to develop true competencies or career plans.
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
One of my favourite apocryphal stories is the one of the audiophiles coming up to a company stand at a trade show, excited by the new bright orange cable attached to the speakers. The sales guy proclaimed it was a brand new product range th
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Startup Ketamines(tomscott.com)
12 points by mdisraeli 13y ago|1 comments
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
The most interesting part of page 2, in my opinion, was the below quote: Each degree was divided into 60 parts, each of which was again subdivided into 60 smaller parts. The first division, partes minutae primae, or first minute, became kno
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Leaving aside views on who should or should not be featured historical people rotated in and out of currency print runs, how does this one matter render the actual topic, inappropriate harassment on the internet, ridiculous? The harassment
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Great comment, although I think I didn't make the intended use of the 10k quite clear enough. Whilst one way of spending it is in live experimentation, yes, and that can be a very good option, I meant it more in a "be prepared to
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Disclaimer: I'm not a financial advisor, I don't play one on TV, and I don't have a million dollars or equivalent. Take $10,000 (1%), and accept it as money worth spending. Network well, contact friends, family and ideally su
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
According to Bunnie's investigation into microSD cards[1], that low serial number probably indicates that the components were produced on a "ghost shift", when a rogue worker comes in at night and runs the plant off the books
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Self-promotion for game developers(gamasutra.com)
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
This development is pretty damn cool. At Electromagnetic Wave in London earlier this year, I went to a talk held by someone working on similar research, but using wifi signals. At that time, they didn't have the fidelity of this propos
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
This. Although there is no age limit on YC applications, there appears to be a natural bias towards younger candidates. Women, however, tend to move into being an entrepreneur later in life, when they have more experience.
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Anyone know what the licensing restrictions on the surface keypadcovers is? Could anyone make a custom one?
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
Oh, I could find uses for it, especially if it presents as a usb midi device[1]. And I'm sure it can be used for some fun things and actually have a place in a live set. It just feels like a toy, rather than a serious bit of music kit
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The pads appear to be sensitive to pressure, if I've read it right, which is a start
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
As a DJ beginning to look into music production, this feels poorly designed to me. The sliders are without any physical control, so they add little over pure touchscreen sliders. And the fixed-functions are disappointing. Similarly the cont
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
That's rather neat! Although I'd suggest separating the roles into "countdown clues" and "countdown answers" bots. The former announcing the questions live on twitter, and the best answer being provided by Coun
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
I'm not sure what's worse - how well researched this pisstake is, or the fact that they now own feministsoftwarefoundation.org. I trust that if a real such organisation is formed, this domain will be relinquished?
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by mdisraeli 13y ago
As posted on another thread: And people wonder why we need LGBT+ activism still.... It is worth baring in mind that this incidentally will affect a lot of people in Europe and North America. India is a primary area for companies to outsourc

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