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by mryan 14y ago
I think noonespecial's point is that much of Ikea's income comes from people meandering through these labyrinths, being exposed to item after item until they see something that they "must have". It would not make sense for them to cannibali
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by mryan 14y ago
Squiz's Matrix (open-source CMS) also uses an EAV model.
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It would be interesting to see an updated version of the study on which these statistics are based, which takes in to account social media.
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by mryan 14y ago
So you are in fact handing over your 2-factor auth key to Google when you run google-authenticator Unless things have changed a lot since I last used this, this is not entirely correct. The binary will print out a URL - the QR
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by mryan 14y ago
It might be similar to the difference between burglary and aggravated burglary - the method used to commit the crime has a bearing on how seriously it is punished. I imagine it could have some implications when discussing the level of pre-m
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by mryan 14y ago
Hmm, that's interesting, thanks - ages ago, I used to work for an MSP in the SME sector, and I had not really thought of these two as equivalent. I suppose what I am thinking about could be considered a subset of MSP, with additional projec
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by mryan 14y ago
Interesting feedback, thanks. It sounds like that company could have benefited from caps on the amount of support per client or (perhaps better) caps on the client:staff ratio.
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by mryan 14y ago
You are not the first to point out this perceived problem: http://wiki.nasa.gov/cm/blog/nasadotgov/posts/post_130686081... Short version: They have decided the cost of doing so is not worth it. I could not agree more - sure, redirecting e
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by mryan 14y ago
I certainly won't. Thank you for the reminder though :)
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by mryan 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. That's a good point about the hosting industry. I suppose the support/project side of the business should work well enough when disconnected from the hosting - having worked at a hosting company previously, that's d
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by mryan 14y ago
Thanks for the link, there is quite a lot of overlap between that company and the service I would like to offer.
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by mryan 14y ago
Neat solution, thanks for sharing.
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Ask HN: Would you pay for a 24/7 "sysadmin as a service"?
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by mryan 14y ago
Seconding the recommendation for PAM/Google Authenticator. Off-topic: Has anyone ever managed to get PAM/Google Authenticator working with RADIUS? I spent a while messing about with this last year, and never got it working exactly as I had
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by mryan 14y ago
Although I'm sure the guidelines did not specifically state the antenna should be made from Ikea straws, this line made me smile: So in keeping with the guidelines I've made a new antenna of the same 1/4 wave design out of Ikea dr
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by mryan 14y ago
You appear to be asking: "I am unable to remember the address of a website I visit five times per day. How can I fix this problem?" You have three options: ) Remember the address of the site. Or just remember that it begins with 'n' and, as
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by mryan 14y ago
This is very interesting - I have been planning on implementing this in exactly the "wrong" way the article describes: Even if I was interested, sending a notification to me when they have joined is a pointless milestone. All you
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by mryan 14y ago
It looks like you get your own Pinterest-like board aggregating your social accounts? Interesting idea, I like the layout. When you are ready to launch it would be nice to have a public demo account, linked from the front page, that shows a
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by mryan 14y ago
But in another post, you say that you are planning to add a second factor to Rublon, so that the user must enter a PIN when scanning the Rublon code. So it doesn't appear to be any more convenient that Google Authenticator, which is widely-
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by mryan 14y ago
When I first used Authenticator I had this problem, because the clock on my phone was a couple of minutes out of sync. There is room for some error but it is worth making sure the time on your phone is correct.
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by mryan 14y ago
How much would you pay for a Github backup service? Something similar to this is on my list of potential ideas, but I am not sure enough people would use it.
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by mryan 14y ago
I have thought about doing something like this - providing a sysadmin service to companies who don't necessarily need a full-time sysadmin, but do need e.g. emergency response to system failures. I see two main challenges to making this pro
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by mryan 14y ago
Because the ability for JS to 'interfere' with the keyboard input enables some very useful features. e.g. using keyboard navigation in web apps.
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by mryan 14y ago
It is indeed similar in the UK: "You do not have to say anything, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention, when questioned, something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence."
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by mryan 14y ago
Uncertainty kills morale very quickly. I think the most important thing is to be clear about why they were fired, so your well-performing employees know they are safe. Of course, if you tell everyone you fired someone because of X, anyone e
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by mryan 14y ago
That was my first thought on reading the description, but the screenshots give a very different impression. It seems as though any game with crafting in it will bring on a Minecraft comparison. The homepage is worth checking out for the Ann
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by mryan 14y ago
I think calling this an open letter is a bit misleading, as it makes me expect some kind of useful content or opinion. This would be better described as "An Open Sales Pitch To Tesco UK", as it can be summarised as: Para 1: "Tesco has secur
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by mryan 14y ago
I can strongly recommend Dennis Covent - http://denniscovent.com/ He recently designed a site for me, and I was really impressed with the quality of his work, and his responsiveness and attitude throughout the project.
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by mryan 14y ago
I am going to be rebuilding our EC2-hosted PostgreSQL cluster soon, and will try out the provisioned IOPS feature (both with and without RAID) - happy to post benchmarks once I have some useful data.
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One example of a baffling mistake from Tesco - "spend £1.17 on bananas, get £1.25 worth of reward points": http://www.independent.co.uk/news/banana-economics-buy-942lb...

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