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by mwest 10y ago
Weaved looks more like a layer 2 thing, while ngrok is layer 3? I use ZeroTier, which has been discussed on HN previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11699122
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by mwest 10y ago
Although ngrok is clearly the leader at the moment, I've used Localtunnel.me in the past. There was a HN discussion about it (including some even more niche alternatives) here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=75850
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by mwest 10y ago
The Player of Games , by Iain M. Banks - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Player_of_Games
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by mwest 10y ago
The problem with OTR is the lack of support for group chats. There have been multiple proposals (mpOTR, SCIMP, OMEMO, etc.) but nothing's caught on yet.
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by mwest 10y ago
Incredible to see this hitting the BBC, although it's been discussed on HN already: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11444122 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11448908 What is interesting is th
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Thoughts on (porting Banished to) Linux(shiningrocksoftware.com)
3 points by mwest 11y ago|0 comments
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by mwest 11y ago
I see you can now even cite your Docker execution environment with a DOI: http://software.ac.uk/blog/2016-03-29-reproducible-research-... :-)
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by mwest 11y ago
In academia this is something that DOIs (see https://www.datacite.org/ ) solve quite neatly.
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by mwest 11y ago
Keep an eye out for funding calls like this one: https://www.epsrc.ac.uk/funding/calls/rsefellowships/
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by mwest 11y ago
In my experience it's definitely been about lack of time more than anything else. And why become an expert in a field that's not your own? Rather get an expert in! Collaboration is always something that's strongly emphasised
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by mwest 11y ago
I've you're involved with scientific research and coding in the UK, both the SSI ( http://www.software.ac.uk/ ) and Research Software Engineers community ( http://www.rse.ac.uk/ ) provide some excelle
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by mwest 11y ago
v34-33600bps.mp3 is my new ringtone - thanks!
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by mwest 11y ago
It would have been Ada Lovelace's 200th birthday this year. The Bodleian Library will be displaying a slew of Lovelace paraphernalia, open to the public from October. There's also a symposium in December. More details here: https
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by mwest 11y ago
Looks like Archive Team managed to make a backup of ancestry.com late last year. Good work! https://twitter.com/archiveteam/status/591693476556840961 https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_an
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by mwest 12y ago
You might enjoy Isaac Asimov's short story: The Last Question http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html I recommend you read the whole thing, but if you're looking for a plot summary: http://en.wikiped
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by mwest 12y ago
A bit of a late reply, but I have switched to using this on my home LAN now: https://github.com/jodrell/unbound-block-hosts Basically, a Perl script to massage the data from Dan Pollock's list into a format suitab
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UK Research Software Engineers AGM and Hackday(rse.ac.uk)
1 points by mwest 12y ago|0 comments
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by mwest 12y ago
I use several web browsers, so rather than installing a different 'adblock' plugin for each one, I use Dan Pollock's excellent list as part of my hosts file: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ (Menti
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by mwest 12y ago
In the UK, tea should be brewed for 6 minutes (see BS 6008:1980). :-)