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by neil_s 12y ago
On a related note, anyone know why cinemas don't have some form of shielding/Faraday caging to prevent people from making calls? You could shield just the movie halls themselves, so people can still make emergency calls from the l
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by neil_s 12y ago
Nice one. I've been using a Chrome extension called fPrivacy to do this presently on the web, since very few websites actually check to see if they've got all the extraneous information they requested. But it sometimes breaks the
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by neil_s 13y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who's seeing glitches. I've had instances of the right squares being lit up in green, but then a square on another board, which shouldn't be permissible, actually get selected.
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by neil_s 13y ago
Wait so what's the advantage of this over the free adapter your laptop came with? It says its smaller, and yes it does look marginally smaller (not enough to make a difference to me personally), but is that it? You can charge another U
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by neil_s 13y ago
Is this the only reported case of malicious use of Heartbleed so far? (Besides US government agencies allegedly) If so, is it safe to say that this crisis was dealt with rather well? Or is it just too early to know how many sites were actua
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by neil_s 13y ago
This is what I was gonna say! I don't know much JS, but after @sgdesign 's recent primer, the answer to the first two conditions seems obvious, b=="2" and b===2. Herpderp is just a cop out, since you could have infinite
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by neil_s 13y ago
Could you link me to the mailing list for the Roundabout? I've joined a Meetup or two, but haven't found this list.
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by neil_s 13y ago
A CS student graduating from Cambridge usually has numerous job offers for GBP 45k+ or USD 100k+, promising a safe, stable lifestyle. Going down the startup route with no team, no idea, and funding of only 10-20k to live and develop a busin
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by neil_s 13y ago
It's funny that you're commenting on HN, which is just one of the tools YC uses to capture a global mindshare. Aspiring entrepreneurs around the world now know about YC's track record, so it is kind of hard to justify choosin
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by neil_s 13y ago
Yes. I imagine this as a javascript/jquery plugin with a backend service that website/blog owners can integrate into their website. It would work something like Medium comments - you highlight the erroneous text, click the 'r
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by neil_s 13y ago
I keep each project in a different desktop (using Dexpot on Windows or Spaces on Mac). Rather than opening and closing applications, I simply switch desktops. The context switch cost decreases significantly. An added advantage is a clear se
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by neil_s 13y ago
I know Windows 8 contains an option to avoid downloading updates on 'Metered connections', which is basically this. I don't know if 3rd party apps can access and obey this setting though.
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by neil_s 13y ago
This is really cool! Are you building it from scratch or is there some existing knowledge graph you're building on top of?
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by neil_s 13y ago
My guess would be a team to provide a data-centric approach to investment. Crunch a whole lot of numbers to identify industry trends and specific firms that are promising, and see if those can replicate human performance. Or they're si
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by neil_s 13y ago
The day I can write C# on both the server and client, instead of js with Node.js, I'll be soooo happy.
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by neil_s 13y ago
Any tips for level 9? I can't seem to find a handle on the raft to be able to modify its behaviour directly.
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by neil_s 13y ago
My main use case is checking what time the last tube home is, which I can't yet find. On the old site, I could find the last tube out from Location to Middle Stop, but then get to Middle Stop and realise that the line from Middle Stop
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by neil_s 13y ago
Well then we better get it out of people's systems now. Mac rulez, Windoze sux. Android is greater than iOS any day. OP is stoopid. Let the flamewars commence.
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by neil_s 13y ago
From a physics point of view, how would this scale up to commercial jets? Presumably you would need multiple parachutes to distribute the load, but still, how large would they have to be to support that weight?
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by neil_s 13y ago
I was just about to get started learning how to use South migrations. Should I continue, or just focus on the development of the rest of the project while I wait for a stable Django 1.7 to get released? What sort of timeline does its releas
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by neil_s 13y ago
Wow, I was just looking for this a couple of days back!
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by neil_s 13y ago
what would make Persona a killer solution for me is if it could hand out disposable email addresses to every site I sign into, that forward transparently to my main address (a la Gishpuppy). This way, I can identify which site is the cause
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by neil_s 13y ago
This definitely has some potential for abuse through bait and switch schemes. When you go to the torrent download page and see that no one has reported it as being fake or malicious, you feel safe in downloading it. Then, once it has got su
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by neil_s 13y ago
I love and use both, so here's my two cents: (Context: I am not a 'hardcore programmer'. I don't use vim or emacs because I'm simply faster/more productive with an editor that I don't need to go through a
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by neil_s 13y ago
This is very interesting, thanks for taking the time to compile it all. What I'm wondering now is whether you plan on open-sourcing the technology built so people can potentially plug it into their own storage providers and take up the
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by neil_s 13y ago
Just curious, what were the initial assumptions proven wrong by their 3 week old MVP? Would be awesome if the founders jumped in, there's not much backstory on the blog.
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by neil_s 13y ago
Am I the only one who thinks this is a step backwards? Electoral Roll data is already publicly available on EC websites, with probably worse data security and privacy procedures than anything Google would implement. Anyone who has seen one
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by neil_s 13y ago
This was going pretty well (except for the patronising dog complements of 'Good job!' :D), and then it got stuck on 'Almost finished...' :(
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by neil_s 13y ago
Well its meant to answer the question: "Which Windows operating system am I using?", so clearly OS X, Android, Chrome OS are all don't care states. Why were you expecting anything else?
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by neil_s 13y ago
Domain names are already a layer of indirection, a friendly way to specify IP addresses. This layer would be a friendly way to specify domain names that are a friendly way to specify IP addresses. And you gain not much else besides the abil

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