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by neil_s 13y ago
The problem as I see it is very simple. When you hand over cash, that's it, that's the end of the transaction. The 'seller' can't use this cash to access any more of your money. On the other hand, using any of these
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by neil_s 13y ago
Which bank are you with? I'm on Lloyd's Bank (what used to be Lloyd's TSB), and they won't send me a text message or email when I go into overdraft, only snail mail.
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by neil_s 13y ago
Interestingly, you might have benefitted more from keeping quiet about this. While the original retailers are losing money through this, you aren't really affected negatively by them doing it. In fact, with this additional revenue sour
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by neil_s 13y ago
The system only provides leads for further inspection, not evidence. When a metal detector has a positive, false or not, you inspect the bag, you don't arrest the person.
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by neil_s 13y ago
I use a free service called Gishpuppy, which operates kind of similarly to the fastmail aliases, except it just forwards the email to your Gmail, so you don't have to stop using Gmail. When you get spam, you simply cancel the alias and
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by neil_s 13y ago
I had previously dismissed this method for spam-prevention because how many dot permutations can you possibly create, and how would you remember which permutation corresponds to each company (so you know which one to block when you start re
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by neil_s 13y ago
Ryan, why did Treehouse choose fewer days over fewer hours per day as a way to reduce total hours worked? Anecdotal data says most information workers find it hard to actually get more than 6 hours of work a day, so that would suggest a 9-6
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by neil_s 13y ago
How has no one mentioned this video yet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLwML2PagbY Mercedes discovered this property of chickens a while back, and made a great commercial out of it.
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by neil_s 13y ago
WIll be interesting to see how this fares long-term. The article doesn't mention why a custom distro was needed rather than one of the standards, and the running cost of now patching their own OS every time a linux bug or vulnerability
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Yeah, I used a Casio (non-programmable, but does integrations) for my (British) IGCSEs, a TI for the (International/Swiss) IB, and am back to using 'university approved' Casios at Cambridge.
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Ask HN: Should I recreate an acquired, shutdown company?
6 points by neil_s 13y ago|4 comments
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by neil_s 13y ago
Why would programmers need a separate tool for programming practice? Isn't the act of programming itself the best form of typing practice? I don't see a market fit for this for the stated purpose. Also, the UI when you make a mist
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by neil_s 13y ago
What I find interesting though, is that OP went from interning at a YC company, to founding one. Would love to learn more about that process, and the visa situation throughout, since I don't think you can be founding companies and gett
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by neil_s 13y ago
Am I the only one for whom the article had the opposite than intended effect? I was expecting some real life horror story of a false positive or deliberate framing, but instead I was given examples of how this data could be used constructiv
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Where was this n weeks ago, when we were designing that touch-first interface?
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by neil_s 13y ago
Came here for this. I don't even buy that many electronics, and I still have a dozen different (normal/macro/mini) USB cables. Now I have to throw them all into a landfill to get basic connectivity? Or worse still, hang on to
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by neil_s 13y ago
That's a cool trick, thanks!
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by neil_s 13y ago
What does this actually mean for non-experts in Astronomy? Is it in a higher orbit around Earth, has it started a slingshot for Mars, or has it started orbiting Mars?
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by neil_s 13y ago
This is awesome because it takes the webcam's story full circle. This is why the webcam was invented (kinda): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_Room_coffee_pot
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by neil_s 13y ago
I wanted to do this, the most similar thing I've found so far is Assembly Made ( https://assemblymade.com/ ). It's like Quirky but for software.
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by neil_s 13y ago
Am I the only one who found this incredibly uninformative and sensationalist? Their 'special device', just a wireless proxy, measured 350,000 requests, which to someone who doesn't know how many dozens of requests loading an
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by neil_s 13y ago
Thanks for fishing out the source for me, I just found it on Facebook. Added the attribution now, but seems like I can't update the link on HN and I can't get the new content at the old jsfiddle link. Here's the new one: htt
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Show HN: Internet's Classiest Page(jsfiddle.net)
7 points by neil_s 13y ago|3 comments
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Living in the UK, I have only 1 debit card, which works just fine. I don't need to build a credit history and credit cards don't offer much in terms of rewards so there's no incentive to live in debt instead of only paying fo
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by neil_s 13y ago
I'm an Indian living in the UK and don't have this figured out yet. What's the difference when you select to pay by credit, if the balance is paid automatically from your account at the end of the month, instead of being debi
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It's using 0.7 mb on my Surface Pro. However, its 6.15pm right now, maybe usage goes up when it actually starts dimming. I've never had noticeable performance issues because of it though, and I run it on my 7 year old Macbook Pro
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by neil_s 13y ago
Biggest bug for me is that if you click on one of the two languages, it still waits till the entire clip finishes playing before progressing to tell me 'right' or 'wrong'. UPDATE: never mind, its not when the audio finis
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by neil_s 13y ago
Oblique spoiler alert? What does a cow's leer mean? I can't think of any permutations of the letters in 'name' that make sense.
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by neil_s 13y ago
I'm stuck in civilisation where I need steel to make the next set of items. Is there any more efficient way of producing steel than buying it in exchange for scales and teeth? Like a steel mine or a person like a tanner that can conver
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by neil_s 13y ago
Wait if the Xbox becomes a PC, then what's the point of the Xbox? Surely its better in that case to just stick a PC in your living room, hook it up to your TV, and have the full flexibility of Windows! And instead of throwing out the w

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