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by notauser 16y ago
I think you mean 'fortunately'. A few trolls is a small price to pay for something approximating anonymity and freedom.
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by notauser 16y ago
The government also has people who audit contracts looking for places where the contractor has committed a technical breach. In my experience breaches on either side tend to get netted off fairly amicably. I might swap you a change request
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by notauser 16y ago
It's not quite that straightforward. Think about it from the other side of the fence. My experience was with weapon systems but to a certain extent it does apply to roads. Because of THE RULES only fixed priced bids are acceptable. As a con
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by notauser 16y ago
It might be a good idea to add somewhere if signing up will make it obvious that you are a member. (E.g. by signing up does it become obvious to everyone on Twitter that you are single? Just to other people who use the site? Just to people
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by notauser 16y ago
Why not point out the VoIP possibilities? I believe Apple/AT&T changed their terms and conditions and now permit VoIP over 3G. These days even your land line calls are often converted to VoIP the moment they reach the local POP. (E.g. B
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by notauser 16y ago
That sounds almost like the proposals to add a 1 cent cost to every e-mail sent in order to fix the spam problem. The main objection was that you would need to get everyone to adopt the new system at the same time. But for IM, the system wa
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by notauser 16y ago
That's true, but the time-tracking approach encourages me to work hard for a while and then switch off and do something else. Nothing sucks my motivation more than sitting around for 8 hours thinking I'm working and getting nothing done.
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by notauser 16y ago
He also thought SCO would win, with such prophetic headlines as "What SCO Wants, SCO Gets." I'm pretty confident in the future of Android, but a positive prediction from Lyons is one of the few things that could cause me to reconsider my op
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by notauser 16y ago
In the UK I have a 'unlimited' (10G cap, tethering allowed) for £6/mo with T-mobile. It's good enough that I used it as my only Internet connection for six months. No problems with iPlayer/streaming video, the speed stays at 200kb/sec even
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by notauser 16y ago
This is where it's better to live with other motivated people. When I get up there's about a 75% chance I'll be motivated to get out of bed and go downstairs and get the nuclear coffee brewing and the bacon under the grill. The other 25% of
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by notauser 16y ago
I'm curious why you suddenly started bashing the AGPL in the middle of an unrelated discussion? I believe Reddit is covered under the CAPL which is more like the GPL than the AGPL. No one forces website operators to use AGPL code. It's a tr
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by notauser 16y ago
Juggling three balls requires less co-ordination than walking. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T16_BVIFFPQ is a good place to start. I find it a pretty good way to clear my mind.
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by notauser 16y ago
Playing bridge can get very expensive though. Some of the old guys with 70 years of practice are as good as you would expect. It's certainly much more interesting then poker though!
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by notauser 16y ago
This idea has a larger than usual chance of being crushed by competition. Normally I wouldn't be bothered about the risk of Google/Microsoft stepping into my market. (In fact, Microsoft are already in my market.) But in this case: - They ha
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by notauser 16y ago
To you this is news. To a lot of people this is like finding out that someone has spidered and indexed their conversations at the pub. Their fault? Sure. But a lot of people react worse to bad events when a mistake they made caused it, espe
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by notauser 16y ago
I once wrote a Crypto plug-in for mIRC that relied on one time pads distributed by floppy disk. (Someone created the masters and mailed them out.) A floppy disk worth of IRC chat is actually quite a lot but it also had a 'degraded mode' whi
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by notauser 16y ago
It's no longer 2003. A Macbook Pro equivalent back then was a lot more than $1800. An iPhone equivalent would have been really expensive and it would have had a 10 minute battery life. Combined WiFi+GSM chip sets were still new back then. W
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by notauser 16y ago
So is the hardware. I got hod of a G1 side by side with a Nexus One the other week and couldn't believe they were only a year and a bit apart.
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by notauser 16y ago
You are correct that taxes would be owed on $100k of personal income. This may be less than the expected saving from avoiding corporate income tax due to: - Tax free personal allowance (soon to be $15k for the UK). - Tiered rates of persona
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by notauser 16y ago
I think you have it the wrong way around. Their salary was $100k, of which (say) $80k was returned as a loan from the founder to the company. This lets the company book $100k of costs on a net cash outflow of $20k. Costs are applied before
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by notauser 16y ago
In the UK the iPhone is now selling on at least three of the big four carriers. (I think the missing one is T-Mobile.) You can even get an iPhone on Tesco Mobile, which is a bit like seeing a WalMart branded one! (Tesco is an MVNO for one o
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by notauser 16y ago
Bad plan to try this out with an account you value - if they can identify who has used the exploit they will probably ban you when the dust settles.
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by notauser 16y ago
Things I wish I had known when I was younger... The current education system is essentially a massive gift to people* who are willing to make the most of it. You get a ton of free time which you can use on any project you like. People (in
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by notauser 16y ago
The investors I know want to match their risk profile with the risk profile of the founders. That means that if they are risking 1% of their net wealth, they would like the founders to also risk ~1% of their net wealth - even if that means
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by notauser 16y ago
That has more to do with the economics of running cable to the middle of nowhere than it does competition. (BT are not the only people who can build broadband infrastructure and the fact that no cable operator has bothered to run a line out
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by notauser 16y ago
In the past it has been a path to real success, and consumers ended up paying more because of it. One example would be the Japanese electronics industry in the 60s-70s, which was subsidized until it broke the back of US competition. It then
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by notauser 16y ago
In the UK I think that network neutrality will 'be left to the market and contracts'. They are willing to do this because every home has 10+ services on offer and switching is trivial. That has happened because of regulation of the physic
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by notauser 16y ago
For those who haven't met Sanjay he is the nice guy who organizes Startup Riot, which is a free (and large) demo day conference in Atlanta. He was nice enough to invite me to go last year, which led to minor coverage on CNN and eventually a
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by notauser 16y ago
Short answer: No. Long answer: No but you wouldn't want it to anyway. Very long answer: You can essentially turn your mobile phone into a cordless phone plugged into your own home phone system (via Asterisk). Caller ID spoofing (or the co-o
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by notauser 16y ago
I bet they are getting some nice aggregate statistics as well. Just logging your home use isn't as good as capturing nearly all of your traffic, even when mobile, for analysis and sale to marketing companies.

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