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by paulhart 10y ago
What happens when thousands of people all get home from work at around the same time, and then plug in their cars? There's your problem, because most populations aren't going to be wanting brownouts.
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by paulhart 10y ago
Seems very clear to me - the Court has ordered a stop to a pattern of behaviour, the person so ordered has not stopped, and so the court is "turning up the volume" by using the powers it has available to it. Regardless of what you
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by paulhart 10y ago
The BOINC client is (afaik) pre-installed on many IBM machines; it's been on both laptops I've been issued. I suspect that IBM is one of the biggest supporters of BOINC. Disclaimer: IBMer, simply sharing an observation, not talkin
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by paulhart 10y ago
The NYT article is (slightly) out of date - the carrier I was flying with last night made a point of stating the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 could not be used at any time during the flight.
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by paulhart 10y ago
Migration away from depending on a 6809 doing things for you... and the built-in form computer.
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by paulhart 10y ago
Most knitting machine manufacturers that targeted the prosumer market have gone out of business (or left the business of making knitting machines). However, there are large communities of owners who still keep the flame burning. One of the
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by paulhart 10y ago
Oncor solicited a study that showed that a mass install of Tesla Powerwall devices would be an economic solution to this problem [1], at which point all the generators lost their minds and lobbied the PUCT to prevent Oncor from destroying t
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by paulhart 10y ago
Read the comment posted by Lauren - it's the best thing on that page.
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by paulhart 11y ago
I find it interesting that they've chosen to partner with different vendors (and different card networks) in other jurisdictions - here in Canada, the new Costco card is a MasterCard in partnership with Capital One.
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by paulhart 11y ago
He has a (US) patent already. https://www.google.com/patents/US9115913
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by paulhart 11y ago
MicroFocus I presume? :)
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by paulhart 11y ago
LMLAHHNPFY (Let me look at his Hacker News profile for you)... and click one extra link. https://heyguevara.com/
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by paulhart 11y ago
Which may mean that either the bank is storing your password as plaintext (or is hashing every three character combination possible, which would also help a hacker figure out the plaintext).
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by paulhart 11y ago
A community in Alberta, Canada has, in effect, ended homelessness [0]. The mayor claims[1] the cost of providing housing to someone is around CAD20,000, but the cost of a homeless person can be up to CAD100,000 - meaning that it's fina
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by paulhart 11y ago
Spent a week at Cray in Bracknell (UK) for my "work experience" week when I was at school - I was 16 way back then (22 years ago). Originally I had wanted to go visit MicroProse but was far too late for their annual avalanche of a
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by paulhart 12y ago
University of Central Lancashire (not).
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by paulhart 15y ago
And that's why change requests were created. Also, be sure not to make the scope fungible, because the last thing you need as the worker is for the client to say "oh, we don't want that functionality any more, we want this instead, that sho
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by paulhart 16y ago
If someone claims they have "excellent verbal and written communication skills" and then has a litany of spelling and grammar errors in their application, it goes to the circular file. It doesn't take much to have another person review the
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by paulhart 16y ago
True, seems that the MBA is awarded by the University of Wales though, which is fully accredited.
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by paulhart 16y ago
:) AIM is screwy on IMified - I've posted on the support site but haven't heard anything yet. Apparently I have an account online, but it's not connected to anything. See the post at: http://help.imified.com/discussions/problems/326-unable
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by paulhart 16y ago
Compared to Twilio, Tropo has an awful API. Also, a few features Tropo publicizes (esp. to do with IM) just don't work - you end up going to another Voxeo company to get semi-working functionality (IMified), but then some of that IM fun
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by paulhart 16y ago
Ah yes, the "West Texas Put" as the folks in the industry refer to it. Wind is cool, but getting power from the turbines to the consumers is hard; you can't time-shift generation to when you want to consume it; and if the wind suddenly stop
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by paulhart 16y ago
Oh well, won't be a lot of use to you (right) now. http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/www.mycpohq.com
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by paulhart 16y ago
I think the key point is that the recipients of these emails often haven't subscribed; they've been "discovered." I've seen companies do this, I've been on the receiving end of this. Both suck.
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by paulhart 16y ago
You say you're based in Toronto. Have a look at the people behind http://www.startupnorth.ca/ and get in touch with them, I'm sure they'd either be interested themselves, or would be happy to make some introductions.
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by paulhart 16y ago
This list is incomplete - it only contains software that Oracle considers "off the shelf". Products in their lineup that are targeted at very specific niches are not listed. Without naming specific products (I'm probably under some kind of
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by paulhart 16y ago
Sounds like it's going to be expensive (then again, a lot of bike accessories are). I'm very happy with my CycleMeter app ($4.99 in the App Store) and putting my phone in a secure pocket while I cycle. If I was "serious" about cycling (I cy
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by paulhart 16y ago
Would love to, you have a great form ;)
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by paulhart 16y ago
Argh, just went through the full seven step program and the "I'm done!" button isn't responding! I'm feeling frustrated ;)
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by paulhart 16y ago
I believe some hotel interactive systems (i.e. through the TV) use Windows 95 or 98.

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