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by philbarr 12y ago
This looks really interesting. If I build an app with this do I have to use your REST web api, or can I download the results of my expert system creation somehow and integrate it into my app, making it entirely off line?
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by philbarr 12y ago
> We get the world we want, by and large. Hmm, not sure about that. The rich get the world they want, by and large.
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by philbarr 12y ago
That seems to be quite a sweeping statement! Any sources for that?
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by philbarr 12y ago
Agreed! Personally I feel that since he writes and maintains it himself he can be as argumentative as he likes. It's not like he's the first - check out Linus Torvalds for the canonical abrasive open source guy. And they're r
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by philbarr 12y ago
That up-down-up-up-down whilst keeping the hand moving sets up different rythms and is an important skill. Especially if you're trying to learn a particular song - which will sound totally different if you get that wrong. Of course,
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by philbarr 12y ago
Don't you mean: x^2+2x+1 = (x+1)^2; If x=-1, then (x+1)^2 + 5 = 5
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by philbarr 12y ago
What I find more interesting about this, besides the fact you can block your kids' phones, is the amount of effort put into the creation and marketing of it. I mean - as far as I can tell [0] this is the only app this person has done,
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by philbarr 12y ago
Yes this always got me about the, "free as in free speech, not as in free beer" argument. Ok, so technically it's only, "free as in free speech" but in practicality it's also, "free as in free beer".
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by philbarr 12y ago
Surely it's not copyright infringement unless you claim you wrote it yourself? Like, you could buy a book, tear the pages out of it and send that.
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by philbarr 12y ago
As far as I'm aware, Project Euler doesn't make any actual money, so you have to give the team behind it a lot of kudos for actually taking the time to get it back up and running. Must have been really tempting to just sack it off
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by philbarr 12y ago
So in which situations would you buy something? Not trying to be snarky or anything, I know yours is a common opinion so I'm just wondering what would be a less offensive way to test the waters? Perhaps - do the conversation, leave s
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by philbarr 12y ago
I use TeamViewer for that, AND Chrome Remote Desktop. I've found that I need both so that if TeamViewer doesn't work for some reason I've still got Chrome available to go in and fix it... Hardly the best setup but at least it
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by philbarr 12y ago
Yes, and that business about the transubstantiation, which for some reason C of E doesn't believe in but Roman Catholic does. Even though it's pretty obvious to anyone who's been to a service that the wafer definitely doesn&#
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by philbarr 12y ago
I assume you're referring to the fact that it's just a "made up" church? [1] Some of the most fanatical church go-ers that I know of are C of E. Of course, that could be my limited experience. I can see how in the US it
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by philbarr 12y ago
So this is essentially a free 12 month trial? The problem with that is I don't want to sign up today because the trial will start from the day I sign up. So if I had something ready to go today that would be fine but I don't - and
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by philbarr 12y ago
What an obscure load of tosh. I might as well say that all the maths-nerds don't really know how to program because they don't understand design patterns properly, as evidenced by them hating on it all the time. But of course, I w
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by philbarr 12y ago
Because that would mean I'd have to use Wordpress. I still want to have enough control to change what I want to.
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by philbarr 12y ago
It seems to be down at the moment as I keep getting the "We'll be right back!" message. Possibly the HN effect? Anyway - that aside this is an absolutely brilliant idea and fixes a real pain point for me. After spending so lo
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by philbarr 12y ago
Which reminds me of this from Douglas Adams: “It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..." "You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?" "No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and cohere
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by philbarr 12y ago
Well I'm from the UK and I thought the comments were bloody annoying, so...
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by philbarr 12y ago
The problem is you would need to repeat this experiment every day for 8 months - and even then that's not enough data for a new parent to be confident. It only needs to go wrong once remember. You're playing the odds. Some child
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by philbarr 12y ago
Yeah I think that would have been a nice thing to do, but there's no way we could after all the scare stories we were told.
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by philbarr 12y ago
That is a cool product, but on reflection I think you're right with the monitoring. I'm not a huge fan of the monitoring system we have now, but my wife won't live without it. We even have her room only two meters away from o
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by philbarr 12y ago
Ouch! 3 weeks was hard! Believe me I'm much happier now at 13 weeks than I was at 3. They tell you it gets easier but it really does, honest! I work from home so it's a constant thing. We also have a Golden Retriever who likes to
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by philbarr 12y ago
That's right, it's sensitive enough to pick up when she's breathing. Babies can get sleep apnea which is ok as long as it lasts no longer than 15 seconds. Longer than that and you've got problems and you need to get ther
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by philbarr 12y ago
Hey wow - thanks for the awesome condescending tone! I didn't realise I had to do any parenting as you call it? Weird...I was just gonna try and gadget my way through it all.
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by philbarr 12y ago
What affects my sleep isn't me setting my alarm for the wrong time, it's my 13 week old baby. I'm sure I've seen a few things like this in the past. I wonder if they could adopt it for use as a baby monitor? We do curren
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by philbarr 12y ago
As an aside, it is official UK policy to NOT respond to reports of someone's house alarm going off. If you ring 999 they'll ask you if you can actually see someone in the house robbing things and if you can't, they won't
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by philbarr 12y ago
I've always found that the people who write the AbstractFactoryFactorySomethingVisitor patterns are the people who read about design patterns and want to use them for the sake of using them, because they think it makes them better deve
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by philbarr 12y ago
Has anyone used Expect for Windows? Any good experiences to share? I'm wondering if it's something I should take the time to learn and use.

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