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by ragmondo 14y ago
ssssssh ! When proxying over DNS becomes mainstream, it'll be shutdown !!
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Ask HN: Inhouse cloud - does anyone provide this?
1 points by ragmondo 14y ago|0 comments
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by ragmondo 14y ago
ooh ooh ooh. Disclaimer: Plug for my app called "tonepush" coming up. I wrote an app that allows you to change the ringtone on someone else's phone (think xmas tunes, valentine songs etc etc). Anyway, one of my users had this issue where hi
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by ragmondo 14y ago
Me too ! I held out and held out and held out and I think they even threw in 200 quid credit into the deal too after the streetcar-> zipcar takeover. I am a family chap and we used to be a 2 car house but that was just due to the occasi
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Giving up. Trying to register with Microsoft's "Healthvault"
1 points by ragmondo 14y ago|0 comments
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by ragmondo 14y ago
I would 1) Make the pages editable by trusted individuals but with your validation before any change goes live. Allow the authors to be credited (with links to their blogs, pages etc etc). 2) Why stop at cars? Find a domain "howdoesa???work
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by ragmondo 14y ago
if his place looks nicer than mine, I'm going to clone it. Cue the "You wouldn't steal a car" brigade....
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by ragmondo 14y ago
I disagree fundamentally with the message xkcd is saying here. Instagram, facebook, myspace etc all gained traction as basically setting up a website or wordpress site was just not practical at one time. They all give the impression that it
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by ragmondo 14y ago
Case in point - the uk "contactpoint" database - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ContactPoint - a database mandated by MPs that should contains all information about every child under the age of 18. Anyone excluded? Yep you guessed it - MP's
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by ragmondo 14y ago
Disclaimer: Self Plug. I wrote an app on Android that allows you to set your and other people's ringtones from your phone via searching soundcloud CC0 music ( ie almost no-rights-reserved). I'm demoing it tonight at "techhub" for anybody re
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by ragmondo 14y ago
How do we know the guy downloaded his plan? It could have been anybody - a deputy, underling, hell, even the secretary that absolutely refused him access. It doesn't matter that the CEO was running a hedge fund, I guarantee you he knows how
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Show HN: TonePush - set the ringtone on someone else's phone
3 points by ragmondo 14y ago|0 comments
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by ragmondo 14y ago
can't reply to a reply :-(
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by ragmondo 14y ago
Hey "be my friend" etc etc - https://ragmondo.tent.is/ - to see how well this works..
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by ragmondo 14y ago
I would rather have py.sh ... a unix shell running python.
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by ragmondo 14y ago
just a "me too" . Without a "run this script" viz-a-vie c9 or udacity ... then I would just use whatever ide was to hand and then cut/paste at the end
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by ragmondo 14y ago
Is an open version of google schemer ?
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by ragmondo 14y ago
I agree. I have worked now 20+ years in finance / technology - get this - before Google and Zynga and pretty much all of your "entrance" companies existed. Since 1999 I have commanded a high salary (but not willing to disclose here) so I
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by ragmondo 14y ago
How about this for a novel idea. Stop inventing new mechanisms for autentication, and let ME choose how I authenticate myself to your service (to gain access to MY data). http://ragmondocom.appspot.com/2012/03/My-Stuff-My-Lock
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by ragmondo 14y ago
Here's what helps me (with a fulltime job paying the mortgage and kids to feed as well). Make lists. Make estimates. Identify where in your free time you can do "things" but most importantly WHAT is best doing at that time - ie product deve
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Robot Olympics in their own words.(bbc.co.uk)
7 points by ragmondo 14y ago|0 comments
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by ragmondo 14y ago
is there an API to hackernews ?
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by ragmondo 14y ago
No..it means if you are running a specific program which unlocks the code you are going to have a bad time (I suppose you could rename all of your program directories though... would that defeat this ?)
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by ragmondo 14y ago
and what's your definition of those on another planet that doesn't have a magnetic pole ? Is the "North" the "top" of the rotation - which way is the top ?? (here's a link that shows what a compass would do on the surface of Mars : http://
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by ragmondo 14y ago
What does N,S,E and W mean ?
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by ragmondo 14y ago
I know it's nothing compared to what these chaps have achieved but I managed to get gdrive on linux by using a VM (virtualbox) and mapping a host drive (in this case, my gdrive directory) as a shared resource visible to that VM. If you don'
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by ragmondo 14y ago
Hey nice work. I was at Bank station yesterday and was thinking "what's the quickest way from W+C line to the central line?" either "follow the signs" or "up the travelator and down the escalator".. I was resorting to having to time it ! No
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by ragmondo 14y ago
Here is a clone which is still up at github: https://github.com/rayyan/android-nfc-paycardreader and this is the most "interesting" bit of source : https://github.com/rayyan/android-nfc-paycardreader/blob/mas... - it can identify card t
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by ragmondo 14y ago
Sorry.. Am calling BS on this... To read any protected memory regions on an NFC card a fairly complicated handshake has to occur with various exchanges of keys - you can't just read details with your average NFC reader in an Android phone u
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by ragmondo 14y ago
Draytek Vigor. My go to router of choice. built in vpn from the off, so you can drop in these bad boys and then (once set up) auto route all your traffic that looks as if it should go to the remote site TO the remote site. Easy to vpn back

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