rossng

19 ms·

151.
by rossng 10y ago
Judging by the state of the various Skype apps, I suspect that getting anything added to Skype is a kafkaesque nightmare. I bet these guys just let it drop in order to get their product released.
152.
by rossng 10y ago
I did wonder why he would voluntarily move TO Npower. Even if you're saving money, it's not worth it. A single 'live chat' with them was more than enough to convince me of that.
153.
by rossng 11y ago
Of all the things you could fix in C, curly braces? I would have thought that the massive security issues, weird standard library design, non-existent module system, copious undefined behaviour, weak type system or risible package managemen
154.
by rossng 11y ago
This is a problem that's bugged me for a long time - it's good to see people working on it. Deploying and managing most traditional CMSes is a nightmare, IMO. MODX has had something similar for a while with Gitify[1] for the site
155.
by rossng 11y ago
blendle.com/signup/account rejects email GMail addresses of the form username+label@gmail.com - even though the launch.blendle.com/hackernews.html page accepts them. It's one of my pet peeves, please fix it!
156.
by rossng 11y ago
Conversely, there's a balance to be struck here. Non-specific error messages can be very annoying, as they are un-Googleable and provide no troubleshooting hints to a technical user. I think the best approach is to give a user-friendly
157.
by rossng 11y ago
It's genuinely scary to see how trivial these attacks often are. Who on earth wrote these API endpoints and thought they were acceptably secure? If the car companies can't write software that would withstand hacking skills roughly
158.
by rossng 11y ago
PlatformIO is exactly the kind of 'infrastructure project' that everyone is always suggesting YC should fund. I think they should consider a Kickstarter as well - this seems to have worked for a few similar projects. Developing fo
159.
by rossng 11y ago
There has been a lot of noise about this same service in several other developing countries. A few have banned it so far. It will be interesting to see how the situation in Burma develops. If Facebook ends up completely dominating the marke
160.
by rossng 11y ago
This doesn't surprise me at all. If something's installed by default, that's what most people use. In fact, I've found that the very idea of using a mapping app to navigate is still foreign to a large percentage of peopl
161.
by rossng 11y ago
Google Music has definitely used fingerprinting for some time - I think from its inception. I haven't used Spotify for a long time, so I'm not sure how it works.
162.
by rossng 11y ago
I think it very much depends on which companies you look at. There's lots of boring stuff done in .NET, but there's also some amazing stuff. The next few months are pretty exciting - I mean, just watch this: https://www
163.
by rossng 11y ago
I'm not that surprised. SW Update and Easy Settings are among the two worst pieces of software I've ever used. If I press the volume keys on my (i7, Ivy Bridge) Samsung laptop, I often have to wait several minutes before anything
164.
by rossng 11y ago
Definitely not sarcasm - anyone who has an interest in music probably listens to someone on one of their labels.
165.
by rossng 11y ago
Ouch - those are some pretty important artists for Apple to be missing out on.
166.
by rossng 11y ago
I think this might be Slashdot's Digg moment. I guess if you destroy the reputation of one of your businesses you might as well take care of the others at the same time!
167.
by rossng 11y ago
From the other side of the pond, it seems like a good solution would be to a) fix the appeals process and b) stop jailing people for life without parole. Advocating the death penalty because it 'force[s] an appeals process' appear
168.
by rossng 11y ago
This is sadly common, but not always the case. The London 2012 organising committee appear to have done a pretty good job of avoiding the infrastructure 'money pit'. In fact, the 'legacy' of the Games was one of its main
169.
Home Secretary's plan to censor TV programmes condemned by cabinet colleague(theguardian.com)
2 points by rossng 11y ago|0 comments
170.
by rossng 11y ago
I did actually check the date on the article part-way through reading it.
171.
by rossng 11y ago
If GROWS became popular, it would also be 'sloganized', branded and ruined. People would go to one-day intensive GROWS courses, get certified and then just do waterfall anyway - exactly what's happened to Scrum and everything
172.
by rossng 11y ago
There's a massive difference between the two. The Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish (plus islanders and whatnot) tend to get pretty peeved when you refer to them as English. I accept that people outside the UK might not care, but I do
173.
by rossng 11y ago
Okay, that was a bad example. It's likely to be small, obscure features that break (assuming that major stuff will be caught by good automated testing). Not many people will rely on that specific functionality, so not many people will
174.
by rossng 11y ago
I think there will be some problems, but I don't think it will be that bad. The web has coped perfectly fine with continuously-updated browsers. A significant proportion of 'change management' is pointless, box-ticking bureau
175.
by rossng 11y ago
I have Scottish family, but I have always lived in England. Most of the Scots I'm related to or know are fairly anti-SNP/anti-independence. I don't really care (a sentiment shared by many outside Scotland) - although I suspec
176.
by rossng 11y ago
The SNP are nothing to worry about, really. They're centre-left and moderate. They might campaign for another referendum but it would be silly to class them as xenophobic. However, from a technology perspective the new Tory majority r
177.
by rossng 11y ago
Why not blame the language? There are plenty of languages available that are objectively more safe than C. Most of the security-critical memory-related bugs that are written in C (and C++) simply could not happen in, say, Java or Haskell. B
178.
by rossng 11y ago
This is a pretty bold move, but I like the intent behind it. Hopefully Mozilla can pull it off without causing any problems for normal users. Presumably it will all be synced with their plans to launch a free CA[1] in the near future. [1]
179.
Fling OS – An Educational Operating System Project(flingos.co.uk)
3 points by rossng 11y ago|0 comments
180.
by rossng 12y ago
> 'If one of these requests comes with a gag order— and they usually do ' (emphasis mine) We can probably assume that the number is >0 rather than >=0.

More ›