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by shubb 13y ago
That isn't entirely true. There are large Chinese firms with intense R&D, and many 'Western' companies do high added value work in China. There is a political narrative that we are being asked to believe that is not entirely true. That
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by shubb 13y ago
There is a contradiction in your post, and in this story:. The developer in this case is part of a self appointed core team who have the keys to infrastructure bought with other peoples donations. He has removed functionality written by som
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by shubb 13y ago
First of all, thank you for your work! I think this kind of angry dialogue isn't helpful. It won't bring people closer to agreement. But I don't think you can say "I made this thing, and gave it to you, so you can't criticize my actions reg
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by shubb 13y ago
@Mike - Yes, that is true enough.
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by shubb 13y ago
One problem that the WINE project (windows emulator for unix)has is that windows is full of undocumented APIs, some of which might be really quite useful, which are used by windows internal developers. For WINE, if you are going to write an
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by shubb 13y ago
Wow - That is a really amazing question. I'll be wondering about it for a while... The following is speculation. On AliBarBar, you can find wholesale pans at source in china for $1 each. The price of pi like devices is about $30 dollars. So
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by shubb 13y ago
The past month I've been up at 6am, rather than ~9am. As an experiment rather than for any good reason. What you say about light and stimulation sounds convincing, but for me it was about habit. I was in the habit of ignoring my alarm. I wa
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by shubb 13y ago
But as you say luck plays a big part in all these things. When the girl rejects you, saying she has a boyfriend, you might play the conversation over again, and realize you made a bad joke. I know I would. I would be more careful next time
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by shubb 14y ago
Good tip. I'll look out for them.
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by shubb 14y ago
The product right now looks pretty crude, but it also looks like a very early stage prototype. If they had say 5 good engineers on this for a year, I suspect it would look very much more compelling. To do that, you need funding, hence the y
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by shubb 14y ago
For what it's worth, I need your product and know other people that do too. I would pay for it, providing I didn't have to pay much. Increasingly, we have big data sets, and want to work with them collaboratively. Because they are so big, t
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by shubb 14y ago
If you have an idea and keep it secret, it is protected from some reverse engineering or industrial espionage as a trade secret. Unlike a patent, if you competitor invents it independently, then it is no longer a trade secret. You are only
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by shubb 14y ago
My first reaction was that Weibo were going cheap - Twitter was valued at 11bn, while multiplying up Weibo sits at 2.5bn. However, it makes sense in that Twitter sees 4 times more posts a day, and has less rivals. But then Weibo fills the p
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by shubb 14y ago
I don't understand why someone would do this nested comments thing. This is what macro block are for... And tests need to be separated from the code. Hopefully using a test framework. If your code changes depending on if it is in 'test mode
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by shubb 14y ago
I don't see how it is more open to abuse than just giving an email address. You could send someone 1000 messages if you wanted.
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by shubb 14y ago
Just like you wouldn't make it hard to pay for your product, I think making it hard to apply for jobs at your company is a bad move. Because most people are applying to a 'better' job than the one they have now (Cooler? More money? More res
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by shubb 14y ago
1% a day is 360% a year, which sounds very high, but is less than missing a payment sometimes. You would use them when it made sense, and borrow an amount that you could pay back. Many people are paid weekly, so it might cost £5. Things wer
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by shubb 14y ago
Yeah, this is an important point. When I said bulk, I meant £10 of stuff, rather than the massive quantities you can get from Amazon. I think instant pay day loan companies like Wonga have done a lot for the cash flow problem. Personally, I
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by shubb 14y ago
The problem with this article is that a lot of things that are cheap for one serving go stale before you eat the second. For instance, on day one, he adds some mint which cost ~50p to buy, but he calls 1p because he only eats a little. He d
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by shubb 14y ago
Thanks. That is really useful. Luckily, I've never faced legal action for... anything really, so it's good to have some insight here from someone who has.
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by shubb 14y ago
Legal risk to UK based forums etc has always been high. This article gives a nice (but now outdated) guide to what those risk ara and how to handle them [1]. It concluded that you were at less risk if you did not moderate, because if you di
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by shubb 14y ago
Anyone who ate this every meal for ever based on the current level of evidence is nuts sure. But this is awesome research. He is trying to do something awesome, at great personal risk. He has shown some integrity in not providing the recipe
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by shubb 14y ago
Summary - The US navy wants to use (near) commercial android devices. These might be used to display confidential reports (as in a normal buisness), but may also be used to control the ship. The navy already have secure versions of Linux an
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by shubb 14y ago
If a major state wanted to 'do something' about a website, to the extent that they were happy to break the law, I don't think it would look like this.
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by shubb 14y ago
Also, my friend who works at a pharma factory says brand names have much tighter quality control - more batches are tested with far less tolerance. In addition, some of the details of the chemicals (such as I guess the angles of the molecul
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by shubb 14y ago
Thanks for doing this. You made my night. Along with ~600 others at last count.
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by shubb 14y ago
What worries me is that if you want to do government work (even quite innocuous stuff), your job depends on getting security clearance. Certainly in the UK, Europe general and probably in the US, your ISP retains a list of all the IP addres
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by shubb 14y ago
Speaking of which, if anyone is reading this from the UK, and has an ~ 18 year old who doesn't want to go to university, BAE are recruiting heavily for apprenticeships. They are very serious about providing a 'university alternative'. I sug
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by shubb 14y ago
You make good points, I certainly wouldn't extend this to America, or even other parts of Europe. It is true that a lot of London money is made in finance, but we also have some giant engineering companies and subsidiaries, such as Rolls Ro
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by shubb 14y ago
One thing I've noticed about large organizations is that they pay more. Pay is set in a structured way with regular pay rises, so you can just sit tight and watch it rise. Additionally, you can move around without leaving the company. Why i

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