simoncoggins

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by simoncoggins 9y ago
Same happened to me. I think I may have used the social media login via Google, which I'm guessing could get your email into the leak without any password being present.
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Announcing the Journal of Open Source Software(arfon.org)
126 points by simoncoggins 10y ago|17 comments
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by simoncoggins 13y ago
We signed an NDA so I can't say too much, but the first interview was basically an IQ screening - a full day of computer based tests for maths, physics, memory, spatial orientation etc. The second interview was much more in depth, hand
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by simoncoggins 13y ago
That wasn't my experience. I got through the first 3 rounds in ESA's most recent astronaut selection, and near the end about half of the candidates were from a military or commercial flight background. The rest typically had signi
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by simoncoggins 14y ago
I've seen something similar with a PNG file for user supplied profile image [1]. The image was a 10000x10000 all black PNG image which compresses to a pretty small file size. Unless you validate the image dimensions as well as the file size
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by simoncoggins 14y ago
I'm surprised that they seem to require course creators to build courses using HTML and Javascript, when most online learning environments focus on browser based course builders.
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by simoncoggins 16y ago
When I was in Nottingham they installed an art installation called the Sky Mirror[1] in the center of town. Somehow my PhD supervisor (who was a professor in astrophysics at the city's university) ended up get a consulting gig to calculate
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by simoncoggins 16y ago
There's a solution here: http://hintsforums.macworld.com/archive/index.php/t-82501.ht... 'stty -iexten' fixed it for me on my Mac.
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by simoncoggins 16y ago
I learnt something handy in BASH recently - operate-and-get-next (Ctrl-o). If you type: $ echo one one $ echo two two $ echo three three Then up-arrow back to 'echo one'. Then press Ctrl-o instead of enter it will execute t
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by simoncoggins 16y ago
Reminds me of these images of Russia made with Digichromatography: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/
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by simoncoggins 17y ago
Surprising that they would choose not to take a cut of sales, as it seems like a natural opportunity to earn some revenue. Then again it might make people more willing to get started and then find themselves needing the Pro features further
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Feedback on my web app: Compare Places
1 points by simoncoggins 18y ago|1 comments
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by simoncoggins 18y ago
I'm not sure which clients would indicate they were browsing from Antarctica. All the British stations use a satellite link to the British Antarctic Survey headquarters in Cambridge, UK. The link to the Antarctic is transparent to the outsi
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by simoncoggins 18y ago
I agree, in previous natural cycles it did. Increased temperatures (due to orbital effect) lead to increased CO2, which increased temperatures further, releasing more CO2. A positive feedback mechanism. The problem is that man-made atmosphe
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by simoncoggins 18y ago
Indeed it is. This shows global CO2 and temperature data from the last 400,000 years (several ice ages and interglacials): http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/archive/6/63/200611... Most would agree that they appear to be correlated.
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by simoncoggins 18y ago
This link ( http://worrydream.com/MagicInk/ ) from the comments is fascinating also. A long article but well worth a read. Some of the techniques could be just what a start-up needs to give it the edge over, "just good enough" web apps.
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by simoncoggins 18y ago
I've often thought this approach makes sense and wondered why it didn't seem more common. The two challenges are gathering the information and interpreting it. Logging which links are clicked is obviously easy but not necessarily a good ind
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by simoncoggins 18y ago
A very interesting article. My first thought was how it relates to Microsoft as mentioned in this article: http://seekingalpha.com/article/80363-why-microsoft-will-nev... . Their fear of web apps undermining Windows/Office prevented them