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LinkedIn putting pressure on users to enable location tracking(blog.darkmere.gen.nz)
3 points by slyall 6y ago|0 comments
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Sidewalk Delivery Robots: An Introduction to Technology and Vendors(blog.darkmere.gen.nz)
1 points by slyall 6y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 6y ago
" I'll keep it short and sweet. Family, religion, friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business. When opportunity knocks, you don't want to be driving to a maternity hospital or sitti
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by slyall 6y ago
We had somebody signing up to a website with Russian email addresses. What they did though was set the the Personal name to something like the following in Russian: "Click here to see a translation http://whatever.r/?us
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Tim Bray: The Amazon Critic Who Saw Its Power from the Inside(nytimes.com)
2 points by slyall 6y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 6y ago
Sumo is cheaper the Splunk from all accounts but still pretty expensive. Think half the price of Splunk perhaps. It's still nice but we ended up spending a lot of time trying to keep out bill down by not sending data to it since the pr
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by slyall 6y ago
Someone told me something similar. Took 2 weeks to provision servers (and we mean VMs no just physical kit) and there was usually something wrong with them that took more time to fix. This was about 3 years ago. His company moved everything
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by slyall 6y ago
Mine was the opposite. It stopping including any tweets I made after 3 July 2017 in my searches. It appeared to be still downloading them, just they were not included in searches. I think the bug was still present a few months ago. No idea
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by slyall 6y ago
You fixed my [twitter search] bug!
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New Relic CEO scolds employees: ‘We [.. urgently ..] need to get back on track’(oregonlive.com)
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by slyall 6y ago
From previous discussions this is not the case. It is not illegal to ship an aircraft to Australia. See the link below talking about packed aircraft. Also some aircraft have short ranges that would make them impossible to fly across the oce
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by slyall 6y ago
People survive self-inflicted shotgun blasts. I understand because they flinch as they fire and the shot is not "head on". A notibil eexample is from the 1990 Judas Priest lawsuit. "[] placed a 12-gauge shotgun under his own
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How I would put voice control in everything(interconnected.org)
2 points by slyall 6y ago|0 comments
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Practical Python Programming Course(dabeaz-course.github.io)
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by slyall 6y ago
I live in the main part of Auckland, easy 20 minute bus ride to the Centre of town and Gigabit Fibre for Internet.. What specially you miss when you say "NZ is quite boring from cultural perspective" ? For me Auckland is about the
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by slyall 6y ago
I'm not sure that works in the majority of jobs. If you are the world's 27th largest CRM vendor then how would you expect a programmer to answer that question? There is a good chance that after a couple of years they will be as pa
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by slyall 6y ago
Sidewalk delivery robots. The problem is a lot easier that driverless cars (everything is slower and a remote human can take over in hard places) and huge potential to shake up the short-to-medium distance delivery business. It's the s
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by slyall 6y ago
Four Short Links https://www.oreilly.com/radar/topics/four-short-links/ has 4 links daily, high overlap with the sort of stuff on Hacker News.
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by slyall 7y ago
Okay "Freefall"
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by slyall 7y ago
I thought it was pretty popular in New Zealand. But the NZ company seems unrelated to Google. https://www.neighbourly.co.nz/about-us
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by slyall 7y ago
In New Zealand a "Belgian biscuit" is a specific type of biscuit. Would recommend. https://www.greggs.co.nz/Our-Recipes/Baking/Belgian-Biscuits
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Is Google cooling on open-source foundations?(protocol.com)
3 points by slyall 7y ago|1 comments
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by slyall 7y ago
There are some organisations that handle paperwork for many open source projects. You can donate to these and mark you donations for specific projects or towards "overhead". The two I've donated to are Software in the Public
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by slyall 7y ago
Amazing this sort of thing is still around. I remember there was a similar sort of problem with WPAD (Web Proxy Auto-Discovery) domains like wpad.co.uk and wpad.co.nz that was publicised back in 2007 https://www.networkworld.com&
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Intel's Jim Keller: Moore’s Law Is Not Dead [video](youtube.com)
2 points by slyall 7y ago|0 comments
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by slyall 7y ago
As this sarcastic article from Ars Technica points out this is Google's 10th messaging App and the second slack clone. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/01/report-google-planni...
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by slyall 7y ago
A minior plot point of "The Light of other days" by Baxter and Clarke was an earth civilization 3 billion years ago which was destroyed by an asteroid hitting earth that wiped the surface clean. https://en.wikipedia.org
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by slyall 7y ago
But a bittorrent client isn't trying to be a browser and all the complex stuff that requires. All it's doing is downloading bittorrent files and having a usable GUI. And as the original article demonstrated the first half of that
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by slyall 7y ago
So I usually use this site: http://www.jinchess.com/chessboard/composer/ about once a week for creating diagrams. Have a look at them for some feature ideas. Looking at your site the main problem I see is you don&
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by slyall 7y ago
* Uber and Lyft will hit a crises as they keep losing money. They may still be around in 2029 but be smaller as their prices will be at "break even" levels. * Driverless cars will still not be a thing outside experimental deployme

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