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by srmarm 4y ago
I remember at the time hearing stories of legacy systems that were in a dreadful state and in one case still using microfiche as part of the day to day processing. I know some time has passed since and a lot of money and effort has been spe
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by srmarm 4y ago
Not the person you're asking, but I thought the [-] acted as a downvote button and hid the offending content at the same time. If it isn't, why do some controversial comments get into a lighter font?
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by srmarm 4y ago
> The first part sounds a bit British nationalistic "parliament cannot be bound", and could indeed make laws about the minimum amount of snow that must fall in the Sahara desert. I read it slightly differently, they're say
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by srmarm 4y ago
That's actually quite chilling and a serious violation of the person. I'm sorry you had to deal with it.
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by srmarm 4y ago
Agreed, the closest thing to filling that general keeping in touch for me is WhatsApp groups (other group chat apps are available). In my social group that's where pics get shared, things get organised and general life updates go. Grou
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by srmarm 4y ago
I don't think they claim that Facebook messages are end to end encrypted. They say WhatsApp are but not ones sent via Facebook.
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by srmarm 4y ago
This mirrors my experience a couple of weeks back. Having come across many others with the same problem I almost wondered if it was a case of pretend to have a feature to gauge interest (I'm sure it wasn't - I hate those things!)
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by srmarm 4y ago
They can put what they want in the TOS but they are selling to consumers in jurisdictions around the world and if it stops working so soon then they were clearly 'selling' something that wasn't fit for purpose. They could hav
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by srmarm 4y ago
If google were going out of business I'd agree with you, but they're not. As a business they have plenty of money. What they're (possibly) doing is shutting this service to save some money. I suspect they'll refund or at
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by srmarm 4y ago
1) Assuming this is a SaaS or other software/web based offering I probably don't need to know if you're a solo entrepreneur or a multinational. So long as your website is professional you can easily appear to be at either end
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by srmarm 4y ago
You can compare to get newly registered domain names so it's sometimes used for Spam to target new companies - I've not noticed that so much lately though. I suppose you could identify recent NS changes to create a list of servers
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by srmarm 4y ago
Ah OK that makes sense, thanks for taking the time to explain!
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by srmarm 4y ago
It probably wouldn't work well for a small phone, by my oppo has a pop up camera which works much better than I'd expected. Majority of the time I enjoy a full screen experience with a tiny bezel. If I need the selfie cam it silen
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by srmarm 4y ago
I don't know much about this at all so apologies if this is a stupid question, but presumably the owner of that $8m was compensated out of the profit of the deal and the $366k is what is left over for the person who set this deal up. I
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by srmarm 4y ago
Technically it would be simple, they'd just need to add a lookup to their database before doing regular DNS lookup. Back in the 90s AOL did similar with their browser and it was fairly common to see companies list their AOL Keyword in
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by srmarm 4y ago
Didn't the US have a domain format like this, I seem to remember it being cited as a reason that .com became the default for US businesses.
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by srmarm 4y ago
I use an old Wyse thin client that I picked up from ebay for ~£25. The built in hard drive was something silly like 32Gb so I just boot from an external SSD which gives me 1tb to play with. Low power, fanless and reliable. I have it running
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by srmarm 4y ago
They can back out, just at a high financial cost. This is no different to any other contractual obligation that lasts longer than the term limit.
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by srmarm 4y ago
Probably none, just the balance between resources needed to keep it running (more dealing with potential legal and brand issues then technical) vs shutting it down shifted in response to the backlash and bad press around shutting it.
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by srmarm 4y ago
America was way behind at that point. IIRC a combination of weird regional roaming agreements, odd incompatible networks and the sheer size of the country leading to lots of coverages blackspots meant that the US just didn't get widesp
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by srmarm 4y ago
My Sony K750i from 5 years earlier was phenomenal. Only 2mp resolution but the lens was brilliant and I've still got a bunch of photos I printed from it that still stand up to scrutiny. I think at that period the US was way behind the
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by srmarm 4y ago
In this case it's a legitimate page but if you go to say https://www.datawrapper.de/nonexistantBLAH it does correctly throw a 404 Which is probably good as this HN thread would otherwise skewer the 1.4% stat on there!
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by srmarm 4y ago
> Now, I just link everything off of the homepage, in a nice bulleted list, and just let the user go "back". That's what the back button is for, anyway. That falls apart neatly in this example where the internal page is de
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by srmarm 4y ago
Are you getting royalties for use of the Listerine brandname or something in the formula? If they changed the formula to something totally new but kept the Listerine branding are you getting paid? If they kept the formula but gave it a new
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by srmarm 5y ago
Not a fan at all. I'm on a 1080p monitor and the main font is janky and tiring to read. There is far too much going on all over the place, popups and side notes distracting from all directions and apparently it loads ~4Mb of resources
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by srmarm 5y ago
That looks like it'd be a nightmare to keep clean!
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by srmarm 5y ago
Maybe worth them looking for grants to make it so? There are foundations out there with money to spend on good ideas.
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by srmarm 5y ago
Do you earn more money in your current EU country vs the home one? Certainly in the UK a lot of cars get purchased for scrap value taken to a cheaper country for repair (or just used for spares)
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by srmarm 5y ago
Good point, I don't see many adverts but I do see reddit ones and occasionally click them by accident.
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by srmarm 5y ago
Privacy is on a spectrum, but is also compounded by time and once the cats out the bag it can be impossible to turn back. In the example given of Alex Cazes he could change the from email but the damage was already done - there's no wa

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