swombat

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901.
by swombat 13y ago
You can say 15:05 because you know it's the afternoon and so 3:05 translates to 15:05. Now think through how that works when the whole world is on a single timezone.
902.
by swombat 13y ago
Because "9 in the evening" doesn't mean much when you're a quarter of the world from GMT and forced to use GMT as your universal time.
903.
by swombat 13y ago
So, redesign all the clock watch-faces to be 24h instead of 12h too? And replace the wristwatch of everyone who doesn't have a digital watch? And wall clocks?
904.
by swombat 13y ago
Champagne is coming out in about half an hour I think :-)
905.
by swombat 13y ago
That's nice! Duedil has already offered these records for free, but it's nice to see the government catching up.
906.
by swombat 13y ago
http://www.usingenglish.com/forum/ask-teacher/5331-ues-learn...
907.
by swombat 13y ago
I don't, at the moment, unfortunately. If anyone here is running such a company and wants to let me know, I'd be happy to pass people their way, as we do regularly get this question...
908.
by swombat 13y ago
Sure, please do get in touch! :-)
909.
by swombat 13y ago
If anyone has any follow-up questions, I'm happy to answer them.
910.
GrantTree state of the union: 3x growth, £1m turnover reached, lessons learnt(blog.granttree.co.uk)
36 points by swombat 13y ago|14 comments
911.
by swombat 13y ago
We're not using that. Dropbox is a shared drive for the company. My question, still unanswered, remains whether anyone has made btsync work well in a setup where it's used as a shared drive for 10-20 people who interact with many
912.
by swombat 13y ago
That happens with Dropbox too though.
913.
by swombat 13y ago
How well does BTSync work in terms of a large team collaborating together? Dropbox has a habit of just working, with surprisingly few hiccups (none so far except during massive folder migrations). Does BTSync work that well with a team of 1
914.
by swombat 13y ago
Please, let this be one area where Europe promptly copies the US!...
915.
by swombat 13y ago
Yeah, it's not like the German people are at all sensitive about the topic of having a secret, unaccountable organisation spying on them.
916.
by swombat 13y ago
Based on the fact that they decided to accelerate their internal encryption projects back in September, 2 months ago ( http://www.informationweek.com/security/government/nsa-fallo... ), I'm guessing they thou
917.
by swombat 13y ago
I guess the way it solves it is that there is no central entity that gets ALL the data anymore. Instead, the data is spread across many, many servers.
918.
by swombat 13y ago
Typically, if a diplomat constantly breaks the laws of the nation they're sent to in this manner, they get kicked out, and if the sender country in question keeps sending this sort of diplomat, the embassy would eventually be closed.
919.
by swombat 13y ago
I think they do now. There has to be some sort of sense of personal professionalism of the many highly qualified security experts working at Google, that is hurt by the revelations that the NSA basically fucked them over and drew a slide wi
920.
by swombat 13y ago
Even the "first world" can vary greatly. You'll get a different risk profile in some small town in the middle of the bible belt in the US than you would in central London, for example. As I said, civilisation is rarer than yo
921.
by swombat 13y ago
Are you trolling or are you simply a moron? If you don't learn to make your point in a more civilised manner, you'll end up hellbanned...
922.
by swombat 13y ago
None of the businesses that I have run have ever made money by advertising...
923.
by swombat 13y ago
It's still sadly the case that in many parts of the world, if you're, say, gay, and you "get out there" and end up talking to the wrong person, they might gang up on you in the parking lot as you leave and beat the shit
924.
by swombat 13y ago
Cancers don't grow infinitely. They stop when the host dies. Entropy, on the other hand...
925.
by swombat 13y ago
What's the point of switching to Mac if you want to run Ubuntu? I'm pretty happy developing on the mac itself. I guess it depends what you do.
926.
by swombat 13y ago
Explanation and prediction are two different things. Your definition doesn't even require explanation - it just requires intent to explain. So for example, "the moon is made of cheese" is a theory according to the definition
927.
by swombat 13y ago
Saturated fat has been demonised since the 1970s when a landmark study concluded that there was a correlation between incidence of coronary heart disease and total cholesterol, which then correlated with the percentage of calories provided
928.
by swombat 13y ago
Your gut feeling will simply let you realize when something doesn't line up with your predefined societal, cultural, familial and personal beliefs. You do realise that this is exactly what our ethical and moral systems are based on,
929.
by swombat 13y ago
Right, so having done a bit of thinking about this, I'd like to apologise for making the statements above publicly. I do stand by them, and based on the number of upvotes my comments received there I was not alone in forming the impres
930.
by swombat 13y ago
I'm currently on the move, so I will re-read this thread tomorrow with a calm head and write a response then.

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