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Ask HN: Best resources for side-project security?
2 points by tonteldoos 8y ago|0 comments
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
It's a niche area, but Simon Newton of ola (Open Lighting Architecture) - https://github.com/nomis52
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Correlation does not imply causation(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by tonteldoos 9y ago|0 comments
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
This seems interesting, but what technology are they planning on using, and how does it compare with other projects around the world? This comes up every now and again it seems, and then dies away again (eg PBMR - https://en.wik
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
I know this is (becoming) an (even more) niche industry, but does anyone know of add-ons, plugins, or dedicated supplemental tools for more mainstream development tools (GitLab, Jira, etc) that caters for embedded development?
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
Do you mean formal documentation, or all documentation (including sources like stackoverflow, blog posts, etc)? I haven't used Java in a while, but my experience lately with Python docs (both formal and informal) has been fantastic. T
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
It depends...did you approach them, or was it a cold call for something you may not need? For the first: - Do your research - Know what you need (vs what you might want) - Know what you can pay (conservatively, and at a maximum) - Don'
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
Very fair point, although I didn't imply that it might break this year. Whenever it breaks though, I hope the usage remains low, just in case such an event reccurs.
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
The desal plants need to be kept running (at least ticking over), otherwise it deteriorates to the point where large parts need to be replaced/fixed again where needed, afaik. I may be wrong that the Gold Coast one is mothballed, but t
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
The joke used to be that the WC is where you emmigrated to if you didn't want to emmigrate :)
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
Cost and lead time of infrastructure (and adequate planning). Systems to do this exist in the country (eg, moving water from Lesotho to the Vaaldam with the Highlands water scheme), but that project was 15+ years in the making, and is still
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
I'm currently in Brisbane, and arrived here while the big drought was still in progress (around 2008). Numerous restrictions, legislation for water saving measures, desal plants, etc were being implemented at the time, with pretty ast
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Cape Town could be the first city to run out of water(bbc.com)
204 points by tonteldoos 9y ago|138 comments
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
This seems to be in partial competition with something like GitLab (as far as self-hosted Git management systems go). Has anyone installed this, with some feedback?
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
Have you looked at Mobaxterm at all? I have the same issues, and accidentally discovered this a few years ago, and haven't looked back. Lightweight Cygwin install, own package manager, EXTREMELY usable. The free version is plenty go
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
Odd :-/ It was pretty transparent at the time. I believe there is a trial period. From memory, they hit the front page of HN, and the founders offered a lifetime membership for anyone linked to them from there for $30 or some such.
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
I signed up for brain.fm ( http://brain.fm/ ) after it was posted here a year or so ago. Can absolutely recommend it!
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
True, but that's still a substantial amount of physical stuff that needs to be made and maintained...
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
How does the carbon footprint for x amount of Bitcoin (in, say, $ terms), compare with the carbon footprint of both printing and maintaining a similar amount of traditional currency?
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Asciimatics – cross-platform curses-like functionality for Python(github.com)
3 points by tonteldoos 9y ago|0 comments
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
Just my 2c to agree with sibling posts. For some reason, moving boxes are big on the local Gumtree Freebies, and after my son found out about this, every couple of weeks I get asked to get some boxes for him to play with (which typically g
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
1. Get high paying job 2. Move in with parents, and have them pay for everything 3. Do nothing outside of work 4. Possibly dodge taxes 5. Success! Seriously though - are you talking about making $200k to save, or are you earning enough to l
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
> There's very little science to parenting, unfortunately. It's mostly intuition and magic. This made my day, and I'll be repeating it to others - thanks :)
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
This. Children thrive on boundaries. It gives them an 'area' within which they can fully explore, learn, play, etc, while KNOWING that as long as they stay within those lines, everything will be fine. I call it THE VOICE, and I t
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
> Explaining all the rules is what school is for, basically. And this is where so many people go wrong. Parents are teachers too, and it's their job to teach their children how to fit into society, behave, be decent people, etc. A
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StackOverflow breaks 15M questions(stackoverflow.com)
11 points by tonteldoos 9y ago|1 comments
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
I wanted to reply to some questions below, but realised I've got more touchpoints than any single one of them. Every now and again, I go through spurts of activity where I try and contribute to SO with reviews, comments, edits and answ
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
Like gjmarsh said, this might only apply to the US. I would probably be skeptical of doing this in (say) Australia at the moment. OP didn't mention what country he's in...
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
What this guy said. I've known a handful of people who have made some money on forex, by being extremely diligent and patient. I know many, many more people (including myself) who have lost unhealthy amounts of money while trading fo
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by tonteldoos 9y ago
That's not quite how it works (at least, with most of the online forex trading houses like FXCM). At any given time, they know exactly how much you are up or down in total (ie, including your leverage). If you hit the point where you

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