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by v21 16y ago
I read in the Code Book that this was how Clifford Cocks ended up inventing asymmetric cryptography. In fact, I recently took my books out of storage and put them on some shelves, so I can quote exactly. "For the next three years, GCHQ's br
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by v21 16y ago
Ah, yeah, right now it's switched to a map showing the position. Sadface. But the last few days it's been showing an interior view, and before that mainly exterior shots. You get a mission overlay a fair bit, too, which is a shame - I assum
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by v21 16y ago
The closure I wanted at the end of the story was for her to meet the thief. For her to explain the hurt and worry and anger he'd caused. For him to try to explain his reasons and lack of them. Also, I seem to recall this turns out to be inc
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by v21 16y ago
In related space matters: the ISS has a webcam! Last week I saw a hurricane from space. Yesterday, they were struggling to get Win2000 to connect to a LAN. http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/isslivestream.asx
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by v21 16y ago
I work at an SMS aggregator, and I've never heard of such a thing. SMS are pretty speedy, unless something goes wrong and they get wedged, in which case priority messages wouldn't help you anyway.
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by v21 16y ago
I'm pro authors getting paid, but you can't expect users to like antifeatures. Such as an online mode that merely detracts from the game. If it adds more than it takes away, then users will be happy about it, even if the main reason you put
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by v21 16y ago
Of course, Spotify has famously low pay-outs to artists...
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Pricing is weird(positech.co.uk)
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by v21 16y ago
I upvoted to cancel you out.
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by v21 16y ago
"Every time you come from Russia to America, you feel as if the world has stopped rotating. The feedback wail of corruption, scandal, intrigue, and murder is cranked up so high over there that America sounds like elevator music by compariso
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by v21 16y ago
I always thought they had incredible longevity, and attributed that to Russia. They were a small English-language rag who made money off advertising bars - they were no threat to the powers-that-be over there (until they were). And the libe
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by v21 16y ago
Also known in the UK as a "one-ringer" or "missed call" (as in - "I'm running low on credit, I'll just missed call you when I'm there?"). Amusingly enough, my brother, who had eked out 10p of credit for several weeks this way, once got quit
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by v21 16y ago
My friend calls it the "Everything Device".
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by v21 16y ago
Unless you rated in whether or not you read the article/comments, in which case it might still work. And of course, if downmod meant more "hide this sort of thing from me" than "I don't think this should be on HN", maybe you'd downmod more.
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by v21 16y ago
Even the BBC, usually so good, is terrible about this. And it's not like people haven't told them, they're just terribly intransigent about it. http://bengoldacre.posterous.com/trying-to-get-the-bbc-to-li... is Ben Goldacre writing in to
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by v21 16y ago
Yaay, Bob Fisher! I once dressed as him for a party, with a cardboard cutout of his face over my face. I'm sorry, this comment isn't strictly relevant, but I don't get a chance to tell that story very often.
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by v21 16y ago
I don't see why. While everyone you want to talk to is on Facebook you talk Facebook. When a group of friends you want to privately share with is largely on Diaspora, you use Diaspora. Diaspora's focus on making setting privacy levels unthi
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by v21 16y ago
Name them and maybe some piratical paywall activist will share them for us all.
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by v21 16y ago
I use it to tell when I have text messages - it flashes green.
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by v21 16y ago
Man, I want more than not burning out. Heh. My manager emailed me today, reminding me I have 10 days of holiday left in the year and that I should remember to take them. I'm planning walking along Offa's Dyke with my brother, and also takin
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by v21 16y ago
Ugh, I had heard that too. Sick days are completely separate over here. I don't understand doing it otherwise - do you want sick people to come in? Go home, recover, and don't infect the office.
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by v21 16y ago
Yeah, I think I get an extra half day a year. I forget, though, because I haven't been here a year, and we just got bought out and had all this stuff reshuffled.
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by v21 16y ago
I understand it's pretty normal for America, but 15 days paid holiday seems so small to me. 22.5 here in the UK + bank holidays, and I don't feel it's particularly generous. Hmm...
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by v21 16y ago
http://www.lrb.co.uk/ Long form essays that really aren't afraid to engage with an idea. Also, you should check out the personals section, as they are a lesson in wit. And obviously http://www.nybooks.com/ , too.
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by v21 16y ago
Let's hope ebook piracy takes off, then.
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by v21 16y ago
If the half life of a modern bit of electronics is 10 years, that implies that in 50 years 1/32 of currently manufactured drives will still be around. I'd reckon the number would be a lot smaller, but given the terrific quantity of CD drive
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by v21 16y ago
I am not sure how much I want to bother clients by rating my responses. It's a faff, and provides no real reward for them. There's too much junk at the bottom of emails anyway. I'd also not want to apply it to all emails - and there's a fuz
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by v21 16y ago
But where I have seen pro-choice policies implemented here in the UK, the choices have amounted to between "bad" and "good". And some parents are pushier, and richer, and can afford to live in the right catchment areas. And thus choice main
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by v21 16y ago
As far as I can tell, one large benefit for Oyster cards is that people can use the gates at tube stations faster than with paper tickets. This is quite impressive, given that an experienced commuter barely has to break stride to use a pape
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by v21 16y ago
And this reminds me of a talk, by Sophie Houlden, called "computer games are awesome, but you suck because you haven’t made one yet, you lazy bastard." http://www.sophiehoulden.com/blog/?p=84#more-84

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