vColin

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by vColin 15y ago
Thanks for the encouragement! That actually reminds me - that stuff shouldn't even be in the client-code. And even if it should be there, methinks it ought to be scrambled somehow :) Your deductions are indeed correct - I am in the UK - Cam
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by vColin 15y ago
I think I know exactly what you mean - restrict the highlighted letters to be in a single direction. Something I was considering was changing the selection mechanics so that you click at the first letter and then drag to the final letter be
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by vColin 15y ago
Thanks for pointing that out - my IE testing has been sporadic at best! I'll definitely take a look at that.
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by vColin 15y ago
Noted. At the moment I am just happy if anyone even visits the page though. But I realise that there is no clear direction to the new visitor. Another thing to add to the never-ending list.
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Show HN: I finally relased my first product
11 points by vColin 15y ago|11 comments
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Google to fund Bletchley wartime 'search engine'(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by vColin 15y ago|0 comments
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Queen to unveil Bletchley tribute(bbc.co.uk)
39 points by vColin 15y ago|12 comments
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Happy Tau Day(bbc.co.uk)
102 points by vColin 15y ago|53 comments
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New elements added to chemistry's periodic table(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by vColin 15y ago|0 comments
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by vColin 16y ago
Find where you should aim with this handy utility: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~ryantibs/darts/dartsapplet.htm... (context: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~ryantibs/darts/ )
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The printed future of Christmas dinner(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by vColin 16y ago|1 comments
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by vColin 16y ago
Yup, the start of the first sentence should read "An official from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) told reporters today" rather than "An today". Bad markup being the culprit - somewhat ironically.
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Britain's brainiest cemetery(news.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by vColin 16y ago|0 comments
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by vColin 16y ago
Looking at my list of domains there are: * 118152 com domains ending in "book" * 14450 net domains ending in "book" * 8666 org domains ending in "book" which is going to require a lot of litigation. Even narrowing it down to doma
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Can you justify your job title?(news.bbc.co.uk)
1 points by vColin 17y ago|0 comments
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The gunfighter's dilemma(news.bbc.co.uk)
135 points by vColin 17y ago|60 comments
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by vColin 17y ago
37Signals covered this or something similar: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/2087-smart-pasting-at-the-new... . Tynt ( http://www.tynt.com/ ) was the "culprit" in that case and looks so here.
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by vColin 17y ago
Another related bit twiddling resource: http://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html . The comments accompanying the code are interesting too.
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by vColin 17y ago
"10:42am UTC: Compromise was due to a compromised SSH Key, not due to any software exploits in Apache itself."
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by vColin 18y ago
Interesting – I wonder what the variance in the “kind” of sign-up might be. Perhaps those designs that highlight the “free” aspects will encourage a lot of try-outs that then bail after the 30 days; while the designs that don’t will see mor