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by wgx 15y ago
Was the trough 'PCI DSS'-related?
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by wgx 15y ago
Reminds me that there's a good failure and a bad failure. A good failure is over and you move on, hopefully with some learned lessons. While a bad failure is doing just well enough to be kept 'ticking over', and you're stuck working on so
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by wgx 15y ago
>And how is this information different then an IP adress that they also have with each request? Unscrupulous marketers can't do much with your IP address. They can do a lot more evil with your mobile number: SMS spam, cold calls, re-sel
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by wgx 15y ago
I have a hunch that it's probably a breach of data protection law in the UK too.
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by wgx 15y ago
Additional write-up on another site here: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4990-o2-shares-your-mobil...
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by wgx 15y ago
Tried it on my iPhone using o2's network and my number was indeed inserted into the headers.
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UK network o2 send your number to every site you visit(lew.io)
362 points by wgx 15y ago|174 comments
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Extreme Minimalism: this guy owns just 15 things(andrewhy.de)
184 points by wgx 15y ago|189 comments
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How could an artist earn money in a post-copyright world?(quora.com)
2 points by wgx 15y ago|0 comments
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by wgx 15y ago
..a couple more 'open sourced' ideas.
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Idea dump #5(willgrant.org)
4 points by wgx 15y ago|1 comments
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by wgx 15y ago
I was talking in a general context. A typical user has a desktop PC at work, maybe a laptop, a phone and maybe a tablet. They shouldn't need to learn different visual UI metaphors across devices. 'Sall I'm saying.
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by wgx 15y ago
Oh man, when I was 8 years old I wanted a Z88 but it didn't happen. I might try to get hold of one to play with.
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by wgx 15y ago
Ah great - thank you! :)
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by wgx 15y ago
Nice, thanks. Also UK here.
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by wgx 15y ago
Is there a way I can make 'typing into the address bar' search DDG by default? If I can get this set up, then I'm fully switched.
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by wgx 15y ago
Of course the reverse of this is that by adopting conventions across platforms, users may actually get familiar with controls and learn to use them across devices.
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UK TSB Awards £500k to 10 firms for Internet Of Things Research(connect.innovateuk.org)
1 points by wgx 15y ago|0 comments
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by wgx 15y ago
I had around 1,800 uniques over 3 hours in 2011 - posted some stats (browsers, OS, geo) here: http://willgrant.org/hn-traffic-stats-summary/
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by wgx 15y ago
Having worked in a UK government press department I can tell you that The Thick of It is very close to the truth in more cases than most imagine.
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by wgx 15y ago
The introduction (resource 0x1C), 3 minutes long weights only 57,510 bytes once compressed Truly humbling - a 3 minute intro in 56kb.
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Coase Conjecture(en.m.wikipedia.org)
1 points by wgx 15y ago|0 comments
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by wgx 15y ago
It's hard for me to see a problem with this. The guy has a track-record (Vimeo, anyone?) and has impressed some investors enough for them to part with their money. Good luck to him.
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I'm starting something new...(willgrant.org)
1 points by wgx 15y ago|0 comments
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by wgx 15y ago
Lesson: a working, usable idea + Techcrunch promo = adoption. And adoption is all that social services really need to get going, even if they're a joke. Longevity is a totally different matter of course.
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by wgx 15y ago
GLaDOS: "Oh hi, how are you holding up? BECAUSE I’M A POTATO." [1] [1 http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/im-a-potato ]
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by wgx 15y ago
Same here - plus "Twitter for Mac" on OS X. I can't remember the last time I went to twitter.com, it's very rare anyway.
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by wgx 15y ago
Thought process: Rails or Django will stand you in good stead for future projects and 'hire-ability' versus any PHP framework. Rails has easy hosting with Heroku. Django has a (slightly) less welcoming/active community than Rails. [1] A: Ra
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by wgx 15y ago
I think the Twitter image shown was preceded by this vowel-less version: http://www.flickr.com/photos/factoryjoe/190576959/
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by wgx 15y ago
I'm afraid this is sadly true. A great many government / civil service posts pay salaries well below the equivalent 'private sector' role.

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