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Paralysed patients use thoughts to control robotic arm(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by whyleyc 14y ago|0 comments
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by whyleyc 14y ago
Understanding is difficult - let's go shopping.
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Tim Berners-Lee urges UK government to stop snooping bill(guardian.co.uk)
4 points by whyleyc 15y ago|0 comments
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by whyleyc 15y ago
It would be more precise to say that the UK doesn't have a written constitution.
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by whyleyc 15y ago
Practice "Zen Navigation" - http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?DirkGentlyNavigationMethod
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by whyleyc 15y ago
Thanks for answering, looks like you have some interesting projects on the go. My favourite was http://50pop.com/karmalist if only because someone needs to kill Yelp ! An open source, non company-controlled business review service is a ki
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by whyleyc 15y ago
Great post - two questions: 1) What occupies your time these days Derek ? 2) Possibly related - what unfulfilled dreams do you still have ?
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by whyleyc 15y ago
It was removed twice - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3740378 I don't know why it keeps being flagged - there are loads of relevant issues at play here: - Why sexism is a real issue within I.T. - How Twitter can amplify customer crit
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by whyleyc 15y ago
This story was in 3rd spot on the homepage until it got pulled, presumably because people were flagging it. Seems like a hugely relevant story imo.
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by whyleyc 15y ago
Sam - Did Loopt ever make any profit, if so what area of the business turned out to be most profitable for you guys ? (This is meant as a genuine question, not a snarky comment)
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by whyleyc 15y ago
Can any of the Stripe team comment on when you'll be launching support for UK businesses ?
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by whyleyc 15y ago
That's because you're probably looking at things purely from a technical/operational perspective (i.e. can they register my domain easily), whereas the parent commenter is taking into account more general reports about the way GoDaddy does
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by whyleyc 15y ago
Ok, maybe it's more to do with stuff like their CEO gunning down elephant's - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/31/bob-parsons-godaddy...
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by whyleyc 15y ago
I think he's referring to their recent support for SOPA: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3383564
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by whyleyc 15y ago
Any speculation as to what this could be ? Scalable, instantly provisionable retail outlets ?
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by whyleyc 15y ago
Do you have the 2009 or 2010 editions available anywhere ? Would be good to compare to see trends.
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Big Amazon AWS announcement coming tomorrow?(aws.amazon.com)
2 points by whyleyc 15y ago|1 comments
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by whyleyc 15y ago
"Resist complaining about being downmodded. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading" From: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by whyleyc 15y ago
This is akin to greeting Google's launch with: "LARRY PAGE this is lame in that it's a crummy featureless version of http://www.yahoo.com You are using the same internet to search on. Yahoo makes you actually log into a nice portal and h
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by whyleyc 15y ago
I think it's actually a pretty good thing to do, both for the seller and the users. If companies didn't sell on the account details of their existing userbase these users would effectively be frozen out of any future site development/improv
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Recording Labels Sue YouTube Downloader Website(techcrunch.com)
1 points by whyleyc 15y ago|0 comments
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by whyleyc 15y ago
I've been testing this fix today on Apache 2.0.53 and observed that when running the attack script against a server patched with option 1 (minus the optional logging) there was still a significant hike in CPU usage, perhaps because there is
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by whyleyc 15y ago
Does anyone know if the source email has been posted anywhere on the InterWebs ?
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HP to buy Autonomy for $11 billion(ft.com)
54 points by whyleyc 15y ago|42 comments
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Founder stories - Doubleclick(techcrunch.com)
1 points by whyleyc 15y ago|0 comments
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Making movies out of Lego(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by whyleyc 15y ago|0 comments
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by whyleyc 15y ago
Wonder how many people are using Google's DNS service ?
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OpenDNS now serving 30 million customers(techcrunch.com)
2 points by whyleyc 15y ago|1 comments
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by whyleyc 15y ago
So where did the other $3.8 billion in revenue go ?
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by whyleyc 15y ago
Actually it doesn't sound like things have changed. Here's a recent article detailing how Branson gave 8,500 Virgin Atlantic employees 2 week's holiday + 2 free tickets to fly anywhere on the airline's network as a 'birthday bonus' for loya

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