whyleyc

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   by whyleyc 7y ago

   Thanks, that’s a helpful link.
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   Eight free web tools you didn’t know you needed(fastcompany.com)

   1 points by whyleyc 7y ago|0 comments
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   by whyleyc 7y ago

   > UK hospitals are running out of capacity. What’s your source for this statement?
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   by whyleyc 7y ago

   Thanks for the work that you all do. We've updated the blog post with links to https://archive.org/donate to encourage readers to get behind all of the good stuff that goes on at the Internet Archive.
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   The Internet Archive and Jason Scott are saving our weird Internet history(blog.zamzar.com)

   243 points by whyleyc 7y ago|34 comments
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   by whyleyc 7y ago

   Thanks for all the hard work you have put in so far @reubenmorais +1000 to @mostlyjason's comment - Great latency figures mean nothing if the word error rate is high, since it dents confidence in the output (so why use DeepSpeech?) and
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   by whyleyc 7y ago

   "Files are dead" is an oft-quoted meme, but they aren't going away anytime soon. I wrote a piece offering a counterpoint to this view five years ago (in response to a similar article by Fred Wilson) and I think most of the po
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   by whyleyc 7y ago

   "Files are dead" is an oft-quoted meme, but they aren't going away anytime soon. I wrote a piece offering a counterpoint to this view five years ago (in response to a similar article by Fred Wilson) and I think most of the po
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   by whyleyc 7y ago

   I disagree - as a vendor I think you should charge based on the value you provide to users, not the costs to run your service. That is to say I don’t think desktop software needs to have a “cloud” piece to it to make it valuable enough to u
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    Marcus Hutchins, malware researcher and creator, sentenced to supervised release(techcrunch.com)

    4 points by whyleyc 7y ago|0 comments
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    by whyleyc 7y ago

    I agree that formatting could definitely do with some work! If you put each link on a line and then leave a newline between each one you should get a nice list though.
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    by whyleyc 7y ago

    Thanks for this. Any chance you can you edit the comment to make the links clicky please?
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    Celebrating 30 Years of Microsoft Word(blog.zamzar.com)

    2 points by whyleyc 7y ago|0 comments
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    Malware researcher Marcus Hutchins, known as ’MalwareTech’, pleads guilty(techcrunch.com)

    103 points by whyleyc 7y ago|86 comments
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    The rise and fall of Flash – a history(blog.zamzar.com)

    6 points by whyleyc 7y ago|0 comments
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    The Fascinating History of Autocorrect (2014)(wired.com)

    37 points by whyleyc 8y ago|13 comments
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    by whyleyc 8y ago

    Thanks for posting this - I hadn't realised they were already doing it. I'm not sure how else they could be combatting password reuse attacks, short of forcing every user to reset their password. It sounds like their engineering t
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    by whyleyc 8y ago

    This is poor form from Deliveroo - their fraud detection seems particularly lacking, and fobbing customers off for months at a time is not good enough. However the article is unnecessarily sensationalist in banding around GDPR data breaches
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    by whyleyc 8y ago

    Background info on the exploit used at: https://antichat.com/threads/463395/#post-4254681
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    by whyleyc 8y ago

    One line bash command to convert (almost) any type of file to any another format using the Zamzar API. Convert PDF to Word, Powerpoint to JPG, WMV to MP4, DWG to PDF etc: https://github.com/zamzar/zamzar-bash (Full dis
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    by whyleyc 8y ago

    I emailed my 10 UK MEP "representatives" about this law, explaining why it was bad news and encouraging them to vote against it. I received one "pre-canned" email acknowledgement from UKIP, attempting to make the bill in
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    by whyleyc 9y ago

    https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--BFicKJf...
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    by whyleyc 9y ago

    Actually I think rhetoric matters enormously - how you frame a question affects how you come to think about a situation. If you ask a question "through the lense of technology" ("Can we solve this hard computer-vision problem
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    by whyleyc 9y ago

    "The relevant question is how this affects the technology" Is arguably the whole problem with our industry in a nutshell. The more relevant and largely ignored question should be "how this affects human beings".
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    Hawaii missile alert standdown delayed by forgotten log-in(bbc.com)

    77 points by whyleyc 9y ago|33 comments
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    by whyleyc 9y ago

    "Both activities were always clearly likely to be harmful". With the benefit of 70 years of medical research this is an easy statement to make, but at the time this was far less clear - smoking was for a long time actively promote
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    'Lonely gifs' by Motocross Saito celebrate solitude in Japan(bbc.com)

    3 points by whyleyc 9y ago|0 comments
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    by whyleyc 9y ago

    This is a great read from a guy that was on the front lines at a really interesting time in computing history. It is long though (500+ pages). If you want a shorter form version we interviewed Robert on some specific aspects of his work for
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    Married to someone with anxiety (2016)(psiloveyou.xyz)

    43 points by whyleyc 9y ago|19 comments
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    by whyleyc 9y ago

    Whilst spending $40k per month on AWS hosting: https://twitter.com/pinboard/status/871113325089882112