whyleyc

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Delicious earnt $7k (total) from premium accounts(twitter.com)
5 points by whyleyc 9y ago|1 comments
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by whyleyc 9y ago
Except Fraunhofer did not promote MP3 as “dead". They put out a press release announcing the "termination" of various MP3-related patents[1]. As Marco noted[2] news orgs took that original announcement and twisted it into a &
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Major routing issues on the Internet(status.pingdom.com)
118 points by whyleyc 9y ago|27 comments
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by whyleyc 9y ago
It may be laudable to try and lead an "industry-wide" effort to clean up ads but it stinks of hypocrisy when Google repeatedly allows all shades of garbage to permeate its' own Adsense network. We talked about this only a wee
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by whyleyc 9y ago
Except they don't follow that standard: http://www.groundup.org.za/article/why-were-dropping-google-...
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by whyleyc 10y ago
it was a suggestion of what they thought should be done ... you'd be foolish to accept it as a promise You're giving the Leave campaign a free pass on a technicality of language. I don't believe the 51.9% of voters who saw
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by whyleyc 10y ago
That's a cop out. If they didn't have the means to deliver on their promises they shouldn't have made the claims. They took highly populist positions, completely divorced from reality just to win votes, then shrugged their sh
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by whyleyc 10y ago
Some companies. Many other companies actually want to take care of their staff. Source: I'm a business owner who likes to take care of my employees.
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by whyleyc 10y ago
Which is kinda' a shame since this was one of the big marketing points for the v2. Especially in rain hotspots like the UK :)
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Boosted Board v2 – no longer water resistant(boostedboards.com)
3 points by whyleyc 10y ago|2 comments
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Empty DDoS Threats: Meet the Armada Collective(blog.cloudflare.com)
12 points by whyleyc 10y ago|1 comments
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by whyleyc 10y ago
That requires your application to be vulnerable to two types of exploit in order to pull off RCE - if you are vulnerable to SQLi there are likely a whole raft of other issues which would give you a remote shell. As a standalone issue I agre
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by whyleyc 10y ago
What happens if Amazon's KMS service is down - does that break the app or can you operate ok without it ?
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by whyleyc 10y ago
Not the OP but I'd highly recommend "Zoo City" by Lauren Beukes. Brilliantly written, gritty, bonkers-but pulsating plot set in a grimy version of Johannesburg. Loved it.
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by whyleyc 10y ago
I thought Ready Player One was Cyberpunk-lite. For actual brain-bending, dystopian-but-vaugely-plausible futurism I would highly recommend the latest William Gibson novel "The Peripheral". He's always had a fascinating abilit
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by whyleyc 10y ago
My favourite fact - it took 185 person-months to develop PowerPoint for Windows at a cost of $500,000 :)
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Life before the web – Running a Startup in the 1980's(blog.zamzar.com)
8 points by whyleyc 10y ago|2 comments
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by whyleyc 10y ago
There are some timeless tips on acquisition here. Notably once more players are interested suddenly it becomes a whole lot easier to dictate terms for the deal ... like not relocating from Silicon Valley to Redmond.
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How Microsoft beat Apple to buy PowerPoint for $14M(blog.zamzar.com)
219 points by whyleyc 10y ago|151 comments
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by whyleyc 10y ago
Thanks for the background info, very helpful. How has on-prem install gone for you guys ? There was an article on HN yesterday suggesting it was a royal PITA (for ops and support), would be interesting to hear about your experience. Also FY
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Another Day, Another Hack: 117M LinkedIn Emails and Passwords(motherboard.vice.com)
1 points by whyleyc 10y ago|0 comments
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by whyleyc 10y ago
Ok, so maybe "representative democracy" (in a strict political sense) was bad terminology to use, but my point is that both experiments set themselves up with a veneer of democracy only for that to come crumbling down when they di
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by whyleyc 10y ago
It's almost as if representative democracy of this kind is a complete sham. It's a good job this kind of ridiculous situation doesn't crop up here on HN from our YC overlords ! Wait, what. [1] [1] https://news.ycom
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by whyleyc 10y ago
Looks like they deleted the entire website of Scottish League Cup winners Ross County: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-3608...
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123-reg deletes sites in massive clean-up script blunder, customers let rip(arstechnica.co.uk)
8 points by whyleyc 10y ago|3 comments
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by whyleyc 11y ago
Works fine on my MacBook Pro Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015. Quite a lot of static, but an amazing moment when you do pick out the tune for the first time !
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by whyleyc 11y ago
This is a joke right ? We run Adsense display ads on our site and have to spend significant time every day reviewing and blocking new ads which try to use these deceptive practices. Since Google clearly has the tech to detect this they shou
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by whyleyc 11y ago
We received the communication below from SoftLayer (owned by IBM) yesterday. Essentially they plan to block all traffic from these countries to all customer servers. What this means: * Any website or service hosted on SoftLayer servers wi
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IBM to Start Blocking All Traffic from Iran, Cuba, Sudan, Syria from 1 Feb 2016(knowledgelayer.softlayer.com)
4 points by whyleyc 11y ago|1 comments
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by whyleyc 11y ago
Thanks for putting this out there - looks fantastic for hackers like me with partners who suffer from epilepsy. If you are interested in wearable tech and epilepsy you should also check out the "Embrace Watch" [1] - It measures el

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