whyleyc

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by whyleyc 11y ago
Of course you can't have a world where everyone becomes a landlord, but that doesn't mean this is a completely invalid form of income generation for some people (that's the benefit of being able to take a nuanced view of ad
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by whyleyc 11y ago
I'm not sure you can argue MMM is trying to hide his rental situation given that he has published numerous blog posts discussing it in depth starting in 2011: http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/2011/05/23/get
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The Man and the Island: Wandering Through Jonathan Blow’s the Witness(arstechnica.com)
1 points by whyleyc 11y ago|0 comments
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by whyleyc 11y ago
I don't think you need to be a rocket scientist to "make the connection" here. I read the piece as a commentary on Amazon's lacklustre (or worse) HR department, poor parental leave policies and systemic aversion to women
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by whyleyc 11y ago
3:36 AM PDT Customers should start to see declines in elevated errors and latencies in the Amazon S3 service. Fixed ?
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If I just proved that P = NP, how do I start taking over the world?(quora.com)
1 points by whyleyc 11y ago|0 comments
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by whyleyc 11y ago
Somewhat relevant (If I just proved that P = NP, how do I start taking over the world?): http://www.quora.com/If-I-just-proved-that-P-NP-how-do-I-sta...
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by whyleyc 11y ago
Are you guys affiliated with Vooza at all ?
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by whyleyc 11y ago
The inverse is also true.
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The real scars of Korean gaming(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by whyleyc 11y ago|1 comments
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Google apologises over racist Google Maps White House search results(theguardian.com)
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by whyleyc 11y ago
After reading the original post it's still not clear to me why you would want this tool - Would you mind explaining the motivation behind it ? As an end-user of sites I don't find registration a particularly onerous or annoying pr
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by whyleyc 12y ago
In the non-fiction sphere they could do worse than to read: - Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson - Neuromancer by William Gibson Both books have had a huge impact on hacker culture, as well as doing a good job of documenting it. They will co
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by whyleyc 12y ago
What was the acquisition price ?
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by whyleyc 12y ago
We observed this problem first hand when the inventor of Powerpoint emailed us to ask for help in opening old presentations which he could no longer view ! When the guy who wrote the software which produced the file can't view it 20 ye
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Life inside a secret Chinese Bitcoin mine(m.youtube.com)
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by whyleyc 12y ago
This is great for partial seizures but not really applicable for anyone with generalized epilepsy (where the origin of abnormal electrical activity in the brain cannot be pinpointed). Tech is moving along nicely for the latter type of epile
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by whyleyc 12y ago
The TTL on the A record for youtube.com is 5 mins though, so a "well-behaved" client would likely need to re-query the DNS. You could just edit your local hosts file to circumvent that but you'd have to then have entries for
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by whyleyc 12y ago
Why are they even pulling this MITM trick in the first place ? Can't GoGo just "blacklist" streaming sites at a DNS level and deal with the problem before a connection is even made to a high-bandwith destination ?
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by whyleyc 12y ago
Author here - I tried to keep "on topic" and constrain myself to files, but you're right I did drift into filesystems too which probably wasn't helpful. I think the core argument still holds though - which is that some p
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by whyleyc 12y ago
Author here - would love to hear your comments, as I think this is an interesting area of debate, especially with digital obsolescence waiting to bite us all.
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Why Fred Wilson is wrong – files aren’t dead(blog.zamzar.com)
37 points by whyleyc 12y ago|56 comments
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by whyleyc 12y ago
If you're on Chrome just install this extension to disable the login prompt and allow you to view Quora without a login: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/block-quora-login-...
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Embrace: The medical-grade wearable you've been waiting for(wired.co.uk)
2 points by whyleyc 12y ago|0 comments
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Internet data plan back on political agenda(bbc.co.uk)
53 points by whyleyc 12y ago|24 comments
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Windows Schannel exploit - A technical deep dive(securityintelligence.com)
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by whyleyc 12y ago
"This security update is rated Important for all supported releases of Microsoft Windows excluding Windows Server 2003".
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Microsoft releases patch for CVE-2014-4114 (Windows OLE packager vulnerability)(technet.microsoft.com)
2 points by whyleyc 12y ago|1 comments
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by whyleyc 12y ago
So for me I think the killer feature would be the SMS alerting. Other features which would be just below that: (1) Ability to export raw data (to .csv ?) and graphs (to .xls ?) in case we wanted to run our own analysis (2) Ability to markup
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by whyleyc 12y ago
I've been looking for something like this for ages - I have a family member who suffers from generalized tonic clonic seizures and have been looking at ways to try and do remote tracking. The #1 feature request I would have is the abil

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