willthames

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by willthames 12y ago
So 2080 is number of hours per working year (assuming zero annual leave and public holidays) I think you should have just calculated 100000/260 to get miles per day, not 10^6/2080. Your 480.8 miles per day should be 48.1 miles per
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by willthames 12y ago
Cane toads were introduced to Australia [1] with devastating consequences to the local fauna. I suspect that's one of the species it'd be most happy to be rid of. Then there's the feral rabbits, camels, horses (brumbies), pig
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by willthames 12y ago
That seems insane! I know Australia is a bit more used to drought but it does seem to do astonishingly better at water conservation. My water bill tells us our water consumption is 200L per day, or 100L per person. Brisbane average is 400L
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by willthames 12y ago
This seems illuminating. "The only complaint that I have here [about Salt] is that they are sometimes less rigorous than they should be when it comes to accepting code (I’d like to see more code review)." Keeping high quality acro
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by willthames 12y ago
Not really, as while you can make the domain exist you can't make the TXT record appear in DNS.
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by willthames 13y ago
Interesting - freegeoip.net thinks I'm about 30km from Brisbane in the opposite direction to the side I'm on. ipinfo.io thinks I'm in Brisbane, which is slightly more accurate (although also less specific), although still ab
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by willthames 13y ago
I suspect the OP has USD, and that the RaboDirect account will be in AUD. Investing in AUD would be a bold investment approach, and certainly not risk free.
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by willthames 13y ago
How long 1 kilowatt hour would last is a difficult question - depends on how efficient the home is and what tasks need to use that energy (for example, AC is very expensive but tends to be needed most when solar energy is available). Heatin
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by willthames 13y ago
Dinorwig power station in North Wales does this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinorwig_Power_Station . For a consumer though, a single KW (3.6MJ) of power would be generated by moving 10m^3 (i.e. 10KL) of water 36m (app
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by willthames 13y ago
A better workaround is to right-click the download and then select Open, which will then ask you if you really want to open. That way you maintain the additional protection in general while still bypassing it for this (and similar) instance
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by willthames 13y ago
"By definition Alternative Medicine has either not been proved to work, or been proved not to work. You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? Medicine." From Tim Minchin's excellent Storm.
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by willthames 13y ago
What about the costs of running the hardware - power, cooling, network switches, storage arrays, datacentre rental (or opportunity costs of using a server room versus more desk space for example)? Not saying it still wouldn't work out
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by willthames 13y ago
I would think that Troy alludes to his very extensive piece detailing how and how not to do password resets. http://www.troyhunt.com/2012/05/everything-you-ever-wanted-t... I think the point about password hints i
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by willthames 13y ago
It doesn't seem to get as much attention in your products, to be fair: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/STASH-2469
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by willthames 13y ago
the tip does work on OS X though, which doesn't have ssh-copy-id (by default, at least)
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by willthames 13y ago
In 'Working with Legacy Code', Michael Feathers defines legacy code as code without sufficient tests. The great thing about this definition is that it doesn't matter how old the code is - if it can be changed without worry ab
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by willthames 13y ago
I was immensely disappointed to see his name there, and then heartened to see your reply. He was pretty much the person who most made me want to choose Manchester for CS.
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by willthames 13y ago
I clicked through to your profile but there's no obvious way to contact you.
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by willthames 13y ago
If I plot a route from Hyde and Bay to 6th and Mission, it routes me over Nob Hill. If I change it two streets to 4th and Mission, it routes me around the Embarcadero, which is much flatter. Is there a reason it takes the more direct (less
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by willthames 14y ago
> "A pint's a pound, the whole world round." A UK pint is 568ml, which is some way off 454g. Unlike the US pint, which is much closer at 473ml.
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by willthames 14y ago
Also a problem for the Apple App Store - I recently moved countries and all the apps I'd paid for (including OS X Lion) were no longer available to download until I switched back my details to the old country.
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by willthames 14y ago
It's only in relatively recent times been widely known that the majority cause is a bacteria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptic_ulcer#History Stress was the common theory beforehand The fascinating bit is the original researcher proving
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by willthames 14y ago
After that I suggest a blog post on the other hard thing in computer science, off by one errors
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by willthames 14y ago
Can you point to the bit in the PCI spec that says that? My understanding is that people should only have access to the systems they require. But that doesn't stop a developer having access to a continuous deployment server that can push co
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by willthames 14y ago
What about 'i' and 'a'? So that's six (or seven including 'fas')
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by willthames 15y ago
There's a difference between "I told him, the interview was over" and "I told him the interview was over"
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by willthames 15y ago
Your browser would still download the files. You can still the downloads using Live HTTP Headers, Firebug, Fiddler etc. to see what is going on in the background. So it would be like disabling right-click - deter only the least knowledgeabl