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by willyt 15y ago
Watching this on TV, areas across the city are descending into anarchy. The rioters are staying ahead of the police using Blackberry messenger, the police have no idea where the next riot is going to be and it seems to be gaining momentum a
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by willyt 15y ago
Yep. I think Tesco and Ocado both use the Redlaser barcode scanning sdk in thier IOS apps http://redlaser.com/sdk/
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by willyt 15y ago
In France the equivalent is the Académie française. So in French a computer is an Ordinateur, whereas in a lot of other languages it's derived from the English word. A few random examples: German: Computer. Spanish: Computadora. Scots Gaeli
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by willyt 15y ago
Maybe its a design problem. Just now the first thing you see is the upvote link. People could be upvoting on the basis of the title (i dont, i always read the story then forget to go back and upvote if i like it). What if you put the upvote
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by willyt 15y ago
The internet is moving really fast, I've already seen non tech people I know commenting about this on Facebook. They might have lost already. When something like this happens I think you probably have hours to sort it out, rather than wee
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by willyt 15y ago
The particular ones I remember were Bus shelter ads in the UK about a year ago. I think I might have made a mistake and be thinking of ads for a Samsung phone. From a distance, with the specific app grid layout and general colour distributi
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by willyt 15y ago
Sorry. My original argument wasn't very clear, I didn't mean to argue that the look and feel is patentable. It's not, obvioisly. I suppose what I meant that I could imagine Steve Jobs seeing an advert like that, picking up the phone to the
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by willyt 15y ago
But it's not defensive if they acted in bad faith to begin with. The billboard adds for htc phones looked like ad's for iPhones until you got close enough to read the copy. The implication being 'an iPhone, but cheaper'. I have no problem w
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by willyt 15y ago
Macruby?
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by willyt 15y ago
Or suddenly all the machines in the office are bluescreening at the same obscure graphics driver bug and nobody can do any work...
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by willyt 15y ago
A vigilante meets out extra legal punishment, nobody has been punished, it's just been pointed out by a lot of people that they need to be. Due process didn't work several times in this case because the Police were implicated and failed to
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by willyt 15y ago
If you find someones wallet in the street. Take the cash then give it back. If it can be proven you took the money, you can be charged with theft. The famous saying 'possession is 9/10ths of the law' relates to proving who's possession some
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by willyt 15y ago
It wasn't open to the public. Her voicemails, my voicemails, your voicemails are in no sense published. In the Milly Dowler case, the PI raked through the bins of the dead girl's family a few days after she went missing to find leads on wha
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by willyt 15y ago
Also http://www.avaaz.org/en/ had a big part to play. That's how I found out about it, not from the Guardian.
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by willyt 15y ago
Just to add to this. I emailed the CEO of o2 last night to tell him that I would switch my business to another provider if they didn't pull their advertising and I received a reply within 15 mins (at about 9.00pm) saying they were already d
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by willyt 15y ago
Better article summarising whats happened: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jul/05/editors-...
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Major business ethics fail: Voicemail hacking corruption scandal(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by willyt 15y ago|1 comments
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by willyt 15y ago
It's really difficult to follow, not the Maths, the graphics. Which part of the page is the most important thing to understand? Even, just what order are the sentences intended to be read in? Lucky it's not handwritten, he could just change
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Five copywriting errors that can ruin a company website(smashingmagazine.com)
3 points by willyt 15y ago|0 comments
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by willyt 15y ago
Euro perspective: My car's a 12 year old rusting hulk but it does 550 miles to a tank of diesel. I think more modern cars will get 750 or more. I don't think many people regularly drive more than about 400 miles without an overnight break t
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by willyt 15y ago
In the UK the legislation is 'the unfair contract terms act 1977'. http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1977/50 Also, the case law suggests that if you are providing a professional service your appointment should make it clear that you wil
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by willyt 15y ago
Yeah, the AC is about 40kWh/year. Its not doing much for about 3/4 of the year in the UK though. Economies of scale do make a big difference. In a large building with 1000's of peeps air supply fans (fan coil units), chillers and heat rejec
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by willyt 15y ago
Is there any way round this for HTML5 apps? I know you can save an app icon on iphone but when you launch it just launches safari which seems to make a network request to check if the site is up to date? (Sorry, I'm a bit naive about all th
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by willyt 15y ago
UK new build "best practice building" say about 140 kWh per square meter per year total energy use (including HVAC). 8 square meters per person is packed in desks like a call centre. £0.1 per kWh. 140 * 8 * 0.1 ~ £100 per year per person =
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by willyt 15y ago
You are talking about a Ground source heat pump. Once you are down about 10m the temperature of the ground is fairly constant at about 10-14 degrees C. You can exploit this temperature difference for either heating or cooling using a heat p
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by willyt 15y ago
Is that true for other forms of transport too? Probably true for trains. Cars as well? all the road construction and maintenance costs are eaten by the taxpayer.
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by willyt 15y ago
Rambling anecdote, bear with me: In the 1920's my grandmother and her sister were sent from Scotland to study in Berlin. The requirement to have a passports was very new then. My great grandfather thought they were a ridiculous idea and sen
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by willyt 15y ago
I really want to be able to share an address book (that can be synced) between everyone on their macs and phones. We operate out of quite a remote location so web interfaces often aren't usable because they are too slow on a mobile data con
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by willyt 16y ago
Isn't most wifi NAT with DHCP? what use is a big list of ip's like 192.168.1.45? They might be able to track you from the MAC address maybe?
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by willyt 16y ago
Yep, my accountants rule of thumb is after deducting time for admin and other downtime you will be doing well to sell about 60% of your available billable hours. So that about ties up with what you are saying.

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