JackWebbHeller

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by JackWebbHeller 10y ago
It actually seems to be code to change/rename database fields within Drupal 7... https://gist.github.com/rangnekarsuhel/e0402c9f93c5cda66a02
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by JackWebbHeller 10y ago
Chris, you say Gmail tightened up their spam filters... Did this take place in the last ~6 weeks or so? I've noticed the spam filter on Gmail for Google Apps has gotten significantly less accurate recently, resulting in far more false-
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by JackWebbHeller 11y ago
Which conference is this? I tried Googling "!!Con" and obviously the exclamation marks don't count as part of the search term. Apparently Google doesn't know what I mean by "exclamation mark exclamation mark con&quo
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by JackWebbHeller 11y ago
The update process is horrendous. Redirect to Adobe's website, follow a 3-step 'wizard' - where Step 2 is a placebo 10-second loading bar saying it is "initialising" - and Step 3 is an advertisement for installing o
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by JackWebbHeller 11y ago
So what's going to happen to the astronauts aboard the ISS - this was a resupply mission. How much longer can they stay up there with their current supplies?
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by JackWebbHeller 11y ago
Although they may seem redundant, buttons on pedestrian crossings are vital for disabled people to know when it is safe to cross. Most UK crossings beep when it's safe to cross (for the blind), and have small jagged cones[1] on the bot
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by JackWebbHeller 11y ago
https://wikileaks.org/sony/emails/emailid/139607 So it would seem Scott Forstall (of Apple) is now an advisor to Snapchat, and owns 0.11% of the stock... I'd been wondering what he'd been up to afte
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by JackWebbHeller 12y ago
Actually it follows the same fare rate as the taxis themselves, plus 5% extra to Uber for the convenience of the service. Fare info: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/modes/taxis-and-minicabs/taxi-fares?ci...
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by JackWebbHeller 12y ago
> "We recognise the unique heritage and value of traditional black cabs when it comes to getting around. UberTAXI is another way of using technology to offer more choice, making life simpler and keeping London moving" If you ca
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Introducing UberTAXI(blog.uber.com)
84 points by JackWebbHeller 12y ago|61 comments
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by JackWebbHeller 12y ago
Is Z-Wave the same thing as a Zigbee mesh network? I know that's what Philips Hue uses.
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by JackWebbHeller 13y ago
Why is the funnel intake octagonal? Making it circular would be more aesthetically pleasing, or is there a technical reason why having 8 'separate' entrances is required? Secondly, paint the funnel intake and top section green, an
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by JackWebbHeller 13y ago
... Internet Pod? For an offline music player?
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Ask HN: What would you recommend to put on a web development team's IT budget?
1 points by JackWebbHeller 13y ago|0 comments
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by JackWebbHeller 13y ago
This was generated with frak - https://github.com/noprompt/frak "frak transforms collections of strings into regular expressions for matching those strings. The primary goal of this library is to generate regular
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by JackWebbHeller 13y ago
Imagine if this was actually created by the NSA (I mean, naming it Prism seems too obvious to be true), and we're all just falling into it's aesthetically-pleasing honeytrap.
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by JackWebbHeller 13y ago
I'm not sure if it affects all carriers or not. But you can opt-out, you just have to go through an age-verification process - usually providing a credit card number to confirm you are over 18.
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by JackWebbHeller 13y ago
(Assuming this was meant as a reply to my comment) - I do understand that, I pretty much just bought a single share to say I had one, and see how it would perform, more as an experiment and out of curiosity than an actual business interest.
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by JackWebbHeller 13y ago
I bought my first ever share - a single share in Tesla - two weeks ago. I saw the headline and my heart sank. But if you have to deliver bad news, that is how you do it - proactively and efficiently. It answers every question a Model S ow
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by JackWebbHeller 13y ago
> "Its a strange situation where it is legal to do something to a human that is illegal to do to a computer" What is illegal to do to a computer, in this case...?
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by JackWebbHeller 13y ago
"Someone should make an app that tells me how much pizza i am" Well, I know what I'm doing for my weekend project!
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by JackWebbHeller 13y ago
Whoops, I understand now! Thanks.
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by JackWebbHeller 13y ago
Also, there's really no reason for this to be a special device. It easily be a blob on your computer's hard drive Uh... If it was on your computer's hard drive and your hard drive failed, it wouldn't be much use as a backup system, would
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by JackWebbHeller 13y ago
Dropbox does this too. I think I read somewhere that they md5 your file and see if matches one already on the network, if so, they just replicate a 'link' to that file in your account. That's why sometimes if you upload a movie you download
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by JackWebbHeller 14y ago
People are bashing this for being 'pointless', but hey, so is the next great to-do list app you made in 48 hours. This is a fun little experiment. I can see an actual use for this. Look for example at Identicons, Wavatars, and MonsterIDs[1]
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by JackWebbHeller 14y ago
We all know it's just not that simple...
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by JackWebbHeller 14y ago
"Tell me about one of your weaknesses..." At this point, hand the interviewer a card you had pre-prepared, which reads "My over-preparation sometimes comes across as arrogance".
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by JackWebbHeller 14y ago
Which database system Wikipedia is currently using?
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by JackWebbHeller 14y ago
Only on Hacker News would the top reply to a comment about a person discovering their father was not their biological father be about privacy and opt-ins...
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by JackWebbHeller 14y ago
I think that's the joke...

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