LordWinstanley

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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
A bank account you can programme in Javascript. What could possibly go wrong?
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
You must be new here! If [like I do], you browse HN by the "new" section, you'll see this time after time after time after time... I don't know what's to be done about it. HN don't seem to care and it seems lik
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
Could you not find a better source than the Daily Fail? It has less credibility than a child's comic.
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
You lost me at reason no.1
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
I know some people's online comments are pretty toxic, but I'm struggling to think of a scenario whereby a Twitter stream or Facebook timeline could be used to make a 'dirty bomb' --and I'm not having much luck. Cou
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
There's also a delicious irony in the fact the border agents would no doubt claim not to be stealing your data, but merely making a copy of it --while at the same time the US is extraditing people from around the world, to charge them
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
5: Don't visit the USA. It's not compulsory to suck America's arse, you know.
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
>Especially if the pilot has gone rouge What have you got against pink pilots?
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
What popularity? All I see is a suspicious number of repeated submissions on HN, coinciding with pretty much the same recycled press release disguised as a news item, cropping up on a few tech sites. I strongly suspect this supposed sudden
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
WTF?! --am announcement, introducing Unity, from 2011. Why?
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
What I would like to see from any of these FOSS alternatives to Twitter is a way to import your existing Twitter archive. I don't know if it's colossal arrogance, or colossal stupidity that makes so many developers launch their &q
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
Twitter seems to have become an alternative to Reuters or AP for most journalists the days. Even major newspapers and news organisations seem to 'back up' their articles with numerous quoted tweets —as if the half-baked shite spew
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
So, you complain about Twitter's inherent lack of freedom, then offer an alternative which "bans nazis"? Given the frequency with which internet debates end up invoking Godwin's Law, that sounds even worse than what it&#
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
Wow! --that is pretty damning stuff. If even a fraction of it is true, it looks really bad for Tizen
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
The unwritten rule of the painfully obvious corporate April Fool trick is that you try and trick your customers into believing you're about to do something really silly or strange. It's probably not such a good idea to promise th
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
Care to explain what you mean by that?
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
Well. That's the problem with democracy. Sometimes the ordinary people don't vote the way their betters intended them to. That doesn't necessarily mean democracy is broken. Just that sometimes the majority of the populace wa
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
Looks lovely. But, until someone comes up with unbreakable glass, I really don't see the point. Everyone who buys one will stick it straight in a case, to protect that edge-to-edge display.
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
This might, just possibly, be the worst headline of all time.
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
I blame all the "pimp yourself out" freelancer sites wherein talentless copy/paste monkeys underbid each other to offer their services for next to nothing --for devaluing this sort of work so much, that people can actually po
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
.. of course it does. Doubleplusgood!
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
I've had similar fun'n'japes with their cousins this side of the water, BT. But I don't think we descended quite that far into insanity.
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
Two [very long] posts in and you've still not really got to the dénouement! Still. It's an interesting read, nonetheless. TL;DR: It's Nim[0] [0]: https://nim-lang.org/
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
I've used this tool before and, while it gives some useful pointers, I wouldn't get too hung up on the results. One classic example is that it marks your site down if you don't minify your JS and CSS. On my sites, the CSS [a
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
Can the Bot be made NOT TO SHOUT?
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
Should state it's for iOS only.
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by LordWinstanley 9y ago
Brilliant read. I hope enough time has passed now for you to laugh about it. You seem to have an unfinished sentence, part way through though. [italicised] >She tells me that it has been declared ‘non relevant’. I can’t even . She says
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by LordWinstanley 10y ago
Thanks for this. I'm on the lookout for a new Linux to try out, as a departure from my usual Debian and *buntu tinkerings. There were a couple of interesting ones mentioned there that I wasn't aware of—or wasn't aware of what
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by LordWinstanley 10y ago
Surely you mean "nuklear"?
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by LordWinstanley 10y ago
Whether I would trust baggage handling or not isn't really the point. Almost every news outlet is headlining this story that these devices are being 'banned' from flights, which is simply not true. They're being 'b

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