MalphasWats

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by MalphasWats 2y ago
Largely for the same reason people don't "just win" the lottery by buying every possible ticket (any more).
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by MalphasWats 2y ago
in-fighting, power struggles & empire building. Then fell into bankruptcy.
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by MalphasWats 2y ago
I feel like the CX16 lost its way about a week after the project started and it suddenly became an expensive FPGA-based blob. But at the same time, I'm not sure what other option there is for a project like that. I always got the impre
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by MalphasWats 2y ago
It's incredible how influential Ben Eater's breadboard computer series has been in hobby electronics. I've been similarly inspired to try to design my own "retro" CPU. I desperately want something as easy to plug in
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by MalphasWats 2y ago
> These effects consist of oxidative stress, DNA damage, organ dysfunction, metabolic disorder, immune response, neurotoxicity, as well as reproductive and developmental toxicity. In addition, the epidemiological evidence suggests that a
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by MalphasWats 3y ago
You're complaining about a Writer writing?
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by MalphasWats 14y ago
This looks interesting, thanks. At the moment I don't want to use it as a single display, rather display 9 different things (and various permutations thereof). I plan to hack something together, but I'm struggling to envision how it should
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Ask HN: Hacking a video wall.
1 points by MalphasWats 14y ago|2 comments
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by MalphasWats 14y ago
"Hi, I'm Insert Name, pleased to meet you. Can I borrow your phone". "No" ... "Erm, what do you think you're doing, get your hand out of my pocket!" No-one touches my phone.
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by MalphasWats 14y ago
Ironically, we're all reading this on the web, where browsers merrily remove superfluous white space. If every browser can agree on that, given how much they all disagree on, I'll take that as a pretty good endorsement for single-spacing.
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by MalphasWats 14y ago
Takeaway for us in the real world: locate an exit before you start moving.
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by MalphasWats 14y ago
I think that's generally how jokes work.
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by MalphasWats 14y ago
I did this once. I installed Ubuntu on a new laptop, resizing the disk partition as I went. When I switched back to Windows, I realised I had left it hibernated and the partition resize upset it very much. A day or so later, I tried to inst
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by MalphasWats 14y ago
I think that this comes down not so much to the arrogance of "Our idea is so good, we must stop people copying it!", but more the ignorance of "I read a lot about NDAs, they seem like something that might make people take us more seriously
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Remorseful Twitter and Facebook jokers less likely to face prosecution(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by MalphasWats 14y ago|0 comments
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by MalphasWats 14y ago
I'm a Computing teacher in a UK secondary school. I do web development stuff in my spare time.
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by MalphasWats 14y ago
Good grief, tests for HTML! Some people will do anything to get out of doing real work!
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by MalphasWats 14y ago
it's a fair point, however, the way I see it, they had 2 choices: Release at iOS 6, release at iOS 7. We don't know when they actually started working on the new maps app. Choosing to delay for another whole year would have been a bigger mi
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by MalphasWats 14y ago
As many commenters have said, it wasn't necessarily Apple's choice to make the change, and they were bound to their own release schedule.
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by MalphasWats 14y ago
It's the headline of the actual article. I suggest you write a strongly worded letter to the editor explaining the HN submission guidelines. Probably best send it in triplicate, just to be sure.
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by MalphasWats 14y ago
Hmm, not as long as I thought then! Skulduggery Afoot!
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by MalphasWats 14y ago
There's a fairly long grace period after initial expiration when a domain is expired but can't be re-registered. It allows for the original owner to get it back (for a larger fee) before it's sniped by the next person.
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by MalphasWats 14y ago
I got excited and clicked through looking for the latest news on Google Glass.
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by MalphasWats 14y ago
My opinion would be that if you're getting a lot of these kinds of issues, the signup page could well be the culprit. A much better solution is to have 2 boxes "Email address", "password" and a button to make it Go. If you need "inside leg
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by MalphasWats 14y ago
Years ago I went on a course that covered all kinds of things related to dealing with people and this issue was one of them. The awkwardness is easily removed simply by greeting someone by their name and repeating yours without giving them
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by MalphasWats 14y ago
I'm genuinely curious, as I've never actually used it[1], but if someone waved a magic wand, and ALL illegal music, movies and books vanished from bittorrent networks, what would be left? [1]blizzard uses it for WoW updates, but I don't thi
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by MalphasWats 14y ago
You are absolutely right! I own the copyright to almost every single file stored in my dropbox account, because I created them. Those that I didn't are happily stored but not distributed, entirely within the licences granted by the owners o
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by MalphasWats 14y ago
I was going to say "that's pretty much how Facebook started out, as a website to rate female college students". Then I realised I got that from The Social Network, which is a film, and probably not entirely accurate. Certainly believable th
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by MalphasWats 14y ago
I hated OneNote when I first saw it, then I started to use it and found that it had a lot of potential, particularly on a tablet pc (in 2005!). I suffered with corruptions of the notes files, which were also VERY large, and then I changed t