Scown

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Chinese researchers break RSA encryption with a quantum computer(csoonline.com)
8 points by Scown 2y ago|0 comments
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by Scown 5y ago
It's one of the Formula 1 teams
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by Scown 5y ago
Cheers for this... Hadn't heard of Soundshelter, great site! Techno thursday it is then.
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Morrowind Completely Rebooted Your Xbox During Some Loading Screens(kotaku.com)
2 points by Scown 6y ago|0 comments
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by Scown 7y ago
Think the killer point is making "synch managers" responsible for far fewer songs than traditional publishers. They're effectively treating each song as an artist with its own manager, so naturally that manager is gonna be mu
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Now that's what I call a Hacker(jitbit.com)
17 points by Scown 7y ago|4 comments
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Bypass Paywalls on Firefox(github.com)
8 points by Scown 7y ago|1 comments
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by Scown 7y ago
This isn't really the case anymore. Can't remember when but he was thoroughly reined in a little while ago. All the shock troll PR about standing seats and paid toilets worked for a while til it didn't. They're just a ch
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Monzo urges 480k customers to change their pin numbers(theguardian.com)
3 points by Scown 7y ago|2 comments
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by Scown 7y ago
Complying with payment card industry (PCI DSS) requirements is an absolutely insane process, even if you're vaguely technically literate. Obviously not saying payment processing isn't an incredibly important area to enforce good s
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by Scown 8y ago
Big fan too! They're still around, really popular in Europe at least (Bialetti is probably the best-known brand). Quite hard not to over-extract the coffee, but still my go to when I need an industrial-scale caffeine hit...
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by Scown 8y ago
Classic agency tactic, pitch two good ideas and eight bad ones... Client gets the illusion of choice and the agency gets creative control.
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by Scown 8y ago
Also - remember at least one thing from each of those interactions that you can use again. E.g. when you ask Sarah what she's up to on the weekend, remember she said "canoeing" so you can ask the following week how it went. I
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by Scown 8y ago
What if people know they're not getting the fastest/biggest/best but pay a premium anyway? It might be a trope but "it just works" is a heck of a value proposition for most people.
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Bellingcat's online investigation toolkit(docs.google.com)
2 points by Scown 8y ago|0 comments
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by Scown 8y ago
But the initial intent still has to be there. If I sell shampoo noone's gonna see my shampoo PPC ad just because they email a friend to say they've got dry hair. They have to search for a shampoo-related keyword I'm targeting
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by Scown 8y ago
All true, but as a potential advertiser you don't really get to use all that targeting when placing ads. Although to be fair that's mostly based on my experience with AdWords. On Facebook I can advertise to people in a well-define
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by Scown 8y ago
An early Twitter user suggested using hashtags, think he's generally credited with it: http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2007/08/25/groups-for-twitter-or-...
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Your iPhone's password demands aren't just annoying. They're a security flaw(theguardian.com)
1 points by Scown 9y ago|0 comments
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by Scown 10y ago
They do this, albeit on a smaller scale, with the Spotify Sessions stuff ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify_Sessions )
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How board games became a billion-dollar business(newstatesman.com)
1 points by Scown 10y ago|0 comments
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by Scown 10y ago
We charge per person for a four-hour session (£4), plus the margins on food/booze/retail. Only 8 months in but so far, so good!
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by Scown 10y ago
I did a BA Music, which was very traditional for the first two years (analysis, criticism, composition) but concluded with some amazing modules and projects in Max/MSP/Jitter/Processing. Followed it up with an MSc in Computer
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by Scown 10y ago
(citation needed)
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The internet is run by an unaccountable private company. This is a problem(theguardian.com)
2 points by Scown 11y ago|0 comments