adrianoconnor

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by adrianoconnor 19d ago
Presumably as a kind of word play on ‘the rise and fall of ancient civilisations’, it’s just a tiny pun to try and make a catchy post title I think
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by adrianoconnor 6y ago
Getting Jitsi running is actually trivial (depending on your definition of trivial). I went from zero to fully running in about 30 minutes on a fresh Ubuntu server when I wanted to check something one time. It might even be dockerized, but
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by adrianoconnor 6y ago
I remember following those same tutorials and not really learning much (but I was probably 11 at the time). I also remember that the OS includes were around £300 and there was no way I could ever afford that. I convinced my parents to buy m
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by adrianoconnor 7y ago
This is really nice, good work! I once made a similar thing, but it was more of a creative-play-thing for children (so no way to create tiled graphics, but hopefully easy to use and fun to play with). It is at: http://kaleidopain
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by adrianoconnor 8y ago
This looks really nice. It's a shame the name is so similar to an existing app though (Pyxel Edit, https://pyxeledit.com/ ) My favourite 2D framework right now is is LOVE (love2d.org) - I'm using that to build stuf
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by adrianoconnor 9y ago
There are a few really good low-ish cost options on Mac. You should take a look at Pixelmator, Acorn and Affinity Photo. I think all have free trials. Out of those, Affinity is the one I use most, but that's because I also really like
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by adrianoconnor 9y ago
This site doesn't seem terribly useful -- looks like they're mostly looking for shiny things; pretty buttons, nice on-boarding flows, fancy modals etc. What I would like is a nice in-depth analysis of the UX in highly complex appl
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by adrianoconnor 9y ago
No. And if your comment was a headline, that wouldn't be either. :)
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by adrianoconnor 9y ago
I presume many here will have seen this before, but a while back somebody deconstructed/explained all of the problems with ET and then went on to correct them (by hex editing the rom): http://www.neocomputer.org/project
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by adrianoconnor 9y ago
According to the book 'Night School' by Richard Wiseman, just lying down for a nap, even if you don't manage to sleep, is still beneficial.
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by adrianoconnor 10y ago
Undertaken? How far out in the road are you riding? I've never undertaken a fellow cyclist in my life, out on the open road, and I can't think that I've ever seen it done.
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by adrianoconnor 10y ago
I feel the same. And I often wonder if the 60 year old versions of ourselves will feel much the same about the crazy, misguided 37 year old fools they remember once being.
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by adrianoconnor 10y ago
Have you seen the Game Programming Patterns book ( http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/ ). It was originally a blog that later become a book, and I think you can browse most of the content online. It's full of interesting
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by adrianoconnor 10y ago
<quote>(Some of the responses here are hilarious. I feel like I'm reading a Slashdot thread from 1998.)</quote> +5 Insightful
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by adrianoconnor 12y ago
Presumably if you go this route you can't enter any organised sporting events or do any form of competitive racing? Just saying, because as you get older, if you start getting some fitness back you'll possibly want to start challe
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by adrianoconnor 12y ago
I dislike mocks. I've never seen the point in testing code against an entirely fictional representation of the most complicated and slow part of the system, just because it happens to be more convenient. Of course it's more conven
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by adrianoconnor 12y ago
Heartbleed wasn't a remote execution vulnerability. I am not a security expert, but I'm pretty sure that Heartbleed in and of itself wouldn't allow hackers to install a root kit. In answer to your question, I have no idea how
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by adrianoconnor 12y ago
Indeed, and maybe we'll see some of the big companies hire and assign people to work on it now. I hope so. It'd be good to see the code audited too, though I'm not sure how you'd go about that with a project like OpenSSL
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by adrianoconnor 12y ago
All software has bugs. That's an unavoidable reality. You need to learn to deal with that fact.
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by adrianoconnor 12y ago
It certainly would not defeat the point to pay the OpenSSL engineers. Free and open software is about your freedom to modify and share software, not about taking no money. Open source software still costs a lot of money to make, and people
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by adrianoconnor 12y ago
I always love to read Don's stories, they're always pretty great, and this post is no exception. The last few paragraphs are poignant, and not because it's about Steve, but because the emotion is real and you can relate to it
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by adrianoconnor 12y ago
Carousels have their place, but I agree, not on a conversion page. Also, never create a carousel that randomly shuffles between images. If an image is worth showing, show it and let the visitor see it without changing it half way through. T
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by adrianoconnor 13y ago
When I see people talk about X% improvement because of some new tech, I always think about Fred Brooks and the No Silver Bullet essay. Nothing changes under the sun.
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by adrianoconnor 13y ago
Me too. That's what 6x4 will always means to me -- standard sized prints. As for the wording of the options, in maths terms, I never think in terms of 'so many lots of something' -- it's just 6 times 4 (well, I guess tha
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by adrianoconnor 13y ago
I don't actually have any experience with it, but Monkey X looks like a nice way of creating HTML5 games (and cross platform) quickly: http://www.monkeycoder.co.nz/ The guy who coded it wrote the language I first learn
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by adrianoconnor 13y ago
It sounds like some other people in the terrorism case pleaded guilt, and there are even details of the planned attack. Technically a thought crime, but the kind of thought crime you want to stop becoming a 'reality' crime.
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by adrianoconnor 13y ago
Except he eventually gave them the password, which means he didn't just 'innocently' forget his password. However, it looks like he was trying to cover up for fraud rather than terrorism, so maybe he decided that guilty fraud
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by adrianoconnor 13y ago
I doubt there are many UK lawyers specialising in this niche area of law stalking the HN forums right now. But you never know :) I wonder if a big part of the reason for his jailing is that he actually did give them the password in the end
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by adrianoconnor 13y ago
I think, but I'm not completely certain, that what he's trying to say is that your plan changes based on whether you hit the goal in the timebox or not. Which I guess is kind of true -- you can't really plan beyond the timebo
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by adrianoconnor 13y ago
Technically, SSL is still working fine. The 404 page-not-found result is delivered over the secure channel :) I know nothing about the Microsoft Bing servers, but my stab-in-the-dark guess would be that somebody changed something on the loa

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