andrewescott

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Recovering a failing disk using a Raspberry Pi and a bit of AI(aes.id.au)
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Show HN: Quantum Safety Firefox browser add-on(addons.mozilla.org)
2 points by andrewescott 2y ago|0 comments
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by andrewescott 3y ago
Looking at the source, it appears to have been generated by https://github.com/nbedos/termtosvg
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by andrewescott 12y ago
Nice to be reminded of this piece. However, it sparked a thought when he mentioned micropayments as a market that was guaranteed to doom start-ups that were trying to launch product in that space. Is the current crop of mobile payments star
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by andrewescott 12y ago
startups would struggle to compete against those who were able to afford paying for a fast lane--or an exclusive fast lane. Even the slightest discrimination or paid prioritization significantly affects startups, as microsecon
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by andrewescott 12y ago
I am increasingly of the view that we need publications for a lay audience that focus on debate between experts. While an opinion piece can seem reasonable on its own, it may be full of errors that are easily highlighted by an expert. Howev
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by andrewescott 13y ago
SMS is specified by industry standards. Just do a search on http://www.3gpp.org/specifications for "SMS".
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by andrewescott 13y ago
There seems to be an assumption in the original argument that not every company will be able to get access to sponsored data, e.g. > Well since Spotify, Beats, and Apple have paid all > the telcos so that their services are free on th
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by andrewescott 13y ago
Is there any easy way to do native iOS application development with Objective-C if you don't run OSX?
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by andrewescott 13y ago
From the title, I had expected an article on start-up communities that were themselves spread across many countries around the globe. However, it turned out to be about city-centric startup communities that can be in any city. Are we still
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by andrewescott 14y ago
Perhaps Glass should be compared with the Sony Walkman (which may be a bit before the time of some of those on HN). When Sony introduced the Walkman, they also invented portable headphones. Because no-one wore headphones around in public be
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by andrewescott 14y ago
This doesn't appear to be the case in question. Based on my reading of the article, it seems that the network link between Free and YouTube is becoming congested at peak times. Free doesn't want to pay to make it any larger, and neither d
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by andrewescott 14y ago
This just gave me a big blast of nostalgia. Great work! Does it also support colour?
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by andrewescott 15y ago
If all electronic devices were dangerous, airlines would be asking passengers to remove the batteries from their wristwatches for the duration of the flight.
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A Java ME coder looks at Android(aes.id.au)
5 points by andrewescott 16y ago|0 comments
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by andrewescott 16y ago
And RSS readers don't naturally hook into the underlying comment systems on the content they present, so if you want to read/write comments, you need to click through anyway. It's okay for consuming newspaper articles that don't support com
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by andrewescott 16y ago
This is what Apple already allows with the App Store. Except if your app smells like Adobe.
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by andrewescott 17y ago
Was this meant to be a joke? When you rewrote the argument as "I'm going to just rewrite your argument", you ignored the same principle that you were proposing. Apologies, if indeed it was meant to be a joke.
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by andrewescott 17y ago
They also refer to this on their website at http://www.zebraimaging.com/html/lighting___display.html
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by andrewescott 17y ago
One thing that seems to have been missed is that the Craigslist design is part of their business model - it results in pages that are very small and keeps their bandwidth costs down, enabling them to offer free listings.