andymurd

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by andymurd 1y ago
Isn't that how del.icio.us started all this bookmarking in the first place?
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by andymurd 6y ago
I started the year happy in my opinion that "it's ok to be crap at your hobby if you find the process enjoyable". I made some really rubbish things and enjoyed the process. Then I learned that I feel fine with being rubbish a
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by andymurd 7y ago
Many people have been running headless Chrome in AWS Lambda functions for a while now. Use cases include testing, screen scraping, screen capture.
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by andymurd 8y ago
The Spectrum (and ZX81) had a big effect on a whole generation of Brits. I know my folks could not have afforded a C64 or BBC Micro but they did manage fifty quid in Currys to start my lifetime of coding.
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by andymurd 8y ago
Just write. Stop procrastinating on HN, and type this: mkdir doc && $EDITOR doc/index.md
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by andymurd 8y ago
I like theoldreader.com. It's very similar to Google Reader and worth every cent of its annual fee for premium access ($25 IIRC).
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by andymurd 9y ago
Ah, the memories. Here are my first few: Sinclair ZX81 with 16k RAM add-on Rubber-key Sinclair ZX-Spectrum ZX-Spectrum +3 with 3" (not 3.5) disk Commodore Amiga (I can't remember the model) with an 85MB hard-disk
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by andymurd 9y ago
I feel your pain as I pay about the same for 1.1mbps down. I can't get any faster speeds (I checked when I worked for Internode) and speed drops whenever it rains. I once tried to follow the Udacity course on Tensorflow, but could not
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by andymurd 9y ago
I generally wake up when 5 kilos of fur jumps on my bladder and shouts "MEOW!" However, in my life before cats I really struggled to wake up for a 9-to-5 until I got an alarm with a lamp that lights up very gradually, simulating s
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by andymurd 9y ago
Does anybody have experience with Red Hat's OpenShift PaaS? [0] Reading through the sales copy, it seems to be a reasonable competitor to Heroku. They offer 3 small gears free and have a startup assistance program for those that qualif
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by andymurd 10y ago
Discover weekly is the reason that I pay for Spotify. I'm an old guy that prefers vinyl to mp3s, misses the local record store terribly and hates radio, so modern music distribution sucks for me. I first tried Spotify many years ago, b
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by andymurd 10y ago
Are programmers not people?
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by andymurd 10y ago
Agreed. My partner is a Wine Educator and this is one of her favorite rants. Consider the costs of getting wine onto a store shelf: - Glass bottle - Bottling & Labelling - Transport - Cork/closure - Taxes (29% here in Aus) - Retail
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by andymurd 10y ago
We're almost 100% Atlassian at my $WORK (as OP's original list but Jenkins for CI/CD). For my side projects, I don't need anywhere near as much team communication, so free services work for me: - Version Control (Bitbuck
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by andymurd 10y ago
When I was working in the UK, I negotiated to change an IP clause from "during the period of employment" to "during the course of employment" for precisely the reason that you state. Both parties were happy with the chan
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by andymurd 10y ago
keybase.io do something similar with github - they give you a piece of text to publish as a gist. It seems to work for them.
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by andymurd 10y ago
My kid is still very young and still learning the very basics of reading/writing/arithmetic. So we reinforce/practice those at home. I've found that his motivation is higher when the stuff he learns at home matches the t
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by andymurd 10y ago
High-end real estate agents are a possible source of custom. Similarly, commercial property developers would benefit if they can add augmentations to your VR environments (move a wall, add lighting etc).
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by andymurd 10y ago
Eat that elephant one bite at a time.
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by andymurd 10y ago
A former employer tested out a number of residential Ethernet over power devices. The results were mixed - they either work really well, or really badly. It seems that the home's wiring and appliances have an overwhelming effect on the
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by andymurd 10y ago
This does happen quite often, but does anyone still use del.icio.us?
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by andymurd 10y ago
Would it work if keybase periodically send an email containing a phrase that is encrypted with your public key. You decrypt the email and enter the phrase into the keybase website?
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by andymurd 10y ago
Maybe not "parent bot" but "buddy bot"? My kid's school has a buddy system to help prevent bullying, wherein each young child gets buddied with another kid that is four/five years older. If they have any proble
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by andymurd 10y ago
As the ease of use and zero cost of LE prompted me to use way more certs this year they get a donation.
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by andymurd 10y ago
Here you go, AU gov notice: https://www.productsafety.gov.au/recall/samsung-samsung-top-...
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by andymurd 10y ago
Is it possible to hire a young, newly qualified(?) artist for the role but also spend some money on training and mentoring? Aside, do artists need/benefit from a qualification for a role like this? Or hire a mother that is returning to
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by andymurd 10y ago
I think you are quite correct, and that you've outlined a much more likely scenario than politicians implementing a workable universal basic income. Sales of socially harmful goods (such as alcohol, tobacco and petroleum) are already t
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by andymurd 10y ago
NoSQL is for heterogeneous data that is read in a homogeneous manner, whilst relational excels at homogeneous data read in a heterogeneous manner. If your schema is constantly changing, relational is painful, conversely writing reports agai
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by andymurd 10y ago
I feel your pain. Same thing happened to me twice(!) and then it tried to delete all my Google contacts. iTunes is now second from the top on my list of software-I-will-never-use-again[0], so that means no shiny Apple devices for me. Which
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by andymurd 10y ago
I like to listen to music that I find fun, and my Thursdays are all about the bongos! https://play.spotify.com/track/2teN2uYbwMQraPG7Gu2Zfo

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