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by atbentley 9y ago
Not knowing what a VPN doesn't exclude you from using one. Many workplaces use VPNs and it's likely that public internet access points (such as libraries, lounges, restaurants and cafes) could be using VPNs too. Wikipedia says tha
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by atbentley 9y ago
Their privacy page has some notes on this > We do not participate in, or co-operate with, any kind of blanket surveillance or monitoring. (We also point out that Australia does not have any equivalent to the US National Security Letter,
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by atbentley 9y ago
The original comment said .biz when they may have ment .bit
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by atbentley 9y ago
99 percent invisible has a podcast discussing this issue with a designer who takes the opposite position. A main point is that a simple, reproducible logo is ideal. http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/negative-space-l
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by atbentley 9y ago
Value is only realised by completed features, so a developer that can deliver completed, value producing features by themselves is a good thing. Teams should aim to have compositions of experts in single fields with developers who know enou
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by atbentley 9y ago
Australia is an island so it has a fairly unique biodiversity. For international flights bringing in fruits is a concern since it can introduce pests that don't otherwise exist in Australia. Australia is also a very large island, and t
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by atbentley 9y ago
Check out ipfs station if you use chrome. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ipfs-station/kckhg...
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by atbentley 9y ago
Mosquito surpression is an ongoing effort. For now it is free, but it will transition to a subscription service at some point.
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by atbentley 9y ago
> According to the report, Instagram Stories has more than 200 million users per day, with that number being measured by people updating their story or watching a friend's. I wonder what the number would be if those who only watched
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by atbentley 10y ago
Emirates have tourism advertising as well as, funnily enough, advertising for the entertainment system your using right at that moment.
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by atbentley 10y ago
Anecdotal, I know, but I was on a flight a few months ago where the wire for the hand held controller for the entertainment system had gotten so hot it burnt my hand. I'm not sure how far away the autoignition temperature of cotton is
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by atbentley 10y ago
Ah, I was unaware that there could be multiple IPs on an A record, thanks for that. If I'm understanding this right though, the extra IPs would just be for redundancy and resilience and cannot be relied for geographic routing? In this
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by atbentley 10y ago
> if we just look at the three top 35 sites tested in this post, two send uncompressed javascript over the wire, two redirect the bare domain to the www subdomain, and two send a lot of extraneous information by not compressing images So
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by atbentley 10y ago
Waterloo is pretty good in encouraging their students to pursue and monetise their ideas. They quite fancy being able to brand themselves as a university preferred by accelerators and incubators.
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by atbentley 10y ago
Yes, I tend to do something along those lines when I don't want to be tracked. To the original point, it's an annoying extra step to have to do but not unreasonable enough to stop using the site, I'm simply answering your que
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by atbentley 10y ago
I get annoyed by it too, because sometimes I want to read an article but don't necessarily want fb to continue serving those articles to me. I don't really know what happens inside the Facebook machine, but I imagine clicking a li
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by atbentley 10y ago
I have recently switched from flask + psycopg to sanic + asyncpg for my http APIs. I'm pretty happy with the results and the transition was pretty smooth, it only took a day each to switch out each and go from fully synchronis to fully
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by atbentley 10y ago
Possibly, however large enterprises might lock CI/CD down and manage it centrally. In those cases they're likely running Jenkins and Blue Ocean looks a breath of fresh air for the folk in those sorts of situations.
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by atbentley 10y ago
Self driving cars won't make financial sense in a lot of regions. The driver plus bring your own vehicle model is a mostly operational cost model where the cost slides based on region, which makes it perfect for rolling out on a global
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by atbentley 10y ago
What do the various static site hosts offer in terms of analytics? I can always add in some javascript analytics, but with the prevalence of ad-blockers and tracker-blockers it would be nice to have to some analytics coming from server logs