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by bwooce 12y ago
I've dropped Twitter. Their iOS client regularly pushed so many ads down my throat (in stream) that (a) I noticed and (b) I noticed it every day. When I got to the point of blocking every advertiser (confirmed views +1!) but they poppe
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Adobe Is Spying on Users, Collecting Data on Their EBook Libraries(the-digital-reader.com)
16 points by bwooce 12y ago|1 comments
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Dominos Aus: Native app to shimmed website gets thr thumbs down(itunes.apple.com)
2 points by bwooce 12y ago|1 comments
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by bwooce 12y ago
What magic directory names? The special case for "pkg" is the only one I saw. The main proposal is one of scoping by directory hierarchy - /a/b/c can import a/b/d but a/g/x can't.
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by bwooce 12y ago
Can you remove/align the localizations on the phone number in loopd? I'm in Australia and can't put in a phone number. Looks good otherwise, I'll try it around Sydney tomorrow.
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by bwooce 12y ago
It's cute that you're both naming your products after New Zealand's national bird. Both of your products sound like dating sites dedicated to meeting New Zealanders. That's....a niche market. Kiwi != kiwifruit, if you ta
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by bwooce 12y ago
the only bit I'd prefer clarification on is: Timestamp with Timezone There’s seldom a case you shouldn’t be using these. For recording most event times that's true but: Birthdates (which can include times) shouldn't use t
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by bwooce 12y ago
If you want to know if the connection went down in a reasonable timeframe e.g tens of seconds, then you need to implement heartbeating over TCP. This is the first thing any new protocol on TCP usually does.
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by bwooce 13y ago
Go impl: https://github.com/dchest/blake2b
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by bwooce 13y ago
New words for my vocabulary: congaed - past tense&participle of conga scrod - young cod/haddock/white fish split and boned. (also schrod, also available).
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by bwooce 13y ago
"Strip out the baseband" of a dongle and you won't have a device that can connect to the network, authenticate, shift cells or anything else. It's like stripping the firmware off your disk drive. Fully support the initia
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by bwooce 13y ago
Is this not what you want? http://www.leonardodigitale.com/index.php?lang=ENG
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by bwooce 13y ago
Dome houses are initially appealing but ultimately and practically have too many flaws to be useful. Single room houses may be an exception. Read this http://www.shelterpub.com/_shelter/domebuilder's_blues.html an
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by bwooce 13y ago
US Citizens have some (reasonable) expectation they won't be spied on without some cause. They may even get back to that situation eventually through legal challenges against the supra-legal shit going on. The rest of us, well, we were
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by bwooce 13y ago
Agreed. This is why the scientists playing with creating influenza variants freak me out. I suspect they have the 1918 variant on hand, combine that with something a bit slower to present and we'd have a winner.
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by bwooce 13y ago
As David from 27b/6 is wont to say: (In Australia) "... practically every living creature can kill you in under three minutes. Our primary spoken language is screaming".
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by bwooce 13y ago
Not when you could have sold the TV for $10K. This is the shoplifting issue; the shop loses both the product and the potential profit on the product. It gets a bit existential e.g. can you lose what you never really had? But even if you fal
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by bwooce 13y ago
There appear to be some philosophical differences that mean this won't occur. Specifically the "let it fail" aspect of OTP, which begets supervisor hierarchies and the consequent lack of exception handling required. This has been brought up
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Bizarre 'Attribution' Troll Bullies Twitter Users Into Compliance(techdirt.com)
5 points by bwooce 14y ago|0 comments
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by bwooce 14y ago
It appears so, that red stamp appears to be different every time it appears. The clueless idiot that got their stamp pad out that day is probably long retired or dead. That big black stamp on page 2 doesn't look original either though, to b
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by bwooce 14y ago
Ok, it's sensible to make these logs easier to parse. I don't understand why an entirely new Tag-Value scheme was invented though, and this article doesn't attempt to justify it. Maybe it's not new and I just haven't heard of it? Why not us
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by bwooce 14y ago
The irony is that they're excellent for preventing aerosol droplets filled with virus from the wearer. Wearing one when infected is therefore responsible.
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by bwooce 14y ago
Well, no there are several good cases where storing a time in UTC as seconds since an epoch is wrong. It's a common mistake. The first usecase is Birthdays. For most purposes people do not want to store the extract time and date of their bi
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by bwooce 14y ago
Neat. I've often thought about setting up an installation with one pixel per person...in the world. With HDTV's it's not too extravagant either - about 3345 panels. A lot (of drivers too) but doable. Any support for it? I was thinking that
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by bwooce 14y ago
It is positively beautiful for public transport. It shows the next service leaving and how far (time) it is. I'm still looking to see how the option to save Home and Work addresses helps me - it makes home and work function as search terms
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by bwooce 14y ago
I agree, and remove these sorts of games from my son's devices . We try and steer clear of them in the first place, but its not always obvious. Hayday was the last one, and I carefully explained the extortionate business model before doing
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by bwooce 14y ago
I hear its almost twice as fast as Javascript, and runs the Internet.
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by bwooce 14y ago
Rackspace has opened in Australia too though right? They launched it a few months ago. It's s necessary thing since you can't store any customer-identifying data offshore without explicit permission (see National Privacy Principles).
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by bwooce 14y ago
Nice, if you put an IR sensor on both sides then you can easily bias it (and not do anything if both are active - manual unlock is fine in that case) Sunlight will be an issue though...maybe IR and ultrasonic?
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by bwooce 14y ago
I struggle with this. I acknowledge all your points, but it doesn't cover the usecases of: 1. Changing ISP and getting a new email address. This is really common. 2. Having multiple addresses (work/home, etc). Also see #1 This breaks passwo

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