callum85

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by callum85 11y ago
That article is bullshit. You can't judge gov.uk by its homepage, because that's almost never where you land. Now that we have gov.uk, whenever I google something about doing my tax, or registering to vote at a new address, or any
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How to stop your Apple Music automatic subscription(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by callum85 11y ago|0 comments
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Beautiful Docs: useful, well-written, and otherwise beautiful documentation(github.com)
1 points by callum85 11y ago|0 comments
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Why Can't Startups Get US Government Contracts?(news.vice.com)
77 points by callum85 11y ago|69 comments
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iOS 9 security flaw allows seeing photos and contacts without password(bgr.com)
5 points by callum85 11y ago|0 comments
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by callum85 11y ago
"I guess I need to apologize to my parents, friends, and the staff at Chuck E. Cheese's for all the times I called the cops on them." — title text from today's XCKD http://xkcd.com/1581/
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by callum85 11y ago
Not a lawyer, but here's how I see it: Lawsuit: "You approached me and gave me false information that has cost me money. Pay me to cover all my losses resulting from this false information." How (or even whether) the defenden
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Nymi’s wristband aims to end the need for passwords(ft.com)
1 points by callum85 11y ago|0 comments
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by callum85 11y ago
It's a bit self conscious, but it's good natured and sincere, certainly not pretentious.
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Big banks consider using Bitcoin blockchain technology(bbc.co.uk)
4 points by callum85 11y ago|0 comments
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by callum85 11y ago
Getting slightly off topic, but I'm confused about an aspect of server push (maybe you can help). Even on HTTP/1, the client typically only downloads assets on the first page load for a given website, then it caches them. Subseque
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by callum85 11y ago
I thought the above comment was funny and harmless. Why so harsh?
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Realtime video of Philae landing constructed from seven photographs(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by callum85 11y ago|0 comments
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3D barcodes target counterfeit drugs and devices(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by callum85 11y ago|0 comments
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Intent to Implement: CSS font-display(groups.google.com)
1 points by callum85 11y ago|0 comments
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IETF and IANA Officially Designate .onion as a “Special Use Domain”
13 points by callum85 11y ago|2 comments
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ESLint introduces automatic fixing for some errors(eslint.org)
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‘Leadership BS’ and the reality of unpleasant bosses(ft.com)
2 points by callum85 11y ago|0 comments
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by callum85 11y ago
Those are metaphors and metonyms. MS Word is not a word. MS Office is not an office. Facebook Messenger is literally a thing that carries messages. Apple Watch is literally a watch.
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Profile of Lars Bak (2009)(ft.com)
52 points by callum85 11y ago|9 comments
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Microsoft battles US over warrant for drugs case emails(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by callum85 11y ago|0 comments
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by callum85 11y ago
But the £28 one comes with RAM, CPU, wifi sensor, camera, and it's two thirds of the price. Even if the other screen specs (brightness, viewing angle etc) are really terrible on the £28-tablet and incredible on the raspberry pi display
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by callum85 11y ago
Here's a good comment from a reader, which I think addresses a misunderstanding behind this article about what programming actually is: > The thing that takes time is humans understanding what they want. Programmers are like therapi
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by callum85 11y ago
This is disappointing. This screen is 7" at 800x480, so its sharpness is about 133 PPI (pixels per inch). For comparison, my original Android G1 (several years ago) was 180 PPI, and it looked shit. This is $60 plus taxes and shipping.
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by callum85 11y ago
There's no way to take the surface of a sphere and flatten it out into a rectangle without distorting it in some way. It's called 'projecting' from 3D to 2D. The projection used for the underlying map here is the Mercato
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by callum85 11y ago
I agree. But startups shouldn't be expected to do this. Startups are experiments; you want to quickly determine if there's a market for the product (and fail fast if not, so you can alter the product or move onto something new). B
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The true size of a country or state(thetruesize.com)
105 points by callum85 11y ago|36 comments
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by callum85 11y ago
All startup websites look the same. They all use this template because it perfectly addresses their goals (grab your attention, explain a new kind of product, convince you to sign up) while also being familiar and repeatable. That doesn&#
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Tridiv: a web-based editor for creating 3D shapes in CSS(tridiv.com)
1 points by callum85 11y ago|0 comments
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by callum85 11y ago
There was this explanation from an HN user: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8901357 But Facebook made changes since then: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2908879/open-source-softwar... I don

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