civild

7 ms·

1.
by civild 11y ago
It's not surprising that banks are interested in blockchain technology, if not necessarily Bitcoin itself. Patenting technology is very common by these companies and it is almost always a protection measure against them being sued for
2.
by civild 11y ago
Someone living near my parents looks to have uploaded a hundred or so "chemtrail attack" videos. I honestly had no idea that people in the UK were into that sort of thing, but that's the internet I guess.
3.
by civild 13y ago
Having just gone through all of the tutorials and documentation, I can see this type of thing shaking up configuration management in enterprise environments quite significantly. The amount of headaches I have keeping several environments (D
4.
by civild 13y ago
Hmm. I must say I'm amazed you could generalise in that fashion - I can't speak for your personal experience, but we certainly don't treat English people as 'the enemy', and to claim that that is a consideration for
5.
by civild 13y ago
If someone guessed incorrectly, they still didn't know the answer.
6.
by civild 13y ago
Definitely a pun, the "Night's Watch" is from Game of Thrones.
7.
by civild 13y ago
Reminds me of the Tay House on Charing Cross Podium, a building straddling the M8 motorway in Glasgow, Scotland, near my office: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M8_Bridge_to_Nowhere and http://upload.wikimedia.
8.
by civild 13y ago
I have endless TextEdit files strewn around my hard disk with very similar contents, I need to hoover them up every now and again. It's really useful to type something out like this, even just to map the problem out in your mind.
9.
by civild 13y ago
I quite liked the look of EBean, though I haven't really used it much. Even so, it's fairly easy to plug in a JPA manager (in my case, Hibernate) and use the helper classes provided for DB management. Edit: should add that I'
10.
by civild 13y ago
I noticed YouTube had started using this (or at least the same idea), very subtle and sleek.
11.
by civild 13y ago
Relating a specific thread to a "subreddit" and not mentioning that _all_ of the discussion was driven by users is a bit disingenuous of the BBC. From an outsider's perspective it makes Reddit sound like a gossip blog or a news/opinion site
12.
by civild 14y ago
I've worked next to someone that was extremely harsh on their keyboard - full blown hammering the keys, with the whole desk shaking - and even in a medium-noise office it was infuriating to work next to. After a few light-hearted suggestion
13.
by civild 14y ago
Exploring this took me back to the days of playing the Dizzy series of games, wondering what was beyond the next screen.
14.
by civild 14y ago
Oops, quite right!
15.
by civild 14y ago
You gave it away with a slight error - the sequence is 0, 1, 2, 720... For the curious, the sequence follows factorial (!) applied twice, i.e. (0!)!, (1!)! etc. (3!)! is 720, and (4!)! is 6.20448402 × 10^23.
16.
by civild 15y ago
It allows you to copy pretty much anything, including "Apps" of which Games are a subtype. PSP hacker websites like Wololo are already poring over encrypted .psvimg files. I know this because I own one, and I ran out of space on my 4GB Vita
17.
by civild 15y ago
Your second (third?) point is moot, since Sony's own Content Manager Assistant[1] can copy anything from your Vita memory card onto a Mac or PC. The piracy chat from Sony's spokespersons is pure marketing dross. As for their right to earn m
18.
by civild 15y ago
This, exactly. Most of the TV shows I do watch are American and are shown on TV the next day at best, and never at worst. I don't feel bad downloading and viewing something that I'm already paying for to get it in advance, and I'm certain m
19.
by civild 15y ago
I just had a look at Freelancify and registered, and I'm amazed that you did it all in 12 weeks learning Ruby from scratch. Kudos! Based on your experience, how do you think learning materials/tutorials could be improved for people learning
20.
by civild 15y ago
It's quite straightforward to dump the entire header in a web log or database, and I'm sure some sites do. They might have put the envelope in the recycling, but they never have it emptied and someone just told them it contains a £20 note.
21.
by civild 15y ago
The term "ETL" itself is often used in place of "Data Integration" which is much larger, particularly when it comes to data warehouse design. The wiki article is a good drop off point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_integration It may
22.
by civild 15y ago
Both, really. I work as a consultant for a company that provides consultancy for clients that use ETL products (software/'appliances' etc). Your second comment is true, however the DW industry has in the last year figured this out and start
23.
by civild 15y ago
It would be interesting to know the identity of the vendor for "DBMS-X". I work in the "enterprise" data warehouse space and I'm trying to advocate moving away from "database appliances" towards distributed computing, and having a quotable
24.
by civild 15y ago
That's all well and good, but removing their Clients page and the Google cache of it is pretty damning. Why cover your tracks if it was all above board? I don't think it really matters in this case whether it was sincere or not, but I guess
25.
by civild 15y ago
Has it been deleted? Just get a page not found error, can't see it on the homepage either.
26.
by civild 15y ago
It won't be long until the tabloids pick this up and run with it, applying their own sensationalist inaccuracies. I think Airbnb have to act quickly to fix this before it turns into a Fox affiliate human interest story and damages their rep
27.
by civild 15y ago
This article looks incredibly old. The dates in it, 1992 and 1997, along with the webpage itself, makes it seem ancient. Why was this posted? Also, there's not much point in sending anything to James R. Cantalupo, since he died 7 years ago:
28.
by civild 15y ago
I played this to death as a young lad. It was called Unirally in the UK, and the split screen mode rivalled Mario Kart in competitive excitement (and rage). My cousin and I used to have grudge matches every time we fired up the SNES. Didn't
29.
by civild 15y ago
Why would you not just remote desktop to your development machine where you have your entire working environment available anyway?
30.
by civild 16y ago
Facebook has an English (Pirate) setting too, if you click your current language setting at the bottom of the page.

More ›