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by hywel 6y ago
Right now, this site is suffering a hug of death. This looks like the same article: https://dev.to/martinheinz/ultimate-guide-to-python-debuggin...
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by hywel 7y ago
It can't! But after the first time it's been contacted, when you contact it again HSTS will enforce HTTPS (from the client itself - much stronger than a redirect).
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by hywel 7y ago
This will leave your users vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks. If I control the router between their computer and the Internet, I can serve back a HTTP page which doesn't redirect, and trick them to enter their password (for examp
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by hywel 8y ago
It doesn't have to be expensive, either in financial terms, opportunity cost or other people's time. That's exactly the problem we've solved with Skiller Whale - we make good training easy. <plug> http:/&#x2F
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by hywel 8y ago
Form a limited company and run the site from that. If you're prepared to shut the site down anyway, then that remains the worst thing that can happen for non-compliance. There's no need to shut the thing down just in case someone
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by hywel 8y ago
The ICO has a tiny staff and is already underfunded. The grace period is a pragmatic one not one enshrined in law!
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by hywel 8y ago
It seems like more research into GDPR could have prevented this. Firstly, there's nothing this site does that is so unusual. If the user gives explicit and informed consent for their data to be used in this way, then you are likely to
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by hywel 8y ago
Some questions I'd ask, off the top of my head: Have you ever tried a touchscreen computer? Was it better than when you use a mouse? Why? Which interface do you prefer - your computer or your phone? Why? Show me how you would go to www
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by hywel 8y ago
"I’ve rarely encountered discussions of contagion." This surprised me: contagion is a good metaphor because it is a compounding measure of the growth of the problem. Just like an interest rate (a compounding measure of the growth
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UK Home Office unveils AI program to tackle Isis online propaganda(theguardian.com)
2 points by hywel 9y ago|0 comments
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by hywel 9y ago
I'm working on a product like this at the moment to solve exactly those problems. On Twitter @h_carver if you want to chat more! Or if you want to wait 6 months and find out why I shouldn't have been pursuing it ;)
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by hywel 10y ago
Yeah, the UK National Curriculum says children need to learn a visual language (like Scratch) and then a text based one (like Python). Your kids should be doing visual coding in school from Key Stage 2.
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by hywel 10y ago
Depends whether you want to teach code or computer science (and code). I wrote a book to teach 7-11 year olds to code in Python and Scratch and teach them some computer science along the way - I read a few other books out there first, and t
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by hywel 10y ago
Hey, you should try this book which Scholastic published www.goodreads.com/book/show/28232614-coding-unlocked#other_reviews It's available as an ebook as well as in paper. Short pitch: don't just learn to code by ty
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Why doesn't Amazon deliver to this one street in Northern Ireland?(quora.com)
2 points by hywel 10y ago|0 comments
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Why doesn't Amazon deliver to this one street in Northern Ireland?(quora.com)
1 points by hywel 10y ago|1 comments
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What's Something You're Confident Has Happened to Only You(reddit.com)
1 points by hywel 10y ago|0 comments
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by hywel 10y ago
"Most startup failures were caused by building the wrong product, or lacking strong sales skills, or not having a viable business model" <- the first one of these is the biggest cause of startup failure, and is technical. Start
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by hywel 10y ago
This is my favourite kind of post to read: a tool I don't know well, and someone using it enthusiastically to solve a real-world problem.
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The Head of Product at GoCardless Is Leaving(uk.businessinsider.com)
1 points by hywel 10y ago|0 comments
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by hywel 10y ago
BridgeU | London, UK | Onsite What: bringing intelligence and analytics to the process of applying to universities around the world. We're a scalable EdTech company, already sold to secondary schools in 25 countries, raised large seed
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by hywel 11y ago
This article is totally on-point. MVPs are the minimal viable test for confirming your hypotheses. While running a startup consultancy, the idea that MVP is a thing you make once before going on to make the 'real' product, was one
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by hywel 11y ago
Error page from the UK
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by hywel 11y ago
Google cache of this page: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:LQ2p32k... (the actual site is currently down)
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by hywel 11y ago
Although obviously there's still a preprocessing step to make that possible.
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by hywel 11y ago
It doesn't actually use bitfields, it describes an alternative to them that was a better choice in this specific instance. Huffman would have been much slower to access, which would have been unacceptable for the use case (iterating 10
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by hywel 11y ago
The actual rating is a tiny part of the data per movie, so there's not much saving there. And clustering would have to be done instead of indexing by movie / user, so it would probably make performance worse overall. Indexing by m
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by hywel 11y ago
Kind of. The Chinese Remainder Theorem tells that you that there exists a number that satisfies, and that the number is unique, but it doesn't tell you how to calculate it. The standard way is to do it recursively - you can see my impl
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by hywel 11y ago
That'd be hard for a compiler to suggest for this case - it requires knowing the range of each value that you're storing in the struct (and not just the number of bits). But if you're happy to do that, there's no reason
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by hywel 11y ago
Yeah, definitely aware that it's slower - I was severely bounded my memory when I came up with this, as I was trying to get my training data and all the variables in my model into 8GB of RAM for a machine learning project. Without the

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