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by javindo 5y ago
Feels incredibly strange that anyone can publicly view all these office layouts, down to very specific room/corridor/stair layouts, occupancy status, of random private office and university buildings...
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by javindo 6y ago
The fact it seems to be related to login reminds me of the Tom Scott doomsday fictional lecture which I would link to but you know...
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by javindo 6y ago
Why is it any more of an issue in software engineering than, say, a singer or actor publicly supporting a cause?
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by javindo 8y ago
GDS hosts a CF instance called PaaS (Platform as a Service) which hosts web applications on *.cloudapps.digital but the majority of the actual GOV.UK estate is hosted in AWS, as is GOV.UK Verify. I believe GOV.UK Pay might be on PaaS and a
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by javindo 8y ago
Under fairly draconian UK law where this is based, probably not: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1990/18/contents
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by javindo 9y ago
Since surprisingly nobody has mentioned it in the comments here yet, we have a similar scheme in place in London, and have done for quite some time. It's only for the most central/congested zone and has had a hugely beneficial imp
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by javindo 9y ago
Not sure if it's the same client, but the Skye for Business client is also just as bad. I used to work on a virtualised Windows machine (work mandated) and the only usable accessibility option was a high DPI setting. The old Lync clien
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by javindo 9y ago
Is there a clear definition between airfield and airport? Or rather, is there a distinction between places you can land a plane vs places an individual can buy a ticket to fly with an airline? I imagine this line gets blurred in certain cou
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by javindo 9y ago
With the ever increasing price of BTC you could even end up inadvertently making a small profit on the transaction. That being said, with the volatility of it you could also lose all of your money in an instant.
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by javindo 9y ago
As with any automated transport discussion, there's the question of liability. If a pilot is at fault, there's an obvious liability on them. People have an intrinsic trust of a human pilot to sort out an issue if it arises, versus
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by javindo 9y ago
I really wish Google AMP didn't overrule the Chrome android "force enable pinch to zoom" from an accessibility standpoint.
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by javindo 9y ago
> Should a user be able to purposefully block parts of a page? I have yet to see a compelling/coherent argument for why they shouldn't. As a partially sighted user myself, I find it infuriating when web developers try to overri
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by javindo 9y ago
I have a visual impairment and one of the things I love about Chrome on Android is the ability to override sites blocking pinch to zoom (i.e. "force enable pinch to zoom"). AMP, also made by Google, seems to somehow get around thi
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by javindo 9y ago
Does anyone else get the impression that this might have just been an intern project* or similar? Seems very odd for a seemingly minor iterative update to pop up out of nowhere after such a long time otherwise. * The update, not Google Glas
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by javindo 11y ago
I had a very similar experience - I'm also quite fair due to Albinism which I think raised far more attention than the average white person over there! I had many people wanting to take their photograph with me, constant staring and qu
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by javindo 11y ago
The recent press about this is incredulous. Research and development aren't free. It costs $0 to acquire a software executable - so it should be free by this logic!
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by javindo 11y ago
Always looking for a tool to do this, your solution looks really elegant and handy - love the report page. What do you plan to do with the "recommendations" feature?
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by javindo 11y ago
Whilst I am a huge advocate of advancing research in AI, I think we are a very long way off it being safely feasible in flight. Flight is a process so insanely complex and susceptible to random change and failure that we simply don't h
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by javindo 11y ago
This raises an interesting question - did Google intend to trick not only consumers, but also shareholders? As the article indicates, announcing a product triggers a kneejerk reaction in the market, which might be something Google would wan
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by javindo 11y ago
Somewhat off-topic anecdote on this: my father in law designed a very rough draft of "blueprints" for his parents new house in rural China (Xinjiang) using MS Paint, local labourers built it in a few months and it's still sta
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by javindo 12y ago
Whilst this is a great idea which I look forward to watching progress, Sirius doesn't seem like the best name for this. It's very close to an existing industry product in the same category and Apple certainly don't hold back
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by javindo 12y ago
This is a tremendously reassuring article for someone still in University wanting to build a company. There's always the question in the back of my mind "should I start now or get a few years experience?" and articles like th
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by javindo 12y ago
Do you ever get airlock issues where the glass slides around too much? Have been considering a glass layer on a desk project for a while but I'm concerned one wrong move and it could end up on the floor!
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by javindo 12y ago
This is really good fun except it's incredibly difficult to read the navigation beacon names, even with zoom it is just very pixilated.
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by javindo 12y ago
There's no honour among thieves.
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by javindo 12y ago
That's a very interesting hypothesis, but once you step outside into the real world I wouldn't imagine it being too difficult to spot the androids from the mortals!
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by javindo 12y ago
I don't really want to come across as hostile to the views of such a well respect physicist, but this article represents the view which is often held by those who are very intelligent yet lack the actual study of AI. Anybody who has ac
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by javindo 12y ago
This opinion might be unpopular, but I've found over the past decade or so that any reasonably sized tech community seems to have a huge hard-on for Apple. I saw it on Engadget in the early days, reddit as it grew, now HN and so on. Th
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by javindo 12y ago
It's a shame to see such a thing happening to a YC project, but I suppose they're all grown up now and responsible for their own decisions.
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by javindo 12y ago
This feels like HN satire but someone has actually gone and written the code so it's fairly elaborate...

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