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by rickboyce 3y ago
I agree that does seem to be something of a smoking gun. And it’s not without precedent to secure an injunction against as US tech company launching a new service - gmail was known as googlemail in the UK and some European countries for sev
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by rickboyce 3y ago
(Not a lawyer, but have gained some working knowledge of UK trademarks.) I don’t think this is totally clean cut. UK trademarks are registered against specific classes and those classes are categorised in families of goods and services. A q
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by rickboyce 3y ago
Us Brits are very passionate about lovely trees! I’ve walked along that part of Hadrian’s Wall and stopped at that tree a number of times and it truly was a beautiful spot with real impact. I don’t think there is any rational significance t
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by rickboyce 3y ago
It’s the sensors themselves that have a limited life - the units that have a fixed battery have a battery life that exceeds the sensors useful life. The common / low cost carbon monoxide detectors use a chemical reaction (either a fuel
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by rickboyce 3y ago
Quote from the UK’s air traffic controller’s CEO particularly caught me eye - this apparently isn’t some ancient component: “Rolfe has been asked about delays to investments in new systems. He said Nats invests £100m a year, and the piece o
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Single rogue flight plan caused air traffic control meltdown(telegraph.co.uk)
6 points by rickboyce 3y ago|2 comments
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by rickboyce 3y ago
If you want a deep dive this video made by a British electrician is worth a watch https://youtu.be/hZN6hiGLtrE In a perfect world a ring circuit is a clever invention - it offers a circuit that can safely deliver about 7.3k
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by rickboyce 3y ago
I think the analysis is really interesting, but I suspect it’s quite possible that this behaviour is just a result of optimising the implementation than GVR taking sides in a 2,500 year old philosophical debate. Both implementations of all(
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by rickboyce 3y ago
I think this is sound advice. What I’d add builds on this point: > he does not see the situation as you do At the moment you may be lacking the perspective of the founder, perhaps the coaching and input they’ve had from investors and oth
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by rickboyce 3y ago
In legal systems with some basis in English Common Law the idea of an implied contract is fairly common. Lets I buy some service from you and we sign some one-off contract. The next year I text you ‘same again please’ - you provide the same
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by rickboyce 3y ago
I think if anything it demonstrates that Disney are playing with a relatively weak hand here. Disney have a broader problem - they are not the only player in central Florida. Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World is the most attended theme par
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by rickboyce 3y ago
The description of this interaction in the article makes me sad for the author - they criticise and belittle another. Imagine instead what they could have learnt if they opened themselves up to another persons perspective. It’s notable how
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by rickboyce 3y ago
For analytics work tools like dbt are really gaining traction for this reason. Most of the OLAP / warehousing stuff I used to lean on dynamic sql for can be done more cleanly, with the benefit of easy source control. https:/&#x2F
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by rickboyce 3y ago
The parent article touches on this point too - both Oracle and SQL Server (and any other major db) supports parameterising values in dynamic sql. some_user would become @some_user (SQL Server) or :some_user (Oracle). (The characters never a
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by rickboyce 4y ago
I agree it’s hard to find reliable information in this - ASHPs and GSHPs are very hyped right now so a lot of the information that comes up in searches is quite low level or low quality. For example I’ve been told that a heat pump is at pea
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by rickboyce 5y ago
I’m in the process of moving (back) to a countryside location. I lived there a number of years ago and split my time in a tech job 2 to 3 days a week in the office and the remainder back home working remotely. It was a struggle - Slack etc
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by rickboyce 5y ago
>As a good faith question - if you were an American, how would you create a site or service for a domestic audience without insulting the rest of the world? First I would say that I don't think I've been, or particularly seen o
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by rickboyce 5y ago
For me this effect is significantly compounded by not being from the US / North America. This has come up on HN before (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25226805 ) but it still strikes me as so odd that you ne
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by rickboyce 8y ago
I guess it’s referring to this post: https://www.pentestpartners.com/security-blog/steal-your-wi-...
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by rickboyce 9y ago
LastPass recommending https://blog.lastpass.com/2017/03/security-update-for-the-la... Use the LastPass Vault as a launch pad – Launch sites directly from the LastPass vault. This is the safest way to access your c
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LastPass warns users to exercise caution while it fixes 'major' vulnerability(theguardian.com)
5 points by rickboyce 9y ago|1 comments
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by rickboyce 10y ago
In parts of the world and acre certainly could be a very productive farm. An example in North America - "With only 1½ acres cultivated in permanent beds, the farm grosses more than 100 000$ per acre with operating margins of about 60 p
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by rickboyce 11y ago
I think there are circumstances where it is very valuable - it depends on your target audience. For example on mobile, connection speeds in major cities in developed countries maybe rocketing, but substantial areas still need to make a lot
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by rickboyce 12y ago
OWASP do a decent job of aggregating currently accepted practice: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Password_Storage_Cheat_Sheet
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by rickboyce 13y ago
The 7 minute thing wasn't so much about time (I think that was just the sales pitch) - it was promoting the HIT (High intensity training) school of thought. Some research is pointing that, for some proportion of the population, short b
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by rickboyce 13y ago
I started with PHP as a teenager, and ended up coding PHP professionally for about 6 years. I'm certainly not sorry for it (: I haven't touched PHP in a few years (C# and Python for work now) and since really groking a other few l
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by rickboyce 14y ago
We have an in-house XML driven formatting engine to generate PDF reports at the company I work for (we're in England). The style attribute names have been written in British English - e.g. the colour attribute is colour and not color as it
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Back to the future as DeLorean goes electric(bbc.co.uk)
5 points by rickboyce 14y ago|0 comments