samworm

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by samworm 7y ago
I was an M247 colo customer in Manchester for approx 5 years. I went to their primary DC many times, interacted with their staff. They're a hosting company. The colo racks are full of servers with lots of little labels with different c
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by samworm 12y ago
"NO ONE KNOWS" - Really? No One? In a world of terrible link-bait headlines this one manages to impress with its idiocy.
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by samworm 12y ago
Posting on Craigslist and some random websites is not an adequate defence against Theft By Finding charges. The person that removed this clearly valuable and not marked as abandoned item needs to immediately report it to the local authoriti
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by samworm 13y ago
"breaks into"? Errm, they have the keys to the door. They own the house. No one broke in. Hotmail users give MS permission to look in their email when they agree to the T&Cs. So using an account hosted by them to conspire agai
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by samworm 13y ago
A story about a petition with 2 signatures (2!) created by someone who's main qualification doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Slow news day huh?
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by samworm 13y ago
Most of my friends aren't tech people, and most of them own iPhones because they like the way they look and feel. One of them just swapped to a Nokia because she liked the colour. Phones are jewellery for a lot of people, they're
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by samworm 13y ago
$27778.92 per annum before taxes and expenses. There are an awful lot of people getting paid an awful lot more to paste bad themes into their employer's Drupal config. So it goes.
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by samworm 13y ago
It was sarcasm. The joke was a reference back to Goodman's observartion in the original article: "the punctuation in the proposal is also consistent with how Dorian S. Nakamoto writes, with double spaces after periods and other fo
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by samworm 13y ago
Double spaces in this statement. Double spaces in the original bitcoin announcements. Ipso facto my friend.
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by samworm 13y ago
Since they opened the SDK you've been able to do most (all?) the stuff people were initially excited about. The problem is that all the excitement has long since died away so very few people are developing versatile Chromecast apps...
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by samworm 13y ago
There are very good procedural reasons for not paying out to random people that turn up at your offices. Try going to your bank's office building (not branch) and demanding cash. Proper withdrawal processes should be designed to protec
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by samworm 13y ago
Which is paid by everyone, even people that settle their transaction in case. I use a cash-back credit-card and effectively my fellow shoppers are subsidising my purchases, because we're all collectively paying the card fees which I&#x
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by samworm 13y ago
New in the sense that they're newly available to the public. The agreement is dated Jan 2011.
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by samworm 13y ago
I was responsible for hiring a development team for a company in England some years ago. The boilerplate contract we got from our solicitors[1] had this clause in. I fed back that this would be a barrier to hiring quality staff and was told
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by samworm 13y ago
I personally prefer systemd to upstart. I just hope that distros (in this case Debian) stick to a technical review and don't get drawn into ad hominem arguments. For many people it seems the answer to the question posed in the post tit
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by samworm 13y ago
why don't tesla use charts comparing searches for "internal combustion engine car" vs "electric car". no one searches for the term "desktop ide" because the only people that call them that are people in th
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by samworm 13y ago
It is interesting that YouTube isn't mentioned in this blogpost, despite there being good evidence that ffmpeg has been used there[1]. The fuzz testing they mention is based around constructing malformed (or at least "exotic"
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by samworm 13y ago
Nice project! One tip for keeping the cost down - small LCD screens with composite inputs are available very cheaply on ebay (and elsewhere) if you search for rear view camera screens. I got one for about half the price of similar units on
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by samworm 13y ago
Am I the only one who would happily pay a little more to fly on an airline that didn't allow animals in the cabin? A load of stinking cats an their over-active sebaceous glands? No thanks!
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by samworm 13y ago
Are Google "hijacking DNS to sabotage projects like Namecoin?" - No. I doubt the people working on this give any thought to Namecoin, the user-base overlap is approximately 0%. They're doing this because they think it will im
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by samworm 13y ago
This is a logistical impossibility. Power plants, especially nuclear ones, are a nightmare to get past public consultations. They can eventually be forced through if the location is right and there is government level pressure. That might a
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by samworm 13y ago
Minecraft is FAR bigger and more complicated than people give it credit for. Getting a terrain generation demo running in a browser is not even remotely the same thing.
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by samworm 13y ago
"I have to invest a ton of money" did you miss the bit where this is an optional service? A service which you (and your competitors) should only use if you consider the value offered to outweigh the cost?
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JS-Interpreter - Javascript in Javascript without eval()(neil.fraser.name)
2 points by samworm 13y ago|0 comments
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by samworm 13y ago
This is nowhere close to the PS3's swansong. The PS2 was on sale until Jan of /This Year/! So the PS3 will be around for a long time yet...
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by samworm 13y ago
I agree the "send me differences" model is appealing. A version based off rsync was created back in 1999 but patents killed it. I think the patent in question runs out pretty soon though... The Tragedy of the RProxy: http:/&
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by samworm 13y ago
Because when an area of a business is reported in a positive light the supporters of other business with similar activities all want to shout "me too". Such is life.
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by samworm 13y ago
The "Two Swedish Girls" are two women, who studied Industrial Design at University before moving into product development. If two males in their mid twenties were launching a product no one would refer to them as "boys".
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by samworm 13y ago
The way these things normally work is that you're only allowed to use the name and marks if you're an official licensee. So if you put the USB logo on your marketing and claim to have a "USB Mini" connector in your speci
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by samworm 13y ago
"Now, you can still do some of those tricks, but not as extensively." The language in this blog post make it pretty clear that this isn't a company you want to work for. Stop trying to nickel and dime your employees. Provide

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