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martiuk··on Facebook bans Britain First and its leaders
Ignorance is bliss. Let's sweep them under the rug.
martiuk··on Nuclear fusion on brink of being realised, say MIT scientists
The funny thing is that you're announcing you're part of the tribe that doesn't like tribalism.
martiuk··on Quinn Norton: The New York Times Fired My Doppelgänger
You've proved her point, congrats.
martiuk··on Ask HN: Your favourite outstandingly creative/informative YouTube channels?
Bisqwit - https://www.youtube.com/user/Bisqwit
martiuk··on Join the Battle for Net Neutrality
We don't need to have it enshrined in law as right now little to no ISPs outright prevent access to popular services but as you said zero-rating is slowly creeping in.

Until an ISP starts preventing universal access nothing needs to be done, zero-rating (while bad for competition) does not do that.

A good question would be why aren't the competition petitioning the government to outright ban zero-rating? Current EU law has zero-rating loopholes, it'd be up to a post-brexit government to close them. Perhaps it's not popular with current ISPs and their customers? I don't think a large survey on net neutrality has been done in the UK.

martiuk··on A regression is the kernel not giving the same result with the same user space
Certain parts of the API once able to respond with a value now just spit out '0', it means that whatever application that used it just continue to work even though that part is deprecated.
martiuk··on Ask HN: Why hasn’t Google killed Google Plus?
I think they use it internally.
martiuk··on Ask HN: UK Startups – Are You Thinking of Leaving the UK Because of Brexit?
Nope, actually moving back to the midlands since I'm fed up with London at the moment.
martiuk··on The Queen and I
Ah, yes. The trendy hip pubs with attached microbrewery.
martiuk··on S3 static site with SSL and automatic deploys using Travis
Now just to set up the redirect so your visitors can only view in https.
martiuk··on Science fact: Sci-fi inventions that became reality
Welcome to modern journalism.
martiuk··on Linux Market Share on Desktop
Not if they're air-gapped.
martiuk··on Ask HN: What are some productivity hacks for remote employees?
I've found that a 'fake commute' works well to make me feel like I want to work; travel to your nearest coffee shop and enjoy a morning hot drink and head to work.
martiuk··on Ask HN: What cool development languages/tools changed your career?
It's not exactly a language but learning puppet has opened up a lot more opportunities for me recently and is what pushed me into contracting.
martiuk··on Microsoft to raise some UK prices by up to 22 percent over Brexit
Another cynical cash grab using Brexit/Fallen GBP as an excuse. I didn't see them lower prices when it was at it's highest.
martiuk··on Why a Brit chose to start a business in Berlin
Why didn't you move to Birmingham?
martiuk··on Google Interview University – Plan for studying to become a Google engineer
While joining Google is probably the last thing I want to do, this is a perfect resource for someone who hasn't had a formal education in computer science.
martiuk··on Adblock Plus now sells ads
The other person also begged for donations while contributing nothing.
martiuk··on Kerbal Control Panel
It's listed as a 3-axis translation joystick, so (I assume) it's being used for RCS control in space, of which digital switches would be better, for accurate control.
martiuk··on Ask HN: Any great talks you would like to share?
For pythonistas:

Raymond Hettinger - Beyond PEP 8 -- Best practices for beautiful intelligible code - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wf-BqAjZb8M

martiuk··on Beyond CRISPR: A guide to the many other ways to edit a genome
Let's hope you don't have a matching DNA sequence.
martiuk··on UK surveillance bill includes powers to limit end-to-end encryption
"but paedos and terrorists!!!!"

Welcome to any debate RE: technology and privacy.

martiuk··on Ask HN: What makes a Senior Dev
It's what you see in many photos of men during or after a battle, they have an eerie look in their eyes, that they are looking through you not at you.

"The thousand-yard stare or two-thousand-yard stare is a phrase coined to describe the limp, blank, unfocused gaze of a battle-weary soldier."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand-yard_stare

martiuk··on Thank you for ad blocking
Yeah and DevOps as a job title, I keep getting calls asking for someone who's had 6 years DevOps experience...
martiuk··on Advertising 'accounts for half of data used to read articles'
For US carriers, yes.

Three, the UK Carrier mentioned in the article has unlimited* data plans, every extra bit sent over their network costs them more, that why they're looking into ad blocking.

* Subject to rate limits for "aggressive" use.

martiuk··on ExoMars launch scheduled for 09:31 GMT (10:31 CET)
Roscosmos' video is of a much better quality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2r7qqK5E7fU

martiuk··on The secret life of a games programmer
Yep, even when walking between two places in the office (the toilets) for example, I'll have my headphone in and connected to my phone, just so I can't be distracted by the inevitable drive-by interruptions.
martiuk··on Caterpillar's new smartphone with built-in thermal imaging
The switch covers up ports, microphone(s) and speaker(s) and allows it to be waterproof up to 5 metres compared to 2 metres when the switch is set to 2M.
martiuk··on Jenkins Git Plugin downloads drop by 72% in January
I've been debugging an issue with the artifactory and gradle plugins, and I noticed that they also have a sharp decline in January.

Edit:

https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/INFRA-558

https://ci.jenkins-ci.org/job/infra_statistics/249/console

martiuk··on Uninstalling Facebook app saves up to 15% of iPhone battery life
For the millions of classes it needs due to the developers adding classes for every feature rather than adding it to pre-existing classes: http://quellish.tumblr.com/post/126712999812/how-on-earth-th...
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