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ukandy··on Things We Believe After Building Maptia
You're as mad as a sack of ferrets. Can't knock your enthusiasm.
ukandy··on Things We Believe After Building Maptia
"And secondly, that we weren’t motivated by making a lot of money "

You've learnt a lot, that's worth fair bit. Going forward, you will need to make money. How are you making any money from this?

ukandy··on XSA-108 Advisory
Pre-disclosure list is at the bottom of this page.. http://www.xenproject.org/security-policy.html
ukandy··on Show HN: A free invoice generator
They want you to upgrade to the full invoiced.com service.

I've used this free site once in a while. It generates good looking invoices.

ukandy··on Workers bought sugar from supermarket to slow cement flood on Victoria Line
Luckily it wasn't racks of digital gear with fans.

I can imagine someone thinking they had underestimated the quantity of cement needed as it drained into this room.

ukandy··on Making PHP Safer
Yes I dislike the use of 'annotations'.

Would it not be better to catch the recoverable error that "function foo (integer $a)" gives, then use your error handler to check that $a is an integer?

ukandy··on One Man Has Written Virtually Every Major Pop Song Of The Last 20 Years.
A few people here need a humour transplant it seems.
ukandy··on One Man Has Written Virtually Every Major Pop Song Of The Last 20 Years.
Nothing to be proud of.
ukandy··on 'Fastest ever' broadband passes speed test
I'm ten miles from Adastral Park (one of the end points), and receive a 1.5Mb service. Whilst this is a nice achievement, the country as whole needs a consistent service.
ukandy··on Pux – High Performance Router for PHP
Too many people are losing sight of the power of 'pure' PHP and jumping on the framework wagon unnecessarily. That doesn't surprise me, as frameworks provide structure and rules to a language that is very messy.
ukandy··on FLIR – Thermal Imaging Device for iPhone 5
"Play Hide and Seek like never before."

I think the use cases outlined on the site are pretty stupid.

Neat implementation, but is there a market?

ukandy··on New Top-Level Domains
".WINE is perfect for a winery!"

What are these guys drinking? I'll give it a miss.

ukandy··on Page not found
If you don't know Branson check out his autobiography 'Losing My Virginity'. Worth a read.
ukandy··on Don't found a company unless you love Excel
It's doomed to fail in that case.
ukandy··on [dead]
It's been down in the UK too.
ukandy··on I rewrote my blog in Go
Heroku, MongoDB, Go, Revel, Bootstrap, with a sprinkling of overkill..
ukandy··on Lavabit's founder: 'If You Knew What I Know About Email, You Might Not Use It'
I guessing he doesn't really want the hassle that would involve. Fair play to the guy.
ukandy··on OVH launches 2.99€/mo dedicated servers (2G RAM, 500G disk)
DC photos can be found at https://lafibre.info/datacenter/data-center-ovh-roubaix-1/. It doesn't get any cheaper than that.

I'm guessing they buy mini-itx boards from China by the container load.

ukandy··on Technologically illiterate UK porn filter MP gets hacked and threatens reporter
Despite the inevitable issues, I would still like to see people with relevant experience running these departments.
ukandy··on Technologically illiterate UK porn filter MP gets hacked and threatens reporter
Clueless. If the government want to deal with this sticky issue they need technically competent MPs at the helm.
ukandy··on The new php.net
It's a bit wide for my taste. I think that fixed width (max width at least) would have have been appropriate here.
ukandy··on My customer wants me to record a video of how I develop his software product
You've got to know when to hold 'em. Know when to fold 'em. Know when to walk away. Know when to run.

This clients sounds like they would be a world of pain.

ukandy··on Show HN: Global HTTP Latency Test
The map is an SVG document. clipPaths (basically masks) have been created for each landmass. The pings being displayed are just circles with gradients, but you only see them through the 'pixelated' landmass mask.

The map starts a static SVG file and the pings are added to the DOM with JS. The animation is a mix of JS and SMIL.

ukandy··on Show HN: Global HTTP Latency Test
Thanks for pointing that out. It's been resolved.
ukandy··on Show HN: Global HTTP Latency Test
Thanks Paul. You're legend for resolving that so quickly.
ukandy··on Show HN: Global HTTP Latency Test
Apologies, a few teething troubles with the load. Working to resolve it.
ukandy··on Poll: Do you use a gmail.com address for your primary personal email?
It would be interesting to have seen how many people used their own personal domain with Google Apps. It's the best of both worlds.
ukandy··on Google Street View Hyperlapses [video]
Panning following the contrails is beautiful. Very creative.
ukandy··on Dissecting PostgreSQL CVE-2013-1899
Yes, it's not unlikely at all. It's a timebomb just waiting to explode.
ukandy··on AT&T Pretends It, Too, Will Build A 1 Gigabit Network
In the UK it's normally a few local individuals bonding ADSL lines together at point x where the service is an acceptable speed. A few microwave links later and it's ready to be consumed by 10-100 people. It's not real competition, it's not cheap, and it's not well support.

It's a poor replacement for fibre to the cabinet.

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