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roryhughes

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roryhughes··on Uncontrollability of a bricycle (2014) [video]
https://hooktube.com/watch?v=rNQdSfgJDNM (youtube mirror site)
roryhughes··on Russia’s move to block Telegram another attack on online freedom of expression
> Russia’s media watchdog to block the messaging app Telegram for its refusal to share users’ information with the government

Wondering if whatsapp is unblocked because it already is sharing users' information?

roryhughes··on Tail recursion in Python
JS fully disabled in this day and age?
roryhughes··on Belgium Arrests Two in Probe Over Returning Syria Fighter
Yeah but OP is trying to point out a specific piece of information that's relevant for hacker news users. It wouldn't have been read through otherwise.
roryhughes··on RegExr: A website for interactive regex prototyping with syntax highlighting
Out of all the links posted in this thread, https://www.debuggex.com/ is by far the best especially because of it's visualisation.
roryhughes··on Ubuntu Mate
Ubuntu != Linux Mint
roryhughes··on Poll: What database does your company/you use?
I'm really happy to see PostgreSQL doing so well. They've been up against MySQL and Oracle for so long and really deserve it due to all the hard work the team have put into the amazing OSS project.
roryhughes··on Poll: What database does your company/you use?
Fixed :)
roryhughes··on Poll: What database does your company/you use?
Sorry. There are hundreds of Database projects and I can see where you're coming from. I added the most popular and had a search around for some smaller ones that seem to be gaining traction. The comments should suffice otherwise.
roryhughes··on Poll: What database does your company/you use?
I think the only easy way to find that sort of stuff out is through the comments as HN doesn't allow for much customisation. It has its upsides though.
roryhughes··on Poll: What database does your company/you use?
The reason I thought of adding ElasticSearch in the end was because some projects have started to use it as a DB on its own.
roryhughes··on Poll: What database does your company/you use?
CouchBase (Couch, Membase included)
roryhughes··on Poll: What database does your company/you use?
I have it in as 'Microsoft'.
roryhughes··on Poll: What database does your company/you use?
Good idea, added.
roryhughes··on Poll: What database does your company/you use?
Fixed, Thanks.
roryhughes··on Bob – A Tarsnap GUI client for OS X
For those wondering, here is a popular post on tarsnap from a year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5767116
roryhughes··on Google Maps Has Forsaken Us
They could just put it in settings too and when you shake to show it there would be a button saying 'Don't show again on shake'.
roryhughes··on Amazon's UI/UX
It definitely looks and feels quite a bit different now.
roryhughes··on Show HN: Turn an email to a web page
It would be handy if you could attach a js or css file to the email which would be used in the published page.
roryhughes··on 2048, success and me
Regarding #3: I'm actually annoyed seeing my friends who all play 2048 on their phones. Not even the one Gabriele made, some clone by 'Ketchapp'. I often tell people about Threes but they've never heard of it. I show them Threes and then say that "it only costs $1.99" and straight away they basically tell me to get lost because it costs money.
roryhughes··on SCiO: A Pocket Molecular Sensor For All
Upvote if this reminds you of "The SmellMaster 9000" from Richie Rich.
roryhughes··on Look Up
Very true. Something I found quite interesting though is that this study says that: "Online Dating Leads To Higher Marriage Satisfaction, Lower Divorce Rates" Being online all the time is obviously not a great thing but just as he missed the woman looking at his phone, you also will definitely miss things by not looking at it. :)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/04/online-dating-leads...

roryhughes··on “Mostly functional” programming does not work
The site seems to be down now probably because of the load. Anyone have a version they could put somewhere?
roryhughes··on A simple way Google could have avoided fucking up Google+
YouTubers got really pissed off with Google+ comments, but that has calmed down now because really it's still just comments below a video. What that did though was it made people (who may never have even tried +) really annoyed with it. But for RSS, imagine if they forced people to read it on +, there would be uproar.
roryhughes··on 4chan source code leaked (2010)
Sorry to anyone who down voted me. I didn't mean PHP is a bad language. It has done amazing things for the web. I just didn't like the look of the many snippets of HTML in the code which is more common in PHP than in other languages in web development.
roryhughes··on 4chan source code leaked (2010)
Oh, i'm completely aware of that. I was just really talking about this document, didn't mean to spark the debate.
roryhughes··on 4chan source code leaked (2010)
I doubt it. At their scale (a million uploads daily, three billion monthly pageviews), crappy code is unlikely.
roryhughes··on 4chan source code leaked (2010)
Crazy. I knew PHP was bad, but this is just terrible.
roryhughes··on Flappy 2048
I literally though I was going dizzy when the columns started moving.
roryhughes··on Flappy 2048
It's also HTML5 instead of Unity which is great.
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