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tgandrews | 15 years ago | on: Linux restart after update... LOL

For a predominantly desktop oriented distro like Ubuntu 100% uptime is an unnecessary complexity. Switching kernels without taking the machine down isn't straight forward. A kernel update is the only reason the updater will advise a restart.

tgandrews | 15 years ago | on: Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code

Why do they need a non random code to generate these? If they want to guarantee the number of winners, they can just ensure that they only release so many winners. This would require them "solving" all the tickets they were to release and holding/deleting/regenerating the ticket if they have enough winners already.

This may not be the most efficient system but it guarantees it isn't crackable with a couple of caveats:

1. They weren't always releasing a winner at a fixed time - i.e. they had to have x win per week, and they released a winner at regular intervals to guarantee separation. You don't want all the winners for a month produced in the first hour. Although this would be random and should be a possibility.

2. The random number generator was actually random.

tgandrews | 15 years ago | on: Interesti.ng. The first .ng domain name has been registered.

I didn't see a date when this would become available for everyone.

I tried registering an Estonian domain once (.ee TLD), but require the business to be registered there. Don't countries realises domain names are just that, names. The ending really means very little to people. Who thinks all .tv domains are companies from Tuvalu?

tgandrews | 15 years ago | on: Remote Webkit-based debugger for webapps running on a mobile browser

I haven't had a look through the code yet, but I presume this using some sort of web/flashsockets based changing of the DOM depending on what is done on the server so you can change and see what is going on with the client?

Edit: Having had a look it doesn't seem be doing that. Using some sort of series of ".scoop" files. What are these?

tgandrews | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to develop logical skills?

Project Euler is great as a programming problem when trying to improve your solutions for speed.

Also, as someone who has not touched fundamental maths in 5 years it was also a good refresher; having to think about prime numbers etc again.

A good tip I have found is to use a language that can nicely manipulate longs saving you much overhead, I chose Python because it also has some nice maths libraries.

tgandrews | 15 years ago | on: Hotkeys for Hacker News

Great extension.

I really agree jumping between top level comments. Having to go through a whole branch of replies is a little frustrating.

tgandrews | 16 years ago | on: The Future of UI

The moving physical objects makes sense, touch makes sense. Learning a series of gestures to manipulate data on a screen makes less sense to me than a mouse.

The mouse is movement and control, the gestures need you to hold your hands in strange positions and move within a field of view (what the camera can see). An improved design will need to be intuitive.

tgandrews | 16 years ago | on: Perfect email regex finally found

Yeah, that python script (from StackOverflow London - http://norvig.com/spell-correct.html) that learned what was correct from a large number of words would work. Analyse your DB of users' email address url (after @) that have registered fully and provide a "Did you mean.." type response if a new users email url was not found and something close (within 2 alterations) to it was.

tgandrews | 16 years ago | on: Google Goes Native: Offers Sneak Peak at C++ Support in Chromium

It's a plugin - meaning that we limit the users to using a subset of browsers (those with supported plugins) and forcing them to upgrade it when we want to use the latest features. This is NO worse than flash, it's just you write the apps in C/C++/Go rather than ActionScript.

I don't see the benefit; all I see is another Flash/Silverlight wannabe that puts more reliance on the user understanding their system/installed programs. This is not the future.

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