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I’ve had this discussion a couple of times with people who work in a more traditional company. There is a implied equivalence between startups and technology companies. But the ... (381)
Ewallets are the flavour-of-the-month. Everyone from Touch’n’Go and Petronas to Grab’s doing them. And why shouldn’t they? They’ve nothing to lose, it’s all upside. No business ... (423)
Two things occured to me regarding autonomous weapons.The size of the force would be directly representative of the money investedThat means that war would be directly and only ... (185)
In Google Podcasts when you pause an episode and then unpause it, it will play from a few seconds prior to when you paused so that you can recall the context more easily.Thought... (38)
OK, so I tested going to the office.The distance is 1.6km so almost exactly one mile.This is RM6 by Grab or walkable in about 20 minutes. There is a slight hill going there. If ... (243)
Over the past couple of months we’ve noticed an interesting thing when it comes to developing RND projects within large organizations. We noticed it just recently which means th... (538)
I don’t like it when larger companies use less than honest means to accomplish something that’s basically irrelevant. Not to say that it’s alright to do unethical or illegal thi... (140)
Doing some experimentation with Raspberry Pi and looked into how to automate code copying.To copy files it’s simple enough to use rsync:rsync -rvaz --delete ./ pi@192.168.0.108:... (178)
Mysql2::Error: Got error 28 from storage engine is not actually an error in MySQL but is an error reported by the OS to MySQL and then forwarded to Rails. It is an OS error. Sid... (224)
I used to like F1 but just lost interest over time.Recently I checked out their Youtube page and I must say that the way they post content really made me excited again, regardle... (292)
Noticed a nice bit of design on the Guardian website – it’s nothing revolutionary but I like it because it shows that thought was put into it.Basically the entire box for each o... (364)
Was experimenting with Raspberry Pi and a relay recently (to turn lights on and off of-course) and had an issue with a GPIO pin being set to low not turn the relay off.Turns out... (96)
I’ve recently had this non-epiphany. Crypto might have anonimity but it certainly doesn’t have privacy. Given an address you can see all transactions that address has been invol... (150)
Random idea: Grab should set up wifi hotspots that are free their for users especially in tourist spots in cities where they’re trying to grow.It’s a value added service for exi... (79)
When deciding on changes we think about what we need to accomplish and how to do it. What are the goals and tasks and how software can help with those.At the same time it’s very... (205)
So that telcos wont inject ads and make money from your pages. I don’t even understand how is this legal. (29)
Recently I discovered the SDK for Samsung Gear S3 that runs Samsung’s Tizen OS and wanted to take a look, partly because it supports writing applications in JavaScript and HTML.... (403)
Occassionally you need to validate a specific rule in forms. It would be stupid to roll the entire validation library from scratch so instead it’s better to make a custom valida... (259)
I’ve had this in my notes for a long time. In order to not upload files to your public/ folder, which is the default for carrier wave, it’s really simple. Just need to change a ... (282)
Recently, I was working on a project where we had experimented with RTesseract for OCR of information from scanned documents. We’d have a document uploaded,there was an areas te... (195)
I was looking at some link building code that I hadn’t touched in a while. I had left myself a comment saying:Last time you changed this, you removed the previous version and th... (75)
Recently I’ve had the opportunity to hear quite a few startup pitches in a semi-advisory capacity and have noticed what I consider a mistake appear quite frequently: founders ar... (279)
Monthly fee for a quota of articles but with access to multiple newspapers and publications.In a time of subscriptions why not? Price per article could be calculated as SUBSCRIP... (89)
So, it’s quite well known tha ta while ago UPS reduced the need for their trucks to turn left since turning right means not having to stop at traffic lights. This change saved t... (222)
Monthly fee. Access to full Steam library (for instance). Limited number of hours per tier of release (10h of new releases, 20h of month old releases, unlimited for indie and ol... (82)