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‘ipfs add’ pins the file by default, not sure if that’s recent behaviour though.

PostGIS would get you up and running, but is not particularly quick unless you have a budget and the knowledge to tune it. It is however probably the most mature, and will be able to do anything you need.

If you need read speed, check out Clickhouse, or something in memory, like Tile38. Clickhouse in my experience is at least 50-100x faster for a point in polygon than Postgis out of the box.

The BBC is pro government. It was pro Labour for many years recently. It’s still fairly unbiased compared to most sources.

Debunked how? It seems the consensus is that it’s just as secure as using a username and password and allowing the user to reset via email. It’s been discussed here a few times.

And 30 minutes is acceptable...?

Hi, Whats the contact email?

Interesting, can you elaborate?

Which platform/APIs do you use? What language do you program in? Where do you get back testing data from?

Thanks!

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Nearly half a dozen? So five? In four years.

It's still interesting, and I don't suppose many people are searching for it so what's the issue with it being posted again?

Cheque writing software, written in COBOL.

Got the work through a family friend, it's his business. I had to learn COBOL (managed through Visual Studio these days thank god) and have ended up contributing to the main application, converting Microsoft c++ and c# examples into COBOL, e.g Gdi32 printing, windows forms, wpf and so on.

Luckily as it's Managed COBOL and based on .NET you can call classes written in C++/C# so I've been doing that where possible!

Good fun and completely different to my usual line of Web Dev.

This is interesting for me.

Assume you're scraping those other sites (coworker etc) for their space data, and making it searchable in your app.

Have you had any issues with copyright etc? I have a venue finding website and have been toying with the idea of scraping some competitors for data

What's interesting about this is that Cloudfare seem to duck a big chunk of the flak - everyone immediately suspects their own server, as cloudfare gives a pretty generic error page.

Lots of people chasing Heroku on twitter currently, for example when it's not their fault at all.

I've always thought that music recommendation systems should look at the actual music, and not as much at the surrounding meta-data.

What kind of instruments are used? What key is it in? What structure is the song in? i.e does it have a standard format, is it prog, is it a symphony etc What language is it in? What Rhythms are used?

That information, used properly, should be able to actually recommend music that the listener enjoys, not just guesswork that is usually rubbish. The Spotify algorithm for example...

Here's looking forward to my Hotmail account email address being accidentally 'shared' with LinkedIn and the never-ending LinkedIn spam returning.

Canned and cartoned(!) coffee is all over the place now in the UK. Starbucks make a lot of it, and there seems to be quite a few smaller brands popping up.

It's all full of sugar though, more like slightly coffee flavoured milkshakes. Combination of the sugar and caffeine really works though...

That's brilliant. The code in the web server is surprisingly readable.

I like the 'O RLY?' to start an if/else

Thanks. I think perhaps the article should link to some context...

BBC argyle says that was calculated at 449USD per Bitcoin, so assuming nearly 1Billion USD or thereabouts when they were at their peak

I usually pack up for the day when that happens.

Thanks! I will look seriously at this. My next business will definitely not be within the clutches of HM's finest.

Yes please, where can I sign up?

Seriously though, I live in Berkshire, and am looking for decent places to move to. The grass is definitely always greener! :)

I have even begun to look at some roles in SF.

It seems to be the last resort to make money if you haven't got a real business.

Not everything has to be a business though. Quora (in my mind, at least) would be good in a distributed/federal setup, as would twitter.

It costs a lot less, runs smoother, and gives better service. At least that's the idea. Whether it works or not in practice is for another day.

Fortunately in the UK you don't pay capital gains tax on the property you live in.

You pay it on your second property I believe, but only if you sell, and only if it is a second property at that point.

CGT is also only 10% or 20% depending on your earning situation.

Well that would be crap :(

However, I did vote Blue, and I agree with the principal of small Government and that more should be privatised. Can't have my cake and eat it I suppose.

Here are some more datasets provided by HM's Government, there are a lot of interesting sets: https://data.gov.uk/data/search

I would love to help out with this. Just followed you on twitter

Really? Where did you hear that?

This is really great. Even more interesting since I live in one of the very, very red parts in the south east so have a particular interest in how much my house is earning each year - a lot more than me, as it turns out.

'Remains to be scene'

Who proofreads this rag?

Ah sorry that's the way it read, probably my comprehension!

It's a very interesting field. I'm not waiting around for it to happen though, especially in the UK which is a very conservative country in the main.

I'm actively building my business so that I can take a back seat, or sell it within 3 years and thus spend more time solving different problems (that may or may not have a monetary end-game for me).

At the moment they are just side projects!