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Re:The Shipping Forecast
on Thursday July 26, 2018 @03:45AM (#17615779)
I used the Shipping Forecast as a "self-assessment" when I move to London. When moved there, my English was not the best. I was staying up late at nights, listening BBC4 to improve my listening and I will listen to the shipping forecast every night and don't understand ANYTHING.
That was for the first year, life moves on, and there I was, listening to the Shipping Forecast 3-4 years later. "Ey, I can get now some words and the overall meaning!". I have to say it felt good.
A few more years later, and it was my last night living in the UK (Brexit means Brexit), and I went to listen to it again. Seven years later, since the first time I hear it, I was able to catch everything on the forecast.
For me, the Shipping Forecast will always be something special.
Re:Pwned Passwords in Practice: Real World Examples of Blocking the Wo...
on Tuesday May 29, 2018 @07:58AM (#17178286)
Even if he's not charging for the service, I am pretty sure he's getting more consultancy work from these "PR" (notice the quotes) posts. Even the timing on which he releases them makes sense in a way to prevent people from getting too tired of this service.
Not saying is a bad thing but don't assume something is for pure altruism because not many things are.
Re:GDPR Hall of Shame
on Thursday May 24, 2018 @08:36AM (#17143318)
It looks like the witch-hunting is about to start.
Re:Ask HN: GDPR Data Deletion Template
on Thursday May 24, 2018 @03:30AM (#17141827)
That is... wow... it totally deserves the "nightmare" tag. Thanks for sharing!
Ask HN: GDPR Data Deletion Template
With GDPR getting into effect tomorrow I would like to start asking all these companies who kindly sent me an email on the last couple of weeks to delete all my data. Have you guys come across any template I can use that includes all the legal slang to make it work? Or just a "please delete my data" will do the trick?
Re:Zuckerberg apologises to European Parliament for 'harm'
on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @02:41PM (#17128360)
A tad too late to be sorry, Mark.
Re:Ask HN: What's the strangest place you wrote code?
on Thursday May 10, 2018 @09:25AM (#17038597)
Not a code to deploy but on the address bar of an old kiosk browser. An ugly JavaScript script to escape the computer lockdown and access the filesystem. Always nice to debug a one huge line of JavaScript that outputs HTML/ActiveX.
NDC ATM Emulator, written on JavaScript, JQuery and Electron
Re:Alien Hand Syndrome
on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @03:42AM (#16865494)
I am seeing a trend in HN lately of linking, supposedly, interesting Wikipedia articles. Is this done for internet points? I will assume it is.
Re:Privacy underground: a class on privacy, held at a secret location
on Thursday April 12, 2018 @11:31AM (#16821974)
You already failed the exam if you clicked the link from your Facebook-signed/Google-signed browser.
Re:A List of Chrome DevTools Tips and Tricks
on Monday April 09, 2018 @07:34AM (#16792083)
Here you have +100 more: https://umaar.com/dev-tips/
Ask HN: To-Do/GTD extensions for browsers?
I have seen many recommendations for CLI tools for ToDo/GTD workflows but not many for the browser. Do you use your browser (offline, locally) as a platform to keep track of your tasks?
Re:Show HN: RoughJS – Create hand-drawn graphics using JavaScript
on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @04:43AM (#16574586)
Does anyone know how this can be exported/used/translated to work with Inkscape?
Re:Reading privileged memory with a side-channel
on Thursday January 04, 2018 @05:01AM (#16069137)
wasn't it dolphin?
Ask HN: Best dock station for MacBook Pro (2016) a.k.a “the touchbar one”
It has been a year since the release. What dock station are you, my beautiful people, using?