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Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2016) on Monday April 04, 2016 @03:23AM (#11420001)
Looking for a cool company in who wants an awesome intern for Summer 2016. Am free from now onwards until September :)

Location: London - love travelling so would love to work from.. well, pretty much anywhere!

Remote: Yes, depending on the company

Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python, Django, (and Django Rest Framework), iPython, NumPy, React, Redux, ES6, HTML & CSS

Résumé/CV: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12188312/Thomas%20Lim%20...

Email: txsl A-T outlook D-O-T com

Re:Ask HN: UK Based API for Payouts on Tuesday March 29, 2016 @02:17AM (#11379792)
If you are willing to switch banks, I'm aware of Natwest's Bankline, which takes in a CSV like file and you then authorise the whole tranche.

Does Barclays accept payment requests on paper? You could generate files which you can hand to them and ask to process.

Also come across something called Envoy Transfers before, which is somehow related to Worldpay. When I was being paid via a freelancing platform, I put my bank details into their (Envoy Transfer's) site.

Why are there two possible arcs for the path of MH370?

Posted by txsl on Monday March 17, 2014 @03:47PM
from the self-post dept.

In all of the reports and images of where MH370 could be (based on Inmarsat data) eg http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-26503141, they show two possible (and opposite in direction) arcs where MH370 could be. How come this is the case? Must be something to do with which regions and areas different satellites collect data from?

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Ask HN: How to backup a VPS

Posted by txsl on Tuesday August 13, 2013 @06:18PM
from the ask-hn dept.

So I'm doing some projects which aren't beefy enough to live on AWS or Heroku, but do need some backups.What do the HN community use when you want to regularly backup the data on a VPS? Just another VPS in another location, or some sort of special backup plan offered by a provider? Just curious to see what most people do.

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Re:Stackoverflow is down. All programming has stopped. on Friday August 09, 2013 @05:13AM (#6184523)
As is ServerFault
Re:Show HN: Python library to read and manage your Gmail on Friday August 09, 2013 @05:12AM (#6184520)
Ah, I was try to read emails and get Ruby to process them.
Re:Show HN: Python library to read and manage your Gmail on Friday August 09, 2013 @05:11AM (#6184518)
I actually tried both, as I remember
Re:Show HN: Python library to read and manage your Gmail on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @09:20PM (#6170262)
My experience of the Ruby client referenced was that it was a little out of date. I was seeing errors when trying to use it a couple of weeks ago.

IMessages for OS X sucks

Posted by txsl on Sunday June 02, 2013 @07:53PM
from the self-post dept.

Am I the only one who is really disappointed with iMessages on my Mac? For a start, it seems to like to reorder the conversations I have with people (meaning I can't see what they have just sent me). Then often I have to hit 'resend' because it fails sending a message the first time. I hope Apple get round to fixing this soon!

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Re:Ask HN: Where can I find a good tl;dr of the different open source ... on Friday May 03, 2013 @01:39PM (#5651415)
Thank you!
Re:TokuDB open sourced on Monday April 22, 2013 @10:57AM (#5589514)
Was quite looking forward to reading this, but when I clicked the link, I was faced with: http://imgur.com/wwEogpx I think there's a certain irony seeing as this is a database related announcement!