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piers

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About piers

UK Web Developer trying hard to come up with the next best thing

http://piersonthe.net

Recent public activity

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    Comment #11453985

    I really hope you're using SELECT * as an example and that you don't really do that.

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    Comment #5115986

    Damn you. I came here specifically to say the same thing.

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    Comment #4578312

    Don't forget the version of Wordpress that you download is very different from the version that's on Wordpress.com

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    Comment #4020856

    I always thought that the ICO cookie law stuff was opt in, rather than opt-out like the BBC were doing.

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    Comment #3872946

    It seems that they (Rackspace) are just about to launch something that might fix some of the issues that are being talked about: http://www.rackspace.com/blog/next-generation-racks…

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    Has anyone used Bonobo in production?

    https://github.com/jakubgarfield/Bonobo-Git-Server By production I mean as in a working environment rather than just playing with it or testing it. I want to get away from TFS to G…

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    Ask HN: What other good mail providers are out there?

    Just read this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3581613 There were a couple of providers mentioned, but nothing seemed to stand out as being better than GMail. I've been using …

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    Comment #3446726

    Just to confirm, it is free (if you're in the UK) but the link above is for the US version which isn't free.

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    Comment #3373424

    You might want do something about the bad security message (or change the above link)

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    Comment #3324729

    They have posted an apology: http://gigaom.com/2011/12/07/did-someone-order-500-copies-of...

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    Comment #3186357

    And can you link to reliable sources with that stuff? And there's a different between a rape trial being held in private (see fun2have's post here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item…

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    Comment #3157915

    It also might be worth getting in touch with Student Unions as some students might have entrepreneur societies that have final years that would be interested. As well as Math and C…

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    Comment #3129761

    http://icanhazip.com

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    Comment #2995851

    That as well

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    Comment #2995502

    Looks like they've finally realised that few people read what's on the BSOD so there's no point in displaying it.

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    Looking for a room

    I know this might not be the ideal place to post it and I'm sorry if this is the wrong way to go about it, but... I'm currently looking for a room somewhere in London where I can l…

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    Comment #2789061

    I posted the same on the blog post. I would question that it could be the user (mikecane02)'s browser as it looks to me like what would happen if you didn't support the character s…

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    Comment #2729249

    I got confused as well. I thought the Google App Gods had smiled down upon us and enabled profiles. But my happiness was shortlived.

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    Comment #2729231

    Is this error message saying that the admins of domains should be able to turn on Google Profiles? But in fact they can't as it doesn't exist? Have I got that right?

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    Comment #2723531

    So this is basically a front end for the Google social graph API?

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