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Comment Re:Superior alternative to Google Authenticator (Score 1) 83

I've been using Authenticator Pro for quite some time now on my Android phone. Also a great alternative to Google Authenticator and has the same features detailed above of Aegis Authenticator.

https://github.com/jamie-mh/Au...

Not affiliated with the application or the author, just a satisfied user.

Comment Re:Moore's law (Score 1) 560

I doubt very much that this will happen.

When Moore's Law stalled with the stalling of clock cycles, we simply tried to side-step and restart Moore's Law by simply doubling the number of processors/cores instead of doubling the clock speed.

Of course, that gave us the additional problem of parallelization and we seem to doing an equally poor job at managing that as what we're doing managing and efficiently using the abundance of other computing resources we've been given.

Submission + - JetBrains reconsiders their subscription licensing changes. (jetbrains.com)

craigtp writes: On 3rd September, JetBrains, makers of IDE's and other productivity software announced big changes the way they sell and license their software.

Such changes were not well accepted by certain members of their user base. Within a few days, JetBrains announced that they were listening to the user feedback and that they would reconsider their changes.

Today, they've finally announced their revised licensing changes, and whilst the subscription model remains, some important concessions have been made.

Submission + - Wuala encrypted cloud-storage service shuts down (wuala.com)

craigtp writes: Wuala, one of the more trusted cloud-storage services that employed encryption for your files, is shutting down. Users of the service will have until 15th November 2015 to move all of their files off the service before all of their data is deleted.

Comment Re:In short? (Score 5, Insightful) 318

Tell that to:

Automattic
Mozilla
GitHub
Basecamp (formerly 37signals) (who even wrote a book about how great remote working can be)

along with a myriad of other companies who work either entirely remotely, or have very liberal policies around remote working.

Most, if not all of whom, can be considered to be quite successful within their field.

Comment Re:Not-so-accurate source (Score 1) 487

Spot on.

I've often said this to my programming colleagues, but Dates, Times and calculations between them really are one of the hardest "problems" in solve in programming/computing.

Dates & Times are so incredibly deceptive as on the surface they appear simple yet when you really look into it they're incredibly hard to get "right", what with time differences, daylight savings times (where we arbitrarily move the clock around for the hell of it). DST's are the worst.

Imagine if things like DST were applied to our numbers. It's like having our normal Base10 numbering system, but once or twice a year, we suddenly decide that the digit 6 actually represents 7 of something (or alternatively, represents 5 of something). Now all those calculations that assert that 6 + 6 = 12 are wrong, as 6 + 6 actually equals 13!

Comment Re:Corrections (Score 1) 73

What you don't know, though, is the shop is a front for his more surreptitious and covert activities. Apparently, his superiors in MI6 were a little uneasy with him specifically running a shop selling spy equipment as his "cover", but he successfully convinced them that its the best disguise. You know, hiding in plain sight and all that!

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