DrJokepu

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by DrJokepu 13y ago
I didn't ask my question in a vacuum, I asked it specifically within the context of Reeder 2. Reeder 2 is (as Reeder always was) a premium app, so ads are not an option. It is a front end for other third party services rather than some
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
Perhaps the problem is with the question, not the answer. The Zambian economy has been growing fairly nicely recently, according to Google the GDP growth in 2012 was 7.3%. A more useful question would be: was the growth of Zambian economy s
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
But how else would the developer be compensated for his work?
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
Valve are not giving away a single copy of anything, they are licensing intellectual property with specific terms. I'm advocating licensing terms that allow licensees to simultaneously install and use licensed items on all computers ow
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
I don't think it is a reasonable restriction at all. Besides the most devoted fans, I don't believe many families would purchase multiple licenses to a lot of games just to be able to play them simultaneously. These kinds of terms
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
Or (if you use Macs) you can just buy it on the Mac App Store which doesn't have such limitations so you would only need to pay for it once. The Mac App Store has other shortcomings but it proves that these very restrictive licensing t
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
The first thing I would do if I had to work with something like MUMPS is to write like, a MUMPS LLVM backed or something takes takes a saner language and emits MUMPS, therefore abstracting away the crazy. Why don't you guys do that? Or
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
This happens because English as Second Language teachers are often non-native speakers and speak with an accent themselves. They are able to teach grammar or vocabulary but they cannot teach pronunciation. Often non-native speakers are only
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
Yes, you are missing something: it's a joke. People sometimes overstate things to achieve a comical effect. People use comical effects for a variety of purposes: to get other people to like them, to make themselves (and the things they
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
Advertising is not the only source of revenue of cable channels and that is especially true for HBO and AMC. Channels get paid a certain rate by cable companies for each subscriber they have. Certain popular or premium channels get paid mor
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
That really depends on the country, Europe is not homogenic like that. Here in the UK everyone has a debit card and almost everyone has a credit card and people use them to pay online a lot. In France paying with your Carte Bleue online is
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
Of course, adding large binary blobs to a relational database is almost certainly a bad idea anyway. It’s just not meant to be. You can achieve transactionality by other means and it won’t actually make managing and backing up data easier b
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
Netflix originals (programs produced or at least financed by Netflix) such as House of Cards and the new season of Arrested Development are a very likely a peek into the future. Edit: Also the recent success of HBO and AMC in producing high
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
Is this, like, really "illegal" in New York? Are you really sure about that? I'm not a lawyer but it seems to me that me that the grocery store has breached the contract and the designer has a number of options available to r
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
Meh, whatever. I can’t believe people still have flamewars about programming languages on the Internet like it was still 1996.
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
That is exactly what I was thinking, yes.
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
Basically, the problem with your argument is that the quality and tone of the comments on even purely technical stories is equally sad these days on HN.
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
This is probably the worst idea I've read on HN this week. It's not just legally and politically impossible, it wouldn't solve the problem, it would have dire economic consequences, it would be grossly disproportionate and un
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
Once you get used to promises (it took me a couple of days) it's not confusing at all. It takes a bit of effort though. I remember when I first started programming none of the programs made any sense to me; as you said, I had absolutel
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
I don't think it has anything to do with the interface. Is your program mainly about handling input and output, tied together with some business logic? If yes, Node.js is probably a good choice. If not, Node.js might not be a very good
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
How do you know that it doesn't? I mean it's a developer beta of an unfinished product, isn't it?
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
I really think you are misunderstanding that sentence. The author didn't mean what you think it means. His point was that it's not very difficult to come up with just the right data and statistics to support whatever idea you&#x27
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
You took that sentence out of context. This is the full paragraph: > To be sure, using data to argue about contentious policy issues should always prompt skepticism. It's too easy to focus on particular aspects of any data analysis
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
This might be a very naive question (I know nothing about these things) but is it possible that a piece of information obtained by such illegal means could be used to aid an investigation without using it as evidence in a court?
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
Everyone should have shitty jobs for at least a month or two growing up. When I was doing my degree in mechanical engineering after my first year I had to do this internship in this manufacturing plant in France. I was basically a factory w
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
That was scheduled maintenance, however. They had big banners with warnings everywhere on Bitbucket for several days before the event.
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
Meh. You are trivialising something really complicated and you know that.
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
Most of the United Kingdom.
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
Because PostgreSQL is very good at being a key-value store?
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by DrJokepu 13y ago
The typical solution is to assign a person with the authority to let +1 guests in to the registration desk or at least make sure that such a person can be contacted when needed. This is fairly common in my experience regardless of the scale

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