NameNickHN

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by NameNickHN 10y ago
> They also marked her down in interviews for not knowing the latest Excel version [...] I've come to the point where I'm glad that interviewers show their cards this way. If a company does stupid things like this, I really don
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by NameNickHN 10y ago
I can never understand why people don't host important stuff/stuff they care about themselves. Webhosting and domains are cheap and even someone with little technical knowledge can create a website. There are tons of options to do
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by NameNickHN 10y ago
> Unfortunately, most non-profits are notorious for money-laundering and illegal activity That's quite a claim you make. Can you support that with facts?
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by NameNickHN 10y ago
You could contact a well known security expert that does this kind of stuff professionally, unless you want to make a name for yourself.
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by NameNickHN 10y ago
PHP is actively being developed with ton of new features added. It has a lively framework landscape with new versions released all the time. You can't get more modern than that.
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by NameNickHN 10y ago
My answer is always this. If I write a line of code, discover a bug, and fix it right away, it's part of the normal coding process and covered by the hourly/daily rate I've quoted the client. What difference does it make that
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
It's a regional thing. Amazon.com usest "laptop", Amazon.de uses notebook.
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
I run a couple of short URL websites and this kind of short URLs along with links to phishing and spam sites is what you'll get on a very regular basis in this business. Those short URLs are often being used in mass mailings, guestbook
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
Pebble Steel: I like the look and I don't have to pull my six inch phone out of my pocket every time I receive a message.
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
Pardon my cynicism but you're trying to get support from a company that offers a free service and has millions of users. Providing direct support to individual users is not part of their business model. If the past has taught us anythi
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
I've noticed the same thing. I guess that they've stopped using cookies and are using some kind of "super cookie" that uses the visitors computer environment to create a individual id.
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
I've read advice from someone a while ago about this topic. The gist was that you have to ease your bosses into letting you work from home. Start with the odd day like when you're sick or when there is a single day between weekend
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
I omitted indeed characters I didn't like. Those are not necessarily the villains. There a quite a few of them in there as well.
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
Can't. Haven't read the book yet and was unimpressed with the movie. Sorry. ;-)
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
Thanks. Added.
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
> If the goal is testing, an improvement would be to add some internationalization. The goal is rather to be using some fun names during development. For example, when I work on our appointment scheduling software, I often need to walk t
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
LOL yes.
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
> I like to manually choose names from movies/tv-shows I knew I couldn't be the only one. And using family members to illustrate different user roles is quite clever.
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
> it's clearly splittable for first/last name fields. Yes, I need that for a simple script that generates email addresses and links.
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
> May I ask if you collected those manually? Yes, whenever I read a book or watched a movie I've added some of the characters to the list. > It appears that my first reaction to cool things is now not wonder but 'I need to e
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
I edited the order of names before creating the repo on Github, to be honest. :-)
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
> Does that worth to be shared in this community? Since it has been starred and forked on Github I think the answer is yes. > has that ever been a problem worth mention to someone? It has been to me. When I work I want to write lines
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Show HN: List of movie and book characters I use during application development(github.com)
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
I run a couple of temporary email websites like fakeinbox.com and wegwerfemail.de. Earned a total of $3.153 with AdSense and cost about $655 (server, domains) since January 1st.
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
> there's even a commandline client This totally speaks to me but I imagine saying to my buddies at the club: "You should use Telegram. It's free, you don't need an account, and best of all there is even a command lin
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
Thanks. This is better than nothing. Telegram not requiring an account and being free of charge will probably help a bit.
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
> pushing my friends to telegram Do you have any suggestions on how to do that? The People I know either think Whatsapp is gods gift to mankind and won't switch or they can't use anything else because the people they interact w
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
This looks neat but the loading time needs improvement.
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
Normal? No, but neither surprising.
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by NameNickHN 11y ago
There are people who have a hard time learning to read and some who never manage it despite making every effort. Why is it so hard to believe that there are people at the other end of the spectrum who are able to learn to read as an infant?

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