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by Spoom 15y ago
Personal laptop: Linux Mint 12 (was running Ubuntu since 8.04 or so until recently... since Unity I've been wanting to move to another distribution) Work desktop: 21" iMac running Debian (dual-boots to OS X but I rarely need it, and I'm muc
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by Spoom 15y ago
You may also want to check out VisaJourney.com, it's helped me immensely in my immigration to the US (and will continue to do so as I Remove Conditions). They focus mostly on family class and less on business class visas, but it is still a
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by Spoom 15y ago
I'll echo this. We also have just two devs currently (soon to be four!) and we are still finding issues that were caused by the previous third developer, who was let go several months ago. Some of these bugs have brought the production
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by Spoom 15y ago
Having been a contractor previously, I can tell you that the main reason I moved over to being a full time developer for a company (complete with 1.5 hour commute) was that no private plan would cover both myself and my wife, mostly due to
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by Spoom 15y ago
Does Google not restrict their coupon codes to one use? (This seem especially important since they appear to be gift certificates rather than discounts.) Why don't they limit the supply of the "free $100 of advertising" coupons if they don
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by Spoom 15y ago
Yes, but only if your referer indicates that you're coming from Google, otherwise you only get the offer to buy the answer, with no indication that it's available for free. Slimy. This is why I avoid ever linking to them, because anyone
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by Spoom 15y ago
Border crossings are a legal no-man's-land. You aren't guaranteed any protections under either Constitution, as I understand it. Once you're in the country, you're afforded all the protections (as you said, "persons" not "citizens"), but
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by Spoom 15y ago
This has not been my experience, but both are much stricter to those who are not their citizens, since they're pretty much charged to be. If you're an American entering Canada, expect to get asked why, and vice versa. It seemed like the O
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by Spoom 15y ago
I'd also like to hear about this; just updated my profile with my email. Thanks!
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by Spoom 15y ago
Interesting. Something I've considered doing, though I'd first look at how to avoid the problems with these systems that the sibling post mentioned (how to get the initial investment, how to enable artists without a reputation to earn pled
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by Spoom 15y ago
While I realize that it can't happen any time soon due to the current businesses that rely on copyright protection, there have been alternatives proposed that work without it, like The Digital Art Auction ( http://tdaa.digitalproductions.c
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by Spoom 15y ago
Yeah, I never really got the value of a service like Foursquare when social networks allowed you to share all of this information already. The checking in feature is clever but at least for me doesn't solve any yet-unsolved problem. (Addi
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by Spoom 15y ago
Thanks for those article. I'm trying HN at the suggestion of a colleague, having been a longtime participant in the Slashdot community. It's a bit intimidating as a noob here, but I think that's just because I'm not used to the higher signa
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by Spoom 15y ago
I still experience the drive to "over-architect" a solution every so often, especially when starting a new project. For me, it tends to be a result of thinking, "oh, I can add that additional feature with little impact to the timeline of t