Vivtek

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by Vivtek 11y ago
Defaulting to Manhattan, apparently, if one is in Budapest.
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by Vivtek 11y ago
Thank you! That was an excellent summary that didn't require me to look at that page any longer. I mean, I like contrast, but I want to keep my retinas, too.
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by Vivtek 11y ago
Unbelievable. I am an American sitting in Budapest working on freelance translation jobs I get in seconds from my agencies all over Europe, who Skypes his wife doing research in Indiana on a daily basis and who organized his 30-year class r
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by Vivtek 12y ago
Button-related posts keep making it to /r/all, though (my main Reddit window).
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by Vivtek 12y ago
Same reason as America: it's all being done in secret, in Brussels, and the national governments are not being consulted, let alone (ha ha!) the public .
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by Vivtek 12y ago
Speaking from my home in Budapest, I can tell you with utter confidence that if you don't consider Hungary a developed nation you need to do a little more research.
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by Vivtek 12y ago
Second that request. What can I read to go beyond my SELECT * from t order by c-level knowledge?
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by Vivtek 12y ago
Because Marriott's core business is not blocking wi-fi. It's renting rooms. The decision to block or not block is based on the marginal gain from that decision, not on their entire income. If an officer were to make that his or he
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by Vivtek 12y ago
Honestly, I see him in management pretty soon. He's amazingly good with people. He's not yet good with people he doesn't know - it costs me nothing to ask for good platform recommendations on a site I've frequented for
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by Vivtek 12y ago
Holy schemoley, I really didn't expect so many events in Bp. Thanks!
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by Vivtek 12y ago
You got that right.
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by Vivtek 12y ago
Yeah, he's so interested in games his English homework is League-specific. (Ever written League of Legends poetry? It's actually surprisingly possible...) We did some text dungeon stuff last year and that almost clicked. But the b
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by Vivtek 12y ago
Isn't the market saturated for Wordpress? Where would you even market that? Like I say, locally is a weird situation for us; we're Americans in Hungary. (Well - he's got double citizenship; my point is that as perceptible for
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by Vivtek 12y ago
Yes, I've tried the learning programming first route on him. Last time it almost clicked. Finding a project first is exactly what I think will work this time.
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by Vivtek 12y ago
Yeah, I was planning on drilling him on database concepts. You can't start that too early. The trick is getting him focused on a real problem first and showing him databases in context.
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by Vivtek 12y ago
He'll be 16 in March, and is a dual citizen. I think you're legal - and that would be absolutely fantastic. He's fully bilingual and has a bus pass. :-)
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Ask HN: My son wants to make side money programming
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by Vivtek 12y ago
Back then, comics were ten cents. Now they're twenty bucks. Kids don't read stuff that costs twenty bucks.
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by Vivtek 12y ago
This screed is essentially pure-quill mental imbalance. I was in school in America in 1979, too. I subscribed to BYTE, Science 80, the whole nine yards. My teachers were ecstatic about my love for science, not even once trying to dissuade m
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by Vivtek 12y ago
So why is India the only country to have taken this step?
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by Vivtek 12y ago
Being alerted to offending material is not proactive screening.
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by Vivtek 12y ago
> Also, I can't believe I have spent this much time at 5AM reading some ... I upvoted you just for this. I so very feel that pain.
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by Vivtek 12y ago
Even to the extent of affirmative action for the intentionally anti-diverse, apparently.
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by Vivtek 12y ago
No. I know what the Europeans are actually researching. Google seems usually to think in terms of the knowledge they gain from universal data availability. Driving, to Google, is an outgrowth of mapping. The Europeans are looking at a scale
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by Vivtek 12y ago
Instead, it will simply be the autonomous BMW, Volkswagen, or Daimler. Or Tesla. It's not as though Google is the only company in the world working on autonomous driving. They're just the only one the American tech media has notic
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by Vivtek 12y ago
The German automakers have been working on a sliding scale of automation, with driver-assist systems sort of transitioning into full automation sometime in the near future. (There's a nice table on page 166 of the 2014 annual report of
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by Vivtek 12y ago
And yet the Magyar Tudományos Akadémia (Hungarian Scientific Academy) is doing exactly this kind of research in self-driving cars, in Budapest. Self-driving cars could ultimately be far safer than human drivers in adverse situations, especi
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by Vivtek 12y ago
Of course it will -- there is no terrorism any more, after all. Real answer: this is nothing more than security theater. The effective way to fight disease would be health care, and that's the one measure the United States will never t
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by Vivtek 12y ago
No, one of them being a delusional disorder, which is literally the inability to know what is reality . I think racism is a pretty minor thing to throw at the guy when he literally cannot tell whether it makes sense or not.
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by Vivtek 12y ago
Hey - thanks! I've been using faxaway for years with their email interface, but this is handier. But I'd still like to be able to handle voicemail and incoming fax on the same number and nobody can give me that yet. (As far as I

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