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by _Lemon_ 15y ago
While it depends on the country, you don't have to be a bank to be regulated in the UK. For example, the Financial Services Authority says you need to be registered for accepting deposits or issuing e-money: http://www.fsa.gov.uk/Pages/Doi
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by _Lemon_ 15y ago
> If I convert dollars to bitcoins, I would be tempted to wait a couple of days and sell on mtgox and then buy the service with dollars. Remove the "purchasing a service" element out of the equation and this still holds up -- t
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by _Lemon_ 15y ago
Interesting read, which also says I'm doing most things wrong. Original (kind of disingenuous to just copy / paste the whole thing with a link at the end): http://www.inspirationandchai.com/Regrets-of-the-Dying.html
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by _Lemon_ 15y ago
Yes, and I meant to say that would be a bad thing. For example, Welsh is compulsory in schools in Wales where most will know English fluently, there is quite a political effort to keep it going.
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by _Lemon_ 15y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to come off as a troll! The OP originally struck me as a negative comment but reading it again makes me think it was more of just an observation. I wasn't trying to say having one language is a good/bad thing, but every
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by _Lemon_ 15y ago
I'm not sure whether you're intending to pose that as a problem -- why should language be a barrier to anything? It could open the possibilities to a lot of people in less well off countries. What would be a problem (and is kind of assumed
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by _Lemon_ 15y ago
As it's not immediately obvious, the original site being parodied: http://www.weusecoins.com/
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
> Finding security holes in commercial systems and discreetly notifying the owners of the problem is one thing Last time this happened to me, I gave 6 months free on a dedicated server which was announced in an e-mail that went out to
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
I'd contest that it would only matter if you're the same as everyone else if it's contrary to your goal(s). What is your goal? For most it would be to get users to purchase something (aka, make money). There's the other upside that if your
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
I keep telling myself that I need to explore "real" news sites like the BBC or Guardian (or...), but never quite get there. I primarily stick to Slashdot and HN but know full well that the views in the comments of the two sites can sometime
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
I'm not actually an ISP so my perspective is different but yeah I do, and I know the ISPs that I work with do too (Leaseweb, OVH). I have to work to keep things clean on my servers and to take reasonable steps to abide by their policies and
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
As someone who runs a hosting company -- yes I fully investigate with the information given. Just please try to give as much as possible and make it easy for me to easily pinpoint things. Oh, and please don't come with a snooty attitude, it
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
Use https://www.google.com/ Although some services (I believe Images and Shopping are two) are not available because they're "not ready" yet.
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
Could you expand on what you saw, generally what your thought process was, and how you feel it could apply to business ideas and social apps in general? I understand that it may be obvious and I'm sure I'd have plenty of ideas myself, I'm j
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
I clicked and gave it a run, hitting the defaults I was presented with "752 / 8". My mind just lost interest (it is almost 4am mind you) and I closed the tab. Then it occurred to me that this arithmetic would be much easier if I had built u
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
> I drove an old porsche I found in a junkyard This (along with a lot of other stuff you mentioned...) is interesting, what happened? Were you just looking around a junkyard and stumbled across it? What state did you get it in and how m
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
> In my opinion, the biggest problem with the google-style interview (other companies do the same thing) is that you can practice and get better at it. In fact, you can probably improve how well you do so much that even a mediocre devel
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
$db is something different altogether, in my code I have a cheap Database class and each model creates a new one -- but it relies on the MySQL functions it uses to re-use the database connection. So in reality it's the same thing. The probl
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
You're specifically using it for configuration/preferences though. You should consider changing it to a constant instead as that's what they really are. The problem is passing state around in global variables. Any code can (and readily does
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
Generally a good experience, needs adding to. Here's some feedback/thoughts: 1) The text boxes on the sign up page are massive and take up the whole line (same with the login). 2) Sign up process isn't that "smooth", how about an automatic
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
> Customers, particularly ADHD tech types, are very sensitive to shipping delays. Just to expand on this: very /very/ sensitive. However providing them an accurate date upfront is a great way to combat this, even if it is a week away. A
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
"If you wear the jersey of your favorite team, your brain associates the colors and the logo with the good feelings of watching a game. The rational part of your brain might tell you that you wear the team jersey because you look good in th
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
There's a comment beneath you that quotes the page (near the bottom) "you can not send emails (you can receive them)." Although I agree with you, a comment explaining would have been better than a down-vote -- best not to take those persona
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
I believe I've come up with an effective solution to the problem: to not have all my eggs in one basket. I realise I do lead a bit of a love/hate relationship with OVH though. I've taken new servers with Leaseweb and I'm building up with th
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
I have 307 servers from the smallest to the largest and thousands of customers all round the world so I see the bandwidth problems first hand. There have been a couple of occasions when there network just hasn't been available to parts of A
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
The .co.uk site is, they only sell to some EU countries. You can see a full list of their languages and sites at the top here: https://www.ovh.co.uk/managerv3/login.pl
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
I feel I could write an essay on the pros and cons of OVH but it basically comes down to bandwidth quality. You're only really paying for the cost of the hardware, the rest is a heavy reliance on peering with no or little transit links (you
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
This guy is more than just an Internet celebrity though, this guy runs a search engine as a competitor to them -- why are they watching his blog? (Or did they come across it by accident?) Speculative comment ahoy!
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
I tried, however it just meant another thing to have open and to check regularly. We stick with IRC for conversations and e-mail for the matters that take a little longer to resolve. This suits better because e-mail and IRC are open anyway
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by _Lemon_ 16y ago
After actually taking the course (okay, a few years ago now). I would say Python was the most useful in that list and then Java. There isn't enough time to learn C. We spent more time learning about cable types than actually programming.

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