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by aquark 10y ago
The BBC ran a story on a ship stuck off Singapore: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37335614
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by aquark 10y ago
I switched back to wired headphones after going through several (different) pairs of bluetooth headphones that could seem to cope with the sweat overload for more than a month or two before dying. The cord is a bit of a pain, but the cost o
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by aquark 10y ago
I think this is likely a really bad idea for 'side projects' ... by acting as the middle man here you are taking on a huge amount more liability than you would be if you are using the (non-managed) Stripe connect model where the y
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by aquark 10y ago
> Money ... does you very little good if you are completely out of it in a nursing home Well, there is the question of paying for the nursing home. The sad reality is that the options offered by our social safety nets at lot less attrac
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by aquark 10y ago
> whenever your load decreases for even a minute or two, knowing you can just scale right back up. Doesn't AWS still charge by the hour ... so if you were spinning instances up and down based on minute-to-minute load you would be ov
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An underwater drone to explore the deep(bbc.com)
1 points by aquark 10y ago|0 comments
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by aquark 10y ago
Possibly, but also maybe the other way around. Perhaps they didn't have a before picture of the scene from the right angle, so the before one is photoshopped?
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by aquark 11y ago
True, but we switched from SES to Mandrill because of delivery problems from SES. Mandrill was way better, but now it looks like we need to move again. (And our complaint % on Mandrill was somewhere around 0.01%)
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by aquark 11y ago
From the front page testimonial: > in less than 5 minutes the project was fully spec'd and underway. Honest question: why would I need a top '1% developer' for a project that can be fully spec'd in less than 5 minute
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by aquark 11y ago
But the driver is served by this -- the driver wants the Uber platform to be scalable, available and ensure the 'successfully customer experience' the article refers to, so that they can continue to get paid for providing the ride
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by aquark 11y ago
Likely since they will still be high end phones, but as a trend this would suppress the price for used phones and just pushes the problem down the chain. The people pikcing up those used phones are likely getting rid of a slightly older one
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by aquark 11y ago
For discoverability you should make the rules accessible front and center on the game page. I just clicked through and spent a few minutes clicking around ... I couldn't find the rules anywhere without clicking through to Wikipedia.
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by aquark 11y ago
Maybe ... but it hugely depends on the per minute price Amazon are paying. The same thing could have been said about streaming music services and yet many artists seem not too happy about the per play $ they get from Spotify & ilk (thou
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by aquark 11y ago
> I'm (literally) having nightmares about a JS bug I won't be able to solve > since it's so many moving parts I am similar, writing the back end was easier ... front end not so much. I hated having JS bugs due to stup
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by aquark 11y ago
Just bought one of these for home last week $593CAD + sales tax (~ $457USD) It is certainly good value, and a fraction of the price of the one I had for work a few years ago (different brand totally). It can feel a little flimsy/wobbl
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by aquark 11y ago
I had the wonderful opportunity to donate this way earlier this month. It was totally painless (modulo a couple of needle pricks) and just required some time hooked up to the machine (~6 hours) and a course of drugs beforehand to boost ste
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by aquark 11y ago
Thanks for the great info. We are ~10Km from the nearest village that likely has decent bandwidth, though no idea on the backhaul available from there. Still 10K @ $30 (AUD/CAD)\m would be $300K+ to put it along existing hydro infrastr
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by aquark 11y ago
Agreed -- as someone living semi-rural (rural, but not middle-of-nowhere) I've often wondered about the economics of a fibre rollout, our only choices at the moment are very pricey wireless (for the level of service) But not in a posit
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PagerDuty Guarantees Uptime with Downtime Insurance(pagerduty.com)
15 points by aquark 11y ago|0 comments
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by aquark 11y ago
It's a nice thought ... but €3 each covers the immediate payment needed. Total Greek debt is €323 B [1] and there are 503 million inhabitants in the EU, making 'pay-off the debt' more like €642 per inhabitant For context tota
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by aquark 11y ago
> If you get into Google, Facebook or Palantir, we’ll refund 100% of tuition. No catch. Seems kinda backward to me ... we'll teach you how to do this well, and if it works we'll refund you? I get you aren't the only variab
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by aquark 11y ago
One other thing to think about would be intangibles the startups can offer vs open source: * how good are you at self-motivating * what chance is there of being mentored at the start up? * will the CEO provide a good reference later one: a
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by aquark 11y ago
There is something a bit ironic about a web site which claims to be 'the most effective way to communicate with new users' showing me a YouTube video to explain what they do ...
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by aquark 11y ago
re 1: part of the benefit of solar locally is that the rate you get for pushing power back into the grid is way in excess of what you have to pay to pull it out. Whilst storing it for your own use later makes sense in theory, it doesn'
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by aquark 11y ago
I agree with letting the interview know you are interested in their company. Inquisitiveness is a key character trait we look for and asking intelligent follow up questions is a great sign rather than someone that has just thought of a lis
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by aquark 11y ago
Nice work! I think this could definitely be expanded and sold as a standalone component
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Chinese rival firm Ninebot buys Segway(bbc.com)
1 points by aquark 11y ago|0 comments
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by aquark 12y ago
That's a good breakdown. In this case though FoundationDB's KV store was order preserving. The API supported (& efficiently implemented) ranged reads, not just individual get's. Implementing layered architectures always
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Ask HN: Freelancer's – what is the ideal client
2 points by aquark 12y ago|1 comments
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by aquark 12y ago
I'm paying with PayPal automatically ... I get an invoice and a few days later they charge my card through PayPal. The system could definitely do with an overhaul though the wording in some places was very confusing.

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