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   by asb 13y ago

   Right now in the UK, VAT is at 20% on ebooks as it is for any other standard rate item. Physical books and magazines are at 0%. Most people won't be paying this though, as sites like Amazon sell from Luxembourg where VAT on eBooks is 3
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   by asb 13y ago

   Great to hear! Looking forward to giving Dart and AngularDart a go.
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   by asb 13y ago

   Yes, the situation seems much better than I thought. I didn't realise Angular.dart was unrepresentative.
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   by asb 13y ago

   > I still don't see any enterprise requests for CoffeScript, TypeScript or any other language that targets JavaScript. GWT seems to have been widely used.
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   by asb 13y ago

   It is being worked on apparently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6731385
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   by asb 13y ago

   As of last week's AngularDart announcement, it sounded like the size of Dart to JS compiled code was still rather large. I'm surprised a 1.0 release has been cut if that is still a problem. I know dart2js can and I'm sure wil
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   Dart 1.0: A stable SDK for structured web apps(blog.chromium.org)

   50 points by asb 13y ago|22 comments
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   by asb 13y ago

   Will you be clarifying the content license before the campaign finishes? I'd love to see all tutorials with a CC-BY-SA license.
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   by asb 13y ago

   For hobbyists at least, Dangerous Prototypes and others promote the "Sick of Beige" family of form factors. http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Sick_of_Beige_standard_P... Sadly there don't seem to be ma
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    by asb 13y ago

    Though they have a $50 minimum also (unlike CloudFront), presumably as customers spending less than that are too expensive to support.
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    by asb 13y ago

    Yes, the recent HN change is to introduce CloudFlare.
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    by asb 13y ago

    Do you mean CloudFlare rather than CloudFront?
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    by asb 13y ago

    Licenses for video codecs are sold because people want them, the chip can decode them, and it would obviously be stupid to bake that cost in to the base price when only a subset of users want them. The Foundation doesn't want to see yo
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    by asb 13y ago

    I agree that a lot of this stuff is surprisingly affordable and doable with low-cost equipment. That said, it's worth noting that in the case of the Raspberry Pi the BGA package of the BCM2835, even were it available in small quantitie
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    by asb 13y ago

    Augeas is a safer way of updating config files http://augeas.net/ , though I have to admit I've mostly ended up just using sed myself.
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    by asb 13y ago

    Cheers, it doesn't affect me personally - I just know from experience that some companies are vehemently anti-(L)GPLv3. It doesn't help that FUD is spread about it from both in and outside the FOSS community.
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    by asb 13y ago

    LGPLv3 is going to make some people unhappy (Qt5 itself is LGPLv2.1+).
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    by asb 13y ago

    Just the sort of answer I was hoping for - thanks!
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    by asb 13y ago

    How do they manage that? 1Gsps ADCs are really pricy.
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    by asb 13y ago

    Even better is pipelight: http://fds-team.de/cms/articles/2013-08/pipelight-using-silv...
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    by asb 13y ago

    I expected that, thanks anyway. Really I was just checking there wasn't some sort of "Rackspace is fundamentally opposed to the concept of spot pricing" belief I had missed somewhere. Cheers.
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    by asb 13y ago

    Is there any possibility Rackspace may add a spot market to their product offering? Indeed if you or anyone else has any insight as to why Amazon remains (to my knowledge) the only "cloud" hosting vendor to offer spot pricing I&#x
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    by asb 13y ago

    Yes, that's the common interpretation of "turnover". It's also worth noting that he's successfuly expanded beyond his initial offering such that modmypi.com is a one-stop-shop for all things Pi. Plus modmypi donate
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    by asb 13y ago

    Yes I recognise having that option is an advantage, a major one for some cases (e.g. e-commerce). However I wouldn't be keen to put my credit card details in to a form on e.g. a blogger's website soliciting donations.
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    by asb 13y ago

    Am I right in thinking that Stripe has no option for a hosted payments page? This makes it much clearer to users that the site they are in does not process their credit card details correctly. I am aware of Stripe Checkout.
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    by asb 13y ago

    Well take a look at the European countries for instance. Gives a similar granularity to looking at US states.
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    by asb 13y ago

    Seeing as there are CloudFlare employees monitoring this discussion, what would you say about CloudFlare's relatively poor showing on the Cedexis country reports http://www.cedexis.com/country-reports/ (e.g. avera
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    by asb 13y ago

    I agre with your final paragraph and I rather like the consolidation that systemd offers. I'm certainly not going to miss fiddling with consolekit and I'm looking forwards to managing my user session via systemd. It reduces the nu
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    by asb 13y ago

    They actually produce a new release every two weeks, it's just you're at a much higher risk of encountering a regression.
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    by asb 13y ago

    I'd also love to see some source to get an idea of how this works and what the binding code you end up writing looks like.