benjoffe

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by benjoffe 15y ago
You can put your super into a huge variety of places, or even run your own fund. Iirc there are about half a million or so such private 'funds' in Australia.
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by benjoffe 15y ago
> He also completely misses the point about javascript's global-by-default variables and how easy it is to introduce them with typos Using strict mode will avoid these kinds of mistakes.
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by benjoffe 15y ago
Google fails after a few zoom outs for me, screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/Kss1x.png One way is to set a threshold for whether or not to join the dots, if it's above the threshold perform a search between those points to see if they are be
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by benjoffe 15y ago
Well they have very different business models, neither company's licensing here seems unreasonable.
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by benjoffe 15y ago
What other character would you suggest? At least multi line strings arent super common (nor essential) so extra difficulty isn't a major problem.
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by benjoffe 15y ago
Precisely, I can't think of any situation where a user would search for a substring of a single word in the country name. If there is some edge-case where the first letter or so can be omitted that should be handled with the alternate-spell
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by benjoffe 15y ago
> Sorting by artist seems to be broken - if I sort by artist, it should logically order each artist's albums alphabetically as well. I'm not sure what secondary ordering its actually using - it's not alphabetical by track or ordered by
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by benjoffe 15y ago
Furthermore this occurred in 2004.
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by benjoffe 15y ago
There's a plug for the 'jelly belly' brand at the end of the video where they show their logo, I'm pretty sure that means they would have either gotten them for free or they sponsored the video.
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by benjoffe 15y ago
This was exactly the kind of disclaimer on the thinkgeek 'submit t-shirt idea' page, at least 6 months or so ago. I would link to the page that had it but it seems it's now behind a user login page.
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by benjoffe 15y ago
Sounds like a problem with the fact that users and pages can take facebook.com/xxx urls, it's not future proof. Although the overview page resides at /about/timeline, it's understandable that they want to redirect the /timeline path there t
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by benjoffe 15y ago
Legal issues aside, I feel like payment is more likely to be received if similar yet less hostile message is provided as they still have the option of getting the site build by someone else for a similar price out of spite. (Note the 'Cotto
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by benjoffe 15y ago
I'm guessing (hoping) it will use their closure compiler (or something else) to fallback to JavaScript for other browsers.
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by benjoffe 15y ago
What would happen to music that is currently say 60 years old? That would have been copyright-free for 10 years and all of a sudden it is under copyright again?
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by benjoffe 15y ago
I've never reviewed any journal contracts before, but wouldn't there be some clause that forbids publishing content that intentionally damages the publisher's brand? If so couldn't TechCrunch sue the author here?
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by benjoffe 15y ago
Also an important question: "Does your company have anywhere near as many employees as Apple?"
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by benjoffe 15y ago
£ isn't even available on my keyboard, I would need specific software or IDE features just for this.
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by benjoffe 15y ago
> We always knew better than our customers. Eventually, they realized that. Pretty sure I've read quotes from Steve Jobs that follow that line of thinking actually.
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by benjoffe 15y ago
Your big assumption there that those 200,000 people with income of $1M+ have an average of $5M per person is where your logic fails. This source: http://www.google.com/publicdata/explore?ds=a7jenngfc4um7_&#... shows the US total personal
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by benjoffe 15y ago
Modern operating systems can handle this correctly I believe.
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by benjoffe 15y ago
You have to be careful there, you can only make that assertion if you can prove that no pawn has been promoted to a bishop (eg if all 8 pawns are still on the board, or 7 pawns and 2 queens etc).
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Intellectual property - Patents against prosperity(economist.com)
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by benjoffe 15y ago
> Also, when they do ask you about how much money you want, give them a range or a baseline (ex: I had X at my previous job, so I expect at least X or from my research people doing this job receive between Y and Z, so I’d expect somethi
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by benjoffe 15y ago
I read the same story in The Fatal Shore [1] which to my knowledge is a very well researched/factual book on early convict history (though I don't recall the success rate being initially as low as 40%, it was low though). [1] http://www.am
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by benjoffe 15y ago
Combine this with eye tracking (to the level that my focal depth can be detected) and an automatic lens over my monitor and you'd have a pretty immersive picture.
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by benjoffe 15y ago
I mentioned this on HN in far fewer words a few weeks back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2610235 I was thinking about making a blog post about it but couldn't see much more information to add, it seems this blogger couldn't either
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by benjoffe 15y ago
Yes and Google has 'throw 1;' at the start of some of their files IIRC (may be some other value than '1').
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by benjoffe 15y ago
Interestingly if your 4 digit key for iPhone has a digit used twice then it is harder to guess the correct order given the smudge marks: 4 distinct digits = 4! = 24 permutations 3 distinct digits (one repeated) = 4!/2*3 = 36 permu
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by benjoffe 15y ago
This will have more than one valid solution, eg. 110 == -10 == (two).
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by benjoffe 15y ago
Tested again, seems yes I can pan sideways (not sure why I couldn't before) but still can't zoom which makes no sense when the doc is wider than the viewport.

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