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by bitserf 14y ago
Or my favorite, buying revenue through acquisitions and then asking existing employees to take one for the team with pay freezes and austerity measures because of the subsequent impact to margin.
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by bitserf 14y ago
Not just you, I've yet to have a card with a non numeric month. Instead of being friendly, putting month name is a usability loss. Are cards with names instead of numbers the majority in the US?
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by bitserf 14y ago
That's pretty damn awesome. Behind everything we take for granted, there's someone who slaved over it and brought it into fruition. Thanks for sharing!
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by bitserf 14y ago
Wish it had vector support, Balsamiq images look really blurry in scaled PDF documents on retina displays :(
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by bitserf 14y ago
I love the font they used, it's almost Helvetica, but I find it slightly more readable - that may just be the fact that it's non standard. It's got a nice density to it. Running through Identifont, it appears to be AG Old Face BQ, is that c
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by bitserf 14y ago
In other words, the market that doesn't know hosting need not cost that much? You need to be a lot clearer on what you're bringing to the table to be able to charge four times as much.
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by bitserf 14y ago
The Australian dollar is currently at parity with the US dollar, so it is as high as you think.
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by bitserf 14y ago
People telling you to follow the instructions are not questioning your intelligence. They're telling you to you know, follow the instructions. Because they work. If you don't want to do that, you now have the option not to.
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by bitserf 14y ago
Something that seems universal: dropping off a courier delivery card without actually attempting delivery. Why is this? Do they do this more often for residential addresses? Are they incentivised monetarily to power through as many "deliver
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by bitserf 14y ago
You've got a pretty negative view of people/life overall. I think your perception may be a self fulfilling prophecy. Going to go out on a limb and recommend reading Learned Optimism, by Martin Seligman. I have a predisposition to seeing the
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by bitserf 15y ago
This was me in 1998. I ended up halfway around the world, in New Zealand. Getting paid well, enjoying what I'm working on. You won't really have more free time than you have now, your life starts filling up with things that demand your time
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by bitserf 16y ago
A Fire Upon The Deep is one of my favourite sci-fi novels...I thought the idea of high technology (FTL, intelligences living in manufactured substrates, etc) only working in certain parts of the galaxy was pretty unique. I read it before
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by bitserf 16y ago
I'm willing to give it the benefit of the doubt, though I don't understand it. It'd be awfully dull if everything had to be optimized for maximum utility, the better to mechanize us.
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by bitserf 16y ago
BASIC on a SpectraVideo SV-328 (CP/M). I didn't have storage for a while, so initially I had to type in my games every time before playing them. Then I got a tape drive and spent months playing Tetra Horror :) http://www.generation-msx.nl/
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by bitserf 16y ago
"There is some concern that Apple will have a hard time recruiting a top-notch CEO because of Jobs's presence." I think he's done a passable job.
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by bitserf 16y ago
The chips are most likely for EMV[1], which essentially puts some intelligence on the card in the form of an IC chip, and allows the card to make approve/deny decisions based on rules of the issuing bank. With EMV cards, the transaction is
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by bitserf 16y ago
With an SSD by default, the 13" MBP should offer a decent boost in performance over the Air, so I think it still has a place with its better upgrade options. Recall, it's also the best-selling MBP. I'm hoping they announce the new lineup so
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by bitserf 16y ago
There is the Github API, so you could backup the non-repository data as well by writing a couple of scripts, if you were so inclined.
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by bitserf 16y ago
That's amazing, 4 years of hacking away to get to a functional working system. The diaries are great and well worth the read, especially the bring up attempts.