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by borisk 16y ago
EU, as of now, is far less unified than US. 11 of the 27 members have their own currencies. Some of the members are not part of the borderless Schengen Agreement. Sending stuff and money across EU is subject to international taxes and fees.
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by borisk 16y ago
$1.33 trillion is China quarter GDP, $14 trillion is US yearly GDP. And the second includes many trillions of financial "product". http://www.google.com/publicdata?ds=wb-wdi&met=ny_gdp_mk...
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by borisk 16y ago
HN is so slow, this was on /. 9 years ago ;)
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We've only got ourselves to blame for the indestructible Indian superbug (dailymail.co.uk)
3 points by borisk 16y ago|1 comments
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Samsung I9000 Galaxy S vs. Apple iPhone 4: Collision course(gsmarena.com)
1 points by borisk 16y ago|0 comments
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by borisk 16y ago
Right, my bad.
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by borisk 16y ago
No they don't. At least those versions which come from Microsoft and not from your favorite torrent tracker/IT department. All Windows relesead after 2003 contain the .NET framework Common Language Runtime, but compilers are part of the SDK
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by borisk 16y ago
Such nonsense. Bill Gates' Microsoft would've put hundreds of developers on IronRuby and ensured it was the fastest and the most feature rich implementation there is. Just like they did with C++, Java and JavaScript. BTW Windows is comple
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by borisk 16y ago
>>It was basically Java, but then dumbed down a bit, as I recall. C# 1.0 had all the important features of Java 1.4 plus delegates, events, autoboxing, enumerations, operator overloading, indexers, foreach and a lot more. IMHO 90% o
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by borisk 16y ago
Bye bye, GPS - http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.35801
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NASA puts off space station repair until Friday‎(nasa.gov)
1 points by borisk 16y ago|0 comments
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by borisk 16y ago
Maybe "start a startup" is just not a popular phrase. I'd guess people are more likely to search for "startup", "start a company", "start a business".
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by borisk 16y ago
Actually non-AMOLED screens take more power to display black than white. And anyway the difference is very very small, far from waste.
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by borisk 16y ago
AMD market cap: 5.4 B, Apple: 230 B. Apple can probably just buy AMD.
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by borisk 16y ago
The awesome EFF can use some donations: https://w2.eff.org/donate/index.php
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HP: WebOS phones only, no Win Phone 7(news.cnet.com)
26 points by borisk 16y ago|17 comments
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by borisk 16y ago
Litle bit offtopik question: any idea why is Google so anti-Ruby lately? I mean stuff like no Ruby projects in 2010 Google summer of code.
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by borisk 16y ago
A popular tactic of totalitarian governments is to pass laws which everyone will have to break. So that if they don’t like someone, there is always a lawful reason to take them down.
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Windows x64 Explained (piers7.blogspot.com)
12 points by borisk 16y ago|0 comments
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by borisk 16y ago
There are at least a couple well known lobby groups who have implemented a similar voting mechanism.
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by borisk 16y ago
$29 for tehnical support can be a good deal.
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by borisk 16y ago
Still loads results in a frame. So annoying.
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by borisk 16y ago
This sounds like a great opportunity for Mint clones. Implement automatic import from Quicken and get quite a few customers.
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RISK OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE BY BP OIL SPILL [pdf](associazionegeofisica.it)
1 points by borisk 16y ago|0 comments
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ISS tour [video](upload.wikimedia.org)
10 points by borisk 16y ago|0 comments
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by borisk 16y ago
"HTTP Authentication may be RESTful, but it's not very USEful." http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=155252
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by borisk 16y ago
1st slide ruins the surprise.
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Around "Hello World" in 30 Days(slideshare.net)
2 points by borisk 16y ago|0 comments
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by borisk 16y ago
37 Signals did take some VC money.
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by borisk 16y ago
Cool, so now a virus can potentially destroy phones on hardware level.

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