bornhuetter

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by bornhuetter 12y ago
I'm a happy FastMail user, but I think this kind of snark is unprofessional.
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by bornhuetter 12y ago
Americans consider hamburgers to be a type of sandwich. It can be confusing to people from other countries who don't consider meat in a bun (as opposed to meat between slices of bread) to be a a sandwich.
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by bornhuetter 12y ago
I'm an actuary as well! I would dispute GP that "as an actuary you have to program". The overwhelming majority of actuaries I know barely know how to use VBA. I quit chasing a career in Comp Sci at uni (I started programmi
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by bornhuetter 12y ago
In practice, forensic accounting is roughly as interesting as archaeology. It makes for some great headlines in the end, but there is an enormous amount of detail and bureaucracy you have to dig through to get there.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
drivebyacct2 has been dead for a long time, but he frequently makes insightful and informative comments.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I've been using http://www.cheapvps.co.uk/ for bots and simple websites, and am pretty happy with it. EDIT: as other people pointed out elsewhere, the UK may not be that much better (if at all better) than the US. The
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Ok great, that's good to hear. I know how to find my RPi's IP address (I bought one last week and itching to get stuck into it) Half the point of the RPi is for it to be a cheap, accessible Linux box for learning, and was pretty a
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I was excited to try this out until I saw that it won't work on Linux, and won't work on Windows without installing Apple's Bonjour. What possessed them to do this? Does anyone know if there is a way to use this on Linux or
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Really? You must have missed the explanation right there in the middle of the page, underneath the title and picture: Introducing Kindle MatchBook For thousands of qualifying books, your past, present, and future print-edition purchases w
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I think this is the first time I've laughed out loud when reading a HN comment. I have a suspicion that you're right.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I have not been a Windows developer for many years, so I admit I may be wrong about things from that perspective. As a Windows user, I still think that their products are pretty good at what they do and that a large proportion of the media
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I really don't think Microsoft's main product offerings are that bad. The biggest issue with Metro and Windows Phone is a lack of developer support - and I think a significant part of that is caused by a lot of the best developer
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Your definition and use of the term are correct.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Good news, this really had to happen. One of Microsoft's biggest problems is one of PR - too many people, particularly in the media have just hated Microsoft for years, and Ballmer is not charismatic enough to ever recover from that p
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I don't think Nate Silver is an actuary, he's a statistician - completely different jobs. When I went to university (late 90's), the web was still one big geo-cities, there was no such thing as smartphones. I lived in Austra
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I am an actuary, and next week is hopefully my last in the industry; I am going off to do an MBA and then hopefully become a semi-technical founder. I got here for exactly the reason you said, I'm good at maths and it pays well. I&#x
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
That's not the way Google works at all. The entire basis of Google's offerings is that they want to give you the most relevant search results possible, along with relevant ads. If they cease giving you the best search results po
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Cool, thanks.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I'm curious why this was banned from iTunes. Does anyone know if this is against a specific rule, or if it was a subjective decision?
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
He means that Britain has the worst level of violent crimes of any country in the EU.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Apportable looks like a fantastic product. Does anyone know if such a thing exists going in the other direction (Android to iOS)? Anything to help with making it easier for developers to make reliable cross-platform apps is very valuable t
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Your comments only really apply to the consumer market. Microsoft's position in enterprise is extremely strong. Apple is not making any serious attempt to challenge that (and probably never will), but Google (and Linux) pose a real thr
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I'm not disagreeing with your general point, I'm just saying that if you cut out the hyperbole and bring your criticism down to a more rational level it would carry a lot more force. "Microsoft is becoming more closed, and t
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I'm not sure I understand your point - can you please elaborate?
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
"bigger walled garden than Android" I would agree with.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Stack ranking seems, to me, to be an incredibly bad idea for Microsoft as a whole. Do you know if they are considering moving away from it? I think Stack Ranking can work in some situations, like mechanical (ie. non-heuristic) work, but fo
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I agree with you that Microsoft is becoming more closed, and that that is a bad thing. However, when you say "full steam ahead to the biggest walled garden on earth. We are still the Borg" it is so over the top that I can't
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
If OP had said criticized Microsoft for moving toward being more closed, I would have completely agreed with him (to the extent that it is relevant to the link, which it isn't really). But he said "full steam ahead to the biggest
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
Is Windows Phone more of a walled garden than than iOS? Is the Xbox more of a walled garden than the Wii U? The argument is still complete hyperbole.
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by bornhuetter 13y ago
I don't understand how anyone in their right minds can consider Windows to be the "biggest walled garden on earth". There is plenty to criticize about Microsoft, but when you descend into completely nonsensical arguments you

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