capex

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   by capex 13y ago

   > Many of the mining companies pay just 0.6 percent royalties to Zambia, far below the already-meager industry standard of three percent. Is your comment a justification of this disparity?
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   Arduino Yún(arduino.cc)

   1 points by capex 13y ago|0 comments
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   by capex 13y ago

   Sometimes there is a significant delay in Gmail sending new emails to a desktop client. That can be a dealbreaker for this.
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   by capex 13y ago

   Without thinking about who did this, the bevel is plainly ugly. I wonder if no one in the entire design team could tell this to Marissa Mayer?
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   by capex 13y ago

   This post has an interesting url: http://dcurt.is/startups-ruin-you
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   Someone is looking for a time travel companion.(gumtree.com.au)

   1 points by capex 13y ago|0 comments
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   by capex 13y ago

   I can see a phone company offering you-pay-me-to-call as their core service coming up soon.
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   by capex 13y ago

   > I believe the immigration people would give people americanized versions of their names so they wouldn't experience as much rejection or racism. (edited for spelling). You were hopefully thinking about refugee immigrants when you
9. 219.▲
   by capex 13y ago

   Listen to Khan Academy videos (if you consider Sal's pronunciations as good as any American's).
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    by capex 13y ago

    Thanks for pointing it out.
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    by capex 13y ago

    What are the rules for this in Australia?
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    by capex 13y ago

    Yes, but that's not an option for personal email.
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    Be Good(paulgraham.com)

    2 points by capex 13y ago|0 comments
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    by capex 13y ago

    At an average of 22.3% annual interest rate, microcredit schemes appear to be a ripoff.
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    by capex 13y ago

    But there's your opportunity. If you ignore it just because its more complex, you'll be having Schlep Blindness. http://www.paulgraham.com/schlep.html
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    by capex 13y ago

    The problem with Folyo is the upfront fee. If the intended market is startups, most projects are bootstrapped. They'd kill to get a great designer, but $100 posting fee is a huge psych barrier. IMHO, the proven formula of service provi
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    by capex 13y ago

    Radish is cool. Is there an open source or commercial implementation of the idea elsewhere?
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    by capex 13y ago

    I wrote an article [1] on the topic of considering your brain 'the significant other'. On a personal level, I think there are significant productivity advantages to be had if you consider your brain as not your 'self'. [
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    by capex 13y ago

    Google could offer a $20/month no-ads no-tracking email service. How many privacy conscious people are willing to pay that? Its not Google deciding to do this, its just ourselves.
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    The Joy of Rails Books(joyofrails.com)

    8 points by capex 13y ago|1 comments
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    Now you can embed Facebook posts(newsroom.fb.com)

    2 points by capex 13y ago|0 comments
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    by capex 13y ago

    Thanks, I think you're taking the right approach here for large business customers. The quoted email is more suited to mom-and-pop idea-wielding people who get work done and never pay.
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    by capex 13y ago

    > Engineers should be told what to do. It depends, no engineer wants to be micro-managed.
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    by capex 13y ago

    For long overdue accounts, here is a short sample email that I came across a while ago: "A quick note to say that I am really disappointed that you have still not paid me the [..] that I'm owed for the work I did for you. In the g
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    by capex 13y ago

    I didn't find the reference to unrelated spending by Grameen in the linked article.
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    by capex 13y ago

    Dr Younas, the founder of Grameen Bank is a larger-than-life figure in Bangladesh, and a nobel prize winner. His social business empire is now so big, that the government is fearing a scenario where Dr Younas takes part in politics and driv
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    by capex 13y ago

    Thanks for introducing the new HN verb, 'beg'. Really amused.
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    by capex 13y ago

    For a different perspective, I am now following teamtreehouse rails app tutorials, to build a facebook style app. They make easy work of building a simple app as there are no tests written, and quite a bit of hand-holding. I guess One Month
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    by capex 13y ago

    @WestCoastJustin, I am not able to plan the app. How do I create a database for restaurant menus, where I need to differentiate eat-in and takeaway prices, substitutions, additions and subtractions in an item etc.
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    by capex 13y ago

    Railscasts is fantastic. That's what I am using to learn Devise and other devious gems.