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by donkeyd 8y ago
The crypto boom really took me back to that time. Suddenly everybody was a poker expert and nobody ever spoke about their losses. Friend of mine made 120k lucking out on a tilt and then lost it all before paying any of the required taxes. (
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Ask HN: Could AI drive adoption of the English language internationally?
5 points by donkeyd 8y ago|2 comments
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by donkeyd 8y ago
Unless you're not staying in the hotel, just visiting, for whatever reason. If I remember correctly, some Vegas hotels worked this way.
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by donkeyd 8y ago
It's often free, but protected by this combination of number and name. Just check that before trying and you're not really hurting anybody.
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by donkeyd 8y ago
> The person who spends more is likely a better use of your money. I don't buy this, at all. There's so much money being 'donated' to organizations that decline climate change, or lobby against net neutrality, that th
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by donkeyd 8y ago
> manipulate (motivate) > go against the values of some people This reads like you have experience with bad leaders. When I try to motivate colleagues or team members, it's not at all manipulation. It's helping them through
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by donkeyd 8y ago
I had the same question, so i looked it up. From Wikipedia: > They are good, reliable workhorses ideal for use in situations where low printing cost is more important than quality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot_m
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by donkeyd 8y ago
> so we used to use a hack to print "0", followed by a backspace escape code, and then a slash. That produced a slashed zero. That's awesome. Thanks for sharing, because as somebody who grow up with windows 3.1 being the e
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by donkeyd 8y ago
I'm in a similar tough spot, I'm the technical founder and am about to leave the company for health reasons. The difference between my case and what's described here, is that my salary isn't too bad (for Dutch standards)
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by donkeyd 8y ago
I recently got added to Starwood Preferred Guest. I still don't know why they have my e-mail (don't seem to have stayed at any of their hotels), but I guess it's out there now, even though it wasn't in HIBP before.
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by donkeyd 8y ago
> Those people have been through some terrible shit for a long time now. Yup. And having been there and having spoken to locals and people from the UN, MSF, etc. I don't feel like it's going to change soon. A lot of the economy
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by donkeyd 8y ago
This sounds a lot like Haiti. I was there on vacation for a couple of weeks. In general, Haiti dirty and poor, but there were some truly beautiful places. Unfortunately, only a few of them are actually available if you aren't there on
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by donkeyd 8y ago
Until you take a look at statistics on age vs. number of accidents. Young people (<30) and new drivers in general are massively over represented.[0] So this isn't elitist, it's just based some very clear statistics. [0] https:
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by donkeyd 8y ago
Zapier is pretty cool, but every time I mess around with it, I end up being held back by only being able to use two-step apps. $20 a month is too much for just messing around with some personal stuff unfortunately. I's love a $5 person
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by donkeyd 8y ago
> But doing anything truly interesting requires venturing into the world of computer science, which requires years of study to master. What's the definition of 'truly interesting' though? I designed and helped build a SaaS
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by donkeyd 8y ago
Yup. I purposefully didn't mention it, because it can lead to distracting political discussions, unfortunately.
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by donkeyd 8y ago
With 'we' I meant every country that's involved, not just my own country. $60bn is actually surprisingly little for research that could change the future of energy production and possibly society as we know it. To put it into
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by donkeyd 8y ago
The same for wine. However, research has shown that adding red food coloring to white wine, causes people to smell the notes that are usually smelled in red wine. [0] [0] https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2014/
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by donkeyd 8y ago
Any idea on how much money we're spending on this? Also, I can imagine it's a joint project only partially because we can share the cost, I imagine another reason to work together is so that no one country gets this technology fir
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by donkeyd 8y ago
Pretty cool. I like the fast moving transitions, but IMHO you've overdone it a bit, maybe mis it up with some more traditional transitions.
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by donkeyd 8y ago
And to give an example from the other side: "Do you know why they don't cover lunatic asylums in Belgium?" "It would be impossible to cover the whole country."
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by donkeyd 8y ago
As a Dutchie, I really hope it's an accident, because otherwise we can't make Belgian jokes about this.
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by donkeyd 8y ago
This reminded me of a TV show where a guy does a touch and go with a 737 after only a month of training: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5gfidl It's pretty interesting, though, unfortunately, only in Dutch.
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by donkeyd 8y ago
> JIRA has a tendency to.... decay. Is there any enterprise scale tool that doesn't, when it isn't managed correctly? It needs management just like any other tool that's being used on an enterprise scale. People just want
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by donkeyd 8y ago
> Jira gets the flac, because but the problems isn't Jira. I recently had somebody come up and tell me: "I can't get a grasp of the status of the sprint because of Jira." The issue, in stead was that people were creat
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by donkeyd 8y ago
> there is a lot of noise here This is true. However, much of what I know about how software development can work, I've learned from reading HN. I've learned loads about cloud, containers, micro services, project problems, etc.
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by donkeyd 8y ago
Months ago, I estimated a feature to take 3 weeks to build. A couple of months later, deadline nearing, a new developer was asked how much time it would cost to build and they told the product owner that it would take about 3 weeks. The pro
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by donkeyd 8y ago
Definitely this. Reading logs is a skill. It's pretty much the same for debugging. I notice the juniors often start to look at where the problem may be. I usually try to first look where it isn't, so I can drill down to where it a
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by donkeyd 8y ago
The title of the article is: > Apple now strives to [...] It's not really fair to drag in an 8 year old product.
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by donkeyd 8y ago
That is an incredibly unfair and ignorant question. No, of course not, there are more, compute heavy, features and it's not worth it to spend huge amounts of time to support a phone you're no longer selling.

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