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by dwild 8y ago
> he is more than qualified for "will contribute to a small portion of software that will be run by a large fraction of the planet's computers". Maybe, but for that part he was in competition with people that were simply b
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by dwild 8y ago
> Package manages often determine the success of an entire ecosystem. Nobody said it wasn't great, just that whether he is good to make a package manager, doesn't determine if he is a good fit for anything else. If that hiring
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by dwild 8y ago
> I trust Mozilla more than to just about anybody: they're nonprofit, Mozilla Foundation is non-profit but Mozilla Corporation is for profit. I don't know how that would affect your opinion but it certainly did when I found tha
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by dwild 8y ago
> substantial taxes are paid for the privilege of using the public roads, including city streets. We all pay theses taxes, cars or not, are you talking about license plate? Here it's a few hundreds buck a year, if that's all wh
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by dwild 8y ago
Cars are treated like this because of theirs needs. At the beginning, they weren't and all theses requirements came later on. If we did the same as we do with the scooters right now, we simply wouldn't have cars. Instead we made t
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by dwild 8y ago
> AmpMe app can sync audio across multiple phones. (I was also really surprised to find out that they're a pretty huge company with 20 full time employees.) The owner is a sketchy guy that made his money using adware (and still is)
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by dwild 8y ago
> nobody owes you anything, plan for a rainy day, find a partner you love and commit to them, work hard, cherish friends and family even when it's difficult, etc. My SO is doing all theses things, a bit to the extreme too but she fe
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by dwild 8y ago
> your app can launch the camera app, and get a callback when the user has taken a photo, with access only to that photo I did that on an Android app I had to build for a client. It was quite a nightmare to make it works on different pho
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by dwild 8y ago
It's odds that in his example he use the second highest tier to fit the average user? I call that generous if anything.
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by dwild 8y ago
Well there's still an advantage to that flexibility. Sure it's fun for a random project to have average value to every specs, but some project require much more RAM than CPU, or much more bandwidth, or the more usual much more sto
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by dwild 8y ago
Sure but he earned the trust of the community by building everything he did. It took times and effort, unlike that other strangers, which does give more credence to what he does. Sadly he didn't deserved that trust.
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by dwild 8y ago
I can't use Venmo, thus I can't exchange anything between you and me. Cryptocurrencies is this neutral third party that won't care about borders. Venmo could be your exchange, while mine would be something else. That's t
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by dwild 8y ago
> treat peoples personal information as if it is credit card data and you will comply in a fairly straight forward way Yet so many business use third parties to avoid to deal with storing credit card data.... The IP is considered a PII t
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by dwild 8y ago
The things is, laws aren't whims. Law shouldn't be applied based on the opinion of some bureaucrats. That's how you get a tiny fine for a big multinational because "they are responsible for too many jobs" or the cla
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by dwild 8y ago
I keep saying this but personally I see bitcoin as a good way to transfer value, nothing else. As soon as you consider it that way, it does solve every issue you got with it. You buy bitcoin > You send bitcoin > He get bitcoin > He
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by dwild 8y ago
>I don’t think many people read that much. Anyone on Hacker News read much more than 250-300 pages a day. Just casually browsing on Hacker News would give a few dozens (multiple pages, looking at comments, going to the actual page). Any
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by dwild 8y ago
Yet he didn't try it. That's seriously weird that he doesn't mentions trying that (he updated his post to say they doesn't support regex, yet does support wildcard, which is all what's needed for a search). He remov
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by dwild 8y ago
The credit system is there to show you can pay your debt. That's important to show that you can pay back a debt, or else why would anyone would let you have debt to them. You don't need social credit system to prove that you can t
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by dwild 8y ago
There's already invisible barcode on some backaging. I had a UV light and used it over a Pringle can and there was a code there!
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by dwild 8y ago
>They both had quite intricate rules to snare and addict the people playing them (let's just say that these games are anything but a game of chance). I'm from Quebec and here it's Loto-Québec that operate the lottery. They
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by dwild 8y ago
How can you know that? I remember back in high school I made a few flash games, that was the only time I ever got a few ECPM mesure of every countries, and I could get up to 10$ per 1000 views from the US. It did include video ads though. L
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by dwild 8y ago
> Who will use bitcoin without it having a stable value? It just need to be stable enough for the length of the transaction. As long as you keep the bitcoins moving, the gain/loss will distribute itself over everyone and it won&#x27
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by dwild 8y ago
My parents recently (2-3 years ago) started their old generator, probably bought after the massive ice storm of 1998, and the gas that was still in it was enough to start it. They do have gas problem every year with their snow blower, it&#x
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by dwild 8y ago
> If you charge $30 for that, people will pay (once), and then feel ripped off. Waiting 5h has EXACTLY the same effect. The difference is that in one situation, he will make 10x more profit out of it and will be able to ride the hard mon
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by dwild 8y ago
> You are right that NY will get more money now that if Amazon had not come, but that's also true that my life would be better getting $1/hr than $0/hr. That's a pretty bad comparison. Why would I take the $1 job? I g
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by dwild 8y ago
It's not the cloud that'll save theses 8, there's no on demand scaling for the fire department. On both situation, there'll be enough staff there to save at least 8 peoples, thus incurring the same cost. It's probab
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by dwild 8y ago
The benefits are the free online service. You seriously can't say that Youtube doesn't have give us huge benefits, it fill so much of my entertainment nowadays, it give me so much knowledge and all theses peoples that produce thes
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by dwild 8y ago
I think you answered to the wrong comment. He never said all regulations were wrong, he said the monopolistic regulation around hotel and taxi are just made to protect hotel and taxi owners. He isn't talking about any other regulation
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by dwild 8y ago
We have control over cultural things and if theses things bring a life that we can define as inferior, then I believe we should change that culture. The culture make women an object of desire, which increase sexual misconduct toward them. W
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by dwild 8y ago
>Why are you sending US Dollars between yourselves as Canadians? You can’t spend them in Canada, why not use a free and instant Interac e-Transfer? Sorry I didn't see your message until 10 days later. Did you know that the internet

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