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by dwj 14y ago
Actually, I do that all the time (tell people it will be easier to do this via email). Most of my calls are support, and it's generally MUCH quicker and more efficient doing it via email than over the phone. I actually removed the phone num
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by dwj 14y ago
The other issue is that many of my good customers have done some of the things on the 'difficult customer' list. You can't easily pigeon hole customers as 'bad'. I have only had one REALLY bad customer - he tended to swear in his email (and
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by dwj 14y ago
Actually, I only have a vague understanding of this and I'm probably what you would call an expert. I have used many of these features in JS, but like the author says it's unintuitive and "wrong" the way javascript does it. Basically OOP is
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by dwj 14y ago
More details here: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/15/us-britain-starbuc... It looks like it boils down to the fact that in the UK companies are allowed to make tax-free 'royalty' and 'interest' payments to their offshore parents,
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by dwj 14y ago
I guess the 16-hour workday thing didn't work out.
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by dwj 14y ago
Interesting, but I can't submit because I'm based in Canada.
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by dwj 14y ago
I think it's only the small-time dealers that hate carwoo. Have a look at the comment by Scott Salzman on that forum, which fits with my own experience. I bought my car through carcostcanada.com, and my local dealer couldn't even match the
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by dwj 14y ago
I've written my own programming language and VM, and I mostly use php for web development because it's quick, easy and gets the job done. Your theory that php developers are lazy and stupid is just nuts. You can write bad code in any langua
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by dwj 14y ago
I think you're right. I mostly use OSX these days, but I also test my stuff on Windows a lot. Virtualbox makes it easy.
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by dwj 14y ago
On Mac Chrome is working fine, but on Windows it seems to be completely screwed up these days. If you open multiple youtube windows, for example, it screws up pretty much every time you switch between windows - you have to minimize the wind
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by dwj 14y ago
Oh, if you knew me you'd know that I'm not afraid of a few lines of code, and I'm not afraid of low-level stuff :) My point is that when you compare OCI to the C API for mysql, it takes a lot less code to use the mysql C API, and it is much
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by dwj 14y ago
Very good book about the tech industry: "rework" by the 37 signals guys. Other very good non-tech book I've read recently: Walk the Amazon.
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by dwj 14y ago
After using Oracle 15 years ago, then mostly using mysql, I had to use Oracle again last year and you know what? It's crap! OCI is a ridiculous, error-prone API that takes a bunch of code to do anything at all.
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by dwj 14y ago
I guess Apple must have changed things recently. My Apple password is a 6-letter dictionary word with a '1' at the end (the same insecure password I use for all sites I don't really give a shit about). They haven't asked me to change it yet
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by dwj 14y ago
I think you've pretty much nailed it, although I would disagree with the ordering. I'd put Islam and healthcare at the top (not sure which is more controversial).
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by dwj 14y ago
That doesn't seem like a sensible solution. You're basically hurting performance on all other platforms just to work around one of Apple's bugs.
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by dwj 14y ago
The random query value is probably the best solution. We have had this in our app for years, because it has been an issue in both java and IE for a long time.
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by dwj 14y ago
I think you might be wrong here :) I've no idea why Quora does that, but I'm pretty sure it's not a standard thing. You really should only being doing one long poll at a time, so it should never be an issue.
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by dwj 14y ago
No worries, you seem like a decent guy too. Nice site btw.
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by dwj 14y ago
I tend to agree with most of what you are saying. I have a Galaxy Note phone now, and it's a pretty amazing device (much better than the Galaxy and earlier Samsung devices). However it still has it's annoyances, and you can't really use it
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by dwj 14y ago
TabBarController is now highly buggy. I had to put multiple workarounds into our app to get around them (figured out mostly myself and from forums). There's no info on Apple's dev site about how to actually support iphone 5's new resolution
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by dwj 14y ago
So are there any retail stores still selling kindles?
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by dwj 14y ago
While I don't like those 'ly' names myself either, I wouldn't necessarily say it's bad. There are still a lot of startups with 'ly' names appearing and getting funded. We (people on HN) aren't typical users, and sometimes we're not the best
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by dwj 14y ago
Seeing all these dubious me-too startups appearing on techcrunch every day, this doesn't exactly surprise me.
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by dwj 14y ago
Yes, I tend to agree. Both Mountain Lion and OS 6 are pretty buggy and overall less useful than their predecessors.
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by dwj 14y ago
Haha. dailymail - say no more. Basically it is crap science with a shock value, which is the only science that dailymail understands (remember MMR?)
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by dwj 14y ago
Yes, me too. I've used google adwords quite a few times, and I always end up spending more than I make back from it. The problem is that it just costs too much to grab each new customer that it usually isn't worthwhile. Facebook is the only
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by dwj 14y ago
I think you really need some traction from the very beginning, otherwise it is unlikely to be successful.
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by dwj 14y ago
I used carcostcanada.com to buy my Ford Edge 5 years ago - it works in the way you describe. Our local dealer wouldn't even match the lowest quote I got from the site. Even with a bunch of haggling, his best price was $1k more than the no-h
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by dwj 14y ago
Oops, I meant moodgym. www.moodgym.anu.edu.au.

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