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by evandavid 17y ago
The chain was founded in 1958 by Dan and Frank Carney. They chose the name "Pizza Hut" since the sign they purchased only had enough space for nine characters and spaces. From Wikipedia.
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by evandavid 17y ago
It is interesting to consider how many jobs (globally) have been created, or shall we say, how many people's professional life has been shaped, by the software framework that DHH released to the world. So in a way, he has created jobs. With
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by evandavid 17y ago
Perhaps it's for Apple TV. The images in the patent obviously look more like a traditional OSX desktop, but the patent does mention other types of devices.
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by evandavid 17y ago
Hmm. This looks a lot like Xero.com, only less mature. Also the top google result for "indinero" is a secure (https) page, which results in Google warning me that this site "might not be what I was looking for". I'm not sure if it is Google
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by evandavid 17y ago
my immediate thought was 'welcome to digg'
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by evandavid 17y ago
We are proudest because construction of the rocket effectively doubled our military power. Baaa.
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by evandavid 17y ago
I think there are small/medium companies out there (similar to the one I've been working with recently with around 40 employees) that require a really simple self-hosted document management system. You might say that these companies should
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by evandavid 17y ago
They got around this with Pago in NZ ( https://www.pago.co.nz/section261.aspx ) by working with the banks. The money doesn't get transferred from your primary chequing account - you have a separate account which is your Pago 'wallet'. Only
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by evandavid 17y ago
Actually despite my earlier comment, this practice is also very common in New Zealand, and I too was surprised when I spent a year in Washington, DC. However, the idea of doing it via SMS has never taken off here (as per previous post).
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by evandavid 17y ago
That's what I thought when I signed up for Pago - an identical service which launced in New Zealand three years ago: https://www.pago.co.nz/section261.aspx It was launched by one of the major banks in co-operation with one of the major wi
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by evandavid 17y ago
I think this is valid. Some of us are in the position where all of our friends are non-hackers, and we are the odd ones out. For us, meeting hacker friends is expanding our social horizons. Personally, I enjoy working with other hackers,