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by fbnt 15y ago
For those of you who gets redirected to the localized version of google without the new feature, go to http://www.google.com/en
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by fbnt 15y ago
Market timing. 20 years ago a top level domain wouldn't have been such a valuable asset.
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by fbnt 15y ago
So yep, I'm not too concerned about this. ICANN aren't a great organisation, and they seem to mainly bring out new TLDs to get more money. ICANN is a non-profit whom CEO gets ~1M/year. Executives earn a bonus of more than 50% of their bas
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Things that happen on Internet every 60 seconds(go-gulf.com)
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by fbnt 15y ago
Crocodoc looks great! Just out of curiosity: do you have a set of fonts ready to deliver to the client in order to make the font-face approach work? What do you do if the PDF if using some obscure font type? Are you using Poppler for server
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by fbnt 15y ago
Isn't it ironic? The Cloud as we know it is the very opposite of a real cloud. Until recent times, the Internet has been a good model of a cloud infrastructure: millions of big & small indipendent data clusters interconnected to each ot
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by fbnt 15y ago
Instruction List (IL) on PLC & other microcontrollers is widely used in automatic controls, My engneering course had some odd classes of PLC assembly-like programming (and some 8086 and useless PXA assembly, a 1st gen. PocketPC processo
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by fbnt 15y ago
That's actually what they do, but a consistent number of consultants on a specific project is necessary to justify their high prices. And they can do it because once they've taken control of most of the client's backoffice, so that he can't
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by fbnt 15y ago
I left Accenture (Italy) this january, after 3 years, and just like you I was hired right after graduation thanks to my 'mad' java skills, after about 1 year I wasn't writing much code anymore and SQL, Word & Excel became my only daily
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by fbnt 15y ago
Absolutely spot on. It's not lack of funds or the absence of a proper ecosystem, it's a huge cultural gap. The whole school system is fundamentally broken. Since elementary school to the very last stages of university education I've been to
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by fbnt 15y ago
Yes, that was exciting. Parachutes seems to have failed though the payload looks fine. Anyway, great achievement, congratulations!
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by fbnt 15y ago
Nothing To Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
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by fbnt 15y ago
I thought that snatching the type of content of my pages should be their job. I'm so naive. No problem, I'll add a few kbytes to every single page of my sites, so I can replicate the information I've already stated in a number of sitemaps,
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by fbnt 15y ago
Where did you expect them to start from? Build the kernel from scratch? That actually wouldn't be a bad idea. As someone pointed out, I also feel that filesystem hierarchy, window frames and the desktop metaphor is now outdated and overly
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by fbnt 15y ago
Hey David, if you'll ever manage to organize an HN spritz in Padova let me know, I'd be happy to join :)
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by fbnt 15y ago
"I make sofware, it's one of the few art forms that really pays off nowadays" This is my usual line when somebody ask me what I do for a living. Still, I can see in many people's eyes (especially girls) a spark of prejudice: ( IT Guy = prag
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by fbnt 15y ago
I remember asking this very same question to my Math teacher when I was 12, during middle school. She paused 5 seconds and then replied: "It's exercise for your brain, it makes it more elastic! ". Eventually, I became an engineer (and lear
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by fbnt 15y ago
I remember the very early days of youtube. For the first 3 months, it was just a copycat of Flickr (concept, layout, tagclouds on the homepage etc.) with flash videos instead of photos. The initial idea was to offer a service where you cou
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by fbnt 15y ago
Clearly, our stories are different. I posted my thoughts based on my 3 years experience in a major Fortune 500 IT corp., where 90% of managers are top-school MBA graduates. My objection to the article was that too often, engineers are consi
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by fbnt 15y ago
I don't really like the 'In relation to your supervisor' part, maybe I'm just frustrated, or maybe in america things are different. - 'Do not overlook the steadfast truth that your direct supervisor is your “boss.”' Right, I'm an engineer
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by fbnt 15y ago
service httpd start
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by fbnt 16y ago
Don't use it. It looks dodgy, it's easily mistaken and has no recognition at all. No matter how much GoDaddy pushes it, this is yet another attempt from a privately held domain registry + ICANN to monetize on a new top level domain, as they
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by fbnt 16y ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R90QyIBJqrg
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by fbnt 16y ago
I remember doing some research about this a while ago. Getting some sort of text-based emotional index isn't trivial at all, there are few hardly viable solutions (google's prediction api and Bayes-based algorithms), but they aren't really
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by fbnt 16y ago
During my corporate gig, we engineers had a non-written rule of thumbs to estimate sheduling: Think about how much time do you really think it will take to do it, double it, and add 20% contingency. This worked well most of the time, as usu
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by fbnt 16y ago
My dad is in that 8%. I guess the more you're a computer illiterate, the less you're likely to get the difference between a genuine and an advertising link.
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by fbnt 16y ago
I've got the feeling that this kid haven't fully realized what he's got on his hands, pity it'll be too late when he does.
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by fbnt 16y ago
Honestly, If I were recruiting developers/creative/technical people the least thing I'd be doing is write a job post.
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by fbnt 16y ago
He's probably referring at the technique they've used to get the groupon.com domain from a guy living up in UK. This guy bought groupon.com with the intention of building a group coupon business. While he was sitting on it, the real groupon
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by fbnt 16y ago
Great post. Any startup working with the head on the web and arms in the real world will be part of an entirely new batch of startup, much more focused on profitability rather than traffic. This is good. I'm just a bit perplexed on one poin

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