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by ffffruit 15y ago
Is there anything stopping the renter from taking extra precautions? Like for example photocopy the tenants passport? I am finding it hard to believe that somebody would drop off the keys to his own apartment to a total stranger, regardless
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by ffffruit 15y ago
Skype was reclassified by kids from "awesome software" to "proprietary crap" as soon as Microsoft bought it.
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by ffffruit 15y ago
This is a conspiracy from Skype to make us upgrade to the latest version of the Mac client.
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by ffffruit 16y ago
Would be more interesting and useful to see the overall impact of the addons on loading pages.
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by ffffruit 16y ago
I link to the BMJ all the time through work, they have never complained. Also, the author is cherry picking the text he quoted. Here is the full text from the BMJ groups T&C: "You may link to articles or the home page of the BMJ or BMJ
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by ffffruit 16y ago
A similar approach is being piloted in the UK on certain train lines - on demand media streaming called Volo ( http://www.volo.tv/ ). Its expensive, you have to pay for headphones and their content is mediocre. Train prices have consistentl
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by ffffruit 16y ago
I would think it was part engineering as they probably did not have, and do not seem to have now, any sort of alarming system in place. (at least not at the coastal places I visited)
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by ffffruit 16y ago
I find the comparison with SE Asia rather poor with regards to investment as I've been to Sri Lanka and the amount of money that is available for basic infrastructure, let alone anti-tsunami barricades, is negligible compared to Japan unfor
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by ffffruit 16y ago
Another talk I find highly inspirational is his 2005 Stanford university commencement address. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UF8uR6Z6KLc
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by ffffruit 16y ago
Back in the 90's, Nokia im my opinion has the best UI's by far compared to the competitors then. When Motorola phones did not even query the phone book to get the caller's name, Nokia was innovating with tabbed menus and whatnot. Its a sham
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by ffffruit 16y ago
I also find the fact that the official email from PayPal is just signed "Julie" with no surname and just comes from a generic sink account, thus eliminating any chance of actually following up the problem with a human being rather annoying.
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by ffffruit 16y ago
Can somebody from the Perl community please but this guy in the right place by supplying a one-liner Perl golf quadruple map call?
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by ffffruit 16y ago
Filtering out stopwords would be useful to prevent trolling. http://www.subzin.com/s/a
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by ffffruit 16y ago
This reminded me of Isac Aasimov's foundation.
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by ffffruit 16y ago
I use Perl every day in product/home and have contributed numerous modules on CPAN. The "Ratings" argument is very very thin. Yes, CPAN does have a ratings system ; nobody uses it. Even very very popular and well-written modules, for exampl
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by ffffruit 16y ago
Wouldn't this be equivalent to somebody finding out Google's exact ranking weights from 2005 ? The recipe has changed/been tweaked alot & the true strength of Google is now in its worldwide brand rather than its ranking algorithm.
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Ask HN: Am I expecting too much from modern day web browsers?
2 points by ffffruit 16y ago|2 comments
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by ffffruit 16y ago
How does this compare with Postbox? Has anybody used both?
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by ffffruit 16y ago
Yes, they do. From what I recall, they are developing version 2.0 in parallel. Relevant post from their blog: http://blog.macromates.com/2010/why-2-0-is-not-developed-in-...
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by ffffruit 16y ago
"greatest things that has ever happened to the internet" What a bold bold statement. Care to elaborate why?
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by ffffruit 16y ago
I only wish the real Textmate followed up on the huge list of todo's and feature requests people have been submitting. I think a core update is long overdue.
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by ffffruit 16y ago
I agree with what you are saying here and I believe there are similar regulations in the UK for loan applications. But remember: I am _renting_ a room in a house, not buying anything or borrowing any money. You also put down a 1 1/2 months
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by ffffruit 16y ago
Exactly, thank you.
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by ffffruit 16y ago
I love the fact that people with no authority and no respect for privacy whatsoever arbitrarily just ask for bank statements from their customers. I have had estate agents ask for 6 months of bank statements for no apparent reason and when
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by ffffruit 16y ago
Are you 100% sure? Doesn't the whole 'equal opportunities' scheme dictate that you cant ?
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by ffffruit 16y ago
I would argue: it depends. I live and work in London ; the only places where I've seen recruiters or job ads specifically ask for a 'red brick' or 'top ten' university degrees is the financial domain. They specifically ask and check for a t
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by ffffruit 16y ago
Always relevant, the article from Ioannides - the man who dedicated this entire career on examining the way in which research is done rather than the actual research. http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal... #1 in d
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by ffffruit 16y ago
I think you might be a bit confused. Father (John) Chrysostomos, aka Ioannis Xrysostomos in Greek, was an archbishop in Constantinople. He was renounced for his preaching skills thus the translation "Golder mouth". I'm pretty sure he's not
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by ffffruit 16y ago
CNN has insightful news now?
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by ffffruit 16y ago
Not entirely sure if this also applies to the CS domain (been quite a few years since I published a CS paper) but in the medical domain researchers are also presented with the option of publishing in an open access journal. For example, PLo

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