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by fmw 15y ago
Thanks for the clarification. Granted, I oversimplified. The 52% is for everything over ~50K. As a business owner, however, you pay this income tax on top of 20%/25% corporate taxes. If you make a 100.000 euro profit and extract it from you
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by fmw 15y ago
Limits on password length smell like plain text storage. Hashes tend to make the length of the password irrelevant (although some bad implementations only look at the first n characters of the string and ignore the rest), but when you store
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by fmw 15y ago
Amsterdam is somewhat of a creative hub here in the Netherlands, with a lot of designers, photographers, advertising people and other creative types. There are also a number of good, but relatively expensive, data centers where you can host
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by fmw 15y ago
Background: I've been using different flavors of GNU/Linux since 1999, but switched to Mac OS X in 2004 because I fell for the "Apple experience" and felt like I was spending too much time tinkering with drivers and so forth, while Mac OS X
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by fmw 15y ago
It is open source; they are corporate users. Why don't they collectively hire someone to backport security patches? Sounds like a businessmodel to me. You can't really expect support and consideration for your minority use-case for free, if
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by fmw 15y ago
18 is for strong liquor, it is 16 for the rest (e.g. beer, wine). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_drinking_age
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by fmw 15y ago
Thanks a lot to both of you. La Cantine sounds great, as it is a 2 minute walk from the language school my girlfriend is attending here. I'll check it out when I come back in July!
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by fmw 15y ago
I'm hoping to attend and my French is quite rustic (i.e. horrible), so that is at least one non-French speaker for you. As to the age thing: here in Europe, nobody will check your age when you enter a bar. If you look particularly young the
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by fmw 15y ago
I've just signed up (I'm currently in Paris, but returning to the Netherlands tomorrow, but I'll be back for the event). Would love to do a short Clojure-related presentation, even if I'm relatively new to the language. Off topic: does anyo
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by fmw 15y ago
Why do you think so? It it doesn't contain any snide comments. Sure, it is clear that the developers of PHP made some choices that have a negative effect on performance, but so did the Ruby guys. Making tradeoffs that affect performance doe
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by fmw 15y ago
I can imagine several reasons why the European situation is different from the US. First of all, many of the "best" services aren't available here for practical (e.g. Amazon Prime; with the exception of some EU countries like Germany) or le
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by fmw 15y ago
I'm all for contributors to open source projects making money through services like this, but this kind of post seems less appropriate here. It reeks of misguided PR, even. I'm sure that publicizing this to an audience that actually cares a
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by fmw 15y ago
I don't really like the endless discussion about what languages are suitable for beginners or not. I think PG's advice is spot on: pick something a programmer friend that is willing to answer the occasional question recommends. As to JavaSc
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by fmw 15y ago
You make a lot of valid points. I totally agree with you on the (lack of) validity of the Tiobe rankings. However, it is my impression that PHP's popularity seems to be stagnating. I remember noticing a decrease for PHP in another language
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by fmw 15y ago
I don't think he is just talking about popularity, but about being popular, accessible to non-technical people and frowned upon by more competent techies. I think the comparison is quite apt, really.
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by fmw 15y ago
PHP doesn't attract smart people that want to use it for fun in the same way that Java doesn't. Sure, the HipHop work that engineers at Facebook are responsible for must be fun to hack on and the same goes for some of the things that are ha
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by fmw 15y ago
Assuming you have git installed: git clone https://github.com/jonromero/music-as-data.git cd music-as-data Now follow the steps on https://github.com/jonromero/music-as-data listed below "How to use".
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by fmw 16y ago
This isn't entirely correct. The basic idea that countries are only bound by treaties they agreed to (or laws that flow from those treaties, e.g. if they give the EU parliament legislative power in some areas) is right. However, some laws m
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by fmw 16y ago
IANAL, but if I were I'd argue that this law doesn't comply with article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights[0]. There is room for exception in that article (e.g. for national security), but that doesn't take away the fundamental r
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by fmw 16y ago
It is an interesting account of how they jump through hoops to keep the infrastructure at that scale despite an unfortunate initial choice regarding the programming language (PHP won't really make their lives much easier at this scale). Hyv
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by fmw 16y ago
Google cache (text only) version in case its down for you too: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:G_NTVYN...
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by fmw 16y ago
I actually read this all the way to the end, waiting for a "but it is a great language anyway" that never came, because I couldn't believe he was serious. It turned out he was and this article is nothing more than a misinformed and, more im
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Lucene demo written in Clojure(github.com)
19 points by fmw 16y ago|1 comments
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by fmw 16y ago
Actually, there is https://github.com/richhickey/clojure-clr , but the JVM is still the preferred platform for Clojure (although I'm sure the CLR version would be picked up once someone comes around that cares enough or in the hypothetical
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by fmw 16y ago
Skrebbel is right and wrong at the same time. It is true that court rulings do not define new legislation in the Dutch legal system[0], but he's wrong when he says judges don't consider court rulings. Especially rulings from higher courts (
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by fmw 16y ago
I know Phil Hagelberg (technomancy) frequents Hacker News, so: thanks for your work on Leiningen. It just works and as someone new to Clojure it has saved me a lot of time already.
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by fmw 16y ago
This reminds me of Rich Hickey's Clojure Concurrency talk[1], where he uses a simulation of an ant colony to explain Clojure's concurrency features. Hickey's version[2] is a lot simpler, but remains an interesting starting point if you want
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by fmw 16y ago
http://paulgraham.com/pfaq.html If you don't have a programmer friend you can lean on Seven Languages in Seven Weeks[1] by Bruce Tate will give you a nice overview of some good languages, so you can pick one that fits your way of thinking
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by fmw 16y ago
Be concise and call for an action first, e.g.: Please use a modern browser to view this website. We recommend Firefox, Chrome or Safari. These browsers support some of the advanced features used to build this website. You need to be frien
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by fmw 16y ago
LISP's syntax is so atrocious that I never understood its popularity. LISP's possibility to introduce higher-order functions was mentioned several times in its defence, but now I come to think of it, that could be done in ALGOL60 as well.

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