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by foxylad 10y ago
Here in NZ most roofs are corrugated iron, and people love the sound of rain on them. Different cultures... There is another good reason for our love affair with iron - we get a lot of earthquakes. An iron roof provides a lot of structural
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So you reckon Trump has no skeletons? And even if he doesn't, I think it's clear he would be child's play to manipulate. Basically if the intelligence community is as corrupt as you suspect, you're in trouble who ever wi
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I think most people would consider an organisation running ancient badly configured un-patched mail servers much grosser incompetence than a gmail user getting phished. I'm not American so I have no skin in the game, but I'm surpr
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Reading the comments below, I fear for our future. It seems no-one trusts information from any source any more, which gives us an excuse to lazily discount any critics of our own beliefs. The US presidential election in particular seems to
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Appengine (and I believe Elastic Beanstalk) are those magic buttons. I've used Appengine for years, and have loved not having to worry about patching, OS upgrades, scaling or redundancy. If you're a small shop, this lets you conce
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Yep, that's pretty much my git repertoire! I would add branch and merge to this list - conceptually simple, but they add another dimension to version control.
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Does SVG not provide that open standard? I'm not a graphics guru, so please put me right gently...
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UPDATE: With Stripe's help, we've resolved the problem. In the process, I've learned several things: - Do the numbers. In our case, we found that the decline surge was caused purely by MasterCard payments in foreign currencie
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Apparently the wavelength of the "heat wave" caused by summer/winter heat changes is about 12 feet. So you should bury your pipes 6 feet under, where it will be hottest in winter and coolest in summer.
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I may be missing something, but I really don't understand this "Organisation X killed product Y so you should never use their products again" meme. Particularly when Y is open source. In this case, you are going to ignore wha
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Ask HN: Use Appengine or Stripe? How are your “card declined” rates?
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Don't worry, you're doing the right thing. Bootstrapping is a 100% thing: you take 100% of the risk; you get 100% of the rewards; and most importantly you can focus 100% of your energy on the product. That focus feeds back nicely
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I, on the other hand, have to build a regex a few times a year. Every darn time I have to look up the difference between .* and .+, and how to do an "or", and why I get matches when I group a set of characters. So SRL sounds like
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Thanks for your undeniably better-informed comment. Would I be right that regenerative braking should substantially reduce brake pad wear?
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> The names have been changed to protect the innocent and guilty. Assuming the writer is as scrupulously honest as they seem to be, how legally exposed would they be in actually naming names? And assuming they are exposed, are astute com
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I just bought a 2014 Nissan Leaf. It's excellent and I'd recommend one (with a couple of caveats, see below). A few (hopefully) interesting comments: There's no premium for being "cool" or "green" any mor
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> 4. Un-discoverable APIs... One of the main reasons I like python is that it is the most self-documenting language I've come across. Say what you like about significant whitespace, but in my last job I used to show salespeople snip
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I just want to say that Google's supposed lack of support is just a perception, despite all the usual comments below. Real example: we use Appengine, and the other day I spotted a bug in a request handler. I filed an issue on the App
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We have a placebo button on the last page of our online school interview booking system. The last page clearly states that their bookings are confirmed and have been emailed to them, but during usability trials we found many people wanted a
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Nice demonstration of smart system design, but the first item on the Australian government's specification would be the use of a private Australia-based system. The bureaucrats who wrote the spec will have limited understanding of data
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Try it again - it got a major upgrade a while back and it now does everything I ask of it. Including my company's accounts, which have to handle four different currencies and tax reporting regimes. There is a nice python library that a
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It would be interesting to know what percentage of that 97% had child custody. The economic consequences of dependant children are enormous - apart from the cost of feeding, housing, clothing and caring for them, it significantly reduces yo
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Good question, but I'm not sure why you included the gender distinction. Do you think divorce is less devastating for women, or that risk of divorce is more of a factor for men?
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Very true - and as well as freeing you from bad jobs, UBI frees you from bad marriages. According to a recent Freakonomics podcast, a trial of UBI in a Canadian town lead to a rise in divorces. It was therefore shut down with extreme prejud
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The thing about someone on their deathbed is that they have no skin in the game. It's the polar opposite of egotism. I'm guessing you don't agree with his thinking. When you are on your deathbed, I'll give your opinion e
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You're right racial comments are not necessarily wrong, but I think you're wrong to vote for Trump. Just to avoid using very loaded words like "racist", I'm going to say I think we're all "culturist"
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This raises the interesting question of why we obscure the input when changing passwords. Showing the new password would allow people to check and correct it, so you'd only need one input. Given that the contents of a password input ca
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Two things: - A blitzed economy coupled with increased nationalism... ring any bells? I'm obviously guessing about the economy, but it's not unlikely. - Russia. A dissolving Europe is going to look... let's say "interes
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U2F is a good addition, but the current incarnations suffer from two issues. First, most of us need access to our phones (no USB reader) and our computers (no NFC). Yubikey have a combo device, but it costs $50. Second, they cost way too mu
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We switched from PayPal because the service was so bad, with 1 in 4 card payments from a very reputable sector (schools) refused for no discernible reason. Mu inner cynic strongly suspects it was purely to drive more people to use a PayPal

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