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by fpp 13y ago
This is not only a 14y-old's idea it is also an idea that is more than 14 years old. The selling of costume jewellery via hosting aka tupperware parties was kind of popular with high-income families about 15+ years ago - at that time p
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by fpp 13y ago
and the underscore.js page at Travis-ci: https://travis-ci.org/jashkenas/underscore (funnily enough also been produced on a bluebox.net machine) nevertheless overall this looks very promising - great UI design
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by fpp 13y ago
Have a look at what's happening in the UK: https://www.gov.uk/transformation (fully responsive design pages together with new service backends delivered with Agile / Scrum) and the teams doing it: http:/&#x2
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A Gigayear (1.000.000.000 years) Storage Disc(vimeo.com)
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by fpp 13y ago
Very impressive - would be even better if it would include a bit of CSS to format the print-out like a normal CV / profile (currently generates about 30 basically empty pages in Chrome & FF)
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by fpp 13y ago
yes, that's on top of the so called post adjustment that for e.g. Geneva (last time I looked) was around 96% (base salary + post adjustment = net salary (+ normal tax rate) -> gross salary in the private sector (30 working days holi
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by fpp 13y ago
Similar data, but still mostly limited to higher pay levels and by government department is available for the UK ( see for example: http://data.gov.uk/dataset/staff-organograms-and-pay-departm... ) a side note: It is g
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by fpp 13y ago
A bit more background on the numbers mentioned in the article and some personal thoughts: - Non-mortgage sales of houses/flats in the highest price areas in central London (e.g. SW1 / SW3, SWxx plus parts of inner, East and North
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by fpp 13y ago
For comparison have a look at Strongloop's starter project (production ready) http://strongloop.com/products
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by fpp 13y ago
To learn more about projects funded and the ideas behind the foundation have a look at their web site - community funding / support at its finest - http://www.awesomefoundation.org/
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by fpp 13y ago
I would love to see some of the journalists referring to the situation from about 1998 when the German foreign office realised that all their communications were routed through the US and they replaced all their infrastructure, software etc
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by fpp 13y ago
Also read the reply by Aaron Greenspan in the thread: https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-J...
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by fpp 13y ago
(1) The FBI has just recently acknowledged that all (including all U.S. citizens') electronic communications are tapped - the NSA is/was not allowed to eavesdrop on U.S. citizens (with exceptions now seemingly the rule). (2) You d
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by fpp 13y ago
We have seemingly already gone back that far into dark times that any criticism can only be voices as comedy, fairy tales or sarcasm - here's the one for this: How do you know that monopoly is an old game - because the rich also go to
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by fpp 13y ago
Fears and phobias never helped coping with reality. The stream of data that we and our environments create(d) is an reality since the moment we made them digital (vs. analog) and started processing them with computers. As soon as you are ab
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by fpp 13y ago
Remember meeting Mr G in New Delhi while I was working for an organisation his foundation has so far provided more than $1.2Billion to. Now I'm working on creating transparency with open data so that others can find out where these and $23B
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by fpp 13y ago
This campaign is mostly technical (computer / data) hence the post on HN. It was put online yesterday to create open data on development projects that have till today received more than $24 Billion tax funding with dozens of $Billions plann
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Show HN: Open Data to create transparency in Development Aid(indiegogo.com)
1 points by fpp 13y ago|1 comments
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by fpp 13y ago
Don't fiddle with an URL just to submit a story - very bad Particularly in this case where pointing to dropbox.com only gets you an error message. DropBox Twitter Status update: https://twitter.com/DropboxOps As shown above with Dropbox y
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by fpp 13y ago
OP: Here's your link to check ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5792539 ) http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/dropbox.com.html down since 6:32 PST
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by fpp 13y ago
They are also very active here in London - and are doing a pretty good job. If Canada will finally stop sheeply following the US and Europe with introducing more and more Internet surveillance legislation and blockers, but is taking a stand
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by fpp 13y ago
You're right but: (1) There is a shortage of top-grade developers / other top-grade IT people - there are only that few and there is a very strong global demand for them - those established in this group can almost always choose from multip
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by fpp 13y ago
This all sounds really great and is definitely a step into the direction to make higher education more accessible - a few side notes (for those getting too excited) (1) There have been quite a few online learning (aka distance learning) deg
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by fpp 13y ago
Fully with you - without that it's just charts (with hard-to-tell-apart colors). Particularly as this is based on Inc.'s 500 list(s) - had a look at something similar a few years ago based on these lists - according to their data the fastes
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by fpp 13y ago
Yes, would be great to see a live example of client rendered tiles. I believe their ProtoBuffer approach sounds promising and their position in the mapping / OSM community is strong enough to get this to some kind of standard. Have seen a f
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by fpp 13y ago
Great news and really looking forward to see it. Will not be that easy for them to be as successful again, but there is certainly still enough to laugh about in corporate IT today. Just remember how much time has changed since their first s
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by fpp 13y ago
I have neither included transport cost nor sales nor waste. If you live in the UK you might immediately know what including these in that completely unrealistic article would mean. (1) You have to go to one of the superstores to get these p
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by fpp 13y ago
Before even going into the side-effects of such a diet let's just have a look at the numbers used: Olive oil (extra virgin)(price per kg quoted) 3.30 (price per kg actual) 6.39 (weekly quoted) 1.96 (weekly actual) 3.80 Yellow split peas (dr
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YouTube introduces Subscription Channels at $0.99/mo (thenextweb.com)
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by fpp 13y ago
MS biggest cash cows since years are not their operating systems, but their office suite(s), server licences, corporate service programs and potentially also their IP revenues (including other OS like e.g. Android HW manufacturers) - key to

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