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by gigantor 15y ago
From the comments, you can reprint the ticket with a receipt/laser printer and take pictures of the copy, losing the artifacts. Depends on the length of trouble you would want to go through to reproduce a hard copy document.
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by gigantor 15y ago
After much trial and error, I've gone with the robust solution that's never failed me: robocopy.exe /MIR <source> <target> Create a scheduled task, set your external drive as the target, and forget. robocopy.exe is a built-i
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by gigantor 15y ago
Solution from the comments: tinyurl.com (or similar). This should be instinct for many twitter users by now
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by gigantor 15y ago
We respect you more than to try to lure you with promises of iPads, snacks, foosball tables or any of that junk... Thank you, I'm glad companies are respecting the fact that good developers can see through these 'perks', and hope this wil
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by gigantor 15y ago
Using the iPad 3 now and yes, it is too good for the web. It is also too good for many PDFs, images, and other content not using vector based rendering. But I noticed something else, text heavy content sites with more content and less image
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by gigantor 15y ago
I wish these 'More Jobs Are Moving Offshore' stories would accurately describe what non-trivial positions are affected. We now know it's possible to move call-centers offshore, despite actual consumer satisfaction, since it's been condensed
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by gigantor 15y ago
Bootstrap is a godsend for the corporate world and the vast majority of industry software shops that don't have huge levels public web exposure. Most of these places don't have the resources to hire dedicated UI specialists with the hottest
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by gigantor 15y ago
Thank you for the reminder Paul, and it's very startup related. I'm in bed now from a surgery I just had, and the most painful part about it is the love and support I've received from everyone while feeling that I've been ignorant of them i
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by gigantor 15y ago
I predict the MP race will end up the same as the GHz race, and allow people to finally understand that large a Megapixel value does not equate to better picture quality. Unless of course you're going to make a huge billboard print using an
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by gigantor 15y ago
This concept points to one of Robert Cialdini's laws of influence: One is far more likely to drive all over around town to save 50 cents in the cost of a $2 pen than spend a few seconds to negotiate 50 cents from a $400 suit, even though th
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by gigantor 15y ago
Maybe not the most clear sentence since it leaves out the equity part; it's conveying that it provides seed money plus mentorship/networking in exchange for a modest equity from the startup. Could be better organized as: "... Y Combinator,
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by gigantor 15y ago
I believe it was meant to say rebills (in affiliate slang), the act of billing your credit card automatically for another service/product term. Frequently used in the Acai berry juice fad where they would send you another scheduled shipment
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by gigantor 15y ago
Have you tried pixlr ( http://pixlr.com/editor/ )? It is a very scaled down version of Photoshop, but if your needs are basic it can fill your need and is free. It even has support for .psd files and can preserve layers.
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by gigantor 15y ago
Loyalty is a two way street. Many of us have 'preferred' clients who were there during the earlier days, but you need to remember that you were still working hard providing a service to them before and now. As a business, it's up to both si
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by gigantor 15y ago
Not a surprise if you've been keeping up with NLP trends, which suggest that you mimick and emulate the person you're speaking with (down to body language and breathing rates), in order to get a favorable reaction. No surprise in the work p
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by gigantor 15y ago
I thought this as well, but you may be comparing against a Forbes richest people list. The majority of the people I talk to (even devs) think $100,000 is a very large sum of money. Also, just by having a decent salary in the US/Canada, inco
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by gigantor 15y ago
It is quite difficult, as well as painstaking. I can't find the article where Drew Houston was mentioning this, but because the API method wasn't available, they had to use a hex editor and alter the memory location to get the functionality
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by gigantor 15y ago
You're on news.ycombinator.com, a site emphasizing on startups, app development, and dare I say, generating revenue. I'd say the answer is 'pretty much everyone here'.
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by gigantor 15y ago
This community gets to me on occasion, parallel to that meme with the asian father saying 'Why you no get A+'? I know what git is. I know what source control is. To my knowledge toolbox, you just added an explanation of how a git commit-&#6
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by gigantor 15y ago
His video ( http://grumomedia.com/new-grumo-what-is-hipmunk/ ) truly brought upon a smile in it's quest to convey simplicty. The spanish accent is very comforting in a way, like the time you visit a mexican resort and the person in the hote
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by gigantor 15y ago
I have no idea who this gentleman is but this type of offer captures the entrepreneurial 'get out there' spirit of what ycombinator felt like several years ago. Hopefully it will start the seed for something great.
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by gigantor 15y ago
A surprise? A large chunk of the iPhone is made by Samsung, their most direct competitor: http://www.economist.com/node/21525685 What would be exciting is if the lens were made by Nikon, Canon, Leica, or another high end lens specialist,
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by gigantor 15y ago
Brilliant.
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by gigantor 15y ago
Isn't that like asking Bush to work things out with Osama in a roundtable meeting before going to war? Seriously though, these software patent cases are getting ridiculous. I could see why a judge would have little patience to deal with one
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by gigantor 15y ago
They're currently experiencing explosive growth: http://soshable.com/reddit-traffic-has-exploded-in-12-months... They have also, in my opinion, implemented mainstream and niche news so well (via subreddits) that they're not in immediate d
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by gigantor 15y ago
I'd really like to see this happen, and have cell phone providers start going towards the direction of cable companies slowly losing monopoly over their content. Unfortunately, it will be quite some time before several major hurdles are rem
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by gigantor 15y ago
Seconded. Perhaps alternate wording with a more positive emotion attached to it like 'Favorite Grandma Cookies' or 'Grandma Approved Cookies', something that will make you think about warm cookies coming out of the oven and visiting your si
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by gigantor 15y ago
The ultimate intent of BizSpark is to get you locked into using the Microsoft stack, because chances are, by that time the free license expires in 3 years and your application is a success, you won't migrate to another platform as easily. N
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by gigantor 15y ago
Finland is also home to a high percentage of the best hackers in the world, especially during the peak of the demoscene (Future Crew, etc.) days.
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by gigantor 15y ago
Based on personal enterprise consulting experience, Enterprise Windows apps are still widely developed using WinForms, VB6, Delphi still exists more than what's comfortable, and if you're lucky enough to work with a cutting edge enterpris

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