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by gutnor 11y ago
People remember Sourceforge fondly because the service they offered, for the time, was good. Everything internet sucked around 2000. Search engines where either semi-curated listing or covered a fraction of what was a much smaller internet.
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by gutnor 11y ago
That's already the case with USB ( and to some extend Bluetooth and NFC ) What do you get when you plug you USB phone in your USB computer ? What about the tablet ? Why can I read files from my phone via USB but my phone can't rea
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by gutnor 11y ago
> When you are an adult, being a jerk usually never pays, unless you are surrounded by jerks and you want to fit in. Definitively not the experience I have at working in large companies. It is a coincidence because I have had that very s
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by gutnor 11y ago
I'm not quite sure how that works for you but generally speaking, social life is all about privacy - yours and more importantly others. You don't share everything to everybody or you end up being the sucker that gets the news late
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by gutnor 11y ago
Low interest rate are good thing for normal people. Normal people do not make significant amount of money from the interest of their savings, at least not enough to offset the cost of the money they need to borrow for their mortgage, car&#x
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by gutnor 11y ago
I agree with you in the following scenario: small team (<20 dev), manageable codebase size (~ 200K line), and enough budget to keep the project running without too much specialization. If you cannot keep the project within those paramete
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by gutnor 11y ago
230 million out of 2.3 billion. I hope the vast majority around here would honour their word: there is nothing at all you can do with 2.3 billion that you cannot do equally with 2 billion. 230 million out of 460, 100K out of 1 million that&
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by gutnor 11y ago
The hardest I have noticed is to make them understand that it is not only the time, but also the date that change. So when discussing whole timestamp or time - everybody is somewhat aware there is going to be timezone involved. Good luck ho
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by gutnor 11y ago
That's maybe jumping to conclusion. I interpreted the sentence less literally and more like "in absence of rule, default to GoogleBot ones" So if you put a wildcard rule forbidding access and a specific one allowing access to
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by gutnor 11y ago
Also interestingly, how much money you need to have to be able to invest 10K into a single risky investment. Realistically you would either have to be irresponsible or be quite comfortable already. 500K today is a very nice sum, but it is o
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by gutnor 11y ago
Utilities with electricity production are more conservative because they have technical limitation due to the infrastructure they run. However, there is a bunch of companies that buy and sell electricity on the open market, so they have a d
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by gutnor 12y ago
Same thing in the UK - using my O2 pay as you go in Spain is cheaper than a pay as you go in Spain for voice/sms, also using my UK phone in Spain for voice/sms is cheaper than using it in the UK. Mobile pricing is mental - complet
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by gutnor 12y ago
Thankfully, train do not have checked luggage and no practical technological way to introduce it (i.e. something that does not require to rebuild all the stations, most of them deep in the cities) - so there is a huge commercial imperative
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by gutnor 12y ago
The title is flamebait, the actual key point of the article is that the US (federal level) is making 51% of its revenue from the same source, which fiscally speaking does seem risky. For example, other countries extract much tax from actual
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by gutnor 12y ago
Actually that is spot on. The problem of the line is that it shows something positive ( got a cert 14 years ago ), but also something negative ( there have been 4 generations of servers in the meanwhile, where are the cert ) Obviously that
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by gutnor 12y ago
I'm often wondering how common that kind of talk really is nowadays ? Especially in the 30 something generation. I mean I have known some dicks here and there that would really think the annotated version, but I have never met one that
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by gutnor 12y ago
No - on HN it should not be hard. We may be smug about it and criticise his business model, saying "he should give his image for free and charge for making custom picture or work for the BBC or another imaginary plan based on whatever
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by gutnor 12y ago
> we need to do some work getting people back into the idea of contributing whether they are compensated directly or not First thing though, the scenario analysed here is a scenario where there is not enough thing to contribute to. Let&#
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by gutnor 12y ago
Other problem is that as your parents age, they can require more assistance (illness, death of relatives,...). If you don't have brothers and sisters like my wife and I, the burden is really heavy.
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by gutnor 12y ago
The markup on a regular piece of gold jewellery is 300 to 500% depending on the brand. Much more if the piece is complex and handmade or very small. That does not make sense to buy it as an investment. 300% is not unusual for a product when
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by gutnor 12y ago
Wow indeed ! I had to dig some prices to see if that was indeed possible, especially with shipping. Made me realize the real value of $1 outside supermarket. So, a top branded (Swarowsky) quality for a 1 ct equivalent CZ will run for $2, un
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by gutnor 12y ago
>> If you X then you deserve what you get. > This attitude is harmful, toxic and wrong. But that's how you learn. At some point you need to admit that you -yourself- have lacked in judgment in order to learn something. Not eve
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by gutnor 12y ago
Not really - unless you are wealthy enough to ignore the price when buying jewellery, you are buying by weight. Except for the high end jewellery, the price has a direct relationship with weight in gold, not the volume of the piece.
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by gutnor 12y ago
I have worked on all kind of project - lots of libraries, internal "framework" on top of lots of libraries, and plain framework. The comment "As soon as you want to do something else, unless you're very lucky, it sucks.&
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by gutnor 12y ago
Hmm, that got me thinking, I think I get your point generally that bitcoin is more an investment than a value storage and that you would be a fool ( at this stage anyway ) to talk about it as if it was. However, in general what currency has
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by gutnor 12y ago
Presumably he also offers the applicant some sort of stability ? Without a middleman, the H1B holder is very tied to its employer and has a difficult time changing job or bouncing back after being laid off. A middleman could smooth that out
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by gutnor 12y ago
There is little doubt that there is work for everyone. Problem is if there is profitable work for everyone. For example, you will find countless people to help dig various archeological site, help processing the various museum collection s
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by gutnor 12y ago
That is actually a practical implementation of the age long( ) wisdom that you need discipline, not motivation to succeed in various long term endeavour. My personal trick, for stuff I really don't like is to allocate a 30 min chunk a
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by gutnor 12y ago
Problem of that, and that of the author is that you are entering the world of programming. You need to be able to enumerate all the possible scenario in your head in order to make a script that looks intelligent. eg: ok I want the light to
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by gutnor 12y ago
Unless you go second hand, price of tech product does not drop. An entry level camera, phone, monitor is not yesterday high end model that dropped in price, it is a brand new model that can be made cheaper. We tend not to notice it, becau

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