hackerboos

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   by hackerboos 12y ago

   In favour of what?
2. 542.▲
   by hackerboos 12y ago

   Not hard to throw http://swagger.io/ in front of most APIs to get that 'query in the browser' feature.
3. 543.▲
   by hackerboos 12y ago

   My justification: Tamil: 3% Malay: 12% English: 32% Mandarin: 50% Why bend over backwards for 15% of the population? You can justify Malay at a push. "We decided to opt for English as a common language and it was the only decision whic
4. 544.▲
   by hackerboos 12y ago

   I noticed your question. I chose not to answer it.
5. 545.▲
   by hackerboos 12y ago

   Nice guys. Downvoting my opinion.
6. 546.▲
   by hackerboos 12y ago

   Well since cardsharing came prevalent it's easier than ever to get Sky illegally. They shut down HD recently by messing with the ECM timing. Now most illegally suppliers have switched to IPTV.
7. 547.▲
   by hackerboos 12y ago

   This only supports IE10+. Why shouldn't I just use Javascript directly?
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   by hackerboos 12y ago

   I don't know of any other country that has ethnic quotas and such tight control over the housing market as the HDB does in Singapore. As for communication, most other countries have a single dominating language. In Singapore, Mandarin
9. 549.▲
   by hackerboos 12y ago

   You're right. Written in haste and not proof read.
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    by hackerboos 12y ago

    I was in Singapore this year and it's a fantastic place, but it is very artificial. Citizens have a hard time communicating with each other through the 4 very different official languages. People are also on edge about immigration and
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    by hackerboos 12y ago

    Cheaper than Tasmania for most things except rent.
12. 552.▲
    by hackerboos 12y ago

    Graduated aged 24, I'm now 27.5 - jobs since graduation: - Brighton UK - £25,000 ($37,250) - Birkenhead, UK - £30,000 ($44,700) - Liverpool, UK - £27,000 ($40,230) later £32,000 ($47,680) (took a hit to work with a stack I wanted to wo
13. 553.▲
    by hackerboos 12y ago

    Can there only be 1 next big thing at a time?
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    by hackerboos 12y ago

    Corrected. Elixir as a language may or may not last. I'm betting it will, but even if it doesn't, it works well with Erlang which is going nowhere. There's more a case against Clojure, granted. I think because Scala is seen a
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    by hackerboos 12y ago

    I wouldn't say hate. Scala is a OO-functional language, so it's bound to have people who dislike it from both of those camps. I started learning Scala (it got me into functional programming) but dumped it for the same reasons as J
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    by hackerboos 12y ago

    http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:CV2nyQ3...
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    by hackerboos 12y ago

    It's easy to become seduced over the articles on HN, Double Your Freelancing, Patrick McKenzie earning $30k/week and guys commenting they charge $180. The reality is very different. Most consultants are much older than 23. They us
18. 558.▲
    by hackerboos 12y ago

    Still need to provision your host.
19. 559.▲
    by hackerboos 12y ago

    Reputation helps enormously. Patrick is always blogging and it's made him well known.
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    by hackerboos 12y ago

    For those in the UK: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.b...
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    by hackerboos 12y ago

    > Why on earth did they think this was a good idea? Because they pivoted with poor knowledge of their users wants/needs/requirements.
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    by hackerboos 12y ago

    Easier said than done... Except for Ireland you have to find a company that tolerates English being used in day-to-day business. Even then, you are going to be handicapped when compared to natives.
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    by hackerboos 12y ago

    I'm aware of the story. Just because Chiang Mai has chosen not to enforce the law, doesn't change the law itself. As with all things in Thailand, what is ok today could be prohibited tomorrow.
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    by hackerboos 12y ago

    That's simply not true. Doing work for any employer in Thailand, paid or unpaid is illegal on a tourist visa. Lets quote the act you link to: "To be able to legally work in Thailand the foreigner must have a valid non-immigrant vi
25. 565.▲
    by hackerboos 12y ago

    True but I'm not surprised they raised money on Seedrs. I've seen a lot of awful ideas raise money on there. Amateur investing at it's worst.
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    by hackerboos 12y ago

    Excellent work. Is there a reason why you chose Prosody over MongooseIM or ejabberd?
27. 567.▲
    by hackerboos 12y ago

    Because, put quite simply, there are better choices.
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    by hackerboos 12y ago

    If each employee received $2.5 million on average, how many would stay? I think it's awesome to distribute money between employees like this but wouldn't it have a devastating effect on the company?
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    by hackerboos 12y ago

    The differences between our economies are more complex than you've suggested. Differences between the UK and Germany: * Unions are very weak in the UK compared to Germany. Union reps sit on boards of major German companies, negotiate w
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    by hackerboos 12y ago

    It's always surprised me that Jeff has stuck with PHP. The guy is a very capable programmer who I thought would have moved on to bigger and better things. I guess the market for tutorials and learning is larger for PHP than most other