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by heresy 16y ago
That's somewhat reasonable, but ISPs are not reasonable. They cannot say no to the free money from overage charges, and the rate-limiting "solution" lets them defer infrastructure spending almost indefinitely. It hardly ever works out in a
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by heresy 16y ago
Internode is a bad example, they are the best of the lot in Australia/NZ, as I know from personal experience :) I suspect how it will work out if it happens in the US is rather more like how Telecom NZ or Vodafone operate (Telecom used to b
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by heresy 16y ago
Pray that this mindset does not infect your ISPs and tempt them to introduce traffic caps. Having your users be paranoid that they're going to go over their cap and get absolutely reamed for overage charges is not exactly how you build an
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by heresy 16y ago
Likewise - focus was very high, but context-switching was shockingly bad.
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by heresy 16y ago
I'm really hoping they get off the ground, their mentality is the right one ("please drive demand to us so we can keep on upgrading capacity").
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by heresy 16y ago
The Pacific Fibre guys are trying to do just that, as another poster mentioned. Telecom NZ is of the mindset that bandwidth is a scarce resource that will run out and needs the maximum revenue extracted from it (yet never to be upgraded, ca
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by heresy 16y ago
The food thing is the biggest WTF. Maybe once a month I'll have KFC/McD's after a heavy night out, and regret it. If you're still harbouring resentments about shit that happened at high school at the age of 30, the problem is you. As a geek
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by heresy 16y ago
I'd venture outfits of the calibre of your SaaS are much rarer than you may think. Your UX is stellar, it's very clear what the value proposition is. You're solving an actual problem, it's a problem most people and not just programmers have
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by heresy 16y ago
All I can say is, I'm glad that student loans are interest free in New Zealand. I can't understand the mentality that allows student loans to be charged at double-digit interest rates. At least allow interest to be deferred until you start
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by heresy 16y ago
Damn, that takes me back. +1 for memepool.
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by heresy 16y ago
Great work! For someone who claims no prior knowledge of print you've created something that looks pretty good, chunky selection of articles as well. I noticed something interesting, I recognized some of the articles, but in this format I r
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by heresy 16y ago
Your $200,000 at work.
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by heresy 16y ago
Unfortunately I can't link it of course, but it's even more amazing when you have access to the CAD data that goes into one of these. Can't go into too much detail, but we do aerospace/defense work, and these things are marvels of engineeri
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by heresy 16y ago
If true, Microsoft has truly become an entity I don't understand. What's the upside in such an arrangement for them? At one stroke, they'd substantially increasing the reach and strength of a rival platform at a time they're struggling to m
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by heresy 16y ago
/opt is the correct place to install if the package is not strictly speaking an officially sanctioned package. Less chance of interfering with an overlapping package supplied by the distribution. At least, /opt is part of the FHS, to which
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by heresy 16y ago
Miss Wellington, couldn't do that in Auckland. I tried for around 2 years, got too frustrating just not being able to get around without bumming lifts or using the very spotty bus/train coverage. CBD rents of $400-500 p.w. also suck the big
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Ask HN: Finding an OSS programming community?
11 points by heresy 16y ago|2 comments
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by heresy 16y ago
I woke up to my girlfriend playing this. Awesome :)
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by heresy 16y ago
Proof? In its years of existence the German Mark never reached parity with the US dollar. On the contrary, switching to the stronger Euro made Germany's exports less competitive, not more, outside of the EU.
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by heresy 16y ago
This is off-topic, but Cashculator needs better press / Google-fu. I was looking for a goal-based Mac personal finance app that let me track my progress with useful graphs, do forecasting, etc. Searched for ages, didn't find anything, event
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by heresy 16y ago
I find that hard to believe. I don't know anyone within a degree or two of separation of myself who did not do that. Including the previous generation (I was born in the early 80s, my parents in the 50s). You've swallowed the *AA talking
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by heresy 16y ago
I don't have any technical objections to it, but there is value to having a consistent experience across the platform. Right now, the difference probably is not that great between Sense and stock, but I'm sure HTC sees Sense as a competitiv
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by heresy 16y ago
I like Android's openness and the freedom to hack it. I'm just concerned that Google may be too accepting of poor moves from hardware and network partners just to gain market share and penetration. HTC's Sense UI is a mild example of this,
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by heresy 16y ago
Thinking about your having to train your QA people as opposed to improving the experience of paying customers seems like the wrong way to go about it.
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by heresy 16y ago
Remarkably prescient, though I guess the signs were there for anyone smart enough to see them at the time.
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by heresy 16y ago
I find it hard to switch off the programming side when I get home after work. I was a lot more sociable when I still smoked, stopping smoking has been like turning up the volume to what it was in my early 20s, programming wise. A good whisk
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by heresy 16y ago
This is not particularly surprising, the EU Council is unelected and undemocratic, and the Council appoints the members of the Commission. There is still a chance to defeat this in Parliament I guess, since they're elected and (marginally)
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by heresy 16y ago
He's right, though amusing that some of the arguments he mentions against a tablet were levelled against the iPad :) Personally, paper is still great for its flexibility, but I hardly write on it. I use it to scribble drawings of how things
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by heresy 16y ago
Once you get into the CEOs club, it's plain sailing. What I find hilarious is the turn of phrase on Yahoo's own version of this article. "Carol Bartz received a $47.2 million compensation package during her first year on the job as the Inte
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by heresy 16y ago
I get the sense Herb hasn't moved with the times, and is pretty much stuck in the ways that served him before the internet, hence the lack of improvement. How bad do you have to be to not continuously improve what you did before? Also, his

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