jabbernotty

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by jabbernotty 13y ago
I didn't reply to peterkelly.
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
They just asked a question. There is no need to be snarky, and your suggestion wouldn't even have answered their question.
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
Again, I can't reach the article. I end up at "China manufacturing shrinks in May, leaving policymakers with few good options", just as happened with the previous qz link https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5756176
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
When I visit the URL, I appear to be reaching a different article, titled "China manufacturing shrinks in May, leaving policymakers with few good options" What gives? Edit: I end up on the-steve-jobs-emails-that-show-how-to-win-a-hard-nosed
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
What people are now realizing is that MongoDB is not a one-size-fits-all technology.
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
Just a quick note -- if you don't want to make an exception for the certificate, you can go to the page over http.
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
Considering that you fell ill, it doesn't seem right to say that you blew it.
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
Having looked at superspeedyservers.com I'm left thinking mainly two things, which I put down in short here: The business side may be lacking some things. For example: There are many competitors in this space. What is the added value to a
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
It is for html. It is called Htmlify. I don't see why you feel a need to call it useless, just because it doesn't apply to markdown.
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
Be sure to ask those that have at one point communicated with you, why they lost interest.
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
Too convenient, certainly! Payments even occur when the customer doesn't want them to.
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
The actual weather report function is interesting. But even more interesting I found the bit about the “international gravity formula”, I hadn't heard of it. I'd be interested to know how they decide on the actual temperature, which they ba
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
But there IS good reason for disabling things like js. Disabling makes sense for both security and privacy reasons, and yes, costs. The most publicized example of the latter is cheaper airline tickets.
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
Yes, 'crowd-sourced data' can also be expressed as 'user-generated data'. Something along the lines of 'One week of user-generated weather reports' seems like a pretty clear title to me.
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
Required for this page, yes. But, necessary? Only for interactive visualizations and content updates.
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
> But I still personally feel flat when the knowledge gains associated with a Spike aren't as frequent. How have other developers and math-types dealt with that disappointing feeling of a plateau? Besides just changing jobs entirely, I
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
Thank you, both.
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
I would like to read this, but the site is being blocked by websense. Could someone put it on pastebin, or something like that?
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
> you have to pay ~600€/month for mandatory health insurance This seems surprisingly high, I'm more used to a base cost of +-110€ (in the Netherlands).
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
A cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3...
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
Does advice like this apply in some way to personal/career development? I would like to break in to a particular technical field. I believe that to work in that field, I'll need to demonstrate some measure of experience in that field. To th
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
Off topic: The <div id="content"> has a fixed width, a left:50% and a margin-left:50%, making it difficult to read on smaller screens. In my case, that is my screen divided in half. It is also difficult to adjust with dev tools (I s
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
I totally agree. Though I haven't read the article yet :) I can't even get anything to show after enabling it for that page. I'm not sure if it's gone or if I'm failing at something :)
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
> credit cards came out way ahead on conversions (this was for a B2B app) Was this with American businesses? I'm asking because I find the use of credit cards to be somewhat rare in the most of Europe. I may be mistaken though. I'm wond
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
> extreme prison terms How about reasonable prison terms? That could end up being no time at all.
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
Please give some reasoning along with your claim. In what way do they suck, in which cases? Do they really need to stop being used? I'm not just being pedantic. I just haven't had any problems with the concept of passwords as a security mea
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
You don't run any commands on your VM? Such as compiling/restarting an application?
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
With 'malicious adverts' I mean malware being spread via advertisement systems. These tend to use JS, Flash, Java and such.
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
> Who does this and why? I'm one of them. I do this because of malicious adverts and because of tracking systems. These cost privacy, but also real money (a well-publicized exampple is ordering airline tickets) > Do you like browsi
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by jabbernotty 13y ago
Sometimes, you just aren't having a perfect view on what you are doing, and what you should be doing. It is OK if you are sometimes not sure about something, or if you find that you have focused on the wrong thing. It doesn't follow that yo

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