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by jdswain 11y ago
I think I've managed to find a workaround for New Zealand. Stripe is in Australia and it is possible for a NZ company to open a bank account in Australia so this should work. It's not ideal as it does add some bank fees, but it ap
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by jdswain 12y ago
ARM version: .data msg: .ascii "Hello, World!\n" len = . - msg
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by jdswain 12y ago
I do see your point. Probably from a gardeners point of view this is not really important, I'm maybe biased a bit in that I'd look for a product with good design, that looked like the people cared about what they built, rather tha
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by jdswain 12y ago
In the case of startups this adds a lot of credibility. Yves Behar has designed some really well known products, and fuseproject is (from what I have read) almost like an incubator for hardware projects with great design. So for a small sta
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by jdswain 12y ago
Normally I wouldn't question the usefulness of a project, but I'm having trouble seeing why this would be worthwhile. Emacs already runs natively on every operating system for which Chrome also runs, so the portability aspect is n
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by jdswain 12y ago
I once was working for a UK govt department as a contractor and was between tasks with nothing to do. The management thought it was easier to keep me on than to hire again when the work increased, so I was there with nothing to do. My manag
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by jdswain 12y ago
We used to say that about Microsoft.
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by jdswain 12y ago
I applied for a passport online, which all went well at the time, but yesterday I got a letter from them saying that I didn't fill out all the information (on a web form?). Included with the letter was a paper application form which, a
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by jdswain 12y ago
I was looking at that Contact Us page yesterday. 126 items and I couldn't find the one that I needed, and there's no general number to call as far as I could see. Had to scroll through all 126 items and still didn't find anyt
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by jdswain 12y ago
"Inventing the personal computer" is something that is completely open to interpretation. I've heard Woz say something similar, and if you look at it a certain way then it's easy to agree with him. What he means by that
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by jdswain 12y ago
Often times the reason for overloading keywords is the reluctance to introduce new keywords, as this can cause backward compatibility problems. Instead of adding a new keyword and possibly breaking existing code that may use that keyword as
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by jdswain 12y ago
We do this as well, targeting Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android with the same C++ core libs. It seemed to be the only way to target multiple platforms without a huge team. It's not all easy though, the work of maintaining the JNI br
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by jdswain 12y ago
I had this book at University. It made a good companion text to our main textbook, the dragon book. The dragon book covers a lot of ground, and is very interesting, but Holub's book is much more practical, with everything illustrated w
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by jdswain 12y ago
Mountain Lion was crashing on my Retina MacBook Pro about every day, since I upgraded to Yosemite it hasn't crashed once. Only a single data point, but it appears to be a really stable release now. I still have the impression that the
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by jdswain 12y ago
I guess it's too early to tell, but I'm hopeful that this will be good. We don't know what the in-app purchases will be, or the price for them, but a basic version of Altium for a low cost would be really nice. Personally I d
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by jdswain 12y ago
Java 1.0 and 1.1 were mainly targeted at browser applets. Applets were maybe a bit before their time as the download speed was slow and there were issues with downloading the JVM. The JVM was a really big download for the time, with many us
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by jdswain 12y ago
Looks like you could fit 1 J32 32-bit RISC CPU on there with a few gates to spare.
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by jdswain 12y ago
This kind of app appears to be prohibited in the YouTube terms of service https://developers.google.com/youtube/terms : II. Prohibitions Your API Client will not, and You will not encourage or create functionality for
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by jdswain 13y ago
We use xero and it's made accounting enjoyable for me, and usually I resent spending time on accounts. We needed something that would handle multiple currencies well and so far that has been no problem. Being web based really helps too
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by jdswain 13y ago
A while ago I had a problem with anxiety and basically panic attacks. Back then I didn't know how to deal with this, so eventually when it got too much I asked for help. I went to a doctor and the first thing they asked about was suici
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by jdswain 13y ago
In my experience the location matters. I sprained my ankle in Edinburgh once, and the hospital visit was almost enjoyable. The staff were great. Where I live in London, it's not so great. They have to deal with a lot of annoying drunks
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by jdswain 13y ago
Never done this myself, but have done worse really. I was working at Sun a long time ago and we had a big shared development server. Being familiar with linux killall I suggested to my boss that he use killall instead of killing processes o
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by jdswain 13y ago
You probably have one of these if you have a printer. It's basically the same mechanism as on the output paper guides, that causes a movement of the guide on one side to match the other side, and for the paper path to therefore remain
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by jdswain 13y ago
It's a great thing that you are doing, making a positive impact on someones life is something you don't often get a chance to do. I think you'll be surprised how quickly infants do pick things up, but everyone learns at a different rate, so
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by jdswain 14y ago
There is a lot of science in economics, but where it becomes unscientific is when humans are involved. Much early macroeconomics made the simplifying assumption that humans made rational decisions, and that they had perfect information when
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by jdswain 14y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER - Remote is fine, we're based in London, UK and New Zealand. We need someone to build a windows version of one of our applications. We already have the core code ported (it's in C++), we just need a user interface on top,
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by jdswain 14y ago
The sosumi div is used worldwide, and is the name of the div for legal links on Apples home page, it's not new for this notice. A good historical reference, but nothing to do with this legal judgement. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sosumi
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by jdswain 14y ago
I'd also say that the last 20% provides 80% of the learning. If you're always leaving projects unfinished then you don't really learn what works and what doesn't. There's also a real learning experience when you make something public. Other
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by jdswain 14y ago
There is also a sort of price inversion principle going on with software that doesn't happen with physical products. Say I make great coffee, I get the beans myself, I ship them by sailboat from Indonesia, and do everything by hand. People
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by jdswain 14y ago
Market share is not always a good indicator of what your user base will be. We build music apps for high end stereo's, so it's a mobile device application, but not mobile in the sense of taking a device with you. Most of our market is iPad,

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