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by jeroen 18y ago
Google is trying to get people to move to _faster_ browsers, meaning Firefox 3, Chrome or IE8 (and definitely not IE7). IE8 gets less attention because it is still in beta. I don't see an anti-MS stance there.
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by jeroen 18y ago
2 out of 4 previous employers (I'm a freelancer now) gave me a raise whenever I passed an MCP exam. That's enough motivation for me, since it's not very hard to pass MCP exams (at least MSCD related ones) when you have decent practical expe
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by jeroen 18y ago
the Dutch (especially younger ones) tend to speak English at practically native speaker level. Don't overestimate us. Dutch people tend to be able to communicate in more languages than their own and be prepared to do so when encountering
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by jeroen 18y ago
Here: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2008/09/marissa-m... Search is an unsolved problem. We have a good 90 to 95% of the solution, but there is a lot to go in the remaining 10%.
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by jeroen 18y ago
And if you're good enough at your job, it's unlikely that you will be denied your request. A couple of years ago I wanted to go on a holiday for a month in a busy time. I notified my employer about half a year in advance and we planned arou
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by jeroen 18y ago
I'm Dutch as well and with work (software dev) and most of the stuff I read (HN, books) mostly in English, the language of my thoughts tends to follow the language of my current activity. Whenever I'm speaking Dutch and an English word bett
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by jeroen 18y ago
If the title doesn't ring any bells (it didn't for me): ... He developed a syndrome neurologists call profound amnesia. ... As a participant in hundreds of studies, he helped scientists understand the biology of learning, memory and physi
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by jeroen 18y ago
It seems to be slightly short on facts as well: The study estimated Google used 16.5% of all U.S. consumer Internet traffic in 2008 ... The study estimated Google’s payment to fund just the U.S. consumer broadband Internet segment to be
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by jeroen 18y ago
I'd say both are bad. That makes comparing them pretty irrelevant. MySQL: "We still have 20 known and tagged crashing and wrong result bugs" pgSQL: "PostgreSQL does not have a bug-tracker."
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by jeroen 18y ago
[the 12 "foreign" producers] can switch their assembly lines to different models in minutes. That's pretty impressive.
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by jeroen 18y ago
It might be interesting to offer repeatability to businesses. Have them create an account and save their transformations. The challenge might be how to allow the editing of a transformation in the same simple UI.
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by jeroen 18y ago
The new design would have to carry two people and luggage, have an empty weight of no more than 625 lbs. and use an 85-horsepower engine. The biggest differentiator between cars and planes (as far as construction goes) is crashes. That ch
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by jeroen 18y ago
If I had to, I could use a mouse with my foot on an onscreen keyboard. It would require a bit more patience and time, but it would in no way hinder my ability to create software.
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by jeroen 18y ago
For what it's worth: http://atlas.wolfram.com/01/01/34/
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by jeroen 18y ago
My bad. That probably didn't get as much coverage on this side of the ocean, so I missed it.
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by jeroen 18y ago
That guy should pay more attention when I'm coding!
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by jeroen 18y ago
There is no country called Africa. You may have been thinking of the Republic of South Africa.
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by jeroen 18y ago
The results are either uninteresting and unreliable, or uninteresting and reliable. Shortcircuit logic keeps me from worrying about reliability. Your shortlogic is going the wrong way. The results are either unreliable, or reliable. That
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by jeroen 18y ago
From the article: I was worried that these results were from the virtual machine (I also loaded up Parallels but saw similar results to running VMware) so I just loaded Windows XP proper: Nope, the results are the same as using the VM.
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by jeroen 18y ago
also discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=362345
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by jeroen 18y ago
I thought the reason for submitting was sharing something worthwhile with other HN'ers. The dupe only increases that sharing. That you're making this a personal thing seems to imply a different motivation. I don't think dupes are good, but
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by jeroen 18y ago
Single-page link: http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfoli... (I posted this in the other item first, but as this one is getting a lot of reads as well and the article is split up into 9 pages, I thought it was worth a
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by jeroen 18y ago
Single-page link: http://www.portfolio.com/news-markets/national-news/portfoli...
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by jeroen 18y ago
From 1996: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9507E1DE1239F... "The company estimates its hourly cost of labor at $43" 2005: http://www.npr.org/news/specials/gmvstoyota/ "Average Labor Cost per U.S. Hourly Worker $73.73" I c
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by jeroen 18y ago
Looks like the server was just reset (the site was completely offline for a short time) and it's fixed now.
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Fixing HN: Explicitly ending the comments page(j2solutions.nl)
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by jeroen 18y ago
Tests should not be created by the creators of one of the subjects of the test.
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by jeroen 18y ago
They would have a faster and more compliant engine than they seem to be able to build themselves. And "giving up complete control"? We're only talking about the rendering engine, not the rest of the browser. And WebKit is open source, they
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by jeroen 18y ago
A fair point, until you figure in this: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081106/bs_afp/usitinternetyaho... "'To this day, I would say the best thing for Microsoft is to buy Yahoo,' Yang said" If he wanted to sell, he should have done it then
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by jeroen 18y ago
Something similar happens when I'm on a trip and bring my camera. I can take home either pictures or memories.

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