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by jonasvp 16y ago
Sorry, meant to upvote and hit the wrong arrow. Damen those thick thumbs and the lack of undo on HN! Anyway, I concur. HN seems very pro-RoR to my eyes.
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by jonasvp 16y ago
Well, yes and no. Grades went out of favor because there actually is a considerable body of research pointing to the fact that grades are harmful. What they do is not simply pointing out weaknesses but establishing a ranking. One schildert
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by jonasvp 16y ago
I don't want to pressure anyone and the new site sure looks great but... Android, pretty please? -- Sent from my Droid
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by jonasvp 16y ago
Just to give another example for a Zencoder use case (although we're definitely small fry to Zencoder): one of our clients is an acting agency representing a small number (<50) of actors. Every actor has at least one showreel to be show
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by jonasvp 16y ago
More power to Zencoder! I integrated their service into a client site a couple of weeks ago and their support is phenomenal. I chatted with one of the guys and he was very helpful. Another Zencoder technician actually emailed me because he
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by jonasvp 16y ago
I think what the author is pointing out is that people exhibit different traits of their personality when they speak different languages. She didn't say that all Germans yell and therefore she yelled at a cabdriver but that when she spoke G
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by jonasvp 16y ago
I find that very logical - in countries where employees are expensive to hire and to let go, buying robots is a easy strategy to cut costs. Given that you have to train a new employee with uncertain success, getting a robot with a limited b
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by jonasvp 16y ago
I wish I could upvote you more... the price we all pay for free (car) parking is incredible and the "driving around until you find a spot"-part of it is actually neglible. Check out "The High Cost of Free Parking" if you're interested in th
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by jonasvp 16y ago
I'm German and you're 100% correct.
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by jonasvp 16y ago
Good point - I was under the impression that celery _only_ works with an AMQP message broker. Guess I should have read the description more closely before starting on django-beanstalkd. I'm happy with my lightweight model for now but I'll d
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by jonasvp 16y ago
Celery together with RabbitMQ (or another message broker) is great for big/huge projects. For basic job queueing and delayed job execution, beanstalkd ( http://kr.github.com/beanstalkd/ ) is in most cases a better choice. It takes almost no
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by jonasvp 16y ago
I asked them this exact question a couple of weeks ago. Sachin actually answered himself and said they can't maintain old urls for now but are working on it.
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by jonasvp 16y ago
I wonder why WYMeditor ( http://www.wymeditor.org/ ) is not in there. Is it officially abandoned? I implemented WYMeditor for a couple of customer sites and liked it because it makes it really hard for editors to screw up the site layout.
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Postgresql's new recursive queries at Disqus: 500% speedup(davidcramer.net)
133 points by jonasvp 16y ago|22 comments
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by jonasvp 16y ago
They're not, that's true. Be sure to count all your car-related expenses, though. Even minor repairs quickly cost over 1.000 € and you'll be racking up a lot of those over the life of the typical car (if you have an older one). For a new ca
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by jonasvp 16y ago
It depends on where you live. In the States or outside a fair-sized town, there's (so far) no alternative to owning your own car out of sheer necessity. In the city, especially here in Europe, it's a different story. The usual rule of thumb
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by jonasvp 16y ago
My former employer spun off a company based on exactly this problem: http://www.thinprint.com They did very well back then and probably still do. If I had any stock, however, I'd probably sell around the time Cloud Print looked like it wo
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by jonasvp 17y ago
I used to have to exact same problem until I found Instapaper. Simple idea, brilliantly executed. Works even better in conjunction with Calibre ( http://calibre-ebook.com/ ) and an ebook reader. I bought myself the Pocketbook 360 for christ
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by jonasvp 17y ago
Definitely a great book. If you're interested in human-scale development, you should definitely check out the writings of Leopold Kohr ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_Kohr ). E.F. Schumacher (of "Small is Beautiful" fame) was one of
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by jonasvp 17y ago
Bit of a dense read but I think there's something here. The business idea starts with Chapter 5. I've been studying the case for demurrage (carrying costs for money, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demurrage_%28currency%29 ) for a while now a
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Neutral Money Network - a business idea(userpage.fu-berlin.de)
3 points by jonasvp 17y ago|1 comments
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Social micropayment system by Peter Sunde of Pirate Bay fame goes beta(flattr.com)
53 points by jonasvp 17y ago|31 comments
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by jonasvp 17y ago
If you're interested in non-realtime energy monitoring (and speak German), check out my skunkworks project from way back: www.stromverbrauch-online.de You sign up, regularly put in your current meter readout and get an estimate of your mont
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by jonasvp 17y ago
Well, it would probably be an interesting experience... not that I would care to find out. That's why I said the killer application would probably not look like money to us. Take Youtube, for instance: people go to considerable lengths to c
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by jonasvp 17y ago
I've been thinking very hard about this topic lately and actually went ahead with writing some code. Then I found http://www.opencoin.org who already did some of the work. I think there's a lot than can be done in this field - not with mi
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by jonasvp 17y ago
Great idea and these guys have taken it pretty far already: http://www.cargocap.com/ In a couple of decades, our kids will be asking us: "... and you had heavy trucks deliver goods within the city? Nasty."
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by jonasvp 17y ago
Funny, everybody on Linux seems to have exactly one Java app... mine's jBidwatcher.
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by jonasvp 17y ago
Funny, a while ago I rolled out my own version of this, even dirtier than the Wattvision solution. My users would go to the website, put in the digits displayed on their meter, and get a nice chart showing their consumption. Accuracy obviou
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by jonasvp 18y ago
Looks a lot like what Rob over at Cockeyed did with his Light Sharpener: http://www.cockeyed.com/incredible/solardish/dish01.shtml The Google version looks more professional, though...
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by jonasvp 18y ago
The assumption most people seem to base their conclusions on is that making drugs illegal reduces consumption. All empirical evidence so far - even from less biased sources than the wildly free-market Cato institute - shows that this is no

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