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by jsankey 16y ago
Precisely. The author uses the term "slavery" while completely ignoring the fact that the users are choosing to contribute their time and energy. Clearly they believe it is worth it.
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by jsankey 16y ago
Lifted from one of my old blog posts: - Pros and Cons: when I have too many answers, I try to make it objective by drawing up the pros and cons and seeing where that takes me. - Simplify: like a lot of developers, I can be prone to over-ana
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by jsankey 16y ago
I'm in Australia too, although I don't accept recurring payments myself. However, I do make a recurring payment to a New Zealand based company. And by logging into the PayPal Australia website I see an Australian freecall (i.e. 1800) numb
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by jsankey 16y ago
The silent majority are using PayPal without problems. They support recurring payments like this, and eliminate the need for you to directly handle credit card details at all. Just don't leave piles of money sitting in your PayPal account.
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by jsankey 16y ago
If (like me) you normally skip video links, give this one a go. It's brief and all visual, so a video really makes sense in this case. And, practical or otherwise, it's creative and thought provoking!
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by jsankey 16y ago
If we are going to move forward into the era of the Real-Time web, we need to be setting examples of how different companies/sites can work together with event-based messaging/notifications. I wouldn't call the current hook into HN a good
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by jsankey 16y ago
It's not just the latest dev version. I'm seeing it in 5.0.375.127 on Windows, which is not even the latest released version.
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by jsankey 16y ago
Thanks for linking to the post with the methodology, it was interesting. It does show the difficulty of trying to get accurate numbers, although the author has clearly made an effort to. Re: the effect of inequality: sure, that's the effec
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by jsankey 16y ago
Comparing average incomes is meaningless for at least two reasons: 1) The cost of living will not be the same; and 2) Income is no measure of quality of life/satisfaction. As an example, what if average incomes are higher, but so is income
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by jsankey 16y ago
To be honest your point seems completely vacuous (far more ridiculous than the point you are responding to). It appears to reduce to "Danes are magical - I think". What makes Danes special? Is this not related to the sort of government t
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by jsankey 16y ago
You mean start their own VM implementation? The cost of that would be huge (see, e.g. Parrot). The Scala developers are better off concentrating on making Scala better, IMO.
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by jsankey 16y ago
To me it sounds like the success of NitWiki was down to the culture of the 30-person team. I'm guessing this stemmed from some leaders in that group, and applied to more than just the wiki. I'm not sure that much has changed over time - i
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by jsankey 16y ago
I do wonder if this site can really reach the market it's after. I think this is the big question. I really love this idea, because too many people are struggling unnecessarily because they don't realise the true impact of credit card de
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Android Testing: XML Reports for Continuous Integration(alittlemadness.com)
1 points by jsankey 16y ago|0 comments
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Android Testing: Using Pure Unit Tests(alittlemadness.com)
1 points by jsankey 16y ago|0 comments
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Twitter co-founder Dom Sagolla on DollarApp(news.bbc.co.uk)
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by jsankey 16y ago
I think the biggest difference is that Google has aligned its interests more in line with users (as their best long-term strategy). Facebook seems willing to exploit users any way they can. It's wise to be cautious sharing your data with a
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by jsankey 16y ago
Going with a merchant account probably wont save you money, but it does increase your purchase rate since many people may not have a paypal account and don't want to deal with getting one. Actually you don't need a PayPal account to buy v
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by jsankey 16y ago
I indent my Perl code. Not everyone does, however. It's a trivial task to reformat it in an editor. But in Python, you don't even have to worry about other people not indenting their code! I guess the only complaint I might have is why b
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by jsankey 16y ago
I've never understood this objection. Do you not indent your code anyway? If so, why should you also need to delineate scopes in another way? Python allows you to choose your indentation, it just requires consistency: something that is a
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by jsankey 16y ago
It seems like it's just the culture that has been established around iPhone, and now iPad apps. There are so many $2 apps out there it's no wonder you need a big hit to make decent money from a single app ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item
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The Only Design Pattern Is Small Solutions(programmaticallyspeaking.blogspot.com)
4 points by jsankey 16y ago|1 comments
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Digg loses a third of its visitors in a month(guardian.co.uk)
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JavaScript Compressor Comparison(alittlemadness.com)
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by jsankey 16y ago
A large missing element is managing change - and how this relates to maintaining a successful project. I see this as one of the fundamental challenges of developing software in the real world. It's something you can largely ignore during
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Setting Up An Android Project Build(alittlemadness.com)
2 points by jsankey 16y ago|0 comments
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by jsankey 16y ago
normal every day people bought millions of dollars in apps every year I would contend that few "normal every day" people bought Palm products. The iPhone has had far more mainstream success (as the numbers from mechanical_fish attest).
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by jsankey 16y ago
Also, the proposal it is based on: http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/lambda-dev/attachment...
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Cory Doctorow: Publish books free online(guardian.co.uk)
5 points by jsankey 16y ago|1 comments
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I promise not to kill myself: Apple factory workers 'asked to sign pledge'(smh.com.au)
56 points by jsankey 16y ago|46 comments

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