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by junto 11y ago
Goods and services. In terms of their core business, the money they charge British companies to advertise on the Google network should be taxed and paid to the UK government. I don't understand the problem?
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by junto 11y ago
Honestly, the only thing you can do is vote for the non standard parties, and get your friends to do the same. We need to remove the current incumbents. If your friends questions you why they should do this, then ask them this: > Can I s
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by junto 11y ago
OK, I'll add another 'no' to you both. If a company is operating in a certain country offering goods and services to the population of that country then that country has the right to levy taxes upon the sales of those goods,
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by junto 11y ago
Anyone know if there is much of a demand for .Net developers in Zurich?
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by junto 11y ago
That sounds like a very interesting and I'm assuming, a sad story. Do you mind if I ask if you are sharing it publicly?
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by junto 11y ago
Funnily enough, that's how most criminals get caught. Boasting about it down the pub! I was once given some wise advice. If you've ever knowingly done something wrong, never tell anyone else, and never admit to it. Your mouth is y
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by junto 11y ago
It's called a TAN: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transaction_authentication_n...
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by junto 11y ago
This is a great comment. It is this kind of social engineering attack which is unbelievably effective, simply because most people don't want to offend the other person at the other end of the phone. Banks really need to stop phoning pe
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by junto 11y ago
Standard Yale style locks are so simple to pick it is scary, even with a pocket knife and a bent paper clip. I know this because as a student I lost the key to my room. I couldn't afford to replace the lock, nor afford a locksmith, so
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by junto 11y ago
I have a soft spot for seaplanes. The Sunderlands flew out of Pembroke Dock in West Wales during World War II, protecting convoys and hunting German submarines in the Atlantic and Irish Sea. They apparently had a very distinctive sound to t
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by junto 11y ago
I work on a team maintaining a large code base. We follow a similar rule concerning unit tests. Our testing over 5 years has slowly grown from 0% to give us ~75% coverage, by using the methodology you describe.
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by junto 11y ago
We have a rule that you can only prettify (to defined style rules) when you are already making a change to that piece of code or file. Otherwise it's hand off as a rule. It also stops programmers wasting time.
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by junto 11y ago
And even if you trust the OS, you have no idea what is going on on the phone's baseband processor: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baseband_processor One has to assume that all are back-doored. Mobile phones are i
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by junto 11y ago
All of this is good. The more competition the better. Pity they aren't all compatible. Then we might actually have an real email killer on our hands.
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by junto 11y ago
.NET WCF to another WCF integration is fine, but if you try and hook a .NET SOAP webservice to one written in Java, and you'll have pulled all of your hair out after two weeks. The reverse is just the same. They all have slightly diffe
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by junto 11y ago
I wonder why the duplicate detector didn't go off on this. This URL is exactly the same as the one noted in the flagged comment (show hidden). @Dang: Have HN changed the way in which dupes are detected? Also, should we be flagging comm
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by junto 11y ago
There is plenty of money to be made in this space. KDS [1] for example are selling their solution into large enterprise clients, each with thousands of users paying per user pricing. Enterprise money and enterprise deals. Expense management
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by junto 11y ago
I have similar experiences living in a country where the dominant language is not my own. I hate the assumption that location should determine language preference. I've worked with several really smart programmers from the US during my
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by junto 11y ago
Side note: what color did you dye your hair then?
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Lets remove verbs from http 2.0(onebigfluke.com)
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by junto 11y ago
This is pretty damning. Telekom raised legal questions and it went as high as the Chancellory, who said it was legal. Telekom's expenses: 6.500,- euro a month
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by junto 11y ago
Germany dubs everything. Unless you invest in Sky, the German television broadcasters don't even bother broadcasting the original language as an alternative tone, which I assume over cable isn't a massive extra expense. Only Arté
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by junto 11y ago
I've made a conscious decision to deliberately not buy products that are shown to me as retargeted ads. They really bug me.
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by junto 11y ago
I got Ulcerative Colitis one year after my first child was born. Lack of sleep, stress and a course of anti biotics were the triggers. What you've just said certainly resonates with me. My doctor noted that smokers don't tend to g
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by junto 11y ago
I think you meant: Yes agreed, that's Cloudflare. However, I personally feel that this gives a negative user experience. No need to be so snarky. I was just pointing out what was causing it.
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by junto 11y ago
That's Cloudflare
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by junto 11y ago
The environmental and animal rights groups in the UK became a major target of the Security Services and Special Branch after the Good Friday Agreement. Essentially you had lots of surveillance teams and analysts who had nothing more to do,
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by junto 11y ago
Isn't it just a version of TFS online using a SAAS billing concept? Wouldn't "TFS Online" be a better description if you want to stock with the Microsoft unimaginative naming policy? At least it says exactly what it is.
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by junto 11y ago
Another (busier) discussion is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10619336 As an ex-Dell support website developer (in other words I've worked with the service tag lookup feature) I don't understand why a
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by junto 11y ago
I'm an ex-Dell Support site web developer. This used to work using Java/ActiveX if memory serves me right. Since browsers have started to downgrade the whole Java experience, it appears that Dell now want you to download an EXE wh

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