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by jvdh 14y ago
The minimum price is free?
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by jvdh 14y ago
True, but that still is not going backwards.
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by jvdh 14y ago
UTC time does not go backwards. Leap seconds are implemented as a minute with 61 seconds.
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by jvdh 14y ago
I wonder if this has to do with the spatial aspect. Americans use that awkward imperial system, which makes it really hard to easily chop up distances. Almost all other countries use the metric system, which makes it very easy to understand
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by jvdh 14y ago
So what would happen when you stop giving out these Positive Tickets?
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by jvdh 14y ago
Unless you're young and have little to no experience, that attitude will and should fly. In that case the company should be just as much trying to convince you as you are convincing them.
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by jvdh 14y ago
How about you sign up someone for your own job? I'm not sure whether this should be rewarded or not, but it seems a situation that he's alluding to in that rule.
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by jvdh 15y ago
This is a wonderful idea: http://blog.agilebits.com/2012/03/09/1password-emergency-kit Reminds me again that I still have to print it out and store it somewhere safe...
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by jvdh 15y ago
There is a world outside of the US. Most participants of IETF conferences are not from the US or from North America at all. In fact, the IETF came close to deciding not to hold conferences in the US anymore due to increasing visa US from ma
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by jvdh 15y ago
They tell you when that happens? Sounds like something that could be easily abused by collusion among a few shopkeepers.
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by jvdh 15y ago
I assume you're doing business, selling goods or some kind of service. I do hope that you check beforehand whether someone pays for their goods/services before you give it to them right? At which point you have an accurate record for that c
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by jvdh 15y ago
The business of PayPal is to allow you to accept payments over the internet at a reasonable rate. The business of PayPal is not to outsource your financial administration. If you run a million dollar business and you're relying on PayPal to
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by jvdh 15y ago
In my experience very low. But you should really configure your mailserver to have the advertised hostname match the reverse hostname for the IP ("PTR record")[0]. The chance of getting your mail rejected if those don't match is a lot highe
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by jvdh 15y ago
oh my god, they're doing these in real-time, and they're server is suffering under the load too.
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by jvdh 15y ago
"Speaking to the article itself, water is only "free" (the consumer of the water didn't fork over cash on the spot) if you use a public restroom or a water fountain. You pay for the water coming out of your tap at home. Maybe you actually g
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by jvdh 15y ago
And like he states in the video: 8. If the game does blow up in their faces, there will be video evidence of it for all the backers to enjoy.
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by jvdh 15y ago
StartSSL.com offers free yearly simple SSL certificates, and are supported by all major browsers. If you want higher-grade, you'll have to pay. They're very open about wanting to provide free simple certificates for everyone.
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by jvdh 15y ago
Additional info is here: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57370628-83/security-concer...
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by jvdh 15y ago
Yup, works fine if you're doing things only locally. However, if you're using timezone aware datetime objects you're out of luck, because then datetime.timedelta doesn't immediately apply. Just creating timezone aware datetime objects is re
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by jvdh 15y ago
This solves one of my problems with datetime and timezones in Python. The other being that it is totally awkward and bafflingly hard to add and substract from datetime objects.
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by jvdh 15y ago
What exactly is the "radically change" that you're after? You want them to charge more for what they do? Your site does not specify what you're actually trying to achieve...
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by jvdh 15y ago
Thank you HackerNews for bringing the original news about the RWA to my attention. I'm from the Netherlands and was able to throw this up into my network, and managed to get this issue on the agenda of the Dutch Surf Foundation and the Know
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by jvdh 15y ago
Erm, the new bsdinstall menu is about as simple as they could get. You have the option how to use your disk, with an "Automate" option to let the installer do it for you. Then there are four sets of "packages" that you may want to have inst
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by jvdh 15y ago
This only helps you in national flights. For international flights they very often do check the match between ID and ticket.
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by jvdh 15y ago
Fact: an iPhone in the Netherlands costs around €0 on average. You can also buy it unlocked for €750. In Greece they have to sell iPhones unlocked, and initial average price is €699. Easy to check yourself at apple.com.
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by jvdh 15y ago
In some countries in Europe it is already obligatory to sell an unlocked version, usually a locked version is also sold. If you examine the pricing closely, it does not really matter which one you get, you end up paying the same amount, eit
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by jvdh 15y ago
While I prefer a dark background, I'm in an office with sunlight coming from behind my screen. I've noticed about six months ago that I was getting headaches when using a dark editor. Since I've changed from dark to light background the hea
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by jvdh 15y ago
This is a really simple analysis of elevator algorithms, mostly based on anecdotal evidence. If you really want to go down the rabbit hole of these algorithms, there's a whole lot of scientific papers written about them. http://scholar.goo
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by jvdh 15y ago
Be careful there, they have done a study where they have concluded that lower stress levels are related to fewer allergies. And in a different study they have shown that kids following an antroposophic lifestyle also have fewer allergies th
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by jvdh 15y ago
This is the other meaning of "philosophy": a theory or attitude that acts as a guiding principle for behaviour

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