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by kahawe 14y ago
Let's focus on the real scourge first... "Link expired".
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by kahawe 14y ago
What are the tropes in the first joke with the 1mm? Not being a native speaker, these must have been lost on me. The second quote, I agree, there is something there. I just wanted to point out it shouldn't matter how "useless" it is in the
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by kahawe 14y ago
> «The "Edge of Space" jump: A corresponding fall to a schoolroom globe begins 1 millimeter above its surface. I'm just saying.» [1] > «I'm told somebody's jumping out of a perfectly good balloon from 23-miles up. The theory of g
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by kahawe 14y ago
This is not reddit.
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by kahawe 14y ago
> Mach 1.24 How appropriate - the speed of an Austrian skydiver measured in a unit named after an Austrian physicist!
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by kahawe 14y ago
OK, looks like the normal website is back now...
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by kahawe 14y ago
You are being pedantic to an extreme I haven't even encountered amongst the worst "grammar nazis" and you are using nothing but FUD arguments. So his reply was "muddied" up by that? The amount of upvotes and comments and people linking to t
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by kahawe 14y ago
The fact that someone would complain about the use of the word "fail", on HN no less, should nicely even out whatever faith was restored, unfortunately...
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by kahawe 14y ago
> "fail" is just annoying in a technical discussion I am sorry but you know what is REALLY annoying? Nit-picking at what must be the atomic level considering the depth and detail of this perfectly brilliant reply. Technical discussion
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by kahawe 14y ago
> why did people think this was a good deal What we are seeing on the net nowadays is by and large the average people catching up to the brilliant things that every hacker, cracker and geek was happily doing in the 90s already, just o
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by kahawe 14y ago
> Zuckerberg is more interested in long term growth If anything, for all fb employees including Zuck this was the big cash-out because they and their very close "partners in crime" were the only ones who really made any money from all
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by kahawe 14y ago
Great... " We are deeply, deeply sorry to say that due to licensing constraints, we can no longer allow access to Pandora for listeners located outside of the U.S. " I long for the day when these prehistoric business and licensing models ar
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by kahawe 14y ago
This whole list just begs to be implemented just to see it horribly, horribly crash and burn when it hits reality. Any real company and all real projects are far more complex than that and no matter how great these rules sound on their own,
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by kahawe 14y ago
> next day red bull was sold out in austria (which was there main markets at that time) This is also where the Western version of Red Bull is from. Originally it was an energy drink in Thailand and an Austrian partnered up with the Th
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by kahawe 14y ago
> Those are part of the "existing-in-modern-society-as-a-human-being competency matrix", along with bathing and wearing pants as often as possible. Excuse me but did you just present attitude, communication and other soft-skills as an
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by kahawe 14y ago
> automated testing I love how they non-chalantly squeezed "automated testing" in there... because to really do well in that area you need so much more than the average handful of junit-or-whathaveyou tests and the whole "comes up wit
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by kahawe 14y ago
Also a lot of EVE is actually played outside the game... think about traders and crafters and their excel spreadsheets or websites put together for trade networks. And of course the spies! Their activities went so far as cutting an importan
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by kahawe 14y ago
Except this excellent pay makes things worse because people are more "addicted" to stay despite how frustrated or downright disgusted they are - and then start taking their own frustrations out on others like the rest is doing. To a degree,
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by kahawe 14y ago
> Apple's rejection of Google's superior maps is an obvious example Also, they never "rejected" Google's maps. They simply chose not to distribute it as a default app anymore and now Google has not yet gotten their new Map App ready.
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by kahawe 14y ago
> Not to defend or in any way condone the actions of the scammers (which I certainly don't), but I wonder how many of the counter-scammers do so out of high-mindedness, and how many are just looking for a chance to humiliate a relative
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by kahawe 14y ago
I strongly doubt you would have gotten screenshots from the scammer but from another hapless victim who bought the laptop in a seemingly legit way. (fence) The very fact the scammer are already fine sending emails means they really don't ne
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by kahawe 14y ago
To further add to this: there are quite a few gangs here in euroland who are successfully scamming older citizens with nothing but randomly calling them up, pretending to be a grandchild in trouble and in desperate need of some money and th
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by kahawe 14y ago
Does anyone know whether these are available in a book of some sort? I love what he is doing and want to support it and want to see more pictures.
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by kahawe 14y ago
> Or if you are an investor, with your money? It's Kim Schmitz - just because he says investors are "lining up" doesn't mean a thing. This is just his typical spiel.
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by kahawe 14y ago
Skype: Try sending a message...
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by kahawe 14y ago
I can understand that his migration routes are away from most other whales but one thing that keeps coming up, especially in the linked articles: > And here's the cry of the lonely 52-Hertz whale, which no other whale can return -- as
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by kahawe 14y ago
The market for smartphones you see now? Teens, kids, moms and everyone else? Yes, they created that. And they created the package, granted out of existing technologies but the package does matter.
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by kahawe 14y ago
It is good that you can separate the two so well. Depending on where you work you may find out very quickly that a LOT of people can't... they consciously or sub-consciously take their problems with them. And I think the older you get, the
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by kahawe 14y ago
I know. That's why I said: the modern smartphone. I have used a couple of those you mentioned and they just weren't the same. I doubt they even remotely pushed the kind of crazy numbers Apple and Androids are seeing each year now.
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by kahawe 14y ago
I can see the experience benefit but what you described, there is a HUGE problem: if anyone steals your phone then they too can just place it there and tap on it. I doubt everyone locks their phone and there is nothing verifying that it is

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