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by kenver 15y ago
About 50% per year. If you work it out hourly, I do better. I know I'd hate to work the hours she does though. I prefer to choose when I want to do extra work and have time for personal projects and other things.
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by kenver 15y ago
My girlfriend's a finance lawyer for a really big firm, she earns about 50% more than me and I image that in a couple of years will probably earn even more. To get this she is required to work any weekend clients need her to (even if it mea
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After Price Drop: Nintendo Japan Sells 215K 3DS Units In 7 Days(techcrunch.com)
3 points by kenver 15y ago|2 comments
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Angry Birds maker Rovio sued by Lodsys(guardian.co.uk)
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Nokia reports loss of €368m(guardian.co.uk)
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Final Shuttle Landing(nasa.gov)
2 points by kenver 15y ago|1 comments
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Björk's Biophilia app: a techie and a music fan write(guardian.co.uk)
1 points by kenver 15y ago|0 comments
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Björk's Biophilia app: a techie and a music fan write(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by kenver 15y ago|0 comments
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Work on 10k year clock starts thanks to Amazon's CEO(singularityhub.com)
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Gaming Makes Hollywood Look Embarrassing(guardian.co.uk)
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by kenver 15y ago
No I was definitely thinking of the PlayStation. The first playstation during the 90s was often found in nightclubs and places you would never previously have seen a console. They made it look cool to ordinary people. The playstation 2 is
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by kenver 15y ago
There are a few negatives there for sure, but I think you're missing a couple of the ups too. The playstation for example was very successful, and is often credited as making gaming more popular and cool with 'normal' people. They've messe
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by kenver 15y ago
I guess people (especially smart ones) don't like being told they're wrong by anyone who they consider inferior even if that person is right. By inferior I mean anyone who can't immediately prove that they're superior by listing a bunch of
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In Cyberspy vs. Cyberspy, China Has The Edge(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by kenver 15y ago|0 comments
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by kenver 16y ago
I agree with you, it is more work now, but I think I've noticed at least one advantage. This is not always the case, but some comments usually end up getting voted very high, and they take away views from newer comments which may also be v
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by kenver 16y ago
They should probably pick up Bingi.ng too.
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Bill & Steve in 2007 - tablets and post pc devices(youtube.com)
1 points by kenver 16y ago|0 comments
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Real life F1 car exploded schematic pictures(blogs.insideline.com)
2 points by kenver 16y ago|1 comments
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Britain gets its own Kick Ass(dailymail.co.uk)
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by kenver 16y ago
Read the article and there are a few times he compares php to rails - I didn't realise php was a web framework. There are certainly things to dislike about PHP. but I think he's trying too hard in a few of the ones he cites.
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Sale of Lovefilm: A champagne moment for UK tech?(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by kenver 16y ago|0 comments
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by kenver 16y ago
I'm 29 and that's the first time in my life someones called me 'slightly old'. I'll treasure this moment.
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by kenver 16y ago
Good stuff! A similar thing happened to me recently. About a year or two ago I broke up with my girlfriend of eleven years and started to think what a waste everything had been during that time. We weren't married, no children etc and so
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by kenver 16y ago
Whenever I read about neutron bombs they always talk about how they're designed to kill tank crews/armored soldiers etc, but as you say the potential is there to kill everyone in a city with little infrastructure damage. From the sounds of
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by kenver 16y ago
I did an implementation myself a month or two ago and noticed the same thing. The contradiction is hard to miss.
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by kenver 16y ago
So we should probably be testing IE6, IE7, IE7 emulated under IE8, IE8, all of the other ones emulated in IE9 and IE9. Ouch!
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by kenver 16y ago
It's in good company, there's no Prague metro there either :(
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by kenver 16y ago
Thanks for your reply. We're evaluating PdfTextStream at the moment. We want to try a few though to see which works best for the types of document we are going to be using.
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Ask HN: Recommendations for PDF text extraction
16 points by kenver 16y ago|10 comments
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by kenver 16y ago
I used to do something similar when I was a student and getting my haircut! I'd ask for my student discount, then tip and make up the difference and give it straight to the girl who cut my hair. I got some good haircuts back then.

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