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by kolektiv 14y ago
Well, yes... That's semi-reassuring! Now I don't know what you mean by higher volume accounts. I may well be one, but I don't know that yet. It's like saying that Github will always have a free account - yes, maybe so, but it doesn't do wha
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by kolektiv 14y ago
Can I just add a general plea to sites like this one which follow a "free while in beta" approach? It's great, and I love free, but I can't choose free without knowing if it's going to become $10/mo or $10k/mo. I'm sure I could probably hav
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by kolektiv 14y ago
I can't help feeling that /dev/zero produces neutrons rather than electrons.
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by kolektiv 14y ago
Very much agreed. From a HN account that isn't immediately associable with the source of the story, this is little more than astroturfing. It's not as if they're unheard of on HN in the first place.
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by kolektiv 14y ago
Simple does not have to mean featureless. Essentially equating lack of ease with a UI as stupidity is somewhat rude, but worse it's short sighted. Many people have spoken recently about the Github UI - it's much better than what came before
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by kolektiv 15y ago
Very much agreed. The 64 bit ubiquity move is a solid, sensible step which genuinely makes a lot of lives easier. Nice to see this happening, and it comes at an excellent time for hosting decision I was about to make. Amazon have probably j
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by kolektiv 15y ago
Disappointingly not. In fact recent government commissioned studies recommended not regulating this further for fear of driving customers to more unscrupulous lenders (presumably ones without flashy offices and good marketing - not actually
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by kolektiv 15y ago
Yeah that's fair enough - I'm working with RabbitMQ in Node at the moment, and I've got a simple domain specific wrapper around it, which I find fairly easy. Of course, not everything on it is in Node, which is one reason this wouldn't work
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by kolektiv 15y ago
One of the things that RabbitMQ does which this doesn't seems to be much more support for variable topography. This seems to need to know of all receivers when you create a "speaker" which in dynamic networks doesn't seem like such a good i
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by kolektiv 15y ago
Which if you want people to use it with confidence probably isn't a selling point: http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/
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by kolektiv 15y ago
I don't know how successful they are, but if someone did that for my company I can say for sure that I'd certainly give that person some serious time and consideration. It's also not really an HR thing, IMO. It's almost a "bypass HR" thing
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by kolektiv 15y ago
Predictable, nothing too surprising. I think they're going to have a lot of questions to answer around age verification though, seeing as they put in an age verification program without customer request or warning over the last year or so.
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by kolektiv 15y ago
A little more information - they're sending an X- HTTP header containing the originating mobile phone number. No obfuscation, anything, just a mobile number. I'm on O2 and just verified this from my own mobile. This is an appalling privacy
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O2 (UK) sending mobile numbers with every HTTP request(twitter.com)
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by kolektiv 15y ago
I was struck by that as well. I can't imagine that flying over here in the UK (I would hope not, certainly). Legal indictments are supposed to be precise and dispassionate, accurately and succinctly itemising all offences believed to have b
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by kolektiv 15y ago
You and me both, as my surname is Cherry and was supposed to be notified if it ever became available on the market!
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by kolektiv 15y ago
I've always used them, and they've been flawless for me. Not "amazing service", but "I haven't needed any service" because everything just worked properly. From what I hear they are responsive when you need them as well. I'd recommend them.
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by kolektiv 15y ago
Is the low rate of condom use really related to the time demands of putting one on? I've seen a few things like this and it seems rather more likely that any reason like that is dwarfed by cultural ones.
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by kolektiv 15y ago
I don't want to fall in to a Reddit like trap of [citation needed] as a reply, but what in this article leads you to believe that airlines can no longer promote employees for good performance? I don't know if you're saying it's a bad thing
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by kolektiv 15y ago
What timing, I went through this process over the last two months. My new glasses will be ready on Thursday. I can read anything, even the smallest type without them. But after 8 hours, it hurts. Hopefully it won't soon. Heed this advice -
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by kolektiv 15y ago
Wow. That sounds a lot more positive than my experience of investigating the market here (UK) - I presume this article is US focused. Here school IT is generally centrally managed by an IT team who are not generally receptive to ad-hoc soft
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by kolektiv 15y ago
"When someone tells me they have an Nvidia board and ask for help, my first advice is to buy a decent computer..." Wow. Do you find that many people keep listening to you after this or is this just a strategy to free your time of annoying "
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by kolektiv 15y ago
I had similar thoughts but from the other direction - yes, this is what Ruby (and/or Rails particularly) seemed to want to avoid. "We don't need all of these classes, look how simple this is! It's not like Java with all of these patterns, e
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by kolektiv 15y ago
I loved this. I couldn't agree more. I don't really have any great salient points or anecdotes to add but I would love to live in a world where more people think this way. As a thought experiment though, what would it take to change this? C
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by kolektiv 15y ago
OK, reasonable point, I had only mentioned that example in another reply because that was the one he used. Do I agree that there will always be semantically wrong bits of code that can't be detected by a compiler (whether as part of a type
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by kolektiv 15y ago
As siblings point out, how much work you have to do depends on your language and the available facilities. In Java, this might be a huge pain - Haskell, etc. less so. It's more likely that this is done as part of the framework or libraries
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by kolektiv 15y ago
Mmmm, but there's more than one way to skin a cat. To take just the point about safe and unsafe strings - well, you could do that with naming conventions, sure. But then you've got a peer review issue. It helps, but it's not great . So the
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by kolektiv 15y ago
Echoing the Facebook thing. Sounds like a neat idea but until you remove the FB requirement, I won't be trying it. Sorry, I just viscerally don't like tying things like this to things which are at best unrelated, possibly even the opposite
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by kolektiv 15y ago
Thanks for the clarification - I think to some extent we're arguing on the same side. Points about traffic I would certainly agree with, and to some extent it's as much about attraction as about increasing conversion metrics once obtained.
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by kolektiv 15y ago
That's actually a valid point with A/B and MV testing - you can get stuck on local maxima. It's why the process still requires manual intervention and design skills. Most flaws with A/B implementations are people/process or misuse.

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