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by krolley 15y ago
I recall reading somewhere that the reason that these ESTA forms exist, or the travel cards for Britain and Australia is that if you arrive and they found that you really _had_ a criminal record when you ticked the box that said you didn't,
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by krolley 15y ago
Just out of curiosity: how old are you? I feel like I'm in the same situation, I make more money than I can comfortably spend and so I save it. But I do like seeing my savings rise, and thinking/dreaming about buying a house with no mortgag
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by krolley 15y ago
Does your 10 - 19:30 (9.5 hour) day also include time for lunch and dinner that twitter generously provides?
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by krolley 15y ago
Your point is completely valid if it were a book about success. It is a personal finance book, and I assume most readers are trying to find out "how do I become rich?".
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by krolley 15y ago
What I gleaned from the article is that the author wants push notifications from gmail. That doesn't appeal to me, email is not a phonecall. It shouldn't be disruptive. I want to get emails when I have time to check them.
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by krolley 15y ago
I don't understand. As a man, would I prefer to be served by a hot man or an ugly man. Honestly, I don't really care. I can't say the same thing for women, however.
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by krolley 15y ago
It's a good point, but then Apple should name the iPhone along the lines of "iPhone (fourth generation)" and not "iPhone 4" for example.
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by krolley 15y ago
I don't know where people are getting the idea that Europe pays software developers $3000-$4000 per month. Maybe in eastern Europe, but in Switzerland, you can expect double that amount.. after tax.
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by krolley 15y ago
What happened to the microsoft retail stores? Did they close up already? Update: checked Wikipedia, they have 8 stores open and two more in development.
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by krolley 15y ago
Surprising, though, that they use "enhanced durability" to upsell the hard disk and not "increased performance".
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by krolley 15y ago
As a foreigner living in Switzerland, it can feel the same. Driving with a Swiss it's like "are we in Liechtenstein yet?" because you'd never know it otherwise.
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by krolley 15y ago
I got a firm offer like this. I responded with "Great, I'll have a think about it and call you soon". When I called back the next day I said "I really like the company, and would be thrilled to join the development team, at $85k". The hirin
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by krolley 16y ago
I think you make a very good point. The iPhone 4 was released in June, but in Europe we didn't see any real availability for many months afterwards, even into October. If Apple had released an iPhone 4GS in September, it would have delayed
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by krolley 16y ago
I can't see how that would have helped anyone. He would have simply struggled to remove the locked collar, if not run into a crowd of bystanders before the bomb went off.
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by krolley 16y ago
Wow, this is fantastic. Issue 8 caught my eye because of 'Better CSS with Sass' and I found a section titled 'Working Geek' about how to give good tech presentations, when I am currently preparing one on RIA Services for work! Couldn't be h
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by krolley 16y ago
Hopefully you're not representative of people normally judging resumes. When you're unemployed, finding a job is probably the most important thing you can do. Making something pleasing to the eye can only help your efforts, as long as all t
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by krolley 16y ago
Yes, the toaster (and the designers involved) are definitely worthy of praise. I'm sure all of us have used our toasters to toast 'a bit more' which makes the feature all the more striking. It seems so obvious, but only in retrospect, and t
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by krolley 16y ago
And importantly, learn to recognise a rip so that you never get in one. As I remember as a kid growing up in Australia, you can tell a rip when you can see the curl and break of a wave on either side of a part of a wave, but not in the midd
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by krolley 16y ago
It may be a little more complicated with the iPhone. They want to up-sell you a lot of accessories "do you need a bumper?" "how about a dock?" and then get you activated with at&t or whatever. I think it can be a fairly time intensive p
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by krolley 16y ago
I read Daring Fireball quite often, and I must say that I am surprised to see this kind of 'retort' post on DF. It seems out of character.
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by krolley 17y ago
If you eat papaya, you're already eating hermaphrodite fruit. This can't make much difference.
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by krolley 17y ago
They would "literally" drag Pakistanis back to their homes? Seems quite harsh.
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by krolley 17y ago
I saw it as: no frame, green, small, circle. It just demonstrates that this question might be a good one, if what you're testing for is the order that people find "the odd one" (not necessarily in an IQ test).
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by krolley 17y ago
Switzerland: jobs.ch If you can get a visa, the pay is great.
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by krolley 17y ago
I find Jeff Atwood to be extremely self deprecating at times. I know i'm not the best programmer, but as Jeff would have us believe, until we know we're all the worst programmers in history his job is not done. At least now I know the ratio
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by krolley 17y ago
From the page: "Void in Cuba; Iran; North Korea; Sudan and the Province of Quebec, Canada." Just curious, why is quebec also excluded?
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by krolley 17y ago
> Do it (right, right now). Forget about documentation, big analysis, big plans. Just do it, do it now, do it right. I take umbrage at this mentality, and maybe I just don't yet understand, but how in the world can I start something wit
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by krolley 17y ago
Well, I think it's a worthwhile endeavor. The beauty about the self-described geek is that they believe everything can be learned with enough persistence: code, math, chatting to strangers or chatting up girls. While I don't see any particu
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by krolley 17y ago
I can confirm that the downloads seem to work (but only in IE) but the keys do not work, you cannot generate any keys.