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by m0nty 15y ago
You're right, it's broken in Chrome. Signup block looks completely different. Also, using IE Tab in Chrome, it goes berserk complaining (dozens of times) about the security certificate, not sure if that's a bug with IE Tab or their website.
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by m0nty 15y ago
There are indeed cultural issues, but deeper than that is the problem of trying to impose one economic policy (via one currency) on an area as diverse as Europe. We are generally quite good at rubbing along with our European neighbours, but
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by m0nty 15y ago
I'm guessing that the silent downvoters are reacting to the "wage flexibility by fiat" paragraph which might be construed as a political viewpoint rather than an economic one. The widely-accepted narrative at the moment is that the bankers
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by m0nty 15y ago
Apparently Latin is a very popular subject in schools. IF that popularity is genuine, it refutes the idea that children are always looking out for the easiest option, which bodes well for CS in schools because (if it's done correctly) it wi
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by m0nty 15y ago
This guy has always been one to pull facts out of his arse. As a mutual friend put it, "He seems to have found a way of skipping the evidence-gathering stage of enquiry and leaping straight to the conclusions." It's total BS but the chances
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by m0nty 15y ago
Thoughtful response :) Clearly, you're in the US? Because in GB, the situation doesn't even resemble what you describe. I've had near-misses with cars, but none of them deliberate, just careless, thoughtless, occasionally utterly incompeten
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by m0nty 15y ago
> It seems many people hold a negative view without having good arguments, almost religiously. I tried discussing the benefits of cycling with a friend. "Bikes actually use as much energy to produce as cars, since they're made of high-t
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by m0nty 15y ago
Unfortunately I've lost all faith in recruiters, both as a client and as a candidate. They lie too much and they rarely understand IT (which is why it's a shame OP got such a mixed reception here). As a "for instance", I went for an inter
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by m0nty 15y ago
Key to my application is I can write a good letter and CV/resumé, whereas most people can't. They also don't know how to research their industry: finding the right companies, working out who to address the letter to, how to followup a few m
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by m0nty 15y ago
Just recently, I took a couple of steps to enhance my job searching. First was to post my CV/resume to jobs like monster.com; the second was a very old skool writing-a-letter-on-goddamn-paper-and-mailing-it-out-to-would-be-employers. The fi
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by m0nty 15y ago
Lying is self defence. Lying is camouflage. I taught my kids to lie, just like parents always have. But I agree with you that the headline is melodramatic, incorrect and irrelevant to any meaningful discussion about Google or its services.
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by m0nty 15y ago
To counter a point that has been made several times here: it's not just corporations which operate a "conservative" IT policy: many SMEs do so as well. Innovations are great at home but at work, they confuse users, break things which have w
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by m0nty 15y ago
It's really about the perception that you don't know how to communicate. You also have no dress sense, don't date, have poor personal hygiene, talk gracelessly and have weird hobbies. This allows people to return to their default view that
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by m0nty 15y ago
I was quite surprised to find that the NHS uses password-less logins for its "Flexible Worker Portal": https://erecruitment.nhsponline.nhs.uk/Portal/LoginForm.aspx So all you need is the DoB, email address and postcode of someone, and you
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by m0nty 15y ago
In addition to the SMS service I integrated into our email system (so users could receive a text when they had email waiting) I also experimented with using Twitter for the same purpose - receive a tweet when you have email. My users are we
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by m0nty 15y ago
> pilots who were shot down ended up landing in the UK (able to go back into battle if British, but destined for a PoW camp if German) Hence the German pilots (against their better instincts) started shooting pilots who had bailed out.
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by m0nty 15y ago
No problem, I used to be a technical author ;) so kind of hard to lose the habit. I really like the book. I hope you don't think I'm being too critical, and I hope you make some good money from it.
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by m0nty 15y ago
Was about to say the same thing: "node takes a leap from that that says" "and use it to make a easy way" "the rigth way of doing" "what many people belive is the right direction" All in the section "Why the sudden and exponential popularity
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by m0nty 15y ago
"If you think capitalism is a good thing, then of course something being at odds with it is problematic." Something can be problematic but that still doesn't make it a bad idea. It might be a brilliant idea which challenges you to modify yo
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by m0nty 15y ago
You should remember that the existence of open source or home-brew solutions is not in itself going to prevent me (as a person who makes purchasing decisions) looking at a paid-for version. For example, I use Dans Guardian at the moment but
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by m0nty 15y ago
These things are a worthy effort (there have been several such posts recently) but there is no way it's equivalent to Dropbox. Dropbox is cross-platform and has web-based file access and many other benefits. Is Dropbox-like file storage des
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by m0nty 16y ago
That's my experience too. Hardly ever goes wrong, telephone support was friendly and on-the-money, problem quickly solved.
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by m0nty 16y ago
Your portfolio looks good. Respectfully, since English is not your first language - you should revise some of the page so it flows better. For example: domains Every name suggested have a not registered domain. We registered for you for U$
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by m0nty 16y ago
A History of the World in 100 Objects: http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/programme
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by m0nty 16y ago
sprotcore.com -> sproutcore.com Thanks for the list :)
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by m0nty 16y ago
> I'd like to see the karma system dispensed with entirely Totally agree with that. Comments should be judged on their merits, not the number of points they have gained or lost. Disagreement should be expressed using actual words rather
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UK has the largest online economy in the world(telegraph.co.uk)
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Ask HN: Proprietary license for free software, source code not available.
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by m0nty 16y ago
I let my membership lapse, I couldn't see any benefit to it at all. It was only helpful in that, because of my patchy education (and in the words of a friend with a similar problem): "by the time I left school, I didn't just think I was stu
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by m0nty 16y ago
It seems that ISBNs have been out only since the 70s, which means that most truly valuable books won't have them. I almost did a web dev job for a bookseller who was closing his bricks-and-mortar store to go online, and he said the really

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