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by maxklein 16y ago
This post is difficult to understand. From my understand, correct me if I am wrong, New Zealand is providing aid by allowing Tongan workers come work for a season, then return home. This leads to a marked improvement in the lives of those w
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by maxklein 16y ago
Programming a piece of software is very similar to writing a book. You're just telling a computer what to do in a somewhat unusual language. So software development, in my opinion, is neither science nor engineering, it's art.
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by maxklein 16y ago
Because an app with that many users always has a chunk of dissatisfied users.
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by maxklein 16y ago
When I see news like this, all I think is that a proportion of Evernotes users must be quite dissatisfied with their services and would switch if there were a better alternative. Then I think - perhaps I should make a better alternative. I
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by maxklein 16y ago
In 1999 I used to ask (on usenet), but it has been at least 5 years since I've encountered a problem for which there was no solution on the net. If you know how to search, almost all problems already have solutions on the net.
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by maxklein 16y ago
I think that's one attribute that the U.S will always be at an advantage over other countries - the energy level. Personally, I think that the attribute of just being energetic, being able to work for long, and being able to just keep think
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by maxklein 16y ago
Actually, to be more precise, the difference in Pisa scores in Germany is not exclusively turkish, it's between people with "Migrations-background" and people without. I.e, ethnic Germans vs non-Ethnic Germans. According to this article, th
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by maxklein 16y ago
How well would Germany do if it took away Turkish scores, and how well would France do if it took away Arab scores? Perhaps the U.S would do even better if only Asian-Americans were allowed to participate.
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by maxklein 16y ago
I propose that places are encouraged to pre-negotiate their candidate and have a legal way to offer up a single candidate, instead of the full choice being available.
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by maxklein 16y ago
What a defeatist article! In spite of the fact that I believe that western style democracy does not work all over the world (see the alternative democratic models of singapore and botswana as counter examples), there has to be a clear metho
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by maxklein 16y ago
The program is not designed to create profitable businesses, it's designed to get the unemployed doing small scale businesses that will support them and make then un-unemployed. The article makes it sound like the government is investing in
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by maxklein 16y ago
Why what? Don't leave with that cliffhanger!?
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There has also been a miraculous decline in deaths from scurvy.
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by maxklein 16y ago
But he's very successful. Who's viewpoint are we supposed to champion here - the employee or the employer? Should we not be happy when an employer is successful and can get a lot from his employees with minimal expense? Does the process of
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by maxklein 16y ago
You are wrong! The code works. You are hired to make improvements. Do new stuff, and slowly fix up the parts of the code you don't like. What you are describing sounds TYPICAL for what people always feel when they see a large chunk of code
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by maxklein 16y ago
Or maybe it just takes time to become a billionaire when you start out with nothing.
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by maxklein 16y ago
The best way I could think of to actually use the iPad for this would be have a person lay his arm (including wrist) on it. The iPad can use the touch sensitive surface to measure how thick his wrist is and how thick his arm is, and then gu
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by maxklein 16y ago
Have you written all four already? What happens if you write 3, then for the last one you have absolute writers block, or you end up writing stuff you are totally dissatisfied with?
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by maxklein 16y ago
Of course, that's true, but we can't test EVERYTHING. If a very large test has been made with a very general population, then I think one should just make the assumption that will work similarly on your audience. If we start testing everyth
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by maxklein 16y ago
Obamas audience was massive. Millions and millions of people. I believe that's representative of the general taste of people.
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by maxklein 16y ago
"That would have been a huge mistake since it turns out that all of the videos did worse than all of the images." It annoys me no end when websites have videos explaining their product and no equivalent text. I hate watching videos about pr
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by maxklein 16y ago
For some types of businesses, pageviews is what counts. Some type of applications need to reach a certain tipping point, after which trying to generate revenue makes a lot more sense. So they need to grow fast and then focus on money later.
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by maxklein 16y ago
That graph is unusual considering the title. I expected to see a graph of the traffic loss or the sales loss, but actually that graph just shows the cams available (in a diffcultto parse format). What your story seems to show is this: you'r
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by maxklein 16y ago
RIM and blackberry are totally dominating in many countries, for example Thailand. It's not dead.
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by maxklein 16y ago
I believe Singapore is trying this.
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by maxklein 16y ago
Two of the apps in the top 10 paid medical are mine and a further one in the top 20 is mine. I know what I'm talking about. Free apps have a much accelerated life-cycle.
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by maxklein 16y ago
You're making a mistake. Apps have a fixed life-cycle. Once everyone who wants your app has your app (happens quicker with niche products), then it will start dropping in ranks.
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by maxklein 16y ago
You really have to be behind the times to still be advocating OpenID. Technology is made up of alternatives, and one wins. No matter how much you love something, if it's dead, it's dead, now move on. Every hyped technological product has a
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by maxklein 16y ago
API first is actually right in my opinion. Software is very multi-platform now : if you build the API first and then build the clients on top of that, you can make the clients completely decoupled from the server, allowing you to quickly sw
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by maxklein 16y ago
Young people are capable of doing many things. But there are some traits that make young people unsuitable for some jobs - lack of stability, wandering interest, not having been exposed enough. Just focus on the things that can best be done

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