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by mb_72 8y ago
Hmmm. I have dual citizenship for Australia and Estonia, both of which offer 10-year passports. It's also possible to moderately easily get the 'other' passport when located in each country. Thinking about it I guess I could
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by mb_72 8y ago
I will be curious to see how this pans out - I have dual Australian and Estonian citizenship, and in the latter case I can tell you it's extremely useful to have centralised medical records, prescriptions etc. For my Australian medical
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by mb_72 8y ago
iPads are used a lot by myself and musicians I know; there are a lot of cheap apps that cover virtual synths, drum machines, song learning, DJing, even full DAWs. They are amazing machines that 'just work' for many musical situati
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by mb_72 8y ago
This is exactly why I changed my payment method with them to a virtual credit card. When I want to stop my sub I'll just block the VCC via my online banking. There is no way I'm spending time and money calling internationally to u
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by mb_72 8y ago
I'd love to, but I need a Mojave-compatible machine prior to it's release so we can get our Xamarin application updated before-hand. Might be best to go with the 2015 option anyway, thanks!
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by mb_72 8y ago
I've got an 2011-era Mac Mini that I've loved for developing - updated to 8GB of RAM + an SSD, it's been a great Xamarin machine for years. However now I'm looking for a replacement as Mojave won't support the hardw
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by mb_72 8y ago
Thanks for the explanation. I have no experience with that company, and am unlikely to after that information.
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by mb_72 8y ago
Possibly anti-Russian bias? It's common here. That said, Taxify is pretty good and cheap, and personally I don't bother with anything else. I live and work in Tallinn as a remote worker for a few clients; internet is cheap and fas
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by mb_72 8y ago
I don't - 'boosting one's immune system' is a meaningless alt-med phrase. For someone like me, with an auto-immune disease, if 'boosting' my immune system was actually a real thing I would become more sick. Rea
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by mb_72 8y ago
Google Duplex-to-text, is that you?! I wonder when HN will start having HN-trained bots posting. There's lots of smart discussions by smart people here; surely high-quality grist for an AI mill?
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by mb_72 8y ago
I don't think this is true - in my experience almost all guitar players, for example, can read tab and I've played with many who can read scores and sight-read to a degree; OTOH, I've only played with very few who were good e
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by mb_72 8y ago
What happens then if I'm a human that masquerades as a computer? Seems like a neat way of explaining away a number of social faux pas or drunk-dialling. "Me? Noooo... that must have been my PhoneBot 2000. Supposedly the next firmw
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by mb_72 9y ago
As a mostly solo developer I haven't found a need to switch away from SVN to git or anything else; doing so would involve work I can't bill for and for no benefit to myself or existing clients. Some things in software and life in
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by mb_72 9y ago
Agreed. I've brought a number of small to large-scale products to fruition using DipTrace. At the time I had a choice (more then several years ago now, I admit, so perhaps things had changed) KiCAD was a mess, while DipTrace just helpe
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by mb_72 9y ago
“I feel like I’m in a relationship with everyone I live with,” Ms. Ndrepepaj said. “If their day is bad, your day is bad.” Hardly a selling point. As an introvert it's just within my capabilities living with my wife and playful cat; li
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by mb_72 9y ago
My wife and I visited Stockholm over the weekend, and walking around we saw two OBikes mingled in with what appeared to be otherwise well-organised and neatly piled up old Christmas trees. It was practically the only example of 'messin
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by mb_72 9y ago
Yep. Who or which user 'falls in love' with a lock (with reference to the lead line of the article) anyway? Sounds like there is some serious reality distortion going on.
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by mb_72 9y ago
I am a massive skeptic when it comes to UFOs / the supernatural, but must relate one story. A friend of mine, who is now deployed with the UN, used to work as a fighter controller with the air force of a certain country. He is a sober
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by mb_72 9y ago
Yes, thank you!
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by mb_72 9y ago
I can't find the link right now, but have read a fairly convincing argument that it was the conventional type of bombing, not nuclear, that caused the Japanese to surrender. Still a terrible thing for Japanese civilians though.
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by mb_72 9y ago
Probably not going to be a popular article here given the number of people building businesses to flip in a few years time for early-retirement money...
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by mb_72 9y ago
Ok, perhaps you are fine with letting little gems like "Musicians never play notes one at a time. They always use chords." slide, but I'm not. If I can't trust the author about the basics and things that I know about, ho
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by mb_72 9y ago
Nuances? Try basics. Worse, the author makes a number of general statements about music that I would have known to be wrong as a 6-year old with 1 year of experience in playing piano. Who am I kidding? This is the age of crapping some mangl
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by mb_72 9y ago
I could not agree more; I long ago decided that while I might work on many a terrible corporate project I'd never work for two types of companies; defence or anything gambling-related.
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by mb_72 9y ago
Nevertheless, 15 hours seems like good insurance for the time spent.
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by mb_72 9y ago
Starship is lauded as one of these 'Estonian success stories', but to me (as a half Estonian / half Australian with I would hope to think a somewhat balanced perspective) it seems like one of these 'solutions looking for
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by mb_72 9y ago
I stopped reading part way in because of them; it's juvenile and unnecessary.
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by mb_72 9y ago
As well as the physical and mental benefits of being clean I find it also gives one a chance to get some much-needed isolation away from one's fellow travelers for even a few minutes. I quite enjoy flying - am about go from Tallinn -&g
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by mb_72 9y ago
I love(d) Delphi, but commercial considerations - most significantly being the availability of alternative developers if I (as the sole developer for my customers) - mean I no longer start any new applications in Delphi and for two clients
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by mb_72 9y ago
Maybe I'm missing something here, but Visual Studio? https://www.visualstudio.com/downloads/

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