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by mediascreen 8y ago
I think there is a difference between collectors and people who just want to listen to music. I gladly pay Spotify each month to NOT have to manage a collection of physical or digital music. I gladly pay HBO and Netflix as well, but it seem
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by mediascreen 8y ago
Non Google alternatives are for example AWS Elastic Beanstalk or Heroku.
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by mediascreen 8y ago
Sweden has an opt out system, but still has very low participation: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-41199918
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by mediascreen 9y ago
While I agree that the question is more complicated, it took until 1974 before tax rates were anywhere near where they are today [0]. Also, while not involved in any wars, I'm not sure i would call Sweden pacifist during the last centu
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by mediascreen 9y ago
On mobile you only see the menu, the responsive layout hides the actual article.
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by mediascreen 9y ago
You would roll your own CDN? I think that setting up a worldwide server network with seamless scaling would involve some work.
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by mediascreen 9y ago
Well, you need to disable redundant ISP or power cables to all datacenters in a region. and that would probably be pretty easy to recover from in a day or two. I imagine Amazon has some on site security measures as well. It would be intere
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by mediascreen 9y ago
Wouldn't you have to blow up at least all the datacenters in a region to make an impact?
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by mediascreen 9y ago
Well, their security department/group raised the issues. Unfortunately they were regarded as a hassle and where bypassed in the discussions. They seem to have made the director general sign several documents where she acknowledged that
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by mediascreen 9y ago
I really like the flic buttons and use them a lot, but they are a bit more expensive. https://flic.io/
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by mediascreen 9y ago
In Sweden people usually start the slow part (entering the pin) while their items are scanned. When all items are scanned you just press ok to authorise the amount and wait for 1-2 seconds for the transaction to go through.
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by mediascreen 9y ago
I imagine the GDP of Singapore (USD 53,000) looks pretty good compared to Vietnam's USD 2,163. Being less exotic to tourists might be something they are able to live with.
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by mediascreen 10y ago
Using a CDN in front of an api is not that uncommon from what I have seen. And with clients basically creating their own queries, I imagine the performance implications will be less predictable than with a more rigid REST API.
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by mediascreen 10y ago
I would still say that, to most people, a startup implies more than just a newly started business. I have never seen or heard someone who has just started a small brick and mortar business (without grandiose expansion plans) refer to it as
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by mediascreen 10y ago
I think Graham's definition aligns much better with general usage of the word than a definition that would make the new ice cream stand at the corner a startup.
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by mediascreen 11y ago
I'm not saying there aren't drawbacks, but I can think of two benefits: 1. It makes some forms of investigative journalism easier. For example, there has been a lot of discussion about the potential problems of having most of the
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by mediascreen 11y ago
For anyone that still wants/has to use MySQL, there is always MariaDB - a drop in replacement that is evolving a bit faster. https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/mariadb-vs-mysql-features/
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by mediascreen 11y ago
Are you sure it's never been tried? The Wikipedia page lists seven countries that use it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
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by mediascreen 11y ago
Jeb Bush or his organisation never owned it and did not forget to renew it.
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by mediascreen 11y ago
Most people who use literally "incorrectly" knows very well what it means, but use it hyperbolically. As in "I will literary kill the next person who misuses the English language". "I will figuratively kill the next
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by mediascreen 11y ago
They've posted some kind of explanation/apology on their blog: http://hola.org/blog/the-recent-events-on-the-hola-network
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by mediascreen 11y ago
Sweden has a similar system. And the Swedish Prison and Probation Service even has a "an average day in prison"-page about everyday life at a Swedish medium security prison: https://www.kriminalvarden.se/fangelse-
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by mediascreen 11y ago
I would love this! But since airlines currently have trouble with basic things like crediting my miles correctly, sending me texts about delayed flights and letting me book flights without repeatedly logging me out; I'm not holding my
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by mediascreen 11y ago
There are lots of high population density suburbs outside the United States. Two examples: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banlieue http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Programme
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by mediascreen 11y ago
I like what Jeff Atwood wrote: "Code Tells You How, Comments Tell You Why" http://blog.codinghorror.com/code-tells-you-how-comments-tel...
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by mediascreen 11y ago
I wish we were lucky enough to have a leader with a degree. The current Swedish prime minister worked as a welder and dropped out half way to his degree in social work.
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by mediascreen 12y ago
While age might not have anything to do with productivity, experience definitely has. Especially when it comes to recognizing which problems are worth solving and giving (appropriate) pushback to product owners and managers.
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by mediascreen 12y ago
I switched from mostly Symfony2 to mostly Laravel and like it. I doubt there are a lot of people switching from WP though, since WP and Laravel solve two different types of problems.
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by mediascreen 12y ago
It's less verbose than Symfony2 and, being pretty opinionated, requires much less configuration for new applications. Facades, macros and route closures supports rapid prototyping and are pretty easy to replace as needed. Included libr
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by mediascreen 12y ago
Maybe it's a matter of taste? I have worked with Symfony2, Zend Framework, Yii, Kohana and Laravel and find Laravel the most intuitive to work with. I like that you can start using it for very rapid prototyping and refactor into more c

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