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by mtts 15y ago
Vic Gondutra said they've reserved the white space for an upcoming feature.
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by mtts 15y ago
Search artists by first name only. Not very useful. But the resolution is indeed impressive.
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by mtts 15y ago
No. It's not really an article to learn things from (if only because it's dated). It is, however, an entertaining read. Treat it as such: huddle up on the couch with it and enjoy.
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by mtts 15y ago
You've been lucky, then. I love Perl, but there are so many ways to do it you're bound to run into someone who does something in an entirely different way than you. The worst experience I had with this was a colleague who knew the entire Ca
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by mtts 15y ago
That's a very good point, but let's also not forget that at the time she didn't know any better and expected working for 2 dollars a day at a sweat shop to be normal (viz the slaves in Mauretania mentioned here on HN yesterday who couldn't
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by mtts 15y ago
If you look up what gets covered by the relatively innocuous term "Human trafficking" you'll find it can get much, much worse.
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by mtts 15y ago
"Illegal immigrants" : forced to work off their debts to the people who smuggled them into Europe, usually in illegal sweat shops or worse: "Eastern European prostitutes" : a subset of illegal immigrants who are forced to work as sex slaves
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by mtts 15y ago
Indeed. And most slavery in the world today is extremely complicated (in order to make it less obvious that it is in fact slavery) and nasty, making the slavery discussed in this article almost seem benign by comparison: it's out in plain v
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by mtts 15y ago
Except this is not a single story but something that's been known for quite some time: https://www.google.nl/search?hl=en&noj=1&site=webhp&...
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by mtts 15y ago
This is actually a very educational article. To my layman's eyes, at least, which found Roboto a bit "off" or "wobbly" but couldn't figure out why that was exactly.
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by mtts 15y ago
Never knew that Ctrl-C does the same thing as escape. Thanks for the info!
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by mtts 15y ago
I work with a lot of interns these days, doing what's essentially pair programming with them and I don't feel their lack of expertise brings me down at all. Instead, I find having to explain everything I do to them brings a clarity to my o
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by mtts 15y ago
I'm familiar with the tool, and I enjoy it tremendously. In this case, however, I think we're dealing with the sometimes hard to distinguish "spouting nonsense" tool. :-) After a certain price point (say 10,000 for CAD packages and the like
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by mtts 15y ago
This was even untrue when Joel wrote it in 2004. If you're a small to medium sized business either in 2004 or in 2012 you pay in this price range for: - Site-wide MS Office licenses - Site-wide Adobe licenses (around 3000 a pop, I believe,
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by mtts 15y ago
You make it sound like it's a technical issue (amount of storage space available) but really it isn't: the information presented has to be digestible for the casual reader. Stuffing articles with minority opinions makes them unusable. Wikip
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by mtts 15y ago
I think so to, but usability research done by a partner company of ours showed, to their and our surprise, that "ordinary users" prefer this page turning effect.
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by mtts 15y ago
In a society that values economic productivity above all else, "useless" is a very accurate term. The challenge is to convince the economically "useful" people that have to pay the taxes that support these "useless" people to keep doing tha
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by mtts 15y ago
I think you're already seeing societies like this in North Western Europe: large numbers of unproductive, uneducated and essentially useless people are kept fed, housed and clothed as that is the humane thing to do, but their lives are abso
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by mtts 15y ago
Scribes were reasonably well off, sure, but to call them an "exclusive, elite upper class" goes beyond stretching it. Scribes were decently paid clerks that worked for scheming, sword wielding thugs who only gradually became literate themse
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by mtts 15y ago
Ridiculous. The solution to average people becoming less relevant in the economy (which I don't dispute, btw) can of course never be to make everyone above average as that is by definition impossible. It's a feel good message for average fo
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by mtts 15y ago
We should, really, because big pharma is terrible at creating drugs that actually, you know, cure people. But this is something that can only be done by government or some other not for profit entity as it's the very fact that big pharma co
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by mtts 15y ago
It's under the radar because its appeal is very, very limited. My mom will read Asterix, but Penny Arcade is completely uninteresting to her. We're living in somewhat of a hacker bubble where what happens on Youtube or Boing Boing is signif
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by mtts 15y ago
Correct. He was not destitute at all, just not fabulously wealthy enough to get a personal grave. Schubert was destitute but then Schubert basically sat in his room all day writing music. That does not earn you money now and it didn't earn
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by mtts 15y ago
You can use a free host of some sort. You'll get ads, but you'll be difficult to find (tracable to an internet cafe somewhere at most, if you do it right)
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Why Google is ditching search (Venturebeat)(venturebeat.com)
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by mtts 15y ago
Right. Because no ISP sysadmin will ever keep some sendmail logs open and thus see that secretive_user@other_isp.com is sending mail to another_secretive_user@this_isp.com
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by mtts 15y ago
The drawback to that is that all configuration goes into the database making deployment very, very difficult. Oh, and it causes performance problems too.
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by mtts 15y ago
So then the problem isn't taxes but what your government does with them? Fine, I can see that. But your post barely says anything about this problem, focusing instead on how much it is you would have to pay. Which is exactly what every shop
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by mtts 15y ago
There is not "widespread poverty in European countries". "Widespread poverty" is what they have in Africa. In Europe the poor are kept fed, housed and clothed precisely because the admittedly very large and inefficient in many ways governme
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by mtts 15y ago
Hungary might be an outlier but right after it comes France and I'd say that the French get quite a lot for their money. So like most things, "it's complicated". This article oversimplifies to the point of it being flat out wrong. And not o

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