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by mvc 12y ago
> how hard could it be to write bash routines to download files, unpack them, install packages, etc. I haven't used Gentoo for a long time but wasn't part of it's package system a nice little DSL for writing scripts that w
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by mvc 12y ago
They're not. That's a statement of what customers have enjoyed up until now. The actual SLA simply states what refund you get for each hour of downtime.
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by mvc 13y ago
I challenge the assertion that you must you have followers for twitter to be useful? I get plenty of utility from following my favorite comedians, notable developers, companies of interest regardless of whether they follow me back or not.
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by mvc 13y ago
Sure! By all means advertise to the world that you're about to make a trade. The HFT folks will love that.
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by mvc 13y ago
> Collecting data is their business model It's right there in their mission statement "Organize the world's information". Most people didn't realize that included their own private information.
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by mvc 13y ago
> Credit card companies do no have the luxury to create new money, so of course they will charge higher fees. Credit card companies? No. Banks? Yup. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking#Mone...
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by mvc 13y ago
> Revenue increased 14% the following year Reported revenue increased 14% the following year.
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by mvc 13y ago
> software for cheap and then make the service contract expensive If the software is cheap, it is expensive to service it.
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by mvc 13y ago
Smuglispweeny? Unfortunately, a lot of metaprogramming is done in languages that don't even have a "compile time" never mind providing a hook to metaprogram in it.
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by mvc 13y ago
That could be a pretty smart play. Spread rumors that he's on a plane to see what the reaction would be. If he wasn't on the plane, he now knows that whatever plane he does get on, he can't fly over France.
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by mvc 13y ago
Best rick-roll ever!
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by mvc 14y ago
Did you check the who's hiring thread? When I was looking a few months ago, it was an excellent source of leads, many of them startups.
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by mvc 14y ago
Yeah, I'm trying to build something like that right now. Nice to know others have similar ideas.
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by mvc 14y ago
Here's a question for people who prefer to put their guarantees (i.e. unique/check constraints, foreign keys etc) in their database. How do you present these constraints to the user? How do you show when they've been violated? Just present
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by mvc 14y ago
I think what we've learned here is that the only thing rich people have in common is that they all have a lot of money.
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by mvc 14y ago
I've only ever caught one Uber but I wasn't overly impressed. I think the business opportunity wouldn't even exist in the UK because regular taxis are at a similar standard and cost less. They seem to be hacking the law/industry in order to
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by mvc 14y ago
I love the idea. I think they could do more though. For maximum effect, keep some stats and highlight the most prolific, those with the most followers, people that I follow...
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by mvc 14y ago
If it's not already supported, it shouldn't be difficult to make a Django process respond to the HUP signal by reloading it's settings. That's how Postgres does it.
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by mvc 14y ago
I think CLOS doesn't suffer from the expression problem. Both alterations to the data model can be implemented as a "patch" to the program without editing any of the original code.
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by mvc 14y ago
I just bookmarked a couple of recipes. It would be nice if the default name when saving as a favorite included the name of the recipe rather than the name of the site (particularly for those who want to bookmark more than one recipe). Think
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by mvc 14y ago
I got one of those emails and I don't consider myself to be particularly attractive. I just assumed they sent them to everyone.
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by mvc 14y ago
> the buyer’s credit card company decided in favor of the buyer. How is this PayPal's and not the credit card company's fault? Couldn't the same thing happen to anyone accepting credit card payments?
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by mvc 14y ago
I like this idea, but often economics isn't the only thing at play. Imagine for example, after 28 years, Halliburton wanted to make use of a John Lennon song in their advertising (pun not intended). Seems unfair that John (or his heirs) wo
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by mvc 14y ago
I've heard that's what you get at Oxford. Seems great but as a mere mortal who attended a slightly less prestigious institution, I had to make do with tutorial groups where 18-20 people would cram into a room designed for 12.
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by mvc 14y ago
Haha! I had a great interview recently where we sketched out a design for an online game on the whiteboard. Got to explore lots of interesting questions like API versioning, REST vs sessions, and basic security problems. The good natured
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by mvc 14y ago
I like the bit about how nobody in the book business was interested. Puts their current whining into perspective.
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by mvc 14y ago
"I've got a script checking the site...but the site is just melting", apparently without a trace of irony
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by mvc 14y ago
The problem for UK devs is that everything is so London centric. I bet there's lots of open positions there and lots of talented but unemployed (or underpaid) developers in Liverpool, Newcastle and Glasgow. I used to be one of them until
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by mvc 14y ago
As opposed to "keep nothing off the table" America?
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by mvc 14y ago
Aren't "market-sized" deals measured in millions because banks are making one deal to cover lots of smaller deals that they've made with their own customers? If someone can cut out the middle-man and let the small deals trade with each othe

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