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   by nness 11y ago

   The very first sentence of the linked Wikipedia article. "The financial position of the United States includes assets of at least $269.6 trillion (1576% of GDP) and debts of $145.8 trillion (852% of GDP) to produce a net worth of at le
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   by nness 11y ago

   Not symbolically.
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   by nness 11y ago

   Fascinating and beautifully presented infographic. I just wish sites wouldn't interrupt scrolling and use it for navigation. Its counter intuitive and if you scroll up and down quickly you can completely break the transitions.
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   by nness 11y ago

   I suppose Dell already has a chunk of the server hardware space, makes sense to get into virtualisation since its a closely related industry and probably represents a big use-case for their hardware.
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   by nness 11y ago

   I disagree. It is very succinct though.
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   by nness 11y ago

   The geolocation would probably be enough evidence for claims of libel to be ineffective.
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   by nness 11y ago

   Incredible demos!
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   by nness 11y ago

   "I thought there would be more than one person answering the phone. I can't believe there is just the one lady." How could there be only one person with this responsibility? Seems like a pretty vulnerable area for f
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   by nness 11y ago

   strong-arm: . using or characterized by force or violence. This is clearly a sales representative trying to retain a customer. Since today is the billing date, the monthly billing has already been started and it is not possi
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    by nness 11y ago

    Also in Australia, and its not that black-and-white in my understanding: This is known as "Format Shifting" — taking one copyrighted medium and converting it to another. In Australia, you are explicitly not allowed to do this with
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    by nness 11y ago

    Australia too.
12. 492.▲
    by nness 11y ago

    Wipe the memory when the back-plate is removed? It certainly isn't perfect but will make it harder.
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    by nness 11y ago

    2222 images?
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    by nness 11y ago

    I think WebGL is suitable to mention. Whilst it is strictly speaking GLSL, with a little WebGL wrapper to execture and pass parameters, it's the WebGL part which sets the users expectation that it is a live demo and functional in-brows
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    by nness 11y ago

    But if HTTP is stateless, can you actually cancel an operation?
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    by nness 11y ago

    Ah yes, that's what I meant by "cultural expectations," but "reverence" is certainly a far more succinct way to describe it.
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    by nness 11y ago

    Why would you want to "cancel" a request, instead of just ignore the response from the server? I feel like I'm missing a use-case here.
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    by nness 11y ago

    Excuse the over-simplification, but is the Japanese government's reluctance to proactively stimulate their economy built partially on a desire to secure the pension for a few more years (both as a product of cultural expectations and t
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    by nness 11y ago

    C'mon on, you must know that the user's expectations of YouTube are different than most sites.
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    by nness 11y ago

    Menulog et. al are just discovery and payment gateways for those restaurants, so that they can offer an online service where they wouldn't be able to on their own. The establishments still handle all delivery themselves.
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    by nness 11y ago

    Hey wouldn't you know, the author of this hilarity has a wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roosh_V In fact, instead of reading this pointless sexist dribble, read this: http://www.buzzfee
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    by nness 11y ago

    I agree, but that's all consulting\agency work. Markets change and people move on. Not sure why there are those who expect or wish for life-time employment (besides for historical\cultural reasons).
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    by nness 11y ago

    Does it alter your experience of the Microsoft site in any way? Because I honestly can't see any point to your comparison besides to illustrate your own bias.
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    by nness 11y ago

    Always plenty of work in Consulting.
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    by nness 11y ago

    I think this article is pretty on the money. We've been looking to hire front-end developers in senior positions all over Australia for the last few months... and it has been tough. What we often find is that people do a CompSci underg
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    by nness 11y ago

    If Arial is the scourge of the world outside of professional design, then Helvetica is the scourge of the world inside. It appears on almost every design, every logo, every brand. I think it has come to be as bleached and unremarkable as Ar
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    by nness 11y ago

    var a = 123, b = 123; :(
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    by nness 11y ago

    I know that experience all too well. I have two linked accounts — one my private Gmail and one my Google Apps account. So now I have three YouTube accounts... one for the G+ profile, one for the private email and one for the Google Apps acc
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    by nness 11y ago

    Or better yet, Medium could place a warning that the user has uploaded files with a hefty file-size and how it could cause performance or data issues for their readers. What a bot would be better for is people complaining about people compl
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    by nness 11y ago

    Noting before reading that 15mb of animated GIF's is not a great way for an article to make a first impression.