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by notauser 13y ago
Why are people in NYC and San Fransisco subsidising people in Oregon? Shouldn't both of those cities have comparable prices to London, whereas Oregon should be $200+ per line to cover the cost of the long distances between homes?
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by notauser 14y ago
Does anyone have any similar advice for relocating to Asia?
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by notauser 15y ago
If they had done this before Nokia bought in to Windows Phone 7 then we might actually have seen a great user interface on Nokia's excellent hardware. Maybe RIM could adopt it instead? They could really use a better UI, plus a platform that
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by notauser 15y ago
There's certainly a lot of dislike for working with people who have strong accents, and the most commercially successful Indian technologists I have met have been the ones with the most westernised mode of speech. Unfortunately some people
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by notauser 15y ago
I had some time on a plane so I wrote up a quick feature request for Kayak. I don't really know anyone at the company so I thought I would ask HN if someone had a contact they would be willing to pass it on to. The content should also be of
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by notauser 15y ago
My understanding is that the "best routes" are not necessarily international routes; they are routes that offer the most paid hours per hour spent at work. Cabin crew only get paid from the cabin door closing to the cabin door opening. Ther
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by notauser 15y ago
You'd probably violate your lease for installing [a satellite dish in the US]. Large parts of London (and other areas of the UK) are designated as conservation zones and so satellite dishes require planning permission. Every now and again
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by notauser 15y ago
Possibly they should be, this time, as the leaker has just given me (and every other Android developer) 2.5 million very good reasons to bother putting my app into the Amazon App store.
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by notauser 15y ago
Because Apple want a 30% cut of all content sold via the iPad, which represents a larger margin than Amazon can afford to give away whilst remaining a profitable distributor.
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by notauser 15y ago
OS X already has the app store, now it just needs the restrictive policy. You might think it'll never come; well, people said the same things about Windows. In fact, they were far more outspokenly confident about Windows because Microsoft
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by notauser 15y ago
Watching most movies at 1.2x normal speed is undetectable vs 1x, and a lot of TV is perfectly watchable at 2x normal speed. I used to use MythTV for this - it meant my 15 minute breaks from work could fit in a whole show of something and I
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by notauser 15y ago
"I'm just buying more of my own place with somebody else's money." At the cost of incurring risks including but not limited to: - Property damage by renters and others. - Property damage by acts of god (flooding/fire/subsidence). -
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by notauser 15y ago
My weakness is food. I'll eat anything that's in front of me or in the fridge. I'll just mindlessly snack on it until I'm uncomfortably full. I live right across the road from a store and yet if there is no food in the house I won't feel in
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by notauser 15y ago
They had some good general points though, like fast retries. Which brings me to one of the worst examples of a Human Factors mistakes I can think of right now... The new rent-a-bike scheme in London has POS terminals connected to the centra
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by notauser 16y ago
The problem is that people who say it's a "functional organization" problem are both correct and incorrect at the same time. The kind of problems described certainly seem to have been exacerbated by the way they are structured. But all orga
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by notauser 16y ago
I suppose in the end it comes down to how much stuff you can (or want) to hold in your head at the same time. My limited company has cost about £50 in administration and set-up fees so far. But the cost of learning enough stuff not to get m
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by notauser 16y ago
This is the very misunderstanding that is being discussed. Android's UI system does support tablets by 'upscaling'... but the API has been improved (with Fragments amongst other things) to provide flexibility to design one UI* that works we
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by notauser 16y ago
In the UK personal taxes are generally automatically handled by the employer. You just get the post-tax income transferred into your bank every month, and a payslip showing the deductions that were made. (Outsourced PAYE administration cost
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by notauser 16y ago
It is a real problem you have if you are a TechCrunch columnist and: - Your work consists of tracking hints and leads sent to you via Facebook, Twitter etc. - You sign up for everything to try it out, leading to loads of mail. - You hand ou
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If Y Combinator.com were a country, it would be larger than Djibouti(sharenator.com)
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by notauser 16y ago
If I was selling software to defense companies I'd support IE6. If I was selling software to primary school teachers I'd support 800x600. If I was selling technology to engineers (especially CUDA types building render farms of thousands of
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by notauser 16y ago
The other thing that's hard to explain about consulting to people who don't do it is that even when you do have work managing the pipeline of new work is very hard. You don't always know when the current contract is going to end. (And will
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by notauser 16y ago
I tried out a X201 and really liked it, but it has two other problems as well as the video out which were deal breakers for me: - Low screen resolution. - Very tall screen (especially for a 12" - due to the huge bezel) so it won't open comf
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by notauser 16y ago
Just like almost everyone on HN, you are a statistical anomaly. (This is nothing to do with you being a woman - that just increases the factor by an order of magnitude or two.) Even the people you know are probably outliers. So you have to
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by notauser 16y ago
Why do children need lots of stuff? My grandfather was one of seven children, and they had one drawer each for toys and another drawer for clothes. They seemed to turn out OK. Of course this kind of thing requires the co-operation of both p
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by notauser 16y ago
RedHat isn't obliged to pay Linus or RMS because the license they distributed their work under does not require it. Making or not making money has nothing to do with it. If Oracle distributed their work under a license that permitted use by
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by notauser 16y ago
I switched over to a SSD (from a 5400 rpm drive) in my new laptop and didn't notice much difference at all. Everything was instant before, and it's still instant now. This may be because I have a lot of ram, because I mostly work with small
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by notauser 16y ago
It's fairly disingenuous to say that Google doesn't get paid for sales of Android. They get no direct payment, but they are indirectly paid via: - Increased take up of Google Mail and Google Apps (with associated desktop ad revenue). - Incr
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by notauser 16y ago
The airframe is based on their existing UAV family, which means it is pretty small and so the plane may not have a full set of conventional control surfaces to start with. It could also be a case of reporter-translation - anyway the film im
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by notauser 16y ago
I agree with you about the tech scene. For example DevTank (the tech counterpart to DrinkTank) has been excellent so far. The London BarCamps are also great, as are the Hack Days. I also agree that the start up (and also the mobile) events

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