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by notauser 17y ago
An interesting post, but... Should we always use a power drill for everything... even when a regular old fashioned screwdriver might suffice? And what of a hammer?! A jigsaw? This is not like the situation with the HTML5/Silverlight/Flash
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The real question is not why, but why not? (I've been meaning to do this for a while but I'm still awaiting delivery of my round tuit, so thank you to the submitter.)
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by notauser 17y ago
I browse /. at +5 (and see only very good comments) except for the once a month or so when I get given mod points. 15 minutes a month of moderation per person seems to be sustainable/scalable, because it's been working for ages and I have n
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by notauser 17y ago
That is me, and thanks very much for the mention :-) I didn't realize it had gone onto youtube yet. It's fairly depressing counting the number of times I say um. Something to improve rapidly. (Incidentally I'm still looking for places to ta
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by notauser 17y ago
When I started I failed 3 and 12 very badly: - I do not need positive reinforcement from others in order to be happy/effective. - I handle disappointment well. 4 months of repeated failure and rejection has fixed that. I now handle it very
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by notauser 17y ago
My startup is based in London so if you want to do something really high risk (and possibly rewarding) feel free to drop me a line - e-mail in profile.
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The problem is that there are actually two problems: - Knowing and internalizing the perspective embodied in this post. - Remembering to actually apply it mid-project where everything is messy and you are stressed and and and and and... I t
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by notauser 17y ago
My preferred argument is that high labor costs increases supply which reduces the total cost of labor. For example, in a city I need one DBA which costs me $100k. In the country I need two DBAs at $60k each, because if one leaves I'm no
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by notauser 17y ago
A better title would have been 'Bram Cohen loses Freenode nick, complains' as generally articles here take the title from the link where possible and try not to editorialize when it isn't. ...but it would probably be better still if Interne
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You are not talking about the same people as the GP though. The people who do 9-5 coding are clearly not often the same ones as those who have contributed to the Linux kernel. What I have found is that, of the people I work with, there are
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by notauser 17y ago
Any kind of JavaScript while(true) loop will lock up the page, so you aren't safe from incompetent coders just yet. Depending on the browser and the OS that can bog down the CPU as badly as Flash. (And there's no move towards parallel execu
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There are people here with all sorts of backgrounds - I'm pretty sure there are some folks from Intel who read HN, as well as some I know from Nokia. I did some low level work (and most of my degree was EE), and to be honest I don't think m
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by notauser 17y ago
Because there are (a lot of) people on the close-everything side of the debate it's essential to have at least a few people arguing that everything is opened so that the eventual compromise is somewhere in the middle.
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- The 'fosstards' built and shared a good deal of the ecosystem on which the Internet you are using runs. - A large chunk of the rest is directly or indirectly enabled, possible or cheaper thanks to them. - Every one I have met in person h
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by notauser 17y ago
That depends on what it spends money on. Infrastructure spending _may_ increase efficiency such that the increased tax burden is less than the efficiency gains enjoyed by tax payers. In this situation the government has indeed created jobs
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Absolutely. Projects fail all the time, outsourcing makes projects harder by requiring people to pick up a phone, so you would expect outsourced projects to fail at a spectacular rate. From his list... Buyer’s unclear expectations up front
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That's a great idea, thank you. It seems to work in safari too.
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by notauser 17y ago
Slightly related... I have been really enjoying writing code for node.js - I'm using it to render content for non-javascript capable clients and it's handing the load nicely. Being able to maintain one set of tests is a huge win over having
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by notauser 17y ago
That's less of an issue for intentional APIs (where the API provider is already doing work for you) than it is for unintentional APIs (rss feeds, any reasonably clean page you can crawl with jQuery) where the provider will do nothing to hel
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by notauser 17y ago
The UK defense industry is still standardized on IE6.
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by notauser 17y ago
The problem with ActiveX is that it was more promiscuous with it's permissions than a first year college student on free-drink night :-) Opening up some additional permissions (using something like the Android permissions model) would be a
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It's an interesting spec but it requires server-side changes. I wish browsers would implement an 'application mode' which would require some kind of installation step and then open up more permissions to code from that domain. Even if you g
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by notauser 17y ago
Up to a point that's correct, but not substantially so. Index funds are typically managed (for a very low fee) in such a way that they track the market. That means that to lose all your money the entire market has to completely collapse t
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by notauser 17y ago
If you are eligible to cancel an existing T-Mobile UK contract they can put you on a 4gbp a month 3gb soft-cap data only contract. (I think the PAYG offer is soft-capped at 1gb, and contract rates are better for the occasional call/SMS.) Th
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by notauser 17y ago
I run Linux on my Mac laptop, which is always good for a few WTF moments when someone takes a look at it.
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The UK varies - if you get fired they tend to escort you out under guard. If you leave they work you to the last second of your notice and hope you can be persuaded to stay late and finish 'just one more thing'.
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by notauser 17y ago
Ah, windows mobile, combining the usability of Android with the joyful development experience of the iPhone. Who could ask for more?
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If you have £100k of equity/capital in your house then on average (long term historical index investment) you would have made £864k investing over 20 years vs a historical average of £165k in a property. (Here's a source for the 12% figure
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by notauser 17y ago
Because, I'm afraid, your assumptions are flawed. You are failing to account for the capital built up in the property which is only returning 5% (on average), whilst it could be earning a (historical) average of 12% elsewhere. (The average
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by notauser 17y ago
Interest rates are unusually low at the moment, they more often hover between 4-6% and have been as high as 8% (and this is the base rate - most people pay more than this, especially for fixed rate deals). In the long run owning your house

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