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by omd 14y ago
A better title would've been: Breaking Hacker News: Building defect detected at Fortune 500 marketing firm.
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by omd 14y ago
Stinging rebuke for bee conservers Since neonicotinoid pesticides were introduced in 1992, 10 million honey-bee colonies have died globally. Bumblebee and bird populations have crashed in every country where "neonics" are used. Researchers
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by omd 14y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/29/science/earth/soaring-bee-... Mystery Malady Kills More Bees, Heightening Worry on Farms Jim Wilson/The New York Times A Disastrous Year for Bees: For America’s beekeepers, who have struggled for nearly a
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by omd 14y ago
This is full of half truths, and outright distortion of facts. Like..... The decline of honey bee since 1947 has nothing to do with the top two points this guys claims. (Removable frames and opening the top) After WWII, there was a drop off
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by omd 14y ago
Make that 8 seconds per signature and they'll be working on it for 16 hours or 2 full working days. At $1.3 million per day I find that reasonable.
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by omd 14y ago
>consider turning off ad block on the pages that you enjoy I never understood that logic. If you don't enjoy a website then you shouldn't visit it. That way you will only visit websites that you do enjoy, so you have no reason to use ad
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by omd 14y ago
Ah, it's the "Don't upset corporations or they will punish us with infinite price hikes" mantra. If they raise the price by €1 and for the sake of argument we assume a net profit of 50%, they would have to sell 1.1 billion packages to recou
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by omd 14y ago
Going by the title of this post I was hoping it would give a solution to the segmented payment market here in Europe, but it doesn't. A more fitting title would've been "Taking payments in the UK" or Taking credit card payments in Europe".
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by omd 14y ago
Good for you for hanging in there. 2 years is not long at all considering it takes the average person at least 6 to 8 years to get an education and build any kind of career. When I made the decision to switch I planned 3 years but life got
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by omd 14y ago
It could be part of the job description, not every interview is for a developer.
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by omd 14y ago
It's funny to see your comment in reply to gsibble, because that line of thinking is probably what brought him there and why he's now disappointed. If you're making $92k in San Francisco or $43k in Dallas then rent and food is exactly where
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by omd 14y ago
I think it's too bad that the top discussion on the entire issue is the silly argument about a trademark. But since that's the case, I don't see it as a misunderstanding of how trademarks work, but a perfect way of demonstrating how fatuous
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by omd 14y ago
> personally I prefer "real names encouraged, but not required" policy That's what the German government is saying. They're not outlawing the use of real names.
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by omd 14y ago
Because that's not a company, it's a website. It takes 6 hours just to file all the paperwork to get a company started.
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by omd 14y ago
WP-Ecommerce has three stars because the owner (who isn't a developer) aggressively marketed the plugin and left it's users hanging out to dry. Updates were done by several hired developers who ended up making a mess of the code. Anyone who
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by omd 14y ago
I don't know about you but there were days when I was trying to get a web app to support IE6 that I was envious of how easy the president has it.
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by omd 14y ago
>I don't see any significant barriers keeping a user from switching to a competing product. This is the difference, or the similarity however you look at it, between Google and Microsoft. You claim that the barriers Microsoft put up to
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by omd 14y ago
So are they claiming it applies to servers owned by US companies or servers that are located in the US? For example as a European I'm hosted with Linode at their datacenter in London. Not that it really matters, apparently they are able to
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by omd 14y ago
You're the one choosing a window to make a point. 2008 was the worst year for the wealthy, but also the only bad bad year. 2007 they saw record gains and those were mostly recovered by 2010. Jobs and housing has yet to recover.
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by omd 14y ago
According to the IRS the top 1% overall is $318k, according to the CBO it's $282k. http://www.irs.gov/uac/SOI-Tax-Stats---Individual-Statistica... http://www.cbo.gov/publication/43373
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by omd 14y ago
Investors are frustrated that they can't replicate the success of Silicon Valley here in Europe, but our governments aren't the ones to blame. The environment here is different because the people want it that way. It's a different culture w
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by omd 14y ago
Your story is no different than what PayPal sent in their email to a select number of account holders; that they will continue to freeze accounts (or as you put it, "rob" people) until you have an outstanding account performance (or as yo
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by omd 14y ago
I don't see it as defending GoDaddy at all, quite the opposite. I would be more reassured if it was an unexpected massive DDoS which they weren't prepared for but one which they might prepare for in the future. The way it's described now is
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by omd 14y ago
I don't like bringing politics to HN but I do want to counter your anti-OWS rhetoric. Equating the opposition of the maldistribution of wealth to "some evil overlord" is just being fatuous. The shortage of resources that comes from overpopu
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by omd 16y ago
Here's another exercise: In the past 20 years, how many millions of citizens has the US killed in the other 6 countries that were mentioned?
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by omd 16y ago
That's not only true for entrepreneurs, but anyone who excels in their field. Here in Europe a lot of Americans and other foreigners stand out because they were chosen for their skills. Otherwise they wouldn't be here. The Europeans I know
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by omd 16y ago
It's a small consolation, but at least this business with PayPal is giving him some good publicity. I'd never heard of Minecraft until now.
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by omd 16y ago
At 40, I'm surrounded by Generation "Me" kids from friends and siblings and in my view the main motivator is laziness. The problem is the spoiled kids of today are being raised by spoiled kids. Our generation started the sense of entitlemen
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by omd 16y ago
Doing a quick search shows the website is more than just a custom cms as the article suggests. Several other .gov.uk refer to the website with "[...]is now available at www.businesslink.gov.uk" so there must have been a huge conversion lead
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by omd 16y ago
The ING has that option in The Netherlands. I'm not sure in the US though.

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