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by paulftw 13y ago
34000 over nearly a decade career. It's 9.3 cases per day for 10 years, without weekends, vacations or holidays. And 45 minutes of work per case. Provided she had 7hr working day and a lunch break. And she occasionally testified in cou
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by paulftw 13y ago
well, yes. I am assuming a lawyer call is enough to make 95% of people shut up and pay. at least in western world. So existence of contract reduces your risk 10-20 fold
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by paulftw 13y ago
Overengineered software systems are like sex - every generation thinks they invented it.
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by paulftw 13y ago
"list of conditions for both sides ... predetermined amount of money" - that is what contract is. If they had it - no need for escrow.
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by paulftw 13y ago
Yep, it's easy to spot those mistakes in others', when you look from a side. It's much harder for me to do boring work myself, instead of playing with new frontend libs and writing code. At least you'll be more self-awar
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by paulftw 13y ago
Kudos to the author - I am impressed how well Alex Matchneer understands Angular. Few thoughts of my own: - Ember is a long term relationship with one particular way of doing web FE, a way invented by someone else for you. Ember philosophy
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by paulftw 13y ago
because developer. I should be a target customer, since I periodically interview candidates for programming positions. However, landing page and screenshots failed to explain to me what the unique selling point was. How many people here kno
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by paulftw 13y ago
They should have mentioned the number of titles at launch for xbox one. If ease of making games is such a big deal why aren't there any facts on how far behind their main competitor is.
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by paulftw 13y ago
> Second, if a client is going to withhold final payment based on Apple acceptance, there is no way I would work for them It sounds from the article that payment terms were agreed upon before commencement of the work. Why did developer a
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by paulftw 13y ago
that's just another confirmation that PC is dead. nobody is buying desktops, only portables. Businesses still have desks but they mostly care about the bottom line.
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by paulftw 13y ago
I don't think anything matches macbook's solid aluminium body and build quality. After I've dumped my ubuntu laptop few years ago, I don't want to go back to all that plastic rubbish. Not all laptops created equal, so ye
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by paulftw 13y ago
IMO a startup in general typically exits through acquisition. Do you have any data to back up your claim that lean startup is more likely to get acquired?
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by paulftw 13y ago
You are right about him contradicting himself, but I think first half (rather first 2/3) of his post are just philosophical beating around the bush. He nearly lost me half-way through. But what he's actually trying to say is that
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by paulftw 13y ago
Tone of the article was certainly skewed in Harkonen's favor, so I stopped mid-second page and turned to HN comments. It's great that the journalist found the debunking study and mentioned it. But does the order matter? He goes on
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by paulftw 13y ago
and he can still make a living while doing that.
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by paulftw 13y ago
Second that. Smallest font on the page, light grey while everything else is black, pushed to the bottom of the side column - certainly looks like fine print to me. There's no option to opt out of VIP membership - if I haven't said
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by paulftw 13y ago
Spot on. When government is spending taxpayers' money it doesn't care about efficiency, only about getting a slice of the pie. Family members, business partners and overcharging contractors feast on these multibillion dollar proje
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by paulftw 13y ago
looking at that scary diagram and thinking "will all yapp apps (yapps?) be as structural as the underlying framework?"
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by paulftw 13y ago
I think single Main Reason why Google requires 3rd parties to use an iframe is that it keeps them in control of when and how ads are shown, what can be rewinded, etc. Without updating the 3rd party app and republishing it to all stores. T
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by paulftw 13y ago
Author probably wants to make money out of it, why else do people lock stuff down? Funny how virtualbox licensing issue got overlooked, because we are all used to download stuff from github with an assumption that any public repository is p
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by paulftw 13y ago
is it IP based, or will chrome anonymous window be enough to always reliably tell my status?
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by paulftw 13y ago
omg. you can be banned but still allowed to post?! how do I check whether my account is banned?
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Re: Angular vs Ember(fiddle.jshell.net)
2 points by paulftw 13y ago|0 comments
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AngularJS vs Ember: not so fast(jsfiddle.net)
3 points by paulftw 13y ago|0 comments
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by paulftw 13y ago
can you please quote the 'first point in this post'?
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by paulftw 14y ago
35 years? means we won't hear about any entertainingly silly patent claims?
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by paulftw 14y ago
would it be legal, if the author paid them whatever they wanted, transferred the domain out of godaddy's control and then requested a CC chargeback with the bank? Banks usually side with the customer.
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by paulftw 14y ago
They have a long list of what's wrong with git. They think git is too hard for their average customer. They have a list of features, some will be easier when storing some metadata in the git repo. There are certainly ways to build a compati
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by paulftw 14y ago
I bet they will screw up and their git will be incompatible with the rest of the world.