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by phillc73 11y ago
Hadn't heard of Fleep before, but thought immediately that it might solve one use case for me. After checking the pricing (good), if there was a self-hosted version (no, but maybe not a deal breaker) I looked for the Android app instal
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by phillc73 11y ago
> *Note: Promotion code available for new DigitalOcean customers only. This type of promotion really aggravates me. I'm not just saying this only about the announced GitLab/DigitialOcean partnership, but rather as a general com
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by phillc73 11y ago
This article from a few years ago is quite interesting regarding the literary history of London's coffee houses: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/united...
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by phillc73 11y ago
> If five people go to a restaurant, it's probably in 4+ vehicles That's just crazy! It means five people can't drink. All that's needed is maximum one car for five people, maybe two if traveling from dispersed locat
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by phillc73 11y ago
Just a couple of comments on some of your use cases. * I don't use Bitbucket specifically, but what's difficult about mirroring code between two different git instances? I do it between GitHub and GitLab.[0] Local git config just
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by phillc73 11y ago
Curious as to why not? I travel on low cost carriers on a regular basis between European destinations. Several years ago I bought a Paperwhite, specifically because I was tired of lugging around heavy, space occupying paperbacks, which I of
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by phillc73 11y ago
> I've never had my hand luggage weighed. You've never flown Ryanair. Ensuring hand luggage fits within the required dimensions and under designated weight allowance is now pretty common for low cost carriers (European at leas
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No, and I'm not sure they knew. Basically, I had the operation, spent two nights in hospital and came home for two nights. The second night at home I had severe headache, elevated temperature, swelling around one of the wounds, redness
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by phillc73 11y ago
Facebook's appeal is a bit like reality television. The horror of the timeline and voyeuristic nature of peering into the intimacies of other people's lives, some of whom you barely know, seems to have appeal for many. The same wa
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I've just spent almost three weeks in hospital. I went in for routine elective surgery and a two night stay. I ended up in for around three weeks after post-operation infection. Fortunately, it wasn't MRSA and easily controlled wi
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The BBC Micro is also not present, but sold more than 1.5 million units, again according to Wikipedia.[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro#Market_impact
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by phillc73 11y ago
I have a question about the YC Fellowship model. If I had an idea, which I knew would never likely grow beyond $1M in revenue, just because the market is so niche. B2C, but the entire consumer group is probably only in the region of 10,000.
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Ask HN: Trello or Kanboard as a business skill?
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by phillc73 11y ago
The original comment was, "CSV parsing is relatively slow." Relative to what? The links I provided show that, using fread from data.table in R, parsing CSV data can be quicker than returning the same data from, for example, an SQL
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by phillc73 11y ago
Not necessarily. Importing CSV data from disk in R can be pretty quick with 'fread', from the data.table package.[1] Having said that I'm pretty excited about feather and where development will lead. I use RDS files quite hea
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by phillc73 11y ago
I think he got the idea that the "elites" need to handle everything, through having a sense of sarcasm.
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by phillc73 11y ago
I had a similar, derived issue. A new house I was renting was marketed as "24 Street Name",the lease document was written as such and the front door had a number 24 on it. However, after moving in, we discovered that on all offici
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by phillc73 11y ago
Replying to myself.... Now that I think about it, in a large chunk of the Slavic world (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus etc), the majority of people probably have no middle name. A patronymic isn't really a middle name as such.
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by phillc73 11y ago
I have a close friend who lives in rural Ireland. That's not in a town, but on a small farm in a general area of about 15-20 other small farms. His address is just the name of the general area and the county. The Irish postal system is
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by phillc73 11y ago
My wife and son have no middle name. An ex-girlfriend also had no middle name. I would have thought it's pretty common.
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by phillc73 11y ago
Completely agree. I have a 5 year old Asus K54C (i3-2330m model). About a year ago I upgraded RAM from 3GB to 6GB, which dealt with most of my multitasking and "large files in memory" issues. About 2 months ago I bought a Samsung
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by phillc73 11y ago
I built an R library for working with the b2 API: https://github.com/phillc73/backblazer It's on CRAN too, but the GitHub version has some updates. This library should allow complete interaction with b2 for upload
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by phillc73 11y ago
I wondered too, and thought perhaps they meant Montenegro (+382), which is right next door to Kosovo. Apparently not.
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by phillc73 11y ago
Perhaps I should have answered in more detail. The question was, as I interpreted it, what could early hirees be offered, besides share options, to entice them to join a company? My answer was along the lines of what would entice me. I&#x27
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by phillc73 11y ago
A decent salary, with leave benefits similar to a lot of other Western countries (4-5 weeks annual leave, sick leave, parental leave)?
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Or move to the southern hemisphere where the school year matches the calendar year.
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by phillc73 11y ago
I don't know enough about how uBlock works, but I'm mostly concerned about blocking trackers, and dislike invasive advertising. I use Ghostery with everything blocked. I also bank with smile. I've just confirmed that Ghostery
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by phillc73 11y ago
A database of thoroughbred bloodstock sale results: https://github.com/phillc73/pinhooker The data is collected from currently six different bloodstock auctioneers in Europe and covers the years 2009 - 2015. Future pla
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I'm talking about RStudio being a much better tool for data visualisation. If people wish to stick with the command line, I won't dissuade them. I just personally find there are better tools for producing data visualisations with
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> R is best used unfiltered Actually, no it's not. One of R's strengths is its ability to manipulate data and then visualise the output. Doing this via the command line is slow and cumbersome. Do you plan to output a chart, sav

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