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by qw 16y ago
You can't compare the output of a country with over 300 million people with Northern Europe. The money spent on technology alone is probably larger than the combined national budgets of those countries. Of course this will produce more noti
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by qw 16y ago
Norway is 2500km[1] away with no noticeable Tunisian population, but the media has shown a lot of interest. but locality can't be a factor here. It is a relatively popular Tourist destination of course, so that may make the country more rel
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by qw 16y ago
> The site is horrible. Period. They don't claim to be web designers. The web site is easy to use and a great resource for beginners. Their XPath tutorial was much better than other tutorials when I needed to get a quick start a couple
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by qw 16y ago
What about primitive variables, like "int"? If Java passed the variable reference (and not a copy), we should be able to modify it
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by qw 16y ago
I have a similar feeling towards TDD. I use test driven developments for those parts of my code that needs it. I recently had to create a function that did some complex calculation. TDD was great for that, because I had a set of known input
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by qw 16y ago
I'm not saying that you are wrong about generic cases, but in the case of Squid I think the author has done proper analysis before deciding on an architecture This essay is written by Poul-Henning Kamp ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poul-H
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by qw 16y ago
I found an interesting quote at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6216808.stm During the mission his strong character famously resulted in a clash with his American commander General Wesley Clark. When ordered to intercept Russian forces
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by qw 16y ago
I live in Norway and only pay 33% of my salary in taxes. If I had bought a house instead of renting an apartment, I would have been able to deduct a lot more from my tax.
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by qw 16y ago
They have failed at delivering Episode 3... It's becoming Valve's Duke Nukem
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by qw 16y ago
I think it relates to hacker news according to the official guidelines ( http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ). This qualifies as "evidence of some interesting new phenomenon"
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by qw 16y ago
"He was bounced around to hospitals and homeless shelters for nine months, unable to see more than a few feet in front of him, until a charity raised enough money to have his eyes fixed" Something is seriously wrong with the system.
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by qw 16y ago
You could try DimDim ( http://www.dimdim.com/ ). It's free for meetings with less than 20 participants.
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by qw 16y ago
Another problem is that statically typed languages can have long compile cycles. That only applies if you compile all classes at once. Netbeans (and probably others as well) compile Java classes instantly because they only compile what's
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by qw 16y ago
That's an exact description of the ATMs in Norway, and they have always done that.
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by qw 16y ago
In my country we stopped using checks at least 15 years ago, and who carries around enough cash that you want to deposit it? I've only used an ATM machine maybe 2-3 times this year. If I need a small amount of cash I just ask the cashier at
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by qw 16y ago
Rick Roll: http://showmetheheaders.com/?q=vg.no * X-VG-WebServer: leon * X-VG-WebCache: fritz * X-Rick-Would-Never: Never Gonna Give You Up * X-VG-Korken: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcj8CnD5188 * X-Cache: HIT
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by qw 16y ago
You also have to factor in the risk of deceases and injuries. You may have to be forced into early retirement.
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by qw 16y ago
Sorry about that. I copied the number from Wikipedia, but picked the nominal GDP by mistake. I agree that comparing political systems based on numbers directly is a bad idea. It was just a reaction to the many posts I see where the citizen
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by qw 16y ago
ok, let's take Denmark as an example. They are ranked as number 32 in net exports of crude oil, so it's a much smaller part of the GDP. GDP: $56,115 (better) GNI: 24.7 (much better) HDI: 0.955 (the same) Unemployment: 6.3% (better
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by qw 16y ago
The United States has a lot of cultural influence on other countries, but when you give examples such as "average quality of life" and "gross domestic product" I doubt that the US has done more per capita than any form of nation in history.
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by qw 16y ago
I would like a lap dance, but I would feel uncomfortable paying for it. I'd probably feel a lot of guilt afterwards. Who wants to be the "creepy guy I had to give a lap dance to so that I could feed my children"?
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by qw 16y ago
To send a first-class priority (same-day) message from New York to Los Angeles now costs $25, plus 88 cents a word. Does anyone know of a valid reason to pay 88 cents a word in 2010? It made sense in the old days where they used Morse cod
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by qw 16y ago
It's been a while since I used Bluehost (2-3 years), but think I remember seeing my password in plain text somewhere, so they did store it in plain text back then.
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by qw 16y ago
IRC servers can have lots of clients that receive messages, and they have no problems sending thousands of messages to connected clients. Diaspora's nodes seems to be both server and client, but the mechanics are the same. When it receives
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by qw 16y ago
My point was that potatoes were probably too expensive for them in the first place. If millions of people are starving but can't afford potatoes, they have little impact on the price. They could only have an impact on the price if they coul
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by qw 16y ago
> why didn't the poor just eat potatoes then My guess is that potatoes was either too expensive (compared to wheat/rice) and is probably something that can't grow in all climates. Your argument reminds me of the classical French quote w
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by qw 16y ago
You're lucky to have discovered this now. I learned it the hard way, when I didn't have the motivation or dedication to study hard at the University. I just hadn't learned how to force myself to study. A lot of people underestimate what hig
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by qw 16y ago
Or, use Readability (like Apple did) http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/06/08/think-safari-reader-...
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by qw 16y ago
> For people who do need a job a bit more than I do, that is a concern — and I wouldn't advocate against pseudonymity because life is not always nice and simple. That's why I am very careful about my identity online. I have no problems
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by qw 16y ago
You can create applications for free (you can even use Python), and they can of course be installed for free by anyone.

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