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by ra 15y ago
The formula aside, I thought that inflation was actually calculated by charting the price deltas of a 'standard basket of goods' [1] [2]. In which case, assuming that Output can be measured with a reasonable degree of consistency (economic
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by ra 15y ago
Any ticketing system that supports attachments is OK.
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by ra 15y ago
Now it's: 65 for 102 against
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by ra 15y ago
IMHO shocking documentation, very poor developer support via their Q&A stackoverflow clone and a somewhat flaky / buggy implementation (which could be mitigated by better documentation + developer support) or (open sourcing the framewor
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by ra 15y ago
I'd love to port away from Titanium, any plans to support headless apps with system tray icons and menus? (Which BTW are a PITA on Titanium)
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Monitoring Sucks. Latency Sucks More.(holmwood.id.au)
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Google donates £550,000 to restore Bletchley Park sheds(shedworking.co.uk)
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by ra 15y ago
My google apps account is already on new gmail with no option to revert. I really don't like it. I've tried fastmail and it doesn't really offer a user experience that compares to the gmail I used to love.
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by ra 15y ago
I used to use joker.com about twelve years ago. I liked them a lot; can't remember why I stopped using them.
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by ra 15y ago
Just like home taping killed music
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by ra 15y ago
I recommend against moniker. They once were a good registrar, but these days their customer support is shocking. I'm not alone in thinking this, just check out the topic at dnforum.com http://www.dnforum.com/f208/ FWIW I've used nearlyfre
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Why you should stay away from Appcelerator Titanium(usingimho.wordpress.com)
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by ra 15y ago
Over the past year I've moved about half of my domains from godaddy/moniker to http://nearlyfreespeech.net/ I recommend nfsn to anyone.
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by ra 15y ago
Ideally pick something that you use or are interested in. Django is pretty well setup for new contributors: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/howto/contribute/
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by ra 15y ago
And that sums up HP and this whole fiasco, exactly.
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by ra 15y ago
Imagine you are Stephen King, and you write a book. Without copyright I can just copy your book, claim it as my own, sell thousands of copies and you don't see a cent.
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by ra 15y ago
Like Red Hat is trademarked, which lead to CentOS.
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by ra 15y ago
If only Stripe were available in other jurisdictions. Stripe, please come to Australia!
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by ra 15y ago
From the point of view of an experienced software developer, writing a Wordpress theme is an ugly job because the Wordpress API is inconsistent, incomplete and badly documented.
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by ra 15y ago
I was born in the UK and was a teenager during the mad cow / CJD years. I've lived in Australia for 14 years and I'm still not allowed to give blood here. I doubt I ever will. But it never occurred to me that organ donation is affected in t
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by ra 15y ago
That's true, but there is a 'hack' to get around that. Generally new questions arriving at the office will not have prepared responses. New text can not usually be written by the staffers without being reviewed. So, the trick is to raise 2
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by ra 15y ago
So many gems in this article, like this: " Whether you're playing drums or building a business, you're going to be pretty bad at something the first time you try it. The second time isn't much better. Over time, and after a lot of practice
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by ra 15y ago
And that's why the record companies are in a downward spiral, and why they are fighting so hard against online markets for recorded music.
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by ra 15y ago
That's generally the stuff I like to listen to though. EDIT: Not that I'm about to go and hunt down the CD's, I probably wouldn't have heard of most of the artists if it were not for streaming services that facilitate discovery.
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by ra 15y ago
I understand what you are looking for, and I think it could be achieved as a tier 2 telco... in the meantime, here's something that might be better than your current solution (no affiliation): http://www.worldsim.com/featuresMulti.aspx
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by ra 15y ago
What would be your ideal solution to this?
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by ra 15y ago
Wow, that's awesome, and it's totally live. A 747 just flew over our place (Sydney Australia) and it's position on the map was spot on. http://www.flightradar24.com/QFA7589
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by ra 15y ago
or the presenters remember to repeat the questions.
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by ra 15y ago
> I can handle making the frontend and backend of my site, but I can't necessarily make it pretty - especially because I honestly have kind of tacky taste. That's exactly what I'm like... and for the same reason I think bootstrap is a
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France and Germany now in talks to break up the eurozone(guardian.co.uk)
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