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by restalis 12y ago
It's only disrespect if that person continues to mispronounce your name. I agree. When I present myself, I pronounce my name. Most of the time people people just follow and it feels like a courtesy at best, but there are cases when t
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by restalis 12y ago
I read here comments about personal experiences with mispronounced names and how this is looked upon as having little or no importance. I'm shocked. The name is the first and foremost part of one's identity. Why would it be accept
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by restalis 12y ago
"New York becomes a wasteland of empty apartments held by overseas billionaires" Don't worry, they'll take only the good ones. Surely there will be plenty of space left for the rest of you! Who's gonna do the non-
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by restalis 12y ago
"And so New Yorkers with garden-variety affluence—the kind of buyers who require mortgages—are facing disheartening price wars..." "Competition will continue to drive the wealthy—foreign and domestic—to Brooklyn and middle-c
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by restalis 12y ago
I think it's because I've touched political matters in a post a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5166069
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by restalis 12y ago
"We have no plans to appeal their decision." It's a shame. That kind of stupidity, shown by IRS, deserves to be penalized.
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by restalis 12y ago
You got it wrong. European Latin-based scripts are not identical. They have, besides the basic Latin set of letters, different diacritics. The original Latin alphabet has/had less than 26 letters, and the European languages had to adap
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by restalis 12y ago
I bet the software will start to resemble an actual engineering, not like our Moore's law era where the hardware capabilities expanded too fast and the software programmers got a lot of rope for too cheap of a price to value it properl
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by restalis 12y ago
The other HN submissions of this article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7918768 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7898113
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by restalis 12y ago
10 consecutive successful investments does not just happen. Yes, this may work in attracting „investors” given the weakness in the human nature, but anyone with half-brain will be put in guard by such investment history. To pass their guard
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by restalis 12y ago
Total Commander being that good, an open-source version of it was commissioned - Double Commander: http://doublecmd.sourceforge.net It supports Total Commander's large pool of plug-ins, and is multi-platform.
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by restalis 14y ago
You're right, and that feels very blatant starting with the paragraph containing «"Grandpa" Wen Jiabao». Some quotes commented: "hacking—both for purposes of monitoring and to steal commercial intellectual property or government secrets—ha
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Fifth Generation VP8 Hardware Encoder Released(blog.webmproject.org)
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by restalis 15y ago
I think all these ideas ought to be a subject for a future Hollywood horror movie. :)
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by restalis 15y ago
Dude! How about taking some chances with something that already got traction and having some faith in it?