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by rickmb 15y ago
Most European nations have database protection laws. Although limited in scope and doesn't prevent you from compiling an identical database from other sources, it has insane side-effects. In the Netherlands for instance, the zip-code databa
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by rickmb 15y ago
So basically the only person you don't consider an Apple evangelist besides Mossberg is a former paid Microsoft evangelist.
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by rickmb 15y ago
The point is obvious: it would give anyone who intercepts the (plain text) email full access. However, the price for not doing this is pretty high in terms of conversion, so as far as I'm concerned it's not a black and white issue. If there
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by rickmb 15y ago
Amen. You don't have to go as far as an organization. Get an ad-hoc team together and they'll try perpetuate themselves. It's normal human behavior, and has nothing to do with the "evils" of bureaucracy. The problem as far government agenci
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by rickmb 15y ago
Same story here, I can pretty much confirm this word for word. Especially the broad support of payment methods is crucial, and pretty much makes up for all of Adyen's shortcomings in the implementation department.
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by rickmb 15y ago
You've just quoted the reason why: it won't be the last crazy idea they may have. That's pretty much an absolute certainty. Even if you can convince them with reasonable arguments to accept a few point less uptime, you're going to be having
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by rickmb 15y ago
You're overstating the issue. There's only one thing that keeps most services from being available: the insane antiquated and utterly corrupt copyright laws. Without that, there would be no issue. Specific stuff like online payments very mu
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by rickmb 15y ago
If a methodology is so simple that it only requires you to do a few things and you're not doing those, than "you're doing it wrong" is not an excuse, it's an objective fact. Besides that, given that Scrum is such a lightweight methodology,
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by rickmb 15y ago
Scrum doesn't de-emphasize those things, bad programmers do. I'm just following your logic here, which I agree with up to the point where Scrum has a negative influence. I don't see how Scrum can encourage good programmers to write bad code
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by rickmb 15y ago
One of things that puts me off Postgres is the constantly shouting "Postgres is better" (and please, we already know in which areas Postgres is better, nobody is debating that) without ever addressing the actual needs of the vast majority o
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by rickmb 15y ago
Although abhorred by software makers such as most HN-readers, throwing hardware at the problem is often the fastest and cheapest way to tackle performance issues. Especially when it indeed is "crappy software" that will take major effort to
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by rickmb 15y ago
Now imagine this happening when you are searching for none-English words, and Google decides to correct your misspelling of English... It's so insultingly arrogant it makes me want to smash my keyboard in the faces of the people who wrote t
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by rickmb 15y ago
The logic behind articles like this can be summarized as "trains are an anti-pattern because you almost always eventually have to go somewhere where there are no tracks or stations". Getting tired of this. The fact that a tool or method has
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by rickmb 15y ago
In my experience, candidates with major pet projects, especially ones that aren't related to their current job, fall into one or more of the following categories: * They don't have life, and are usually not the most pleasant people to work
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by rickmb 15y ago
Just wait until European manufacturers discover the endless possibilities of the US prison system...
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by rickmb 15y ago
No, it's this kind of comment that start to make HN feel like Eternal September. Discuss and vote on topics on individual merit is HN, the content-free Gruber/Apple hatefest some people systematically try to engage in every time the author/
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by rickmb 15y ago
The keyword here is "learn". Don't underestimate the amount of time it takes to become truly proficient in any language. Not to mention the huge cultural differences between the communities, and therefor companies, around those languages. E
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by rickmb 15y ago
Let's not start cheering just yet. Initially, the government failed to acknowledge the seriousness of the issue, even though browser manufactures revoked trust in the CA. In fact, they successfully pressured Mozilla into accepting Dutch gov
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by rickmb 15y ago
Facebook better wake up and realize that especially thanks to companies like them and their failure to self-regulate and respect privacy values outside the US, using Like-buttons for tracking is likely to become illegal in the EU and many o
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by rickmb 15y ago
Methinks we are ignoring the elephant in the room. Sure, good teamwork will solve a lot of problems, regardless whether the designer can code or not. A team with all the skills combined can deal with both. But there are people that have a
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by rickmb 15y ago
I find your explanation somewhat disingenuous, which kind of illustrates why I distrust this company and it's culture. Nedap voting machines were proven to be insecure, and Nedap tried everything to keep that quiet, including legal threats
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by rickmb 15y ago
It's kind of frightening to think of Nedap operating in the healthcare industry. This is the same company responsible for the insecure and unverifiable voting machines that were eventually banned in at least the Netherlands, Ireland and Ger
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by rickmb 15y ago
> but it will be extremely helpful for beginners Methinks that kind of summarizes the issue: Microsoft doesn't seem to realize it's not 1995 anymore. "Beginners" are no longer a big market, and people are more comfortable with "discover
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by rickmb 15y ago
Exactly. A black candidate won't trigger any subconscious prejudices in me (half my family is black). Certain African-American names like "Tyrone" or "Latoya" however will trigger negative associations with social and cultural stereotypes.
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by rickmb 15y ago
> widely used in [...] Netherlands No it isn't. It's widely pushed, for a value of "widely" that comes down to "you're likely to spot a few". Nobody actually uses them on the consumer end.
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by rickmb 15y ago
Just a thought: we're talking about WordPress plugin code here. Anyone ever tried to collaborate on and add features to code like this: https://github.com/jigoshop/Jigoshop ? Any value judgements aside, it is just very hard to touch this
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by rickmb 15y ago
The only thing that really worries me is that some of the content-free negative remarks about Gruber/Apple/Groupon/et actually seem to get upvoted rather than buried these days. I always felt HN as a community was a little too strict by eve
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by rickmb 15y ago
Although I admire the courage, I'm somewhat surprised by some of the almost naive American viewpoints expressed by the writer. For instance, it's not so much "extremely difficult to fire someone in Argentina", as it is extremely easy to fir
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by rickmb 15y ago
Unless you are acquiring generic services or commodities, hiring anyone starts with a conversation, not with looking at the website. The only useful information you can get from a designers (or any kind of bespoke service) website is a) is
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by rickmb 15y ago
I disagree. If we want our society to take full advantage of the technology, we need to remove the training wheels and ditch the tired old half-assed and extremely limited metaphors. It's time we started using technology like adults, instea

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