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by rmccue 7y ago
Agreed, although I don’t think WordPress itself needs it. There’s plenty of room for everyone in the ecosystem, and there’s a lot of room to grow at the high end. I work for a company (Human Made) which is pushing heavily on this, and our W
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by rmccue 8y ago
It's in the Wikipedia page linked here, under Etymology: > The official abbreviation for Coordinated Universal Time is UTC. This abbreviation arose from a desire by the International Telecommunication Union and the International Ast
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by rmccue 8y ago
It's the Insider's Edition "with handwritten footnotes and afterthoughts".
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by rmccue 8y ago
The blog post about it is probably a better link for HN: https://statsbot.co/blog/building-open-source-google-analyti...
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by rmccue 8y ago
Adelaide, Brisbane [1], and Sydney [2][3] all have busways to some extent, although the O-bahn is the only guided busway. Brisbane is also in the process of upgrading their busways to something like rubber-tyred trams (bi-articulated busses
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by rmccue 8y ago
Flagged, as URL is now unavailable when linked with the message: This page is unavailable when linked to from news.ycombinator.com. Please find a less toxic place to spend your time. Per https://github.com/jamieb
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by rmccue 8y ago
> Whereas here (Australia) it’s not uncommon to move every year – don’t anyone dare argue with me there, I speak from bitter experience Can confirm; you get pretty sick of moving every 6/12 months, but on the plus side, you do get a
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by rmccue 8y ago
> Back in Australia, fridges and washer/dryers are often things you need to bring along on your own. Note though that a lot of apartments come with dryers. Apartment buildings' bylaws often preventing hanging washing on balconi
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by rmccue 8y ago
I think Adrian’s site is a better example of how to execute this. The example interviews offer pretty minimal interaction, it’s not conversational, and random SoundCloud links are dumped in. I’d much rather read an interview, because I want
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by rmccue 9y ago
> Qantas just commenced one of the (if not THE) longest non stop flights from Perth in Western Aus. to London in 17 hours. It’s beaten out by Qatar’s existing Doha to Auckland service (9025 mi vs 9008).
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by rmccue 9y ago
Guzzle isn’t really embraced in the WP ecosystem for one main reason: WP has its own HTTP layer. It’s atypical for developers to switch out to using cURL, since the gains you get are fairly minimal, and you lose the benefits of the WP HTTP
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by rmccue 9y ago
Patents and copyright are two different systems, so there's not really a relation between TPB and VLC.
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by rmccue 9y ago
If the software is free (no cost), I don’t think it would count as a sale. It would apply to paid software though. (It also doesn’t apply if it costs more than $40k though, since that’s no longer a business-to-consumer transaction.)
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by rmccue 9y ago
But thanks to the 787’s extended range variants, that’s not necessarily going to be the case for long. Qantas starts Perth to London direct in March on the 787.
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by rmccue 9y ago
> Wordpress has a pretty good JSON api that you can use with crud operations: https://wordpress.org/plugins/rest-api/ FYI: this shipped in WordPress 4.7 as part of the core software, and is now available on eve
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by rmccue 9y ago
Depends a bit on where you are, in my experience. In Melbourne I had a few instances where they didn't take card (so I went somewhere else), whereas I've not yet had that in Brisbane (I paid $1.50 at a coffee shop on card this mor
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by rmccue 9y ago
It looks like Mailspring is still going to be an Electron app, but with Mailcore2 [0] for the email behaviour rather than Nylas' sync engine (per the repo's readme [1]). [0]: https://github.com/MailCore/mailco
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by rmccue 9y ago
> what problem does this solve to justify the crazy expense, complexity and maintenance? Elevators have a natural height limit, due to the weight of the rope, which is why taller buildings need sky lobbies. You also can't (really) i
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by rmccue 9y ago
You could potentially use something like a Minard diagram? https://robots.thoughtbot.com/analyzing-minards-visualizatio...
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by rmccue 9y ago
> You said you have friends working for remote-first companies like Github and Automattic - that should have been your first method of entry to go direct to the team itself Agreed. People who apply to us by reaching out directly to someo
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by rmccue 9y ago
The REST API is included with WordPress 4.7+ and on by default. Docs here: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/ (if you find anything missing, I'd love to know)
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by rmccue 9y ago
Original story from The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/jul/04/the-m...
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by rmccue 9y ago
Unlikely, you'd typically need 100 points of ID, and a Medicare card is only 25 (same as a credit card). Still a terrible leak though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100_point_check
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by rmccue 9y ago
Side note: the projection used by Google Maps (and others) is Web Mercator, which is subtly different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Mercator
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by rmccue 9y ago
Missed your comment; I'm in West End, which is fully fibre but in two parts: most of the suburb is Telstra South Brisbane Fibre (which they built when the Qld Gov knocked down the old exchange to build a hospital), while all greenfield
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by rmccue 9y ago
Pretty great, we're using it for resizing and serving images for our clients (large media companies, banks, etc): https://hmn.md/2017/04/27/scaling-wordpress-images-tachyon/ API Gateway is a little
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by rmccue 9y ago
http://slackarchive.io/ is neat, you might be able to get utility out of that, depending on what you're doing.
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by rmccue 9y ago
The space is actually divided into two sections: the downstairs area is open, and designed to be flexible (for company meetups and such). The upstairs section has a lounge-type area with meeting booths and working tables, designed for the 2
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by rmccue 9y ago
FWIW, I have 100Mbps on NBN fibre in Brisbane, and I remote work (for a WordPress agency, as it happens). Fast internet is definitely possible in Australia, although right now, you might need to move to get it (alas). It's also not yet
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by rmccue 9y ago
I believe here that the use of "dual license" here is about open source + paid proprietary, not two open source licenses. The idea being that you can claim damages.

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