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by sdrinf 12y ago
Use case: Due to moving countries, I've recently dumped my powerhouse desktop ( http://blog.codinghorror.com/building-a-pc-part-vii-rebootin... ), and am laptoping around various places; a lifestyle I will probably con
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by sdrinf 12y ago
| ...by the time the Feds get around to doing that, the market will have likely already made Google's dominance is search a lot less important. Can you elaborate on how that might happen, operationally?
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by sdrinf 12y ago
Synthesis: Chrome Security Team would like to put :( for all non-secure HTTP connections. With gradual deployment, and increase of all active sites moving to HTTPS, it is assumed that users won't become trained to ignore this as a war
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by sdrinf 12y ago
Ironically enough, sub-second music IP rights swap between the shell corps, so as to dodge any lawsuits getting anything out of them. Worked great too, unless you discount the whole "convert the earth into computronium" in later c
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by sdrinf 12y ago
In lieu of writing an in-depth answer, I'd refer to a previous thread instead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1726795
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by sdrinf 12y ago
You provide no context for what, specifically, are you building, not even in general outlines. This asymmetrically puts the community into a disadvantaged position, by robbing us of the ability to properly prequalify the opportunity. For th
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by sdrinf 12y ago
One specific problem (amongst the many others pointed out in this thread) is stock transfer generally triggering a tax event. Specifically, gifting of stock requires, by IRS -amongst other reporting requirements- for you to: 1, calculate th
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by sdrinf 12y ago
This is definitely a solution to the registration problem; and metrics will probably back you up on conversion. However, a major drawback of this occurs while moving across multiple devices: Peter (fictional archetype) might click through
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by sdrinf 12y ago
Here's a working hypothesis: | Why is Amazon's security for replacement orders so lax? Amazon values customer satisfiction above their fraud write-off. | Why would they send a replacement to an address that has never been associat
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by sdrinf 12y ago
| We should think more out of the box. BeOS BFS, (ReiserFS4) and early versions of NTFS supported extensive object oriented metadata and search capabilities ("Cairo") - something like WinFS but directly in the filesystem driver. D
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by sdrinf 12y ago
| What incentive would the author have to talk with the police (let alone invite them into his home) in this instance? I understand that the police in the UK may not be as menacing as they are in the US, but if nothing is in it for him (and
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by sdrinf 12y ago
If this would've been in the US, absolutely. The quality of connection between UK citizens, and law enforcement is significantly different, due to actions on both sides: specifically: * UK police tends to seek full understanding prior
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by sdrinf 12y ago
Plex shares the terminal disability (with itunes, and JRiver) of trying to be two things at once: a media browser , and a media player ; quite similar to how file sync programs before dropbox were terminally unusable by trying to include
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by sdrinf 12y ago
A media browser for leveraging (browsing, and surfing) multi-terrabyte home media servers: Problem: I've got 2TB of videos, music, and images on my hard drives, and I've found my available tools to be too low-leverage on managing
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by sdrinf 12y ago
It's... complicated. See The European Union Explained* for how deep that rabbit hole is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O37yJBFRrfg
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by sdrinf 13y ago
I have amnesia / sleeping difficulty (being awake for ~20 hours, then sleep for 10), which means my waking cycles roll around. UK-based sales people, on the other hand, tend to do their cold calls at 10am sharp. Long story short: when
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by sdrinf 13y ago
This might be an interesting perspective, reflecting on recent events: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splinternet
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by sdrinf 13y ago
Hi, UK resident here, living in N7. Tell me operational steps I can take at the 27-28-29th of Dec that will exercise leveraged optimisation pressure against this.
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by sdrinf 13y ago
All three of these are valid strategies. The larger question is, what specifically do you wish to achieve? Assuming you're aiming for "pretty productive and can get a well paid job with any of the languages you know", note th
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by sdrinf 13y ago
You might consider complementing revenues by selling services until the long slow SAAS Ramp[1] will get better. * One of the best usage of your business partners might be taking over navigation of the sales cycle -if they're sold on th
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by sdrinf 13y ago
Imap. Simplest solution might be: * download & open up thunderbird * Add 2 accounts: your existing gmail account, and your new outlook.com account * select all email in the inbox of your gmail account, ctrl+c [this will take a while] *
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by sdrinf 13y ago
http://www.startssl.com/ allows for free Class 1 certs
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by sdrinf 13y ago
Honest question: under what circumstances would it be beneficial for my dishwasher to be "smart" at all, let alone be connected to the Internet? If that isn't a demonstrative example, what specific devices _would_ be useful
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by sdrinf 13y ago
Got mine from biovea.com (with a eurovital.com logo shrugs ) ; they seem to have no problem whatsoever about shipping to the UK. IIRC, it's widely available in many countries in the EU (specifically eg. Finland), who have no problem
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by sdrinf 13y ago
Could you kindly elaborate on how you would charge someone's credit card immediately without the CC number? (that is, specifically NOT via cheque, bank number, wire transfer, or cash)
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by sdrinf 13y ago
Having used both in production: - https://stripe.com/chat VS email -You usually don't need to "send the docs in" (being hungarian, they asked for my ID, but email was fine), which reduces time to launch -Af
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by sdrinf 13y ago
A thought experiment, at the risk of being downvoted to oblivion: Imagine a new online service, which allows people to rent out their existing accounts at various other SAAS services to tenants, in exchange for a cut (specifically eg. you c
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by sdrinf 13y ago
UK's IT recruitment industry have to die. After 2 years of uphill battle, here's how I managed to get off from all recruiters' spamlist & call list: - For every email coming from an agency: search via the recruiter&#x27
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by sdrinf 13y ago
Plain old cultural inertia might play a big role here: businesses copied their Modus Operandi from older large corporations (who, in turn, copied a lot from the military) where a "job" could potentially last 10-30 years; so the cr
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by sdrinf 13y ago
Josh Kaufman have recently released a new book called "The First 20 Hours -How to learn anything" -which is an awesome, operational description of rapid skill acquisition. The better question is: "How do you decide what to le

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