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by stevoski 10y ago
It's not just iPhones that get imported. Raw materials for plenty of goods need to be imported in modern economies. In Venezuela's case, an example might be cotton for making clothing. Or rubber for maintaining cars and other vehi
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Ah the nostalgia of reading the entire guide to BASIC that came with my first computer, an Amstrad CPC6128. (Aside: The A in Amstrad stands for Alan and the S for Sugar, as in Lord Alan Sugar). The days when it was possible to learn and mem
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Prüm is in a seemingly rural yet heavily populated part of Germany. There are villages and towns every few kms, sometimes less. Many people in the region commute to major cities such as Cologne and Aachen daily. Luxembourg, Trier, Cologne,
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From section 1 of the tutorial: > Since it came out in October 2016, [Yarn] received a very quick adoption and is becoming the new package manager of choice of the JavaScript community. We are going to use Yarn in this tutorial. It'
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Not so much Protestant tradition as Germanic languages. The German word for debt "Schuld" also means guilt, fault, and blame.
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> I'm not sure I've found a "superblock" That's because they don't exist yet, except for one temporary one that was created last month.
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There exists only one superblock so far, and it is a prototype. It was created last month. The hype is well ahead of the reality. You can find plans for more superblocks, but the official website is mostly in Catalan only, so it might not b
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A great idea. When my girlfriend got sick and immunent death was a realistic possibility, she wrote down all her usernames and passwords on a piece of paper, which I then put in a drawer in my home office, only to look at when the worst hap
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by stevoski 10y ago
This is superb. An excellent and hilarious summary of Berlin's pluses and minuses.
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Thanks for your response. It is indeed tricky, as I know from both sides of the situation. I don't think this behaviour is as prevalent as you suggest. I just checked Facebook and Google from a newly opened "private browsing"
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I'm an outlier indeed, but plenty of people live or travel in countries that use languages they don't speak or prefer, and don't want find themselves redirected to websites they don't understand. Spanish speakers (in Spa
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It seems you still don't manage adding and collecting EU VAT? That's a dealbreaker for anyone in the EU wanting to use you for an online store.
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I just followed your link on an English-language website (Hacker News) in response to an English-language comment (yours) on my iPad (running in English, my mother tongue and main language) while in Spain (where I live) Your site was presen
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Patrick writes in the article: > I never thought I could build a Fog Creek, but I saw a bunch of other geeks building Poker Co-pilot and Perfect Table Plan and skeet-shooting scoring software, and I was pretty sure I could at least do so
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> Things are very different today. Java has been fast for at least ten years. Except start-up time. Java still has way too long a startup time, which you notice in desktop apps implemented in Java.
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I used Stripe's Java API for my website. I wouldn't say it was awful - it got the job done, and exception handling was well thought out. But it wasn't idiomatic Java. It felt like it had been put together by someone who knew
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If you don't mind do a bit of coding: * Stripe * PayPal. (You want the "Express Checkout" workflow) (Hint: for increased sales offer both. Stripe is a developer's dream; adding PayPal adds perhaps 30% more sales
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Kagi was 22 years in business and they write this: > We are sorry we failed you. Kagi, you did not fail. You provide an essential service for what was then called Shareware when it was really hard to do online payment processing.
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by stevoski 10y ago
Perhaps Maths students will soon be studying the "Bridges of the Euro" problem, instead of the "Bridges of Königsberg" problem. That will solve two issues: * the name Königsberg has not been used by most of the world for
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Why there's no such thing as planned to last(newyorker.com)
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One of my favourite fictional geographical places is the twin cities of Besźel and Ul Qoma from "The City and the City."
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A catch (in my opinion as a New Zealander originally from Christchurch) is that Kaitangata is remote with nasty weather.
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Limit Hold'em Heads-up is 'solved'. Over the long run, the AI will break even no matter who the opponent is (rake excluded, of course). IIRC this involved making precalculations for the entire sample space, which is massive,
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That was on PokerStars' single table "double or nothing" sit&goes if I recall. As a consequence , PokerStars has changed the pay-out on such tournaments. Instead of all five winners getting the same amount, the prize poo
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What are the negatives of living and working in Bucharest as a foreigner?
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> $2400/month is more than I make a month as a c++ programmer - just seems very very high to me. Strongly consider asking for a pay raise, and/or applying for some new jobs in your local area. That sounds terribly low for a UK-
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When Google got into advertising, they were relaxed about what ads they accepted. They happily ran just about any advert. But then two things happened. 1) the scammers came. 2) governments started holding Google accountable for running ads
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> someone's being charged for an ad When I advertise on Facebook, they charge me per click, not per impression. I assume this poorly displayed ad also is charged per click.
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When I was new to git I had to choose a workflow while not having sufficient knowledge or experience with git to do so. It was frustrating. I wish there had been some sort of conventional workflow I could have adopted for my situation. It t
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I can't hide tooltips once shown. I'm using Safari on an iPad. Instructions say to press ESC, but iPad...

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