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by stevoski 10y ago
Yes yes, I've live in Europe for 13 years. When there is an American group in a restaurant, you KnOW, no matter where in the restaurant they are. I've observed this in Hungary, Germany, Spain and others. My theory is that most Eur
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by stevoski 11y ago
I like how fast and responsive it is.
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by stevoski 11y ago
> Studies have cast doubt on whether Subjective Well-Being (SWB) levels actually return to normal after significant life events. I had heard (in a TED talk I think) that humans typically need only three months or so to get back to "
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by stevoski 11y ago
Bootstrap 4 seems to be the clear winner, according to the article. If you want to start designing with it already (which is not a great idea; it is still alpha), here's a Bootstrap 4 PSD template you can use: http://hacke
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by stevoski 11y ago
> Trade a copy for their email address and permission to send more things they will like. ... > This works. Very well. And has become annoying. Very annoying. Recent "annoying web design trends" articles are listing this tec
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by stevoski 11y ago
For ten years, the team who produce Java have been trying to modularise Java. Time after time they've run into big problems and the project has delayed or shelved. I hope, finally, they manage to succeed this time. It seems adding modu
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by stevoski 11y ago
You'll no longer need to distribute the entire JRE API if your app needs an embedded JRE. You'll be able to distribute only the modules you need. For example, I'll no longer be including the useless (for most Java apps) CORBA
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by stevoski 11y ago
My bank, (EVO, a Spanish bank) does something similar-ish. Once a month they move any balance in my current account above 3,000 EUR into a savings account. Yes there is interest, and yes it is minimal. I much prefer this approach than havin
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by stevoski 11y ago
I remember seeing this new much improved UI for bug tracking on OSS, and thinking, "Thank goodness they're no longer using Bugzilla". And then using it a bit, and thinking, "I've got to get that bug tracker into the
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by stevoski 11y ago
Good to know for my upcoming visit to South Africa!
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by stevoski 11y ago
I travel a lot (been to 115 countries) and have lived in several countries. My traveller's guide to tipping, for non-USA folk: * when not in the USA: Don't tip. There is not a country I know of where it is necessary or even expect
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by stevoski 11y ago
I think the urban draining referred to the inner core of each city, not the entire metro area.
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by stevoski 11y ago
$40 would be the retail price, no? After retailer's margin and distributor's margin, maybe Atari got max $15 per cartridge. Making the whole debacle a money-losing affair.
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by stevoski 11y ago
It took Google years to get multiple accounts sorted out. For a long time I had to sign out of my personal Google account before I could sign in to my company Google account.
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by stevoski 11y ago
My niece is called "Ireland". Continents too: I met a girl called "Africa", and "Asia" is certainly used as a name. However I don't ever expect to meet someone called "Democratic People's Republi
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by stevoski 11y ago
Take UN statistics for a country like Ethiopia with a huge grain of salt. It is mostly just guesswork and later revisions tend to be extreme. It is not quite the UN's fault - I'm sure their raw data comes with caveats. It is hard
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by stevoski 11y ago
This article sheds some light on a problem I've had for years: The software product I develop stores its data in a local database using H2, stored in a single file. Users tend to have databases gigabytes in size. After reading this art
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by stevoski 11y ago
> the whole endeavor made the job a lot more fun That is an important part of producing quality output in any job, I believe. The more employees actually enjoy what they are doing (or at least, don't actively hate it), the better th
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by stevoski 11y ago
Same in Germany. It is risky for the company, not for the "disguised employee", because the company can find that the freelancer subsequently demands back-payment of entitlements. I've never actually heard of this happening,
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by stevoski 11y ago
Disclaimer: I am not an accountant nor an employment lawyer. Anti-disclaimer: I run a company in Spain, and pay people in other countries money to do things for the company. My understanding is that in the EU your income tax, social securit
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by stevoski 11y ago
The author of the article has an answer to this question: "Go to WWDC"
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by stevoski 11y ago
It scratches an itch. It is polished. It works well. They marketed it like hell.
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by stevoski 11y ago
Really, this article seems to say, "a bad night's sleep is not good for the next day." Most of us have figured that out by adulthood, no?
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by stevoski 11y ago
Yesterday on Hacker News we were discussing a photo from Zenefits. A photo of the Zenefits workplace, which seemed to generate disgust and horror in many commenters. It seemed like a "you couldn't possibly be productive here"
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by stevoski 11y ago
"Zenefits launches free payroll software for small businesses IN THE USA", I'm guessing the title should be.
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by stevoski 11y ago
The authors, Don Norman and Bruce Tognazzini, have both been rather cranky in their writings for years. Sometimes Tognazzini seems almost too ready to criticize anything new. cf: Tognazzini's "Top Ten Reasons the Apple Dock Sucks&
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by stevoski 11y ago
I went the other way: last year I converted an OS X app to Windows. I hadn't used Windows for six years, and had forgotten most things. It took two weeks to get the code compiling and running. That turned out to be the easy part. Getti
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by stevoski 11y ago
The more I read such articles, the more I think you'd have to be nuts to choose to live in San Francisco. And yet, clearly, plenty of people do choose to live in San Francisco.
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by stevoski 11y ago
The article says the targeted completion date is 11 years away. Like almost all long-term projects, it is likely to run much longer than expected. I live in Barcelona, twenty minutes walk from Sagrada Familia. I enjoy watching it ever chan
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by stevoski 11y ago
I've been playing Banished a lot lately. In some of these photos, I found myself thinking that they had a well-located forester in a game of Banished.

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