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by stevoski 13y ago
Is McDonald's really very profitable? I ask innocently, I don't live in America, I never eat in McDonald's, and I think you are probably right, but I'm seeking data to back up the assertion. If McDonald's arbitraril
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by stevoski 13y ago
Did I understand the article correctly...Oracle releases lots of security fixes, and the author is _critical_ of this?
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by stevoski 13y ago
Get involved in cycling communities and you realise that this, while not particularly easy, is not particularly hard either. Especially for spryer-than-average 70-year-old. An average unfit person of almost any age, can, within a couple of
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by stevoski 13y ago
My thoughts too. It seems like almost any action performed by a human matches the vague definition of "hacking" sometimes used on HN.
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by stevoski 13y ago
Having created a business in Australia, Germany, and Spain, I think Germany was quite painless, once I found a local who was well-versed in german bureaucratic ways to assist me. Australia was a piece of cake. Spain, however, is...well...le
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by stevoski 13y ago
A demonstration of how we (I?) judge projects and people via the wrong criteria; as I watched the video, this is what went through my mind: * "Oh, a New Zealand accent. One of us! I hope this is really awesome and I want to try this ou
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by stevoski 13y ago
These problems coincided with me trying to get started with Git and GitHub for the first time. I had a perplexing, frustrating day.
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by stevoski 13y ago
Hotdog!
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by stevoski 13y ago
select count( * ) from dummy_table; takes 10 minutes on PostgreSQL to return the result 21454134? With H2, an open source embedded SQL database I use daily, a "select count( * ) from table_name" query returns the result instantly.
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by stevoski 13y ago
Somehow, I feel it is within people's right to self-determination to be free to choose suicide. And yet, I think I'd be very sad if a close friend committed suicide.
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by stevoski 13y ago
Step 1: Say what you are going to do, when you will do it by, and for how much. Step 2: Do what you said you would do, by the time you said you would do it, for the price you said you would do it for. Step 3: Tell the client that you'v
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by stevoski 13y ago
A class like NSDateFormatter is designed to handle a wide range of date formats. This usual results in sub-optimal performance. If you find it too slow and you have a known, specific date format you should write a specific fast parser. I di
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by stevoski 13y ago
And...another group of people new to running a business find that the business side of things can be challenging and time-consuming.
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by stevoski 13y ago
The Mac App Store does provide something of value: app hosting, oh-so-easy purchasing (just enter a password, as Apple has your credit card details on file), app delivery, license management. But the downsides. Boy, the downsides. And they
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by stevoski 13y ago
And...we have our unavoidable example showing that any public statement on languages vs dialects becomes political and controversial.
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by stevoski 13y ago
And a navy.
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by stevoski 13y ago
It is my sole income and sole work. Definitely lets me pay the bills
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by stevoski 13y ago
I like Bill Watterson's sentiment. It puts into words that I wasn't able to find why I've made the decision I have. That decision: to keep my software company a one-person operation. I don't _want_ the company to be bigg
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by stevoski 13y ago
I recently read on http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ that for every American who died in the Vietnam war, Americans killed roughly 50 Vietnamese soldiers and (mostly) civilians.
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by stevoski 13y ago
> don't get life sentences An accusation and some photos should not automatically be grounds for life imprisonment. But yes, there should be an investigation and a trial.
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by stevoski 13y ago
Terrible story; but why is this relevant on Hacker News? Edit: Furthermore, where's the skepticism? Why did this so quickly become the top story? Another comment suggests they are from a porn site, and may actually not really be americ
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by stevoski 13y ago
Please: do this for Spanish! I live in Spain, and have a helluva time being understood when I speak Spanish.
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by stevoski 13y ago
I recently tried to book a Ryanair flight. I cancelled in disgust when I got an "error" message that read something like, "Error: You didn't select a bus sightseeing tour option". Instead I chose to fly with a compe
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by stevoski 13y ago
In _some_ cases, standing up to client pressure and saying, "Sorry, but I don't work on weekends" can earn a client's respect.
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by stevoski 13y ago
Has Go got a good UI library?
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by stevoski 13y ago
I'm quite certain this is a cultural difference. What you find to be rude or inattentive is considered polite in some European countries. For a waiter to be appearing at the table often, unsummoned, is rude in Germany, for example. If
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by stevoski 13y ago
I've found any change in the software I develop and sell can produce a "I don't like this change" response, whether it is removing features, changing features, or adding something. As a software developer and producer, o
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by stevoski 13y ago
Buggy whips, sure. Or record shops, to use something closer to current times.
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by stevoski 13y ago
This article gives a good example of why you SHOULD consider using an existing framework to create a REST API. I see no concern about authentication, authorisation, scalability, protection from SQL injection attacks, nor making the output e
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by stevoski 13y ago
tl;dr Mass email "opens" have dropped from 13% to 12.25% (more or less, according to the chart), where "open" is according to MailChimp's definition/mechanism.

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