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by stevoski 14y ago
His name is Emil Hajric. A few years back, when Joel Spolsky's "Business of Software" discussion forum was at its peak, he used whois records to find the phone numbers of some of the most frequent contributors and to call us personally. I f
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by stevoski 14y ago
Is it a similar concept to Effective C++ or Effective Java? Or is the similar name a co-incidence?
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by stevoski 14y ago
One person from South Dakota responded, and you've used that to determine a score to 9 decimal places? You really need to only show scores with at least a certain number of respondents. You should also round to the nearest integer.
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by stevoski 14y ago
I make sure my software my company creates and sells is more or less an equivalent price no matter where you buy it from. In the age of digital delivery, it seems the correct way to do it.
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by stevoski 14y ago
I think this is wrong. Australia ranks as the 2nd easiest country to start business, according to this site: http://www.doingbusiness.org/rankings It is $900 or more to incorporate a company. Starting a business can be much less, and can
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by stevoski 14y ago
X > Y. Whether you interpret it as X being expensive or Y being cheap, it is still the same: X is greater than Y.
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by stevoski 14y ago
In "Lord of the Flies", one kid's broken glasses are a significant plot device.
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by stevoski 14y ago
It is a little too grand in its claims. There have been good alternatives for years to things like phpBB, etc. I've been using Vanilla for my product's support forums and it is fine. I do like seeing people try new approaches though. Even i
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by stevoski 14y ago
Oracle fucked up Java? Not my view. Installing Java on Windows installed unwanted stuff for years during Sun's days. (Was it the Yahoo toolbar? I forget). Oracle, for all its faults, has actually managed to get the new versions of Java back
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by stevoski 14y ago
Let's get the comparison right. FastSpring charge me 5.9% + 50c A merchant account will cost me 3% + 30c. My software sells for $69. So it is 6.62% vs 3.43%. Actually it isn't. The comparison is (6.62%) vs (3.43% PLUS dealing with all those
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by stevoski 14y ago
I visited Chernobyl a couple of years ago and was stunned by the amount of large fish in the waterways (a canal now cut off from the Dnieper river, IIRC). It seemed you could almost walk from bank to bank on the swarming fish. It made me wo
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by stevoski 14y ago
That is definitely one aspect. Shorter lifespans mean less lifetime in which to develop cancer.
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by stevoski 14y ago
Species that have much lower lifespans than humans are less likely to develop cancer in their lifetimes. These species particularly benefit from the lack of humans around Chernobyl more than they suffer from the high radiation.
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by stevoski 14y ago
Matlab: the language designed so poorly it makes PHP look good.
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by stevoski 14y ago
The cost for a payment processor 3% and 30 cents per transaction PLUS the costs (time-related, development-related, support-related) to manage to obtain a merchant account, deal with VAT, fraud detection, a nice customer experience, and man
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by stevoski 14y ago
Every time I see an article along these lines, I can't figure out why software startups don't just use a third-party payment processor like FastSpring or Avangate. It makes all these complications go away. Outsource anything you can, especi
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by stevoski 14y ago
The situation in Burma is that Aung San Suu Kyi, the democratically elected leader and Nobel Peace Prize recipient, who was under long-term house arrest by the military dictatorship, specifically requested that people not visit Burma for to
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by stevoski 14y ago
And...it doesn't accept my Australian mobile phone number, nor does it accept my Spanish mobile phone number. :(
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by stevoski 14y ago
I'd give him some lenience...for anyone who distributes desktop software via the web, there is a continuous battle against fake or wrapped distributions.
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by stevoski 14y ago
Oh the irony: I went to the homepage of betapunch.com, where they proudly promote their "raw unbiased user" testing, and some text on their home page renders incorrectly. Even more ironically, the problematic rendering includes this text: "
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by stevoski 14y ago
Performance concerns - whether warranted or not.
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by stevoski 14y ago
Are there countries where a significant proportion of IT workers are female? Or representative of the country's ethnic makeup? If so, please tell us!
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by stevoski 14y ago
I agree with you. Once everything became clear, it seemed that the conflict was partly fuelled by the wearer of the "cybernetics" being belligerent. The "hate crime" was simply the wearer being asked to leave, and responding haughtily. Cons
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by stevoski 14y ago
Remember Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. After being inside large, bureaucratic organisations, I've learnt that this is often the best explanation.
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by stevoski 14y ago
The phrase "SQL Injection" was coined in 2000. There was just about no understanding of the threat of these attacks in the 90s
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Ask HN: In Subversion, how best to set up a new major version of my application.
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by stevoski 14y ago
Yes, the announcement is corporate doublespeak. No, I don't mind the end of free Google Apps. I use Google Apps for my business for five years, and frankly, it is mind-boggling what they have given me for free. Luckily us existing users sti
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by stevoski 14y ago
It works well in high-density cities, and where a large proportion of the workforce pass through major train stations every day. In cities where people live mostly in suburbs, it is not quite so affordable to supply enough of these pack sta
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by stevoski 14y ago
Notorious for its copycats? Can you explain this? I don't know what you are referring to.
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by stevoski 14y ago
A German packstation is not a PO box. It is exactly like a buffer box.

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