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by stevoski 15y ago
There's a similar site in Germany that has more or less replaced hitchhiking. Very popular. Someone is going from, for example from Hamburg to Berlin, and says how many places are free, and how much money you have to chip in to cover expens
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by stevoski 15y ago
The article says "best _performing_ language". Quite different from "best language"
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by stevoski 15y ago
I watched someone close to me die over several months. Her only regret seemed to be that she was dying. I don't believe this list of top 5 regrets is based on research at all. I suspect that it is mostly only in TV, movies, or novels where
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by stevoski 15y ago
Dima is a standard Russian-language short form for Dmitriy. Like Pete for Peter in English. The name Sidorchenko sounds Ukrainian.
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by stevoski 15y ago
"we have a strict no refund policy — and you should too" I disagree. Stating that you have a no-questions-asked 30-day money-back guarantee will convince some people to sign up, because they known that if it doesn't work out for them the ca
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by stevoski 15y ago
Definitely fascinating. Don't forget, however, that many of these Mumbai dabbawallahs live a precarious existence. Perhaps the fear of homelessness and hunger encourage the high success rate. This is not a model I'd like to replicate in my
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by stevoski 15y ago
"Before, it was always only in the realm of distant possibility, a far-fetched story told in books or movies. That can never be erased." Some other recent historical examples: - Red Army Faction in Germany in the 70's and 80's - Brigate Ros
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by stevoski 16y ago
The press release title is "Nokia starts measures to align workforce and site operations with new strategy". My translation: "Nokia blah blah blah" Their PR people need to learn the art of a catchy title. Really, does "to align workforce" m
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by stevoski 16y ago
In the post, he asks this question: "What's the fastest way to find the largest, or smallest, number in an array?" I guess he means fastest code to write, not the fastest code to run. If you have, say, a million numbers, I'd try doing this
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by stevoski 16y ago
Nice one, Patrick. As almost always, your article set my mind in motion. So I decided to stop with the pointless puzzle game I was playing and to write an article myself I've long been planning to write on Being Unique: http://blog.pokerco
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by stevoski 16y ago
Can you change the title to correctly say "Christchurch" instead of "Chirst Church"?
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by stevoski 16y ago
Are you figures in real terms or nominal terms? If nominal, then sentences like "where once you could build a house for $80k, now anything less than $150-200k is unrealistic" are unsuitable for building an argument upon.
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by stevoski 16y ago
Java has had this since Java 1.1, I believe.
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by stevoski 16y ago
The idea that a "cure" for any type of cancer would only be on one laptop is absurd. It may work in a movie plot, but in real life, no way. At best it would have info on how to possibly, vaguely minimise the suffering in some situations. Ca
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by stevoski 16y ago
On a voluntary, part-time basis, I used to run a second-hand store for my church. A good part of our sales were to second-hand book stores, second-hand furniture stores, second-hand CD stores, and second-hand (read: retro/vintage) clothing
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by stevoski 16y ago
Sure you have access to these second-hand books - at the going market rate on Amazon.
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by stevoski 16y ago
Nice alex. But isn't it spelt "Kia ora"? It's a long time since I've been home to NZ - maybe I'm just out of date.
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by stevoski 16y ago
I think you should be looking at revenue by taxes as a % of GDP, rather than in $ terms. Real GDP per person is much higher in CA today than in 1964. Did government spending increase relative to the size of the economy? Or decrease?
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by stevoski 16y ago
Ditto...
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by stevoski 16y ago
This is a great example of why software maintenance is so hard. People will use features of your software in unexpected ways. Even trivial changes to your software that should be inconsequential are almost always entirely far too consequen
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by stevoski 16y ago
Thomas Mueller, the guy behind H2, an all-Java open source RDBMS, also works for Jackrabbit.
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by stevoski 16y ago
With my New Zealand accent, no matter how hard I try I can't make the "R" in red and car the same! Car for me is pronounced something like "Kah".
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by stevoski 16y ago
Good article, Patrick. It is so easy to say "oh, those stupid/lazy/naive web-form programmers". But actually this is a fiendish problem to solve correctly - as your article demonstrates.
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by stevoski 17y ago
In what country can an employer dictate what you do in your own time? Just because an employer puts somethings in a contract doesn't make it legal.
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by stevoski 17y ago
The LP guides on iPhone are not good. They consist of the guidebook content shoved into a hard-to-navigate app.
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by stevoski 17y ago
Medication worked wonders for me. I had anxiety problems that were crippling my life. Two years ago I was prescribed Paroxetin. The changes it has done me for are great. I sleep much better. I'm not so irritable. I don't worry so much about
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by stevoski 17y ago
This popularity is also in India. Although I'm not German, I live in Germany, and when in India I often answered the ubiquitous question "where are you from?" with "Germany". Then most times came the "Hitler was good" response. My theory is
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by stevoski 17y ago
A couple of years ago, Asuncion, Paraguay won in a "cheapest city" survey. I wonder what their Internet connectivity is like.
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by stevoski 17y ago
IIRC, in some countries census data is sometimes released with small, intentional errors to prevent the ability to locate specific individuals. Make a 36 year old sometimes a 37 year old or a 35 year old. Make a 180 cm person sometimes 182
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by stevoski 17y ago
I've always enjoyed Joel's blog and will miss it. I wonder if the almost-immediate criticisms in places like Hacker News of anything he writes is an unstated part of the reason he's giving up blogging. Over the years most of what Joel has w

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