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811.
by tajen 10y ago
I can watch YouTube in real time with little latency and no buffeting on 3G . Any landline not matching that is a scam.
812.
by tajen 10y ago
Home. In Lyon, France, because my friends are the most important asset. I've also chosen my coworking space ("Ecoworking") based on the awesomeness of the community and the variety of entrepreneurs (NGOs, architects, book wri
813.
by tajen 10y ago
You can't equate the Brexit to war. British politic elites haven't been listening to the lowly for ages - They've done many things against the countryside English people for long, for example importing new workers in London a
814.
by tajen 10y ago
It's a company with millions of dollars on marketing. You can bet they've studied their price point and it is exactly at the right ratio between sale quantity and sale amount. If Linux became unsafe/untrusted (e.g. unapproved
815.
by tajen 10y ago
This. Patents should be at most 5 years in IT, should they exist at all. The Macbook Air was first published in 2008. It's not a new idea anymore, not a new design, if you want to be the leader then create new products, and be happy if
816.
by tajen 10y ago
There are only 38bn USD banknotes (not dollars, banknotes) in circulation. That's very few. https://www.federalreserve.gov/paymentsystems/coin_currcircv... ...and 15bn EUR banknotes. If you think about it, they a
817.
by tajen 10y ago
If telcos can't do it, senders can switch to Whatsapp when possible. And everybody is able to understand Whatsapp (although the delivery isn't reliable). And that may even give them more information about the profile of the user,
818.
by tajen 10y ago
I felt that way when I started my first job after a master of IT. I was meat sold to companies, I didn't have leadership because I was a total junior, and I didn't have weight to negotiate. For the next 10 years, I have remained q
819.
by tajen 10y ago
> What's cheaper, rebuilding a damaged city every 100 years or so? I wonder whether this is actually expensive, compared to the job gravitational opportunity. Surely landlords of the skyscrapers downtown have included the risk in th
820.
by tajen 10y ago
The upper comment says "What happens if Microsoft only sells the Enterprise edition in Europe?", it will increase the price. In the absurd event when Microsoft doesn't sell the OEM anymore, people would have to pay $250 for a
821.
by tajen 10y ago
...and lose market share. Microsoft really needs to keep its product proeminent, especially today, especially in home products. So the EU commission actually has leverage to forbid certain behaviours. Microsoft, then Android, please ;)
822.
by tajen 10y ago
The EU commission levied a $2bn (yes, billion) fine for Microsoft antitrust problems, i.e. the stupid removal of the choice popup for the browser in XP SP3 and not giving the API documentation to some editor. Those two things were very stup
823.
by tajen 10y ago
The number and mood of comments in the thread is striking too. Zuck is almost a persona non grata in our future, like traditional banks, lobbyists and a supreme court who has never once read constitution correctly.
824.
by tajen 10y ago
... not having a seat is reason #1 why people ditch public transport in Europe (dense areas, hot & sweaty rides, not able to read a book or work on a computer, not able to sleep). Give a seat to everyone and you'll have more commut
825.
by tajen 10y ago
He mentioned them in the blog post (Title 2, paragraph 3).
826.
by tajen 10y ago
https://appear.in - doesn't even require a login!
827.
by tajen 10y ago
> "tax" which is unpalatable to the public. They're right to be concerned: A tax goes to the government and the price is set wrong. What's the correct amount? $5 per barrel[1]? $25? $250? $3000? $3000 would be insane,
828.
by tajen 10y ago
Since July 1st, France has banned them too. They were already forbidden is supermarkets anyways. Note that the biodegradable corn-based plastic bags are still allowed.
829.
by tajen 10y ago
They've made electric cars sexy and manly. Before that, CEOs, managers, fathers and tradespeople who had an electric car appeared weak because they looked like caring for others. Corporates tend to promote people who are best at being
830.
by tajen 10y ago
It's hard to change the name from "Autopilot" to "Merely assist you in straight line, but please regain control when there's a white truck coming from the right [1], and DO NOT TOUCH THE BRAKE [2] because it disenga
831.
by tajen 10y ago
You win ;) As a side note, French presidents were elected for 7 years x2, which makes 14 years for Mitterand (1981-1995) and 12 for Chirac (1995-2007). But at least PMs change and they can't renew again.
832.
by tajen 10y ago
But those military gained access to aircrafts, bombs and their activation systems, which they used to bomb the parliament and seemingly many other targets in Ankara and Istambul. Makes you wonder how safe is Europe. > The only problem is
833.
by tajen 10y ago
Their biggest product is JIRA followed by Confluence. Let's look at acquisitions vs internal developments: - 2003: JIRA - In-house - ~2004: Confluence - In-house - ~2007: Fisheye, Crucible (code analysis) - Acquisition - ~2008: Bamboo
834.
by tajen 10y ago
A VM could be an alternative, but Cloud9 has a really cool IDE, for what I've seen.
835.
by tajen 10y ago
In Oracle, the empty string is null.
836.
by tajen 10y ago
> because we don't mourn criminals, thugs, people who reach for guns when confronted by police 1. 1 in 3 black people killed by police in 2015 were identified as unarmed [1]. 2. In the current example, the black victim didn't r
837.
by tajen 10y ago
> Why is USA better? It is attempting to face the tragedy and stop the killing. Is America attempting to stop the killing? I must have missed a chapter. Last time I've checked Obama was mourning the police officers who were killed a
838.
by tajen 10y ago
They're not exactly relevant examples because they were introduced a dozen years ago when the landscape was completely different. Among those introduced in 2014, I haven't found people who live off their sales. I'd love to kn
839.
by tajen 10y ago
I'm single-running an Atlassian add-on, $4000 the first year, $40k the second year, $55k the 3rd. APIs are young and change often (=maintenance costs), market is not saturated yet, but the competition is competent. It's a real ben
840.
by tajen 10y ago
So why do we have to add a special source repository to do "apt-get install" and why is there a mandatory interactive license approval?

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