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by tezza 16y ago
I was a driver for a big pizza firm. We were paid bonuses depending on how fast we delivered. Unfortunately for me, I wasn't close friends with the manager of the store. He gave all the shortest runs to all his mates, making it nigh on impo
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by tezza 16y ago
Yes, hi SamWillis. What you say echoes my understanding of creating a product 'in China'. Often there are loads of steps where it makes sense to use local talent instead. This means a lot of the rhetoric of 'jobs going overseas' can be empt
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by tezza 16y ago
Yes, I import a component for a device I sell. It's still stealth mode so I cannot even lever a plug for it here, BUT I'll share my importing experience 1. Sourcing: Alibaba.com is best, Global Sources is a near shadow copy but also good 2.
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by tezza 16y ago
Surely they'll need their own CPU, Motherboard Chips, RAM, Ethernet Cards, Graphics Cards, HDD as well. Why should software be the only attack vector?
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by tezza 16y ago
Just to work with your theme, perhaps I could suggest: LRMGFY ? The endearingly sensitive Low Rent Motherfucker Go Fuck Yourself ? I don't think that'd get too many happy Tweeters.
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by tezza 16y ago
Pioneers always design armour where there _weren't_ arrows before?
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by tezza 16y ago
I have a lot of experience developing RCP and Eclipse extensions. The architecture is modular, but there are many many dependencies for most things JDT will bring in most of org.eclipse.ui org...equinox and their siblings. That sai
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by tezza 16y ago
Perhaps a splinter of StackExchange for the Facebook APIs could be arranged? a la http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2010/08/31.html
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by tezza 16y ago
I'm sorry, but I've found out about a couple of devices I had no knowledge of before on Wolfram's. (anybot) So it's clearly a knowledge sharing plus. It happens to be based around pseudo-famous people, but this makes it more readable than j
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by tezza 16y ago
"Single payments have much to irk you as a businessman four years from now." I'm sorry Patrick... I don't quite understand this. What is it about single payments you find that are troublesome? I'm planning to sell a desktop applicat
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by tezza 16y ago
"Ambassador to the East" sounded a little like East as in Beijing :: at first, and perhaps only to English ears.
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by tezza 16y ago
Lawyers go work 'in-house'. i.e. large firms have in-house permanent counsel. Being in house often means becoming the client of the firm you previously worked for, and suddenly you are the one calling the shots and getting invited to all th
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by tezza 16y ago
Yeah Mitsubishi, Mitsui and of course the huge Fujitsu... there's plenty of software gorillas in Japan. Maybe the parent poster has just never needed a Nuclear Silo/Underground Railsystem/Maglev Train.
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by tezza 16y ago
As a London based person, the 'suddeness' of the interest in Deutsche strategy is palpable. Last years 'sick man' is now the healthiest man on the block:: IF the Keynsian stimulation favoured by America does not work. Further, there are mou
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by tezza 16y ago
I've been on 496 days and reading a while before I bothered to create a login. I think you can detect waves of: cheerleading -> group think -> counterexamples -> lots of couterexamples -> not so much group think T
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by tezza 16y ago
Handsets with Android are not free.
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by tezza 16y ago
" The million dollar question is why would anybody in their right mind do this?" A slice of Android sales revenue... Perhaps as high as US$1 per handset would be nice.
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by tezza 16y ago
I agree with your analysis... another factor I guess is that Google will want to ensure that Oracle cannot repeat this trick whenever Oracle wants in the future (breach of license, not re-infringement). My work has had bad experiences with
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by tezza 16y ago
I agree that counter suing is one tactic. Another one is that after all the denunciations and sabre-rattling, Google hand over a wad of cash to licence the technology and Oracle score a slice of Android sales. Merely the threat of future la
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by tezza 16y ago
As a possible weakening of the addiction classification, I'd hazard that what may seem as Addiction is actually just Fashion. Both Addiction and Fashion can be harmful... anorexia(addiction) and size-zero(fashion), but they are different. F
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by tezza 16y ago
Hi Patrick... I'd just wonder if it would be safe to say that A/B testing is a good tool..., but should be used in conjunction with other tools such as knowing-your-customer, intuition, expertise etc. I'm not in a space where I can A/B test
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by tezza 16y ago
Quad core Q5550 , 8GB ram, Vista x64 cygwin with extensive use of mintty Eclipse for everything 2 * 24" Monitors Microsoft X6 Keyboard Taskflash LED readout [I make this ;) ] Velociraptor 300GB + ~3TB of sundry disk space
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by tezza 16y ago
1. This stituation can work -- I've worked for many businesses as a coder where none of the owners can code. They've often been technology companies too. There's no reason this won't work. The normal difficulty of starting any business is m
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by tezza 16y ago
I seem to be a 'know about finance HN user'[1]. I work for an Agency Broker[2] in London but the knowledge really comes from: * How to Read the Financial Pages [3] * Money Week subscription [4] --------- [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/ite
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by tezza 16y ago
I've often thought the same. This should be easy as a greasemonkey script to save other people having to make changes to support it. --------------- EDIT: Out of curiosity I made up a javascript bookmarklet that seems to do the trick... ups
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by tezza 16y ago
My advice: Clone Cloud27 [1] and get an initial version for people to play with. Then fill out the more distributy bits later. ---- [1] http://cloud27.com/ its BSD licensed (IIRC) so should be good to clone/fork immediately source: http:
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by tezza 16y ago
Australia has its fair share too. I remember the Party Party Party Party... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party!_Party!_Party !
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by tezza 16y ago
The title is a little misleading IMHO. From reading the article it sounds like the term 'scraping' has been misused. Rather it seems like a static web catalogue was downloaded and cloned once off using a website downloader. . The way we use
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by tezza 16y ago
Large pension funds have Terms & Conditions which state what classes of debt/asset each fund is allowed to hold. These are often defined relative to the Rating Agency score. So when the rating changes (down), they are obliged to sell th
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by tezza 16y ago
Thanks for the code. It seems like the gig is restricted to invitation only 300 peeps. I look forward to seeing the conference and meeting some other UK based HNers.

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