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by timv 12y ago
It's worth being aware that this can work both ways. I've worked with sales teams where "I need to hit target this month" was used as a cover story to offer a moderate discount to a buyer without creating (too much of) a
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by timv 12y ago
Except in this scenario described, there are no lines. *We don't have the concept of queues back here*
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by timv 12y ago
If you know what you are doing and already did it before, [...] you already know how much time it'll take. So you've estimated it then? If the argument is that we spend too much time producing detailed estimates that don't
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by timv 12y ago
In general, churches in Australia are not tax deductible. Some of the activities they perform may be, but that requires a relatively complex separation of accounts where one "business" is deductible, but the other is not. It can b
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by timv 12y ago
Is your "dream job" one where you are paid a pittance while the company owner makes a tidy profit from your endeavours? Many people will take a pay cut for their dream job, but very few are willing to be exploited in the process.
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by timv 12y ago
I once attempted to implement the Senate counting algorithm (mostly so I could force myself to truly understand it). I can say with great confidence that it is hard to implement correctly, and it would take more than a single external audit
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by timv 12y ago
That isn't an ARM box. http://www.asus.com/au/ASUS_Chromebox/Chromebox/specificatio... Intel® Core™ i7-4600U Processor or Intel® Core™ i3-4010U Processor or Intel® Celeron 2955U Processor
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by timv 12y ago
The positive statement would be "onlyFastForwardMerges=true" or "mergesMustBeFastForward=true"
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by timv 12y ago
My guess would be that they want to be able to share cookies across their sub-domains. That file is saying that we should effectively treat: education.vic.gov.au and courts.vic.gov.au as being independent entities that happen to both us
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by timv 12y ago
So, how long until I can register yo.no.soy/marinero ?
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by timv 12y ago
No but at least if I lose my regular job I don't lose the pay I've already received. If I'm paid $100k pa at Regular Corp and I get laid off after 1 year, then I keep the 100k I've already been paid. If I'm paid $5
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by timv 13y ago
Technically he wasn't the CEO of a non-profit. He was CEO of Mozilla Corp (for-profit) not Mozilla Foundation (non-profit). However, the majority of people will not know or care about the difference so, in matters such as these, the di
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by timv 13y ago
Absolutely. But that's a universal issue with JavaScript OO in that it provides no direct language support for encapsulation. Developers have, for the most part, learnt to be disciplined about not accessing "private" fields
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by timv 13y ago
> He's established both things. First, that class hierarchies are bad when they break encapsulation (he calls this the engineering problem with them). His exact quote was "Class hierarchies create brittle programs that are dif
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by timv 13y ago
It's a strawman because his argument is "avoid class hierarchies" but it is not "class hierarchies" that gives rise to this problem it's accessing the private state of another class. His concluding remarks abou
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by timv 13y ago
Likewise (running Firefox)
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by timv 13y ago
Yes, but indirectly. It was a relatively common theme on Kuro5hin (back when it had more than 2 stories per year...) that there was no K5 cabal (in reference to the backbone cabal) I was never a heavy usenet-er, so the K5 reference is the o
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by timv 13y ago
There is no HN cabal... (Sorry for the other-other-other-site reference)
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by timv 13y ago
Site Tour ( http://www.sitetour.com.au/ ), Sydney, Australia. We're looking for mid & senior level developers to join our team. Site Tour has an existing product that helps facilitate the selection and purchase of Ou
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by timv 13y ago
Unless, can you think of a Bitcoin related non-physical item that is NOT a currency exchange? An ebook about Bitcoin. (I would consider a digital download to be non-physical)
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by timv 13y ago
They're not selling the patents.
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by timv 13y ago
The problem is that it will ultimately lead to the market value for debt to drop even further. - Lender "A" is owed $20,000 by each of 2 people. - Debt buyer "B" offers to buy them for $1,000 each. - Debtor "C"
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by timv 13y ago
Discard is fundamentally flawed. Because the service does not provide a response the client cannot reliably determine whether the data was successfully discarded. Without a response there's the possibility that your data could be lost
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by timv 13y ago
But unless you read every article that hits the front page, titles are important. Titles are how I decide which articles to read, and often the original title doesn't explain why the article should/might be considered interestin
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by timv 13y ago
Except in this case (original article) it was an executable inside a zip file. In the normal case, unzipping a file on linux will result in the executable bit being restored if it was included on the original file. This is normally what you
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by timv 13y ago
In Australia here, and I knew exactly what he meant. I guess it just depends on whether you've done much tree-work. (I'm ex-SES in an area with lots of National Parks/State Recreation Areas)
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by timv 13y ago
They must not, however, be given authority over who to hire and fire It's not obvious to me that this is what actually happened here. I worked for many years at an organisation that had a similar policy - if I wanted to hire someone
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by timv 13y ago
> Well, there are several reports from HN users in this thread that describe situations in which it could allegedly occur Which makes the detectors useless as an interrogation tool. If the alarm sounds, then check the person for explos
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by timv 13y ago
Well it's a fairly big jump from " First and foremost, don’t worry -- your photos are safe! " to " [In one month] all photos and data will be permanently deleted " I can't imagine there are many uses who feel l
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by timv 13y ago
Well, in that case you're still storing it, you're just letting the the db store it for you. But - when the issue here is the question of the reliability of the implementation of the canonicalisation function, having it done once

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