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by timv 13y ago
I'm not sure how they can avoid storing both. They need to store the verbatim username in order to know how to display the username in the UI. They need to store the canonical username in order to efficiently know whether a given canon
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by timv 13y ago
If you do pivot, there might be enough return in acting as a broker (/lead generator) for selling financial products to your users. Once they're paid down their loans (and even before then) you should have a pretty good picture of their fin
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by timv 13y ago
I agree that $19 is too low. That page is trying to convince me that I will get ~20 comments from smart & knowledgeable people at a cost per comment of <$1. I simply don't believe that pitch. Anyone who is willing to do that for &#6
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by timv 13y ago
It's safe to say that you may not be the target demographic for the site I think that's almost certainly the case.
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by timv 13y ago
I have a prototype (only partially implemented) on a source translator from java 8 (lambdas) to java 7. https://bitbucket.org/tvernum/syntactic/wiki/ConvertingJava8... Happy to discuss if you're interested. Drop me an email - User: tim
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by timv 13y ago
Leaving aside the fact that I wouldn't trust a newspaper to for the technical details of something like this, nothing in the article contradicts what jeremyjh said. In that case, the ATM was disconnected from the accounting system and all
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by timv 13y ago
Sydney (Darlinghurst), Australia SiteTour is looking for a full-time developer to join our team. We're a small startup - currently it's 2 full-timers (1 business, 1 tech [me]) plus some freelancers, advisors and partners. We're building a p
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by timv 13y ago
Lack of transparency I guess. If I enter a crap beer, say "heineken", I get told "no", which is fine. If I enter random characters, say "rthjkejbfkel", I get told "no", which is not fine, because it means you are just saying no to anything
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by timv 13y ago
My immediate reaction is "Should I trust this fucking website?" Based on my 2 minutes of using it, that's a very firm no.
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by timv 13y ago
> Maven assumes there is one right way to build for everyone A lot of people have this opinion (and prefer Ant, Gradle or something else as a result). I do not share this view. I like that Maven is opinionated about things like proje
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by timv 13y ago
Heh, I have the totally opposite view... Maven is perfectly fine for small projects, but a totally waste of time at the large scale. If your project is a few hundred classes, that use some-popular-web-framework and some-orm , and get pac
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by timv 13y ago
There's some useful comments from last time this popped on to the HN front page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1426211
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by timv 13y ago
Sure, credit cards aren't a good product for every person, but your dismissal of them is fairly shallow. Not all credit cards have annual fees, and those that do usually offer benefits to the card holder that the card holder has determined
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by timv 13y ago
Likewise, I ditched Dojo for jQuery because of the docs.
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by timv 13y ago
people really only use credit cards for online purchases or when they're already living beyond their means If I'm parsing what you're saying correctly, then that doesn't match my experience. Most people I know will use a credit card at an
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by timv 14y ago
Better technical content is the better choice for a technical conference. That's only partly true, and even that part depends on what you mean by "better technical content" It also depends on whose perspective you're measuring from. If a
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by timv 14y ago
@rotub, if you care "Bald Hill" is where the Hang-gliders launch from Stanwell Tops. And going down that hill on your skateboard after having already travelled (I'm guessing) ~50km for ~8hours, is impressive and totally crazy. https://maps
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by timv 14y ago
Trains from Wollongong to Sydney are pretty reliable, so I'm guessing he did that.
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by timv 14y ago
Why only the 71? 71 people got no notification that the charges were coming. That's terrible. As far as I can tell, everyone else got an email saying "we're about to charge you $99 unless you ask us not to". Not responding != authorizing If
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by timv 14y ago
My "go to" answer in that situation is to describe the kind of role I'm looking for, and then give some reasons why I think their company matches that. If I'm wrong, and they're a terrible match, then I don't want them to hire me.
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by timv 14y ago
> she was just fired herself over her actions. Do you actually know what she was fired over? All I've seen in a statement that her employment was terminated. For all I know the situation went like this: SendGrid: We think you handled th
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by timv 14y ago
Wow, your delivery gut checks whether you're there? Most of them have decided that coming to the door is too much work and just drop the "come collect your parcel" card in the letter box.
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by timv 14y ago
The article's claim is that the inheritance model in WebKit is too complex for the compiler to be able to inline it. the extensive use of dynamic class inheritance prevents the compiler from efficiently inlining short functions as necessar
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by timv 14y ago
If only HP had obtained the rights to BeOS when they picked up WebOS (via Palm). Then they would have a solution to this. http://www.bebox.nu/bebooks/BeBookR5/The%20Kernel%20Kit/Syst...
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by timv 14y ago
Arguing over the terms is avoiding the crux of the issue. Because (much of) the income for the site came from affiliate links, her revenue was closely tied to what she wrote. And not simply in the "I have to write interesting/helpful things
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by timv 14y ago
I had a medically prescribed steroid (cortisone) injection in my shoulder to overcome an injury. It's pretty common http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortisone#Effects_and_uses Having said that, there are different types of steroids and not al
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by timv 14y ago
I certainly think that your experiment has value - my apologies if it came across any other way. - If nothing else, it shows that there is a difference, and the day you pick for your newsletter matters. - It seems that it would be helpful f
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by timv 14y ago
When I work from home (and I did it exclusively for 8 months of last year) I ended up talking to my wife (my 1 yo daughter wouldn't stand still for long enough). My wife is a social worker by training, so it was pretty rare (though not unhe
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by timv 14y ago
It looks like the conclusion is overly simplistic (but it's a blog entry based on a single experiment, so it's quite reasonable to limit it to simple conclusions) If I understand the data correctly, Sunday has a low open rate, but of those
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by timv 14y ago
They also have a fundamental cultural problem, and don't appear to have recognised it. In short, they went for ~2 years with documentation that advertised features that the implementation didn't have, while receiving a string of support iss

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