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by toadi 13y ago
Lucky they at least give you the choice. In Belgium we are obliged to use the modem from the provider. We don't need to pay for it (but I assume it's paid inside the monthly subscription I pay). Befoe this was not a problem. I con
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by toadi 13y ago
When I ran my own company as technical co-founder. I wrote POC's to demonstrate something was possible or what I wanted to habe built. I had no issue in throwing away all this code. I didn't write production code. I fixed bugs or
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by toadi 13y ago
looks like a lifestream which were hot a few years ago. One I used was yongfook's sweetcron: http://lifestreamblog.com/interview-with-yongfook-on-sweetcr...
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by toadi 13y ago
Been programming perl for over 8 years. Moved on like most of the perl developers to ruby :)
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by toadi 13y ago
This is ethical and that is not ethical doesn't exist as discussion: "ethics does not provide rules like morals but it can be used as a means to determine moral values" The way it should be stated it's against my moral v
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by toadi 13y ago
Well this would be my comment too. Many VC backed companies kill lifestyle businesses which could be profitable. this would give joy to the owners of the business and their users. But these VC backed companies kill these small businesses AN
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by toadi 13y ago
In the military you are trained to go into extraordinary conditions. The reasons for this exercise is to stay out of the extraordinary 'issues'.
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by toadi 13y ago
Well hopefully the google car comes available. No DUI anymore because you're not driving the car. If it's all automated there are no traffic violations anymore. So the system won't be used for this. I'm all for safe traf
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by toadi 13y ago
Well what he said still stands: "ou have the discipline and endurance to finish things, even or especially if they don't appeal to you all the way."
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by toadi 13y ago
Write a blog howto setup a wordpress website. That's something new. Where I'm from a college degree doesn't mean you are good in something. But show you are someone who can follow through on something instead of being a quitt
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by toadi 13y ago
Don't see what 'radical' change there is to move to another social site. Besides my grandparents are using it so it's not cool.
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by toadi 13y ago
Well avoid the questioning where you have been by requesting a new travel passport? It's clean so no questions asked?
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by toadi 13y ago
Using chrome or Firefox will give you a big fat warning when you strip the https with a man in the middle attack for google and facebook.
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by toadi 13y ago
For Debit cards payment scheme's are already joined on 1 EMV chip. The terminal configuration decides which one is used. To join issuers on 1 card I agree cross-bank cooperation will never happen. Credit cards are divided by payment sc
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by toadi 13y ago
During the prohibition this was a bit different.
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by toadi 13y ago
I think you're correct. The title confused met with the content. It's all about transferring money from one place to another and a way to cash it out and use it. It's actually still "black" money because it's n
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by toadi 13y ago
I think for games the challenge is not in the technology anymore. But in the gameplay and making a game that's compelling. I used to play games on a commodore which only showed pixels. I remember playing pirates and feeling like a real
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by toadi 13y ago
This happens all the time. It's easy to make decisions if you now all the variables post factum. Sometimes you make decisions without all the knowledge. For people analyzing the lessons learned it's easy...
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by toadi 13y ago
Maybe it's not which one is beter over another. Who is beter at sales, marketing and networking. Sometimes soft skills are as or more important then your technical superiority?
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by toadi 13y ago
Never thought someone would mention Geto Boys on HN. besides my commodores and other computer related paraphernalia brings back youth memories.
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by toadi 13y ago
Sometimes whie trying to explain the problem to someone else. I find the solution myself. So maybe after the intial 15 minutes try to explain it.
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by toadi 13y ago
It's not only transactions. It's battling fraud. Mitigating financial risks. A boo boo is not that we are offline but also merchants losing money.
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by toadi 13y ago
Difference between apple and sun is that apple is a consumer product. Companies make cost effective decisions. Consumers emotional factors.
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by toadi 13y ago
Actually the premium prices paid for apple products makes me expect it's perfect. I'm nog going to pay for a beta product that improves at those prices!
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by toadi 13y ago
Makes me think of breaking bad outside of US: Sir you have cancer. Oh no I have to cook meth and sell it. But no Sir health care will pay for your treatment. The end. http://christopherkeelty.com/pop-culture/breaking-ba
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by toadi 13y ago
Indeed there is a lot of overhead in Fraude detection and avoiding and PCI compliance. This is a big cost in payments. It's all about financial risk mitigation. A small bug or issue can have severe financial consequences! For the party
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by toadi 13y ago
don't even understand what value I will get out of it. No examples, no explanation? Ok e-commerce... and? what's different with http://www.drupalcommerce.org/ or http://www.shopify.com/ or ... How
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by toadi 13y ago
I think there are to many variables to know for sure what the reason is people get addicted.
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by toadi 13y ago
Well I always like the following quote: “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” ― Bill Gates Luckily I don't aspire to be the next Elon Musk. So I don't read it as most to b
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by toadi 13y ago
I stopped reading just after seeing LoC is used as metric.

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