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by tow21 14y ago
If only there were some way to mirror submodules or other third party repos to your own servers without needing github. Oh wait, this isn't svn.
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by tow21 14y ago
No, that's not true. Where a company is domiciled has nothing to do with these regulations - they apply to any company which has users in the EU. And yes, they will apply in a slightly different form as interpreted to each member state. And
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by tow21 14y ago
For 99% of use cases on the web, you'll probably manage to get away with the W3 subset: http://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime which avoids most of the awkward corners, and for which a parser is a bit easier to write.
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by tow21 15y ago
Well, as a programmer * whose father is an academic lawyer * who has actually developed software for drafting and reviewing legal documents within parliamentary procedure I can tell you that all the above is entirely true. In any case, the
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by tow21 15y ago
London/UK, on-site Timetric ( http://timetric.com ) are looking for a Javascript engineer. We're trying to make the world a better place by making data more accessible, and we believe modern web technologies are the best way to do that. The
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by tow21 15y ago
Feature request: multipart/related attachments please, not just multipart/alternative. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIME#Related Makes for much nicer display of email attachments in some clients.
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by tow21 15y ago
I'm not advocating using them long term, I'm advocating using them to get yourself off the ground. There's no setup cost, and integration is fairly trivial. It almost doesn't matter whether you can get your money down from Paypal. It matter
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by tow21 15y ago
With all due respect and without being snarky, your steps are wrong. Try these ones: 1. Register a business (Ltd, LLC, etc) 2. Open a Business Bank Account 3. Implement Paypal to get yourself up and running, 4. Prove that there's a market f
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by tow21 15y ago
Thanks. After reading the ICO's guidance, so it seems. I was, in fact entirely wrong. As someone elsethread pointed out, if this is taken seriously, people will just start browser fingerprinting. That at least means that the information is
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by tow21 15y ago
Someone correct me if I'm entirely wrong, but I thought the point of the law was to stop third-party cookies being used to track users. That is, if you want to track your users - that's fine, use as many cookies as you like and don't ask
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by tow21 15y ago
I think GoSquared ( http://gosquared.com ) have something of this flavour of interaction as well.
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by tow21 16y ago
(Co-founder butting in here!) Also, we're generally always interested in people into data visualization and the UX around it - come and chat to us <jobs@timetric.com> if that's your sort of thing!
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by tow21 16y ago
Have you tried asking? I've done this in the past with jobs for which I was not accepted. Some were happy to, some weren't, but where they did it was useful. And as an employer now, I'm generally happy to share useful feedback. But I'll usu
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by tow21 16y ago
Presumably Jython would be pretty easy to get running, and you can run eg Django on Jython: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/jython/
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by tow21 16y ago
API complexity - just as much as UI complexity - represents a host of different code paths in your software that you need to manage. You need to make sure all these code paths work; and you need to make sure they don't interact in unexpecte
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by tow21 16y ago
"Google's board and executives are legally obligated to maximize shareholder value. Shareholders can sue otherwise." Common fallacy. No they're not, and no they can't. See, eg http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1013744
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by tow21 16y ago
Actually, in the UK, banks are pretty much the only way of getting a merchant account, see: http://www.businesslink.gov.uk/bdotg/action/detail?type=RESO... (sorry for shitty URL) The only non-bank merchant accounts you can get are Amex &#
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by tow21 16y ago
Link to the original story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/sep/22/timetric-fin...
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Statistics Editor of FT joins London startup(blog.timetric.com)
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by tow21 16y ago
"Be that as it may, can you see that it's legitimate for a musician to want to make, record, and sell music - not an associated industry of products?" It's legitimate to want any sort of business model to work. But if it doesn't work, com
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by tow21 16y ago
And now I won't be able to use the same browser for both personal gmail & work gmail any more. Unless I use multiple-sign-on, which comes with a whole host of caveats, including no offline gmail. This will not make life easier.
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by tow21 16y ago
Haven't had a chance to have more than a very brief look so far; and I don't have any apps in mind just yet. But: 1) massive thumbs up for good use of HATEOS :-) Too many people miss it, and it makes writing clients much easier in my experi
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by tow21 16y ago
Not particularly Zeno's paradox-y, but yes. You're trying to stick together big balls of protons and neutrons that wobble about under all the internal stresses and strains, which are stabilized by the surface tension of the nucleus. It's re
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by tow21 16y ago
App Engine requires you to code your app in a particular way to work on their platform, and that way will (to a large extent) only work on App Engine. This is true, but it does make for a very nice deployment story; and Ian Bicking's silv
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by tow21 16y ago
In other words, Git's abstraction is leaky No, it means you're using the wrong abstraction. As you change your codebase, files are modified. To the untrained eye, it looks like this a simple linear progression of history, and you just wan
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by tow21 16y ago
nitpick: melodiousness != malodourousness I think I'd love to be surrounded by negligent melodiousness, it sounds delightful.
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by tow21 16y ago
I think there's probably an interesting overlap between security theatre and increased retail opportunity in airports. If I were a major airport retailer, I'd be lobbying hard for increased security screening - bored people forced to hang a
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by tow21 16y ago
"Why would you want to start a data-driven startup?" In our case ( http://timetric.com ) - it was at least in part due to having spent several years beavering away trying to build products for the management of scientific data, before dis
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by tow21 16y ago
People reading HN at work are unlikely to make their colleagues feel uncomfortable. People looking at (image-based) porn at work are extremely likely to make at least some of their colleagues feel uncomfortable. That's not cool. It doesn't
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by tow21 17y ago
Congratulations to Alexis et al!

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