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by valdiorn 13y ago
A discussion about working out... on hacker news. I'm not sure such a discussion would net you very good information :) Agree with Weatherlight, 7 minutes is much to short to do anything of value. Even if you did a round of Tabata trai
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by valdiorn 13y ago
Except you're not asking Bjorks mom for the money. Rather, like a brute debt collector for the mafia, you go for her extended kin, her great-great-grandmother, an uncle or her 4th cousin, you know, people she's related to but has
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by valdiorn 13y ago
Another Icelander here. Can confirm. This utopian story of Iceland jailing bankers and letting the banks fail is, in one very simple word: BULLSHIT.
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by valdiorn 13y ago
I just moved to London, less than a month ago. I decided that I was willing to pay a premium for my <25 minute commute to work (close to Tottenham Court Road). And as long as other people think the same, rent will go up. Pretty standard
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by valdiorn 13y ago
I made these stats up in about 30 seconds. I'm guessing they'r e not that far from the norm. Even if the average use was only 1 hour, or 30 minutes, and the average pay for half of what I assumed, they should still be losing mon
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by valdiorn 13y ago
Let assume that the 100.000 users all use Office for 2 hours a day on average. Now let's assume that MS Word will give you a 1% performance increase over LibreOffice... just one percent, that's 72 seconds a day. 72 seconds spent w
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by valdiorn 13y ago
They're going to turn real-life player stories into a TV show :) http://www.ccpgames.com/en/public-relations/press-releases/a...
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by valdiorn 13y ago
No, it's Microsoft murdering its flagship product by enforcing retarded rules with WinRT and the Windows Store. I love C# and I love working on Windows. But no way I'm going to pay money for there "privilege" of publish
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by valdiorn 13y ago
Your employers actually track your StackOverflow karma??
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by valdiorn 13y ago
The guy just looks like a sociopathic wanna-be hacker. Siðblindur aumingi.
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by valdiorn 13y ago
No, start button is just the very beginning. Whoever thought a full-screen calculator app was going to be a good idea was an idiot.
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by valdiorn 13y ago
"Finally, the officials baffled Jana submitted a printout of the entire Facebook correspondence with their host-father. " Maybe something is lost in translation, but could the officials just have received the correspondence from t
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by valdiorn 13y ago
As a non american; Thank you for caring!
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by valdiorn 13y ago
We take immigrants as long as you're not a refugee. Have money? WELCOME!! Have a big family and no education? We rent a jet and send you home http://bit.ly/18jpmj1
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by valdiorn 13y ago
To be fair, Ögmundur is now out of office and this is as good as dead. The porn filter was a political suicide for him and his entire party. ... I'm still ashamed to have voted for that dickbag in the previous elections.
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by valdiorn 13y ago
In this day an age, the inability to compute two things at once is a pretty major flaw, if you ask me.
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by valdiorn 13y ago
I'd like to offer my opinion as someone who LOATHES the SaaS model. The first and only thing you need to consider is who you're selling to (power systems engineering businesses, as you said) and what they do. They make power systems that ne
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by valdiorn 13y ago
> I initially discarded financial as I assumed it would be long hours and legacy code (and I don't dig suits) but a recent oconversation mention that it may be normal hours (37.5h/week), very decent pay and benefits and interesting tech
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by valdiorn 13y ago
Not a Silicon Valley guy, but that sounds really sad. :( Can I ask, why would you be willing to move there just to live out of your car/hostel? Is Silicon Valley really that awesome?
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by valdiorn 13y ago
My Youtube history for today includes: Minimal Techno: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll90vpeeA4c House: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSxLX5y265Y Indian Tabla beats: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ3avjVpmec Ambient / Experimental
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by valdiorn 13y ago
You mean The Pirate Bay isn't legal?! Oh boy, I feel stupid. Can I also plead "legitimate ignorance"?
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by valdiorn 13y ago
The funny (sad?) thing is that the rest of the world is terrified of the US government abducting them or extraditing them with political pressure for trumped up charges of terrorism or copyright infringement. Those people plea for help from
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by valdiorn 13y ago
I work in a bank and we're currently looking for a new all-encompassing loan and leasing system. The primary candidate, from Sopra, is written in COBOL and runs on an IBM mainframe. ... yup, people buy new COBOL software even today. PS: I w
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by valdiorn 13y ago
This is actually something I've been toying with for some time. I have a pretty decent poker bot I've built from scratch, but I need a way of interacting with "real" poker clients, and configuring screen scrapers is BORING. Do you recommend
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by valdiorn 13y ago
Yes, and they got sent right back home before they could spell the name of their employer. And the supreme court just trashed Mastercard for denying service to Wikileaks and its payment provider, DataCell. The verdict includes daily fines t
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by valdiorn 14y ago
ehm, I would disagree. The key signature tells you what key the piece is in, period. What the particular notes in that key do (their role, as you put it) is a property of that key.
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by valdiorn 14y ago
I'm not sure how I feel about this. This all seems like such a trivial issue, but now TWO people have lost their job over a bad joke. Adria should have apologized, and that should have been that. Of course, if she insisted on not apologiz
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by valdiorn 14y ago
It's very relevant for some types of programs. For web development, unless you're building the next Twitter, not so important... ...now if you're building a chess engine, that's a different story. (I just take chess as an example as it's my
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by valdiorn 14y ago
"Journalists can use drones to report on disasters such as hurricanes" Good luck flying a drone in hurricane-strength winds.
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by valdiorn 14y ago
Would a terrorist really use the word terrorist? This society is way too fucking paranoid.

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