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by wcummings 9y ago
Could be that people were buying WoW gold with stolen cards and trying to "fence" it before the chargeback.
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by wcummings 9y ago
He can dry his tears with his giant piles of money.
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by wcummings 9y ago
I thought dirty NIFs were available since like 17 or 18. I know I wrote some code that used them a couple of years ago.
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by wcummings 9y ago
You might be right but I'm js you do have some recourse. You can file a complaint and your leisure. It only takes a couple complaints to trigger a fine.
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by wcummings 9y ago
>In the US you constantly deal with the "I don't take cards" bullshit Sounds like a free ride, to me. In my city cabs have to accept credit cards by law . This means if the machine is broken, the cab is unfit for service.
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by wcummings 9y ago
A taxi-ride futures exchange
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by wcummings 9y ago
I never used Uber when I lived in NYC, its actually more work than hailing a cab there IMO.
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by wcummings 9y ago
You can just tip 20% every time, its done through the app so its not really any more work, maybe one additional finger tap when you're rating the driver.
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by wcummings 9y ago
I think most restaurant staff split tips, so no one will be paid less than anyone else if they get low tips.
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by wcummings 9y ago
Can't you just run your app on an async wsgi server, like gunicorn w/ gevent workers? You could use whatever web framework you like so long as it supports WSGI (Flask, django etc).
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by wcummings 9y ago
Alcohols intoxicating effects were almost certainly discovered before its usefulness as a disinfectant.
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by wcummings 9y ago
Animals will eat "rotting" fruit to catch a buzz, there was never a time "before alcohol".
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by wcummings 9y ago
>I wonder why this happens? The UK is a much smaller market, so it could be easier to roll out new products?
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by wcummings 9y ago
The cycle paths aren't there by accident, they represent a decades of investment cycling.
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by wcummings 9y ago
Basically. England, too.
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by wcummings 9y ago
What happens if I hover over a goism function and hit M-.? Do I get dumped into the go source?
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by wcummings 9y ago
IMO we should simultaneously introduce a new dollar coin and a two-dollar coin. Once you have two-dollar coins, you're able to conveniently make small purchases exclusively using coinage.
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by wcummings 9y ago
Yeah, it's a commodity, Lyft and Uber are perfectly interchangeable ime. I just call them all "cabs".
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by wcummings 9y ago
So what projects need a Boyer Moore implementation?
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by wcummings 9y ago
There is gunna be sooooooo much fraud. It's a huge problem with traditional display ads no reason this would be different.
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by wcummings 9y ago
I feel the opposite way. WL seems fairly harmful, but Assange is a hacker, he's one of us, taking on state-level actors. I kinda have to root for him a bit...
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by wcummings 9y ago
>A warrant application filed in the investigation detailed how “pickup operators”—middlemen who specialized in accepting and aggregating the transfers—would team with Western Union agents willing to overlook fake IDs in exchange for brib
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by wcummings 9y ago
M-x describe-mode
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by wcummings 9y ago
Right-to-work hobbles unions, not exactly "restoring the balance", if there ever was one.
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by wcummings 9y ago
I don't think there is parity with how frequently men and women are objectified, as you imply. I'm also sure that like most people their job choice is mostly to do with needing to make money, not their personal attitudes about sex
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by wcummings 9y ago
How much revenue does slack generate?
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by wcummings 9y ago
This guy also invented the McRib, which I think is really his true legacy.
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by wcummings 9y ago
Next time you are fixing a bug, write a failing test which reproduces the bug before making any other changes. Don't overthink it, automated tests should save you time. Write them to replace tedious manual tests. If you weren't go
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by wcummings 9y ago
Don't harsh their mellow, HN thinks driverless vehicles are going to "solve" mass transit. As if the driver were the biggest problem.
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by wcummings 9y ago
John Oliver is wrong about a lot of things. His show is too inconsistent for me, sometimes it's really sloppy.

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