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by wheels 12y ago
This superficially is about C++, but in practice it's a collection of good advice for APIs in general: http://doc.qt.digia.com/qq/qq13-apis.html
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by wheels 12y ago
From what the article says, it seems to imply that simply being in the KDE accounts file (a list of everyone who's able to commit to KDE) puts one in the "KDE" camp. That's almost certainly a bit misleading since many o
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by wheels 12y ago
As others have said, this is pretty out of touch with the reality of homelessness. It assumes that homelessness is primarily a condition caused by laziness. While that's occasionally true, it's such a small minority that it&#x27
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by wheels 12y ago
There are at least 4 YC alumni in Berlin off the top of my head. Get in touch if you guys are looking for some on-the-ground support at some point in the future.
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by wheels 13y ago
This is something that's repeated here, but I have a feeling mostly by folks that are backing up small amounts of mostly static data. Even after de-duplication and compression, my company stores about 400 GB of data with Tarsnap. Tars
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by wheels 13y ago
This comment really makes no sense. We have no idea where we'd start on terraforming or if it's even possible. It'd probably take a century or two just to come up with a tenable plan if we started throwing an unlimited amoun
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by wheels 13y ago
> Aside from apologizing profusely, though, I don't know what Salesforce does here. They're a big enough company that "throw money at the problem" wouldn't be an especially difficult fix. They could just apol
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Berlin Bans Short-Term Vacation Apartments for Tourists(spiegel.de)
6 points by wheels 13y ago|0 comments
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Old Style Fullscreen for Emacs in Homebrew(scotchi.net)
1 points by wheels 13y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 13y ago
This is one of those cases where the title of the post really needs to be changed. As posted on HN it's totally false. (It's currently "Bank Of America Promoting Bitcoin To Its Business Customers" in case it's lat
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Berlin Startups: SoundCloud Blazes Lonely Trail to Top(spiegel.de)
1 points by wheels 13y ago|0 comments
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by wheels 13y ago
On the at-will thing, in addition to it being easier if the company has demonstrable financial problems as someone else mentioned, one thing that makes it less of an issue is that usually when you start at a company in Germany you're g
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by wheels 13y ago
But the rents in Berlin have also risen fantastically in recent years. Those numbers are about 50% higher than when I moved to the city 7 years ago.
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by wheels 13y ago
> and the newer Rackspace Cloud stuff We've used Rackspace Cloud and Linode for several years and found Rackspace Cloud performance to be significantly worse than Linode for CPU and IO. Like, not even close. Prices are about the
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by wheels 13y ago
> Guess who can not evade taxes through complicated international arrangements? Startups. Startups, almost by definition, are generally not profitable. Almost all revenue above costs will be more or less immediately reinvested into gr
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by wheels 13y ago
> a terrible male-to-female ratio San Francisco's male to female ratio 1.008 [1]. It must be rough finding someone when for every 251 males there are only 249 females. But, in fact, even that's an understatement. If y
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Build your business strategy around things that aren't changing(theequitykicker.com)
2 points by wheels 13y ago|1 comments
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by wheels 13y ago
Implicit in your objection are two assumptions I suspect are false: • That not having access to technology at home for one year will have a meaningful impact on digital fluency 10+ years later. • That in the technology vacuum no other skill
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Disagreeing with Bruce Schneier: More Crypto is Not the Answer(continuations.com)
36 points by wheels 13y ago|30 comments
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by wheels 13y ago
My point, perhaps too veiled, was that as the amount of work that humanity is required to do approaches zero, so too does the likelihood that humanity remains the dominant species.
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by wheels 13y ago
That's ok. The other animals in the zoo won't have to work either.
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by wheels 13y ago
I am. My girlfriend is not. We both got our visas in Germany. (Her case, however, was slightly different than the norm since she went from an academic work visa for post-docs, to a Blue Card, to permanent residence.) A Syrian would certa
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by wheels 13y ago
It's not at all surprising for me that the German embassy in Syria is swamped at the moment and that makes things more difficult. However, things are pretty different when you're applying as a student vs. applying as a software de
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by wheels 13y ago
The tricky thing is probably going to be that I expect the German embassy in Syria is totally swamped. If you can get a visitors' visa for Germany, it would probably be easier to apply for it in person here. When applying in Germany,
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by wheels 13y ago
There's a lot of bad information here on Berlin. For context, I'm a non-EU software developer that lives in Berlin and now has permanent residence, as is my girlfriend. Germany is actually one of the easiest countries to get an i
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by wheels 13y ago
That's been available for 4 years: http://www.shopify.com/technology/3032322-new-feature-metafi...
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A Chemist Explains Why Gold Beat Out Lithium, Osmium, Einsteinium(npr.org)
2 points by wheels 13y ago|0 comments
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Berlin start-ups: Cool and commerce coming together?(bbc.com)
2 points by wheels 13y ago|0 comments
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The 10 Most Underused ActiveRecord::Relation Methods(blog.mitchcrowe.com)
1 points by wheels 13y ago|0 comments
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Fab.com will lay off 100 staffers in Europe in shift away from flash sales(internetretailer.com)
2 points by wheels 13y ago|0 comments

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