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by wlievens 15y ago
I've found an interesting project and a very nice customer through freelancer.com
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by wlievens 15y ago
Excellent point. I bet we (many of us professional software developers) are so used to the concept of man-hours that we may be grossly misinterpreting the 1300 hours figure. It could well be up to 1300 times 30 people . Spreading 1300 manh
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by wlievens 15y ago
Artistic freedom, perhaps, if it suits the rhyme.
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by wlievens 15y ago
That's a rather vague allusion to draw such a strong conclusion.
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by wlievens 15y ago
Too bad there's so much spam in there, along the lines of "I predict that this week I will go to the gym". Should be moderated more intensely to make it more interesting.
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by wlievens 15y ago
> Tags have always been, until recently, only added when a new behavior was to be implemented (ex: canvas, video, etc). Not really. <th> versus <td> comes to mind.
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by wlievens 15y ago
bgarbiak does have a valid point, in that today there are few places on earth where "I'm a socialist" implies the first meaning rather than the second.
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by wlievens 15y ago
I think the term "socialist" has a different connotation in the US than in Europe. In Europe, a third of all voters (roughly) vote for parties that call themselves socialist, while these parties are really center-left, in all likeliness qui
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by wlievens 15y ago
> When asked to come up with a black entrepreneur, he has to think through the entire list, checking their skin color. Heh, reminds me of database column indexing.
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by wlievens 15y ago
One time, on my (free) browser game, we banned a user for gross misbehaviour. A few mails went back and forth between him and me, ending up with him threatening to "sue us into the ground", and his dad was "a lawyer" so he was sure he'd win
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by wlievens 15y ago
A timeout would possibly be after an engagement time that means "probably read the whole thing", e.g. 60 seconds.
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by wlievens 15y ago
> What happens if we, as developers, just keep on using it? IE6 happens, I guess
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by wlievens 15y ago
Somewhat like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractal_compression
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by wlievens 15y ago
Would be something in an embedded context.
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by wlievens 15y ago
Mine has a LED that projects the ETA on the floor. That's neat.
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by wlievens 15y ago
11.6 bn dollars - about €96 million That was hilarous!
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by wlievens 15y ago
Is this another protocol buffer implementation, or am I misunderstanding that?
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by wlievens 15y ago
Most stores and restaurants acecpt VISA in Belgium, and our banking system works as described above.
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by wlievens 15y ago
Sure, but I think that's accounted for when you see the absolute number of engineering/cs graduates drop. Also, I would expect that being immersed in technology would at least stimulate curiosity in how it works , but that doesn't seem to
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by wlievens 15y ago
> Old ideas put together in a new way AKA innovation
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by wlievens 15y ago
This seems to be a trend, at least in my perception: the more universal technology (the internet, mobile devices, ...) gets and the younger people become immersed in technology, the less they seem interested in how it works. The shortage
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by wlievens 15y ago
Yes, the dark current on that camera would be substantial.
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by wlievens 15y ago
I cannot upvote this enough. If anything, programming reinforces the idea in my mind that complexity arises, emerges, from the infinite combinations of atoms of simplicity.
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by wlievens 15y ago
You need to be a lot more specifc. Before or after taxes? Count benefits? Bonuses? Deferred payment? Freelance or employer? ...
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by wlievens 15y ago
IIRC there's a similar section in Microserfs but I could be mixing up things.
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by wlievens 15y ago
A statement that may have some degree of truth to it (disclaimer: I own at least 4 of these products and indirectly worked on them), but strange to rant about it on HN of all places.
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by wlievens 15y ago
For those who have read the Commonwealth Saga: is Ozzie=Sergey and Nigel=Larry or the other way around?
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by wlievens 15y ago
If it's POSTed anywhere, the backend gets the data and can process it. I don't understand your question.
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by wlievens 15y ago
To people complaining about the form factor: most cameras look like this . It's only consumer cameras (low and high end) that have the typical form you can hold in your hands comfortably. Industrial cameras for machine vision often have th
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by wlievens 15y ago
But then you're adapting against yourself, or some limited set of demo bots. It's not the same as out in the wild.

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