ProblemFactory

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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> biggest price differences between them and smaller hosts such as Linode and DigitalOcean. I suspect that the smaller hosts' plans traffic quota is sold below their own cost - assuming (correctly) that the vast majority of customer
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
There is no secret trick or advantage to it. They buy the nicest car they can (barely) afford the monthly payments for, not one that makes most financial sense. > What about the PCP convinces them (rightly or wrongly) that they can affor
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> Someone needs to pay me to implement something that requires blockchain It's difficult to find something that requires a blockchain, because the unique distinguishing feature of blockchains is the lack of any trusted central aut
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
The difference is that in software, you can go very far into production with an AWS account and a few blog posts on devops. There is no need to hire a specialist in wiring server racks or negotiating traffic peering deals up front. All th
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
Is technology really the slow and expensive part of boring tunnels? To me it has always seemed that tunnels are expensive because: * Planning the traffic impact and how it interacts with other transport lanes, all the above-ground building
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
Anything is possible, but it gets much harder once the money is in circulation. If the hacker has time to buy socks & soap with the stolen funds, and convert some of it to USD on an exchange - then the soap merchant and exchange will
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
"Sustainable salaries" won't fix this issue, as real estate is a competitive market. If you double the salaries of everyone who works in Manhattan, you will still have the same number of people living near work, just paying m
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
My comment, and the comments above it are all about C-style languages (C, C++, C#, Java). Languages with very different syntax like Python are of course going to have different style preferences. Eg. Python doesn't have a ?: operator a
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
Ternary is the only option if you are using "B ? X : Y" as an expression, want to get the value of X or Y. If-else is the only option if you want to have multiple statements in a {} block, instead of only one function call. So it
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> If I get notices from pages/groups I dont care about anymore, I either unfollow or mute the next time their post annoys me. I do that as well, but I think it's extremely rare among Facebook users. Everyone else I know either:
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> If you have a page, Facebook wants to milk you, so they've got this weird algorithm that pushes your posts to only a small fraction of the page's followers, expecting you to start "promoting" them. While this does e
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
What are the realistic "extraordinary achievement" conditions of an O-1 visa? The information online makes it seem that it is for olympic medal, nobel prize and oscar winners.
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
It seems strange that Google would have trouble with EU VAT rules for developer products. They seem to handle it fine for consumer-facing products like the Play Store.
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
Reading the source of libraries I'm using has been a real eye-opener for me. Even from very good documentation you can only learn how to use it, not learn how to write something similar yourself. PyCharm is amazing help for it as wel
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
I think you could get 90% of the utility of semantic syntax tree diff by standard text diff + some simple rules. For example preferring to split on empty (whitespace-only) lines. Almost all languages and coding styles use empty lines as a &
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
VAT is just one source, but at 15-20% of government revenue, it is an important source. Most of it will be generated by business that physically happens in the country, and is unambiguously taxed there, but more and more of business is movi
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
It is somewhat necessary, to solve the problem of Amazon, Google, Apple and others selling everything via low-VAT countries like Luxembourg. But there would have been ways to make it much less painful to manage for small online businesses.
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
I have often thought of getting a part-time or virtual assistant. But my main concern is that to be effective, they would need full access to my email. GMail doesn't have any way to grant limited access (for example no permanent delete
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
In 2014, USD/EUR exchange rate was around 1.35-1.40. In 2017, it has been around 1.05-1.10. So assuming Apple originally prices things in dollars and converts for foreign markets, 1500 EUR in 2014 is the same price as 1900-2000 EUR tod
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> The main problem I heard with briandear's example is that people apparently didn't understand the coverage they had purchased. While that's true, a part of the reason is the complexity of policies, and exclusions for sit
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> You learned that people value effort over results. People still value results, but they expect the price of things to be vaguely related to the cost of materials + time + small profit margin. And in an efficient competitive market, pri
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
I think the argument is that people expect mobile and client-side web apps to continue working offline, and eventually sync and merge changes across clients. So you need a good solution for resolving inconsistent updates made by two offline
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> But there was no stipulation that the job needed to be in tech or anything. So the whole thing might be a total waste of time and you would still have to fork away a cut of your salary when you find a job as a kitchen hand or whatever.
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> Tell me how this is different from the rest of the student loan industry. My student loan is until I've paid it all back, or I reach 65, or I die. It adds a top up to my income tax, taking 9% of everything over £17kpa earnt. Stude
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> 137.4%(!) of the profits for companies How on Earth does that work? Companies have to pay all of their profit + more in taxes? Or is it some misleading figure which compares expenses like employment taxes to the profits?
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
"Uber is a play on self-driving cars" is a misleading but often repeated story. When Uber started and raised its first investment rounds, self-driving cars were too far away to be part of a business plan. I doubt the latest invest
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
The EU 14-day online returns is an extension of the older regulation against high-pressure sales tactics, like telephone sales, door-to-door sales, and booths on the street. It allows you to change your mind if you made an impulse purchase,
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
> > Choi sent forged wire transfer confirmations in order to induce WrkRiot employees to continue working for the company without being paid. > I don't get it. How long can you fool anyone with this? A couple of days at most?
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
I've seen this situation multiple times, and yes the developers involved were competent. They were even well-meaning, and wanted to build something for the benefit of the company, not just their resumes. I think the tendency to over-en
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by ProblemFactory 9y ago
Lowest-bid tenders are kind of like democracy - a terrible system, but the best we have invented so far. If someone is spending their own money, then going with a vendor that feels the most competent is going to deliver a better overall res

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