benjaminRRR

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by benjaminRRR 5y ago
It's interesting, as I have this conversation with my kids - ie actually let them know, there's actually no good reason for this, it's just a societal rule. However, I then try to explain that it is often advantageous to foll
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by benjaminRRR 6y ago
Hi Max_Mustermann, it's all in a mix of google docs and jsfiddle snippets. Once it's in a distributable format I will be sure to show HN. If you're keen to help flick me a message on twitter (even to just help structure thing
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by benjaminRRR 6y ago
Is there somewhere we can discuss? I'm helping out with a curriculum to help slum kids to (web) program in Thailand in English, but in a way that they can learn English as well. I'd welcome more help (project is going slow as I&#x
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by benjaminRRR 7y ago
If there's one thing we do a reasonable job on it's multicity. Link in bio.
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by benjaminRRR 7y ago
I bought this guy for the office - works well https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00TH3OW4Q
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by benjaminRRR 9y ago
This is a very good point. Unlike other sports - when you push you can be hurt badly, but ultimately learn from your mistake, proximity wingsuit is one-mistake-one-kill.
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by benjaminRRR 10y ago
There are both upstream problems (hiring the wrong people) and downstream problems (having process to catch garbage before it gets into mainline). You need both as you will inevitably make a bad hire somewhere along the way. For downstream
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Firefox and Tor release urgent update for 0-day that’s under active attack(arstechnica.com)
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by benjaminRRR 10y ago
SkyScanner is not an agency, they use other players to provide the content and fulfil the product so they'd have no use for ITA.
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by benjaminRRR 10y ago
Good resource, I just posted for an opening with our team in Bangkok.
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by benjaminRRR 10y ago
I went back to sublime as I had too many stability issues with Atom. You can throw megs of data at Sublime (if needed) and it absorbs it, Atom grinds to a painful death.
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Why it's scary that Uber is ferrying cans of Coke around London and(businessinsider.com.au)
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by benjaminRRR 10y ago
Jetabroad (Thailand) | Software Engineers (multiple) | Bangkok, Thailand | Onsite | Full-Time | Visa / Work-Permit / Relocation | Airfares are hard, we tackle the hardest part, multi-city up to 10 legs long. Think exponential sear
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by benjaminRRR 10y ago
My guess is that, given it has not been disclosed, the investors got as much of their money back as they could through liquidation preferences and there's not much to get excited about after that.
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by benjaminRRR 10y ago
That's right, and you're even lucky to the (i) usually it's buried in the rss which is why https://twitter.com/aws_shd is useful.
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by benjaminRRR 10y ago
Why not combine solutions; similar to airline seats - the cheap saver version, non-changeable, non-transferable, and non-refundable also must show original ID and credit card to enter and then the super-flexible scalper-special with two wil
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by benjaminRRR 10y ago
IEEE spectrum had a nice article very recently http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/how-to-kill-a-su...
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by benjaminRRR 10y ago
Australia was a good experiment on this and the effects were dramatic, equally dramatic when it was repealed (yes a major piece of legislation was rolled back, which is another problem in itself) http://www.energy.unimelb.edu.au&
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by benjaminRRR 11y ago
Latency is a huge one for AU. With AWS in SYD you can easily cover BNE, SYD, MEL and even AKL. The difference from SIN or TPE is very noticeable. SYD to PER and SIN to PER is negligible.
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by benjaminRRR 11y ago
We are located near Ploenchit BTS on Wireless Road. We pay international market rates for expatriate talent as we compete with many other large players here in the city. We also pay very competitive salaries for local staff as we want to re
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by benjaminRRR 11y ago
Jetabroad (Thailand) | Bangkok, Thailand | Full-Stack, DevOps, Front-End | C#, Python, Powershell | Full-time on-site | http://bkkthailand.jetabroad.com/jobs/ We're solving complex problems in the travel industry
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by benjaminRRR 11y ago
Australia makes it incredibly difficult to give equity to your employees - they literally get double punished and it's often better for the employee not receive. The Australian Taxation Office will charge on receipt. So you get 1% of t
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by benjaminRRR 11y ago
Although it's looking like end-user deliverability is not great we are seeing huge delays in things actually getting out of SES.
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by benjaminRRR 11y ago
We've been having issues with SES N.Virginia, but have managed to get mail through. It's intermittent, but we are getting our batches out. It's not pretty.
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Hacking Team Flash Zero-Day Integrated into Exploit Kits(blog.trendmicro.com)
1 points by benjaminRRR 11y ago|0 comments
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by benjaminRRR 11y ago
That's why you have to get your name exact, airlines now charge a lot for re-ticketing, the idea is to prevent this kind of arbitrage. In fact on long-haul travel if you misspell your name the airline will force you to create a new tic
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by benjaminRRR 12y ago
In my first startup we came up with a cure for this: "Get to the problem" Don't solve for problems you don't yet have. Solve for immediate problems first.
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by benjaminRRR 12y ago
This is something I am happy to donate for. These guys have been plugging away quietly for a long time to give us a record that would otherwise literally disappear into thin air.
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by benjaminRRR 12y ago
For anyone that runs any web-facing IIS machines this has to be treated as a DEFCON 1 situation.
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by benjaminRRR 12y ago
The whole concept of geographical segmentation is built right into the GDS systems (Global Distribution System). Agents are all designated by an identifier that ties them to a particular geographical point of sale. That's why the above

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