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by brepl 8y ago
What is DIV?
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by brepl 8y ago
I've seen people referring to CockroachLabs referring to it as CRDB internally.
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by brepl 8y ago
Which of these opinions would be surprising?
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by brepl 9y ago
Comments like this are what the internet is all about! AFAIK Yugoslavs call tea "čaj" (pronounced... chai!). I have no idea about other Slavs. And if by Commonwealth you mean the British one, I think the biggest member state is
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by brepl 9y ago
Why is this getting downvoted?
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by brepl 9y ago
If the username is used as the salt when storing the hashed password in the database, it's unpossible to know if a supplied password is valid-but-for-a-different-account.
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by brepl 9y ago
Makes more sense than the current HN title.
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by brepl 9y ago
Dollar prices for selling e.g. ETH seem 10-20% lower than market.
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by brepl 9y ago
> And again: "Taxi company considered by a court to be a taxi company". And this is news. Any info on how much it cost European citizens to establish this stunning revelation?
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by brepl 9y ago
> I have little doubt that the current value of BTC and other coins will probably blow up in the future Blow up bigger, or blow up smaller?
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by brepl 9y ago
Possibly because the latest version of MetaMask has broken event listening: https://github.com/MetaMask/metamask-extension/issues/2393
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by brepl 9y ago
> The fatal flaw in Tether is that you have to trust the company behind it. How is Unum any different? Looking at the contract: 1. Contract owner can withdraw the ETH balance at any time. 2. Contract owner can control the Oracle. 3. If
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by brepl 9y ago
Some people, rightly or wrongly, feel that their use of an open source library is endorsement and thanks enough, at least until you meet the maintainer in person or have other cause to be in contact with them.
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by brepl 9y ago
> Bringing web security issues to desktop apps Wonderful :)
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by brepl 9y ago
Except when "how are you?" just means "hi".
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by brepl 9y ago
In some countries, downloading things from CDN has a significant effect on page load times so this is good advice. Sadly most users won't disable custom fonts because they don't know it's a problem.
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by brepl 9y ago
put their money
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by brepl 9y ago
> You don't even need to go as far as France. The implication in the comment above is that he's already in France. So going to RI or NJ would be going further.
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by brepl 9y ago
> Yeah, in 21st century English fish is a meat Having spent the best part of the last 17 years speaking 21st century English, this is a surprisingly strong assertion to me. From http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/115
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by brepl 9y ago
Looks like https://www.simprints.com/
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by brepl 9y ago
It only supports _some_ western European languages.
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by brepl 9y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20080103072111/http://www.zedsha...
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by brepl 9y ago
What did ThoughtWorks do with their profits before they were bought? If it was privately owned, does that mean the profits were dividended to the founder? Or were they all re-invested in the company to fund expansion?
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by brepl 9y ago
Got a link for this? The original seems to be gone.
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by brepl 9y ago
> the 'social justice' projects are already halted When did that happen? Was it done to make the company more attractive to buyers, to protect profits, or for idealistic reasons?
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by brepl 9y ago
> especially for a non English speaker If you don't speak English, every word will be confusing.
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by brepl 9y ago
A few questions: * What's the likely outcome for employees? * Who was the previous owner? * How much did it sell for? * Are operations in specific regions likely to be shut down or sold off?
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by brepl 9y ago
> There is an argument that foreign investment tends to liberalize those sorts of countries. The way I read, it's investment _from_ those countries, not _to_ them.
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by brepl 9y ago
Good recruiters do this for you.
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by brepl 9y ago
Is this necessarily a bad strategy? How much extra time investment in understanding the auto market and checking various different options is required to guarantee you'll make a better choice? Then compare the cost saving, and time sp

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