echubb

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by echubb 16y ago
That would be fine if insurance companies had the administrative manpower to tailor policies to each individual customer, but they deal in generalities so they rely on a risk profile derived from people similar to you. Also, your function i
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by echubb 16y ago
How do you figure? It's unlikely insurance companies will reduce their premiums for male drivers, they'll just increase the premiums for female customers.
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by echubb 16y ago
This has to be one of the most ridiculous rulings I've ever heard. Statistically, male drivers are more dangerous, so why should women now subsidise this behaviour? It's pure ideological lawmaking, designed to show how egalitarian the EU is
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It'll soon be illegal in Europe to differentiate insurance risk by gender...(theparliament.com)
5 points by echubb 16y ago|23 comments
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by echubb 16y ago
I'm not suggesting that Ireland is devoid of successful startups, just they seem to be the exception rather than the rule. We have also had Baltimore, Iona etc but we should be producing way more.
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by echubb 16y ago
Yep. If you go to some parts of South Dublin, Kildare, Cork, Galway (where the technology hubs in ireland are, incidentally) the accents are very neutral and easy to understand. Several European news stations with a spoken english bulletin
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by echubb 16y ago
Here in Ireland we're constantly hearing about "the knowledge economy" but I think it has yet to materialise. Ever since Intel set up shop here we've managed to attract the biggest movers in technology to set up their European HQ. So much s
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by echubb 16y ago
I don't know if the information being out of date matters in this case, the problems of OS version fragmentation still remain. Android antipiracy measures are extremely brittle and rely on server-side verification, this has been circumvente
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by echubb 16y ago
I've had serious problems with Eclipse's autocomplete/intellisense prediction feature. It often begins listing identifiers and then just hangs indefinitely. I don't know if the fact I'm developing using the Windows build is significant - it
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by echubb 16y ago
If piracy is as big a problem on Android as the article claims, the free client/paid subscription model is probably the most viable way to generate revenue. However, Android is not proprietary software-friendly - It's INSANELY easy to deco
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by echubb 16y ago
Interesting. How vibrant is the dev community for Palm phones? OTA Updates are another story on Android. Different manufacturers price OS updates differently like Samsung, who price them as feature updates whereas some other Android phone m
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by echubb 16y ago
Good article (apart from advocating developing for Palm??), bad title. It should be called "Why distributing your Android app sucks." No commentary on actual app development itself. My thoughts on that are that Google should develop an IDE
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Why developing for Android sucks(webosroundup.com)
14 points by echubb 16y ago|17 comments