gdee

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by gdee 16y ago
Anybody from Spain knows of a better address to send letters to the new Spanish "Minister of External Affairs and Cooperation", Trinidad Jiménez, than informae@mae.es (which itself is rather well hidden on the ministry's website) ?
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by gdee 16y ago
That project is about 5-6 years old. I remember being exited when I first saw that page. It still is exiting. But not news :)
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by gdee 16y ago
> PayPal doesn't need to freeze your account, they can > just as easily prevent you from withdrawing money to > your bank account, which sucks but it probably won't > kill your business. At least your customers
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by gdee 16y ago
Thanks for the advice. Will look into it.
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by gdee 16y ago
> But I'm no longer accepting paypal payments myself > and I would advise everybody to keep their account > balances as low as possible. Sound advice. In my new private project, I redraw from paypal every 200 eur
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by gdee 16y ago
> I bet that somewhere in paypal, it works like DEA style > asset forfeiture, and the people who freeze accounts stand > to benefit financially, personally and directly. You'd lose that bet. They refund the money
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by gdee 16y ago
> ssh prod-db > mysqldump what-i-need > file.sql > exit > scp prod-db:file.sql . You can definitely do better than that with ssh: ssh prod-db "mysqldump what-i-need" > file.sql If the dump is l
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by gdee 16y ago
Here's a nice book about, among other things, a similar country: http://www.marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
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by gdee 16y ago
Beware. That resolution might mean that the screen was produced for landscape viewing. If that's true, it will be quite horrible to use in portrait. It will show slightly different colors to each of your eyes which will make the screen seem
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by gdee 16y ago
I don't know about Netherlands, but in Spain you can contest any customs tax. They send you a printed form to fill if you want to contest it in the same envelope where they send you the invoice for the tax. Things can't be very different th
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by gdee 16y ago
direct link to video interview http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4177270/wozniak-on-mass-ipad-...
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by gdee 16y ago
I didn't use to be. Then I had a problem and my bank took 2 months and almost 10 phone calls to fix it. Then I became a little paranoid.
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by gdee 16y ago
Have them not touch the CC#. Leave that last part of the funnel to some certified external. You'd also make them a big service. I simply abandon most carts if the CC entry stage is still on the merchant site and not on someone's big and rec
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by gdee 16y ago
>> It just doesn't want them on the app store. Where else exactly could they go? >> Forcing Apple to repeal 3.3.1 doesn't allow offending software to be built and sold (as it already can be), it forces Apple to stock its s
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by gdee 16y ago
>> Prior to the iPhone, there was virtually no real development allowed on phones that achieved any levels of success (carriers had the platform locked down hard). cough The development for mobile phones partially sucked (and stil
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by gdee 16y ago
You're describing theater with special effects and JIT scene changes. I thing it's a fabulous premise and I've been thinking the same about the supposed destination of 3D movies.
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by gdee 16y ago
>> so I figure between you and me we have all the bases covered You both list four personal characteristics. On all four I resemble one of you too so I guess I don't expand the "bases" :) I also find his points are somewhat offensiv
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by gdee 16y ago
Assuming non-homophobic heterosexual parents, why would they be the "wrong setup"?
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by gdee 16y ago
I suppose your reply was made in a joking tone but maybe not it was not completely a joke. You made me curious. Why would homosexuality be fabulous? I mean, few of my friends are openly gay, maybe more are... I see no life quality differenc
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Smug Ugly, OSX presenting SMB shares(dashes.com)
35 points by gdee 16y ago|29 comments
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by gdee 16y ago
responding to csarva( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1271567)(I can't seem to reply to individual messages anymore): >[re-]building core strength That's [re-]building strength in core muscles (the ones that hold your skeleton toge
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The day my brain forgot where my back was(lucys-backbreak.blogspot.com)
43 points by gdee 16y ago|35 comments
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by gdee 16y ago
I wonder if it's tail call optimized or you get to DOS Google by clicking one too many times on it...
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by gdee 16y ago
Why do you miss it? Older versions are surely available for download somewhere if the new ones annoy you, and even the new ones can be custom installed to filter most unneeded things.
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by gdee 17y ago
Wow, they not only recognize (as we all know, many publishers, willingly, don't) but they actually take steps to facilitate the effects of the "first-sale doctrine"[1]. Hats off to that kind of treatment for their customers. Never heard of
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by gdee 17y ago
Seeing how it consistently happens on the horizontal, I think it's by design. It probably tries to suggest with some degree of subtility that the UI goes on in that direction.
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by gdee 17y ago
There's a question mark missing in you link. Hopefully it will work this time. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdDAeyy1H0A&feature=404
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by gdee 17y ago
>> on a 720p screen There is no 720p video possible on that screen. It has 1024 pixels horizontal when in landscape, and it would need 1280.
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by gdee 17y ago
I don't know if they were being nice or not but I think they pretty much also had to make it 4:3. I have a convertible netbook (Gigabyte T1028X) and its wide screen is ugly in vertical orientation. Books look really weird formatted that w
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by gdee 17y ago
got it, thank you.

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