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by grsites 11y ago
Thanks! That's what I was planning to do, but the recruitement firm that would be paying me (and billing the client) is terrified of paying an invoice to a foreign firm, they are adamant about it. I might just have to go to the client
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by grsites 11y ago
OK, comment copied.
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by grsites 11y ago
Thanks a bunch! Yes, I had a feeling this was possible, but they are very hesitant to simply wire money across the border to an individual, because it might look like money laundering (!)
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Canadian dev working remotely (contract) for a US company. How to get paid?
3 points by grsites 11y ago|5 comments
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by grsites 13y ago
There's no way I'm "upgrading" my iPad to iOS Barbie.
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by grsites 13y ago
On the other hand, focusing on a small number of great products is what Apple always did under Jobs. The first thing Jobs did when he came back to Apple was jettison superfluous products and concentrate on what Apple was good at. Seems to m
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by grsites 14y ago
Turns out it's Anonymous: https://twitter.com/AnonOpsLegion/status/245218636187443200
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by grsites 14y ago
Wouldn't it be funny if they forgot to renew their domain name and it got snatched? ;-)
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by grsites 14y ago
Better to rule in hell than to serve in heaven.
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by grsites 15y ago
I've heard many people mention namecheap and dreamhost as good alternate registrars that charge about the same as godaddy.
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by grsites 15y ago
The other thing to consider is to ask whether the presence of this feature is obtrusive or bothersome to the 95% who don't use it. Does it needlessly clutter some user interface? If instead it is mostly invisible to those who don't use it
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by grsites 15y ago
Yes, that's essentially it...
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by grsites 15y ago
> Building a web app to allow researchers to submit their articles and have them peer-reviewed by other researchers would be an interesting project that could actually disrupt the industry. True, but the chicken and egg problem prevents
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by grsites 15y ago
No yet, but once it launches, you'll know. :-)
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by grsites 15y ago
I haven't found any, but I guess that's the problem: they're private.
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by grsites 15y ago
This kind of gouging soon won't be a problem anymore. I'm in the process of creating an online service (launch date sometime this summer) that will provide completely free full-text access to all academic journals in one fell swoop. Think
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by grsites 15y ago
This is not terribly surprising, and illustrates why Facebook and Twitter are completely different (and complementary) social networks. Facebook for keeping tabs on people you know and who know you , i.e. symmetrical relationships. Twitter
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by grsites 16y ago
If you havin' concurrency problems, I feel bad for you son. I got 99 problems and side effects ain't one. Sorry, couldn't help myself.
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by grsites 16y ago
Oh and by the way, what do you use to losslessly compress PNG's to check for image optimization? Pngcrush didn't yield nearly as big improvements as slowcop suggested...
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by grsites 16y ago
One little tip: many people use Google Analytics and there's no use listing " http://www.google-analytics.com/ga.js under "Leverage browser caching" since we can't do anything about it and caching it would defeat the purpose anyway.
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by grsites 16y ago
Very nice indeed! Increased page score on grsites.com from 92 to 96 in 5 minutes. More convenient than YSlow. Bookmarked!
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by grsites 16y ago
Sounds like the shotgun-collar trap in Saw III.
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by grsites 16y ago
So MS is suing Motorola, Motorola is suing Apple, Apple is suing HTC, Oracle is suing Google. Did I miss any?
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by grsites 16y ago
Maybe WinMo 6.5? I guess even Microsoft employees can't quite stomach that.
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by grsites 16y ago
At least Windows Mobile is no longer using IE6. Gasp!
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by grsites 16y ago
Yes, it seems like it won't go as fast as a Segway, so it will just make you look lazy. "Do you have a knee injury?"
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by grsites 17y ago
Correct. I think I'll do that...
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by grsites 17y ago
He works for the Linux Foundation, Jim Zemlin is his "boss".
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by grsites 18y ago
Great site! I just registered 6 domains, and then decided to go ahead with the $14.95 subscription for access to the full list. Definitely worth it! :-)
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by grsites 18y ago
Me too. Switched in April 2007 to openSUSE, now running 11.1...

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