jcborro

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by jcborro 3y ago
This is great, thank you.
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by jcborro 5y ago
It's becoming a pattern in the last few weeks. Fastmail manages my business email which is causing quite the annoyance. According to the article, this is targeting multiple "privacy and security-centric email services". What
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by jcborro 6y ago
Oh yeah, there are plenty of things that could be improved! Alas, getting any industry-wide traction on such solutions is beyond my pay grade (always failed).
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by jcborro 6y ago
Good question since we can see snow/rain lines slowly rise over the years. Certain ski resorts are in danger of losing a reliable snow pack. People will keep skiing, however, and our clientele puts in an incredible amount of effort to
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by jcborro 6y ago
The level of nerdiness required for software engineering translates well to tech bindings! I was an early importer/user of European gadgetry (they are way ahead of us due to the racing scene) so developed a fairly large mental reposito
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by jcborro 6y ago
1. Opened a ski mountaineering shop ( https://skimo.co/ ). I backcountry ski most mornings in winter/spring before we open at a casual 11am; work on the site in the summer. 2a. Sick of pointless discussions about languag
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by jcborro 8y ago
The business is paying 3% in credit card fees to collect the tax. Quite a favor!
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by jcborro 8y ago
The unintended consequence may be to drive business offshore. The de minimis import duty was quadrupled to $800 a few years ago (meaning no duty while US retailers pay duty buying in bulk and incorporate into the US price) and this could be
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by jcborro 11y ago
Does it float?
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by jcborro 11y ago
Ditto, this. Some recipients find mails in the spam folder, others claim they aren't even in there, but have simply vanished. All were accepted for delivery by gsmtp.
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Who uses more words for snow, Eskimos or skiers?(skimo.co)
1 points by jcborro 13y ago|0 comments
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by jcborro 13y ago
What species are you including in mankind? Cause homo sapiens (sapiens) haven't been around nearly that long...
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by jcborro 15y ago
How many users does the biggest public SVN repo have?
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by jcborro 15y ago
Still down after 10 days, must some really messed up servers.
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Anyone know what happened to EAccelerator?(eaccelerator.net)
3 points by jcborro 15y ago|3 comments
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by jcborro 15y ago
$1 per MB per month for DB memory after 300. So if you wanted an 8GB db, you are looking at $7700/month. Ouch.
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by jcborro 15y ago
Um, the U.S. dollar was fully convertible to gold until 1971. Since gold has risen from $35 to $1500 per ounce.
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by jcborro 16y ago
The number of jquery file upload plugins is astounding. This looks like a decent one, though makes the job of picking one that much harder...one of the drawbacks of jquery's open plugin ecosystem. Who wants to write the blog post reviewing
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by jcborro 16y ago
And on a pedantic note, presumably your cursor would be at the end of the text you find yourself typing, and thus require backspace not delete.
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by jcborro 16y ago
Just admit you're doing it for the chicks!
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by jcborro 16y ago
How about a comparison to a known standalone unvirtualized box?
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by jcborro 16y ago
He should only have to pay self employment taxes on self employment income, which at $1500 & 15% indicates he was bringing in 10k / year in google ads, which seems reasonable with those traffic levels. That is hardly breaking even unle
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by jcborro 16y ago
yeah, i meant anyone with a business...exactly the people that don't have time for the paperwork. like many of us on HN.
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by jcborro 16y ago
I was shocked to read about this requirement snuck into the health care bill. It is insane. Can you imagine anyone who buys a computer needing to send HP or Dell a W-9 to request their tax id, then waiting for the response, and then filing