lh7

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by lh7 10y ago
The idea of having "zones" for people with different interests sounds good. Given the sort of amenities on offer and the unusual founding route, not to mention its Eastern endpoint, it would have been more accurate to refer to thi
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by lh7 10y ago
Hi. I applaud your motivation, but to be honest, when I was learning Arabic, the only trouble I would regularly run into would be with the tashkeel, which I find difficult to memorise. On the other hand, it was much easier for me to associa
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by lh7 10y ago
Aside from that, Spanish, Catalan, and Occitan have historically been written using both the Arabic and Hebrew alphabets, by their respective user communities. Same for Yiddish, linguistically a Germanic language, which was often written us
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by lh7 10y ago
> Receive comments about your choice of font for the powerpoint. That would be 2.5, they will be unsolicited, and yes, your font really is too small. 2.6 is where you spend another five minutes faffing about with the font size until ev
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by lh7 10y ago
Go for it then, and good luck! ;)
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by lh7 10y ago
Consider having a continuity plan next time. Personal tragedy is not an uncommon occurrence. > He's adamant he wants to continue, and he's seeking help from a counselor. He's doing the right thing, both in seeking counsel
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by lh7 10y ago
Ok, having some actual experience on this, I think you can ignore most of what has been posted here, particularly all those "10K? No way! Ask them for 100K!" posts. It just doesn't work like that. Two posts that do strike a c
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by lh7 10y ago
> 10K is an absolute insult. How can you say that without knowing what the project is? For all you know it's a clever sed expression that took the author fifteen minutes to write.
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by lh7 10y ago
I did some work (non-IT) for a retired internet billionaire, who doesn't mind one bit using gmail as his private email address even though Google is a direct competitor to the company he got rich with (and they have the upper hand in t
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by lh7 10y ago
Just like spam is dealt with in email and walled gardens, it could have been dealt with in Usenet.
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by lh7 10y ago
> I'm unsure what to do next. I'm sorry if I've missed something, but isn't the status quo a reasonable option? Other than that, see what other problems your current customers are having that you could help with. Bas
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by lh7 10y ago
I reckon what you suggest is not a bad idea: when someone posts an issue that you do not particularly feel like working on, set a price on it! When/if anyone pays, you work on it. Or someone else can come in and say "I'll do
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by lh7 10y ago
> Sometimes I'm OK with that. Sometimes I wonder if I've been misunderstood and could have written it better. And if you had an actual reply telling you what "wrong" with your post, wouldn't that be more useful?
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by lh7 10y ago
Agree. Actually, just posted a related question a while ago ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13171928 ). And if you're going to have votes, at the very least those should be public, as they are in some forums that
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by lh7 10y ago
> Is it possible to get all that information in one round trip ? If we're talking about the same thing, yes. One pattern that I use in my APIs is as follows: Assume a JSON object like: { name: "Joe", colour: [ {red: 0, gre
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by lh7 10y ago
Indeed, it's been a long time and it wasn't common to actually use URLs back then!
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by lh7 10y ago
I am not sure I follow the conversation. What would a deeply nested result hierarchy be, exactly? Are we talking about something like: CREATE TABLE person (id INT, name TEXT, birthdate DATE); CREATE TABLE car (id INT, brand TEXT, model TEXT