meraku

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by meraku 2mo ago
Same here. Usually $0.15 per month, current bill is $15.4 billion.
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by meraku 3y ago
This drove me absolutely crazy as well and I was equally shocked that anyone thought it was a good idea. Ended up going through several rounds of password resets before figuring it out. Further reinforced the perception that PayPal is a cra
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by meraku 6y ago
This has been bugging me as well for years. Only found an app called Sharedr recently which replaces the sharing dialog. It's not perfect and has a limitation with sharing files, but it's a million times better than the default op
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by meraku 6y ago
Another happy PushBullet user here. Extremely useful for receiving text messages from my phone while on my laptop, especially for web apps that insist on sending security codes that way instead of TOTP. This sort of behavior from Google rea
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by meraku 7y ago
Same here. I wish everyone company with a subscription based licensing model did it this way. It should be noted though, when Jetbrains initially decided to move to this type of licensing, it was a bit different and they got a lot of backla
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by meraku 7y ago
You're not alone. My kids are 4 and 9, and I've got a similar experience. Used to try and take on freelance work, but after missing some commitments, I've stopped doing that now as I don't have the time or energy for it
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by meraku 7y ago
John Resig does deserve a lot of credit for his work on jQuery and at Khan Academy. Small correction though, he wasn't a founder of Khan Academy. It was started in 2008 by Sal Khan, and Resig joined later in 2011.
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by meraku 7y ago
Might not necessarily mean they are _physically_ stranded. Booking holidays often means scheduling time off work, around children's school holidays, when prices are reasonable, etc. Not always a trivial task. Having those plans abruptl
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by meraku 10y ago
Looks good, though no category for .NET? Would've thought that would be an in-demand skill in London.
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by meraku 11y ago
Female genital mutilation doesn't actually have anything to do with Islam, as Reza Aslan points out in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV0QXO6YfzA
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by meraku 11y ago
I was a freelancer for nearly 6 years, but eventually got tired of the inconsistent income and the type of work I was doing also got boring, as well as time and energy spent dealing with issues like invoices, taxes, accountants, etc. One of
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by meraku 11y ago
I'm also wondering the same thing. This new trend of putting a create button in the bottom right of the screen seems counter intuitive and annoying. Fortunately, both the Mint and Reddit apps allow it to be turned off, but I'm n
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by meraku 11y ago
Most important takeaway about salary negotiation, by the way: disclosing a previous salary is almost always against your interests because it pegs your new salary to that plus 5% rather than your value to the new firm minus a discount, whi
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by meraku 11y ago
Yeah, I agree with this. Been contemplating whether to invest time in learning RoR for a while now, though I've also been using ASP.NET for over a decade now, and leaving the Microsoft ecosystem would be a drastic change for me.
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by meraku 11y ago
I'm not sure I that I agree with this. I've worked on plenty of projects utilizing ASP.NET during my days as a freelancer where I was the only developer. However, it might be that this is primarily a perception problem, where th
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by meraku 11y ago
Absolutely. Usually read the comments first, before the linked article. There's nearly always an interesting discussion going on.
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by meraku 11y ago
It's a pity there aren't more Senior .NET developer positions for remote workers. The vast majority of them seem to be for Ruby on Rails.
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by meraku 12y ago
I've had similar problems with pain and discomfort when using a mouse. Was using an Evoluent Vertical Mouse for about a year, which helped, until the left clicker started playing up. Replaced this with an Anker vertical mouse which cos
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by meraku 12y ago
Asking me to enter my Amazon username and password makes this a complete non-starter. Might be the best idea in the world, but I'm not going to risk handing over my credentials for something as sensitive as my Amazon account to make a
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by meraku 12y ago
Thanks for the link. That's a fascinating read. Being a Muslim man, I've been stopped and questioned by CBP numerous times when entering the US. It's interesting how they they always seem to ask the same types of questions
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by meraku 12y ago
Any plans to add .NET to the type of leads?
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by meraku 13y ago
As justinreeves said, I choose to give that information to Facebook. It's absurd having to share all of this information to Tinkercoin so they can supposedly verify my identity to allow me to purchase $20 worth of BTC, without any ind
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by meraku 13y ago
"Tinkercoin will receive the following info: your public profile, friend list, email address, work history, status updates, education history, hometown and current city." No thanks.
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by meraku 13y ago
Not Fox "News" I hope ;-)
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by meraku 13y ago
My thoughts exactly. I'm certainly going to be looking at other options, including BitTorrent Sync. As useful as Dropbox may be, it's something I'd be willing to do without if this is true.
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by meraku 13y ago
Lol, true, true. Everyone who buys one of these things will end up sending them to a landfill soon enough.
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by meraku 13y ago
The sad thing about this is that we're probably going to start seeing this form of advertising being used to specifically target kids with marketing messages, where the parent (or adult) looking at the same sign will be oblivious to what is
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by meraku 15y ago
Doesn't seem to be doing anything for me. Installed it, clicked on a ton of links from hacker news, clicked on "more" a few times, and don't see anything recommended. The extension is definitely installed; I can see the small icon in the
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by meraku 16y ago
If you're the one not using LinkedIn, which is the dominant player in the "business networking" space, surely this is a question which you need to answer for yourself? Why aren't YOU using it, and what features would YOU add?