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by plug 8y ago
Thinking about it I'm not that surprised - the population is very small, and most people can/do avail of free third-level education.
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by plug 9y ago
That said, I'm Irish and therefore totally biased toward Stripe for that reason alone. As if their stellar tooling and the friendly, truly excellent customer and tech support I've experienced from them so far isn't enough :)
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by plug 9y ago
Yeah, I'm developing a new product at the moment - I surveyed a bunch of end-users and a LOT of them had PayPal accounts - so Braintree's PayPal integration is a compelling feature to me. That said, here in Europe, Stripe's
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by plug 9y ago
You'll be glad to hear that they've finally been removed since PHP 7.0 so slowly but surely they're being consigned to history. And there seems to be much better awareness about the perils of mysql_* functions amongst PHP dev
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by plug 10y ago
That article was posted on April 1st 2011...
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by plug 10y ago
Indeed. I heard some of the Somme Commemoration on the radio the other day, and I was moved deeply by Charles Dance's recital of Siegfried Sassoon's "Aftermath"[1] > Do you ever stop and ask, 'Is it all going to
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by plug 10y ago
What a funny coincidence - I just discovered and used this a few hours ago. I wanted to rip some YT audio from (mostly) old records that I have that are not on Spotify etc. I looked at some browser plugins but I wasn't really impresse
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by plug 11y ago
Thanks, looks like it's back up now. Google didn't appear to have a cached copy; it kept giving me a 503.
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by plug 11y ago
Anecdote warning, but this feels very common to me in "Hibernio-English" as well. I do it a lot when a simple yes/no would suffice, and I notice other people doing the same. I assume it's a construct that translated over
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by plug 11y ago
The first thing I did when I arrived on this page was do a page search for 'fractal'. There's always one.
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by plug 11y ago
"Very disappointing for a machine which isn't 3 years old". This really resonates with me, sitting at a similarly aged iMac that frequently displays bafflingly poor performance, displaying what I like to call the "psyche
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by plug 11y ago
Sign our guestbook! :D
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by plug 11y ago
Haha. This really reminds me of the very first webpage I ever made, in... 2000 I think? I created a series of images of a lens flare turning a magenta background into a white flash, turned it into an animated gif and used that as the backgr
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by plug 11y ago
Ha, I love this so much. You'd be quite thirsty after a walk like that - good thing there are plenty of pubs on Baggot Street :)
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by plug 11y ago
The dollar sign usually only bothers me after I've gone away and written a little Python. Actually, has anyone ever tried a 'CoffeeScript for PHP' that removed the dollar sign, replaced the `->` with dot syntax, and smooth
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by plug 11y ago
Good points. I wonder if the two World Wars are outliers though. I don't know if there was anything comparable before them before - there really hasn't been anything since. Of course the ability to rain thousands of tons of bombs
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by plug 11y ago
Exactly this. I worked in Apple's EMEIA HQ for about 11-12 months. Actually I started about a week before Steve Jobs died, and honestly, nobody on the floor seemed to care that much. As for my own experience, I moved from a comfortable
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by plug 11y ago
I'm not convinced that high tech war machinery precludes collateral damage - to use that stomach-churning phrase. I appreciate your point on one hand - conventional weapons can be inaccurate and that can result in tragic, horrifying mi
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by plug 11y ago
Great to see Heaney mentioned by several people here! Recently voted Ireland's favourite poet of the last 100 years. This poem is a great example of his talent to document the small but evocative, quintessential elements of Irish exper
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by plug 11y ago
Thanks for your answer. Maybe my use of the word repercussions was a bit strong - I don't know much about attitudes there and I am asking out of curiosity, not as a challenge etc. In any case, it sounds like the general population are
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by plug 11y ago
I think your desire to participate is commendable. I don't know anything about the safety risks of collaboration to Gazans, it's very sad situation and I appreciate that it's very complex and possibly dangerous. I'd cert
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by plug 11y ago
I'm not sure that worked quite as well for Dart though.
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by plug 11y ago
Bit off-topic but that pleasing musical sound when you hit the space bar is really like the first note in Aphex Twin's "PAPAT4 (Pineal Mix)" :)
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by plug 12y ago
Your settings are showing... Don't forget to change your secret key if this is the one you've deployed: https://github.com/johndavidback/can-i-wear-shorts/blob/mast... Neat site though :) You could
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by plug 12y ago
I think this is the nail on the head for me. I came to the conclusion late last year that I was spending too much time reading social, news and commentary - getting really sucked in. It was a massive waste of time, a productivity killer, an
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by plug 12y ago
Me neither, I'd be interested to hear more. I understand that 25 years is their lifespan. There was an interesting HN submission recently that discussed the problem of what to do with the blades once they reach EOL. Obviously they are
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by plug 12y ago
Interesting. Would that depend on how close you were to the source? Either way, I assume - crucially for the shop owner - most backed-up, drunken revellers would be unaware of this :)
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by plug 12y ago
A present-day Irish solution to "al-fresco urination": electrify your shop front. http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/shops-shock-and-awe-pla...
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by plug 12y ago
I just looked it up on YouTube. There's a great video showing the guts of one here[0]. I concur, pretty mind blowing. So many tubes! [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BNvemnifWc
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by plug 12y ago
Weird. I was only looking at the Balanced site for the first time yesterday, researching payment services that offer ACH. I understand Stripe has an ACH implementation in private beta though? Greetings from a fellow "Limerician" b

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