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by sthlm 7mo ago
Europeans (I'm German) often sigh at the price differences, but a big part of it is just that US prices are listed without VAT, while European prices are, and VAT differs across EU member countries. Denmark has a VAT of 25%, so the DKK
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by sthlm 8y ago
From the article: > “A bank mistakenly making such a large transfer shows its controls aren’t working adequately, and it’s embarrassing,” said Dieter Hein, an analyst at Fairesearch Also: > The error should have been caught by an inte
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Steve Yegge: “What Would You Do with Your Own Google?” (2011) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by sthlm 8y ago|0 comments
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by sthlm 8y ago
I can attest to that, my newborn at the time screamed into my ear unexpectedly loud and my hearing was affected for a few days.
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Open Source Software needs more time, not (only) money(github.com)
2 points by sthlm 9y ago|0 comments
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by sthlm 10y ago
This is the best "visualization" / "explanation" of the possibilities and limits of AI that I've seen. I can show this to someone and say: 1. The software can recognize a feather, as long as it looks similar to
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IBM has the largest enterprise Mac deployment in the world(cio.com)
3 points by sthlm 10y ago|0 comments
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Young Elon Musk featured in documentary about millionaires (1999)(youtube.com)
2 points by sthlm 10y ago|0 comments
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Apple Nabs Nest's Former Head of Technology(fortune.com)
2 points by sthlm 10y ago|0 comments
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D3-axis – Human-readable reference marks for scales(github.com)
2 points by sthlm 10y ago|0 comments
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Support for older versions of Internet Explorer ends today(microsoft.com)
4 points by sthlm 11y ago|1 comments
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by sthlm 11y ago
I can recommend to peruse the source code. It's well written and documented. Such projects always put a smile on my face, since they demonstrate how far we've come in some respects: - We've learned how to write and produce re
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The Runaway Train of Late Stage Fundraising(tomtunguz.com)
1 points by sthlm 11y ago|0 comments
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Linux kernel coding style(kernel.org)
124 points by sthlm 12y ago|101 comments
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by sthlm 12y ago
In Javascript, many unicode characters are allowed [0], so háćḱéŕŃéẃś is a valid variable name [1]. Note: The number of іllэБіъlэVаѓіаъlэИамэѕ [2] used in your production code is inversely proportional to the number of friends you'll m
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by sthlm 12y ago
The Yahoo Directory was Yahoo's first product. This is a stark reminder that very few things last and maybe a point to reflect how Yahoo succeeded and failed to pivot into other directions. Can you imagine Google terminating Search? Fa
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by sthlm 12y ago
Graphs are a poor visual representation for a lot of data sets. In cases where they provide significant benefits (think maps, dependency structures, routing), graph layouts are hard problems. Generic algorithms are great for large networks
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Linux ate my RAM(linuxatemyram.com)
1 points by sthlm 13y ago|2 comments
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Js-objectdetect: Real-time object detection with Javascript(github.com)
1 points by sthlm 13y ago|0 comments
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Couchbase Server 2.0 released(couchbase.com)
2 points by sthlm 14y ago|0 comments
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Bernoulli discovered e by studying a question about compound interest(en.wikipedia.org)
51 points by sthlm 14y ago|16 comments
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Financial Times Deutschland laid to rest(reuters.com)
2 points by sthlm 14y ago|0 comments
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The Human Face of Big Data(humanfaceofbigdata.com)
2 points by sthlm 14y ago|0 comments
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GraphChi – Disk-based large-scale graph computation(graphlab.org)
7 points by sthlm 14y ago|0 comments
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by sthlm 14y ago
I am a huge proponent of one-page websites for a variety of scenarios. I find that browsing existing examples is one of the best ways to get inspiration and ideas for what is possible. It's also interesting to browse the source to get a fee
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One Page Websites and Landing Pages Catalog(onepagelove.com)
1 points by sthlm 14y ago|1 comments
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by sthlm 14y ago
I had the following experience, which I considered quite useful. I was traveling and in the meantime let a friend stay at my apartment. For this, I moved all of my belongings to the basement. After I returned, I shared my apartment with ano
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Interactive Overview of Monetization Strategies(rcs.seerinteractive.com)
2 points by sthlm 14y ago|0 comments
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by sthlm 14y ago
I thought the whole budget was rather low compared to the total value that is to be created. Sure, 100k for 1 language sounds odd, given that 200k was enough not only for 2 languages, but also the entire framework. Still, the overall price
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Light Table funding successful, including Python support (over $300k raised)(kickstarter.com)
137 points by sthlm 14y ago|64 comments

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