toble

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by toble 13y ago
In the UK, 'partner' is a spouse. You need to say 'business partner' if you want to avoid the confusion.
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by toble 13y ago
Misled is a political euphemism for lied. Politics is full of that sort of indirect language.
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by toble 13y ago
I think you need really high margins to do well with Groupon. Their first client was a pizza outlet, which is about as high a margin as you can get in food.
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by toble 13y ago
Sounds like one of those game theory side effects. If you pay and measure people by targets then expect them to use dubious techniques to win the game.
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by toble 13y ago
I assumed from the title that it would be something other than a boilerplate, or at least a follow up, but it's just a commentary on said boilerplate.
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by toble 13y ago
Also, if newer generations are more independently minded, i.e. less influenced by patriotism and the like, then I guess they are likely to support a David over a Goliath. Pressuring people like Assange and Snowden is just making them into h
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by toble 13y ago
It would be good to at least indicate when an editor has rewritten a submission, so that responsibility for the headline can be pointed to the correct user. Like a '/ editorsusername' after the submitters name.
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by toble 13y ago
I would like to see the insurance industry reduced in size, rather than be further bolstered by legislation.
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by toble 13y ago
It's similar for Scotland's rural routes. Some councils don't have the funding to maintaining their roads properly, so they focus on the important roads. It can be quite jarring crossing from one area to another.
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by toble 13y ago
I rarely fly. I have used British Airways, Cathay Pacific and Easy Jet.
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by toble 13y ago
It's not so much stealing the customer as it is rescuing the order. It may not be the most ethical of techniques but they are claiming a bounty for converting abandoned carts. Like someone else said earlier, the order process is broken
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by toble 13y ago
I think one advantage of air travel is it's distracting. Busy flight attendants, announcements from pilots, plane moving to the runway, taking off... so there's less reason to concentrate on the lack of space while stuck in the se
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by toble 13y ago
You can get up and walk around on a plane.
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by toble 13y ago
The way things are going, I wouldn't be surprised if they bundled it in as a secret requirement for international trade deals.
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by toble 13y ago
It depends on the type and quality. If you purchase a can, then I would hope that it is mostly animal based ingredients. If it is dry food then it will be mostly cereals.
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by toble 13y ago
Yep. Whenever you work in an industry that involves churning out software as quickly as possible, it's easy to appreciate that commercial pressures are often too great to test properly. Whereas with start-ups (for example), they'r
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by toble 13y ago
I don't know what pet food was like in the past, but today it seems to be dominated by flavoured products made of cereals, rather than meat or offal.
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by toble 13y ago
Historians pull their information from sources of all kinds. For example, a piece of propaganda from WW2 (which is likely to be almost completely untrue) could be an invaluable insight into determining a collective mindset of the time. Simi
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by toble 13y ago
He's an artist who uses archive footage to tell a story. The story is often so simple that it isn't strictly true, but it's still worth a watch. I think his films will be treasured by future historians to get an insight into
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by toble 13y ago
There's also the 'engineer' baggage, in that engineers probably don't think software engineering is engineering.
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by toble 13y ago
In ad sales lingo, 'brand' is pay per view or sponsorship advertising. These people will be looking after the big clients, think music labels, movie studios, TV networks...
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by toble 13y ago
'Exorbitant' is a bit too loaded, whereas 'ambitious' is too forgiving. I would say 'unrealistic', given Indiegogo's previous records.
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by toble 13y ago
Even if most users had subscriptions, it shouldn't be linked to. The other day I was thinking the same thing about The Sun. It got a high placement on Google's search results, yet had no content to display, I hope search engines d
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by toble 13y ago
I like to think of Less as the MySQL of the CSS world, whereas Sass is more of a Postgres.
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by toble 13y ago
Yep, I prefer this app too. The reliance on Ruby or Javascript initially put me off Less.
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by toble 13y ago
I was thinking similar a few days ago, but more like a cross between Slashdot and Reddit. In particular, I saw an item about cannabis legalisation. Got nothing against it, but it isn't technology in the slightest, it's political a
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by toble 13y ago
Microsoft's problem was they used the Windows brand on a product that didn't support most Windows' programs. On Linux it's a different matter because there's decades of support for different types of CPUs.
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by toble 13y ago
HN users often view PHP and those products built using PHP with disrespect. Sure they have their problems, but these products have been around for an eternity (in internet terms). Lots of programmers wouldn't have long standing careers
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by toble 13y ago
It's just a hack for people without access to cron. It was more of problem back in the day when hosting services didn't offer control panels and most wouldn't let you have command-line access. If you knew your hosting company
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by toble 13y ago
> No, my computer, my browser, my roof, my rules. I think of websites like private properties. You are given conditional access on the assumption that you can behave (T&C / AUP), otherwise it's like trespassing. So, I don&#

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