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alfet··on Netflix launches in Germany, Austria and Switzerland within 3 days
I'd just use something like ProxMate, I use it from Argentina and it works wonders. I'd use a VPN por privacy reasons but for now i just enable the extension when I want to use it.
alfet··on Status IE – IE's feature status and plans
so whats the difference between the two? its the first time i hear about object RTC.
alfet··on Argentina's Currency Black Market
If you have the means to buy Bitcoins i feel there are better ways to get into this money loop, specially the last few months with the recent capital repatriation tax amnesty.
alfet··on Why Postgres
The main advantage of using common table expressions is the improved readability and ease in maintenance of complex queries, after a while using them coming up with a solution for a complex query is quite easy. Regarding the performance of them, it depends on what you are trying to accomplish, some times theres some performance penalties but in my personal experience (using them in SQL Server) I have never run into a case where the performance isn't good, well that's not entirely true, in cases where you need to return large datasets CTE are never the best solution.
alfet··on I am a great programmer, but horrible algorithmist
I am like this to, something that really help me overcome this shortcoming of mine was start solving problems from http://www.spoj.pl/ and http://uva.onlinejudge.org. After solving a few hundred problems coming up with basic algorithms became a trivial task.
alfet··on Poll: HN readers, where's your residence?
Everything down the USA seems to be South America in the OPs eyes.

Cheers from Argentina!

alfet··on LibreOffice is one
As another spanish speaker I have to say that the name isn't a problem at all. But I must acknowledge that for the majority of people the name sounds stupid, I wonder how many will get used to it.
alfet··on AeroFS (YC S10): It’s Like Dropbox, But It Runs Inside Your Firewall
I'm stil having the same issue, on the first run it never finishes the 'checking for dinosaurs' part, after a while a warning appears telling me to check if my computer is connected to the internet.
alfet··on Sublime Text 2 Build 2091
Add Linux to that, I couldn't be happier with it's quality.
alfet··on 135TB for $7,384 - Backblaze Pod 2.0
Hey Brian, thank you for explaining the reasons of why the Linux version hasn't seen the light yet, I have been keeping an eye on Backblaze since this blog entry you wrote http://blog.backblaze.com/2008/12/15/10-rules-for-how-to-wri..., quite a while now, and it sucks that there's still no Linux version available, so as others have mention please consider releasing something.

PS: I'm already one of your costumers and I'd love to be able to use your service in my linux machines.

alfet··on 135TB for $7,384 - Backblaze Pod 2.0
Does anyone know if Backblaze will ever support Linux? I've wanted to use their service for a while now, but their lack of Linux support has being a big turn down, and I don't think they have made any change in their statements regarding this 'issue'.
alfet··on Focusing on the next Linux client
That's awesome. Balsamiq with YNAB are the only applications I use (that requiere Adobe Air that is).
alfet··on The 'oh sh_t' moment that Nokia decided to abandon MeeGo
After the article they have a link after the word 'source' that links to: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_24/b42320567...
alfet··on The Humble Frozenbyte Bundle
"Puppygames is working on releasing the Revenge of the Titans source code! ETA: 2 weeks."

@humble 7th of April, I got it on the last bundle but haven't played it yet, does anyone know if it's good?

alfet··on Tell HN: .ly domains starting to have problems (letter.ly)
Venezuela -> .ve -> Hugo Chávez

Colombia -> .co -> Juan Manuel Santos

alfet··on Turn off the clock on your menu bar
Damn! thats exactly what i needed. The only problem i have with it is that realizing how much I needed something like it makes me feel dumb hehe
alfet··on Sublime Text 2: Public Alpha Released
Wow.. I'm really impressed. Later I'll try it at home to see if it looks this good under KDE to. Although the price is a bit steep for me (given that I live in Argentina, 59$ represents ~7% of my monthly income), any chance the price is going to go down in the future?. How does this product's price compare with similar ones in the market?, maybe I'm a bit disappointed because of my low income.