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getting a license is not hard or hostile.

the fact that you have to do _anything_ is a problem... also dealing with mainland providers can be challenging.

> finally broke down and installed FB messenger again,

Prob not great for more advanced messenger functionality but Face Slim (https://github.com/indywidualny/FaceSlim) does notifications and simple/group chats fairly well.

kiwi land as well http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/8662806/Chin...

> subsidiary of Chinese manufacturer Foxconn

Foxconn is Taiwanese

1. get drunk

2. http://dumb.domains/

3. wake up with stupid domains

you can pad mash any name and email

couple of days ago i was all smug from upvotes for calling npm best practise.

i take that back, npm is a security risk that should be avoided.

now i need a new package manager.

you don't _need_ to, its simply best practice.

have you ever taken on a code base with thousands of lines of copy pasta code?

tried to update or workout dependencies/conflicts when the dude before you just dumped a bunch of jquery plugins (some hacked) in a directory?

give me a package.json any day! mmmm.. structured data.. nom nom nom

My old man is in his late 60s, has been HIV positive since < 1989, his partner passed away however he is going strong, with a happy family, great house and just started his own biz. Basically a really lucky guy living with a very unfortunate disease. /anecdote

Firefox 46.0a2 (2016-03-02) on Arch Linux, Intel Graphics. Runs very well.

You can tick every box securing your email server and still get rejected or flagged as spam.

Several years ago the Chinese government was confiscating lonely planet travel guides at the border

http://www.theage.com.au/news/news/hide-the-guide-warns-lone...

Tried hacking on a mobile skin last week and gave up. Cherry music is very minimal but works on mobile.

it's moving further up the chain. it is not hard to find a graphic designer who fancy themselves as wp experts because they can copy pasta css, install a module or two and ftp it to $3/mo shared hosting.

but honestly that is what many clients want, make it look pretty and don't bore me with your "best practice" and "you need to apply 12months worth of critical security patch's" mumbo jumbo.

Do you know a free way to transfer cash from aus bank to nz bank?

I want to buy from www.lastseason.co.nz without getting stung.

Does El Nino have an affect Europe?

Maybe a good time to buy wheat futures? Australia's east coast wheat crop is going to have a rough year or three.

Used osmand from f-droid in Indonesia few weeks ago. Google maps was basically useless. OSM map in southern Lombok did send me down a crazy dirt path that was mapped as main road. That was fine for me, I was just exploring the country on a scooter not relying on it for anything important (uploaded fixes when I got back to the home stay).

Similarly experience in Philippines in January, Google maps had basically nothing in Palawan but OSM had great coverage.

No boom, minerals, housing prices, or tulips is ever going to last. Which is why a broad based economy is important. The government of the day is responsible for this.

But I am not an economist.

Shame? really, people feel shame for using a scooter?

Scooters are pretty common is Sydney, nobody you care about would bat an eyelid. My friend riders hers around Singapore and nobody other then the occasionally overzealous security guard cares.

Really is says more about the city/society you live in if you are looked down upon for something as simple as a scooter.

I doubt any thing I have built in the last 5 years will stand the test of time as well as the FrontPage code that I have spent the last 10+ years scoffing at.

could have been another article about japan. people rinse before bagging and their in noticeably less smell.

what would be nice is a user pays system for garbage recycling in order to create an incentive to reuse containers and reduce over packaging (unfortunately this would inevitability create a problem of more illegal dumping)

I just got back from a walk in Nature for my lunch brake.

A Kookaburra stole my sandwich and now i'm stressed as fuck and angry at the world.

/anecdote

there are three pre-crisis article in the first paragraph that are cited as evidence that it was no secret. creditors were (apparently) not blind to the fact.

In all my time building websites the over emphasis on design has had a negative impact on the majority of projects i have encountered.

Non-design stake holders will obsess over design to the detriment of other less interesting issues, vendors are selected on the quality of mock up not their ability to deliver or technical expertise. Designer will go for gold and disregard best practice, what the user/product actually needs and what can be delivered on time and budget.

But I (like most people) do not work for apple/dropbox/megacorp... so my anecdotes are not exactly relevant to the article.

Generally it should be part of a recognosed training prog.

http://www.fairwork.gov.au/pay/unpaid-work/work-experience-a...

Sounds like a utopian dream compared to here in Sydney where the roads minister is ripping up our miniscule cycle network and replacing it with "part time" cycle ways and loading bays.

It's been posted a million times before, but if you missed it Hong Kong's walled city was amazing:

http://www.spoon-tamago.com/2014/10/28/detailed-cross-sectio...

http://www.mascontext.com/issues/19-trace-fall-13/kowloon-wa...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2139914/A-rare-insig...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8580136

link bait :(

i was expecting nuclear reactor or some kind rocket.

2015. The year of the Windows command line :)

> No one got fired for choosing Google ;)

Only a brave woman would build her house on GWT