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Re:Stealth Infrastructure on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @10:39PM (#7781853)

Cellular coverage for rural NZ is quite a competitive scene. Did you check your facts on those "Family farms"?

Re:How did we get so busy? on Monday May 19, 2014 @10:04PM (#7770884)

Why is there no consideration of unemployment in this exploration? In order for leisure time to be evenly-distributed, in an anti-freeloader society, work would have to be evenly-distributed as well. That means having two employees working 20 hours, instead of one working 40. However, employers would need to be able to supply the workers the same salary they now pay the 40-hour worker, or else the workers would have to be willing to consume less.

Re:Microsoft OneDrive for Business modifies files as it syncs on Monday April 21, 2014 @06:16PM (#7624330)

Shocking that so many bytes would be added to HTML files. If you were backing up website views, this could add a lot of bytes per page request if you published them without realising. Totally unacceptable.

Donate pull requests for charity?

Posted by eggnog on Thursday April 17, 2014 @06:14PM
from the self-post dept.

Some months ago, I saw an article on HN about an organisation which facilitated coders to contribute to software projects for charitiable organisations. It used some clever play on words, involving some github-related word (e.g. pull, fork), but I can't remember the name, and no amount of playing with HN's seach engine has yielded it for me. I have found a few similar organisations on the...

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