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Re:I wrote to the address in the GPLv2 license notice (2022) on Thursday April 24, 2025 @09:50AM (#43782818)

https://docs.lob.com/#tag/Letters

Re:See How Pencils Are Made in a Japanese Factory on Thursday August 03, 2023 @05:43AM (#36983529)

Also, these pedals made in Scotland https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlDWM-3CV8g

Re:Laravel 5 released on Wednesday February 04, 2015 @10:06AM (#8997141)

Can you give an example of a well designed PHP codebase?

Are any of the other frameworks (Symfony2, Zend, etc..) better?

How to make your iOS device dimmer than dim

Posted by xoe26 on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @12:58PM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/@searls/how-to-make-your-iphone-dimmer-than-dim-d20fd3bbbb66

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Re:Ask HN: What Personal Finance Management Tool/Software do you use a... on Wednesday December 10, 2014 @05:18AM (#8728528)

I'm in the UK and still using MS Money even though it hasn't been in development for years now.

Microsoft still let's you download it though: http://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=2073...

Ask HN: Where can I find an example of a professional functional specification?

Posted by xoe26 on Monday September 22, 2014 @03:38PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm a freelance developer and I have managed to land a very large contract (6 figures). It's an ecommerce web project (design and development) and I'm very keen on making an excellent impression.I promised the client that I would draw up a full specification of the work that I will be providing - however I'm not a very confident writer and I don't know where to start.I've read Joel's guide to...

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Re:First printed book in English sold for over £1m on Sunday July 20, 2014 @03:40AM (#8059844)

This reminded me of something I read in a book about perfume.

"Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a polymer made up of units that are closely related to vanillin. When made into paper and stored for years, it breaks down and smells good. Which is how divine providence has arranged for secondhand bookstores to smell like good quality vanilla absolute......"[1]

[1] Turin, Luca, and Tania Sanchez. Perfumes: The A-Z Guide. London: Profile, 2009.

How to create your own Tor hidden service on Debian/Ubuntu with nginx

Posted by xoe26 on Monday January 13, 2014 @07:12PM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/p/436bece8602f

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Re:Prim (YC S13) Does Your Laundry. Pickup, Wash, Fold, Delivery, Awesome on Friday July 26, 2013 @07:35AM (#6107628)

It bothered me that the two co-founders are wearing creased unironed t-shirts with their company logo on them.

If they're not fussed about wearing clean ironed clothes for a photoshoot why should I trust them with my laundry.

Re:Storage Space Doubled For All Linode VPS plans on Thursday July 25, 2013 @01:28PM (#6103610)

This is excellent news. I've had a VPS on Linode for a couple of years now and the only thing that was really lacking was the disk space.

Re:Want to learn about that beer in your hand? Send an SMS to learn more. on Monday July 30, 2012 @04:06PM (#4314402)

Doesn't work internationally (UK) it seems.