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Definitely try Nepal next, though I think you'd totally need to change your tyres, the Nepalese country roads are brutal...

Suck my lady lumps, Thank you. 83% polite....hehe

Suck my dick, Thank you. Contentious....ha! The gender based norms are strong with this one.

I'm in Nepal right now. Massive blockade by India taking place has taken the majority of vehicles off of the road. The only taxi cabs running with regularity are electric three wheelers.

Electric scooter dealers and cycle shops are making an absolute killing over here right now.

Starship Troopers covered it pretty well

"Thirty years before the First Interstellar War, a meteorite from Klendathu System was deviated from its star during the Operation Fedmil, the first contact in Klendathu. Thirty years later, the meteorite reached and hit Earth, destroying Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, killing over 8.7 Million, and wounding a further 12.5 million."

"However, the United Citizen Federation claimed that the Arachnid launching a "Bug Meteor" by Bug Plasma from the Klendathu system towards Earth and destroyed the city of Buenos Aires."

My favourite startup weekend was where we had to sell the product within 4 weeks of the competition finishing.

Highest selling product was the winner, went a long way to teaching me that you can produce code that is valuable to a buyer in a short space of time.

Came here to recommend a sift science type solution. I've previously integrated fraud systems like Cybersource (clunky interface, wouldn't recommend)

also, Jekyll support pretty please.....

Awesome job guys. Any chance that you'll have apps like Dashing on the horizon? Containerised dashboard monitoring....

Wonder what women are feeling inside Yahoo when they see their CEO going to work right up until they go into the delivery room, then back to work straight away...do they feel under similar pressure if they are giving birth? It feels distinctly American for a woman to be under such pressure to get back to the workforce asap...

Long time linux user. Tend to stay behind the times in terms of distros, 12.04 is still one of my development machines.

I tend not to keep up on the news lists in terms of the politics around stable software that gets the job done. I had no idea IBM pulled the plug on OpenOffice.

For my Mac laptop, I've Open Office installed. Thanks to this open letter I immediately converted to Libre Office. Thanks Christian...

Really interested in this approach, can you point somewhere that talks further about this nginx proxy strategy?

So three different environments have had the ELB just release all of their clients and not come back onboard. Manual intervention was the only way.

Whats the recommended way to monitor if instances have become detached or non responsive? Want to immediately alert slack or send an email, etc.

Would love to see what Kiva's Matt Flannery is reading...

I think i'd be waiting a while for that one. I think Google Glass will be scraped as its form factor is just creepy but I believe it will be miniaturised, perhaps into contact lenses.

I'm going to put my neck out and say "watch this space".

Google don't have this front and center any more with this glass product but I think they'll definitely be looking at different form factors in the future.

It came from observing the amount of users claiming to have left from Bitbucket to Github within the thread. I've been following it for months but it has been active since 2013-07-17, 131 comments on it so far and it seems to be only getting more vocal.

I was presently surprised moving to Australia to find that it was compulsory to have a helmet while on a bicycle.

Many on my cycle run have been attaching go-pro mounts to their skull cover; I wonder how ineffective it renders the helmet if you landed straight on it.

I'm pretty sure this was incredibly popular in China around 2005. Pick your favourite artists song and pay for it with existing phone credit. Then force your family and friends to listen each time they call...

My father passed away from cancer, he was given 3 months to live. I often believe he received a sub-standard level of care and wonder would things have been different if he lived in a country like France.

Work hard and pay high taxes all your life. Your country should take care of you when you need it the most.

I remember watching this documentary a few years ago. Outstanding piece of work, really stunned that they valued their collection more than wealth.

I remember one of the pieces of their collection was a few inches of frayed rope with a nail through it. Art is always in the eye of the beholder, they always bought what they personally liked.

Sad to hear that Herb passed away a few years ago. Their like may never been seen again...

Cool app, just a few points.

Love the elevation charts, really well done.

One route indicated the lane cove tunnel in Sydney, a place where I can't run or cycle, I could get squished.

Would be interesting to use long/lat co-ordinates, could be really great for bushwalkers and their specific location.

Combine this with something like zombie-run, have the zombies attack at the bottom of a hill/vice versa, you could have a hit with the hard core running community.

Would be nice to see the alternative routes, not just the flattest, but maybe challenging ones, best rated.

But what you've done in a few weeks is still awesome. Well done.

So an Irish citizen still needs to obtain a visa then?

I've been multiple times, always got the visa before hand, am married to a Nepalese citizen, still needed a visa.

Irish Citizen => Nepal; Visa required...not in your database yet.

Thanks for the information, I think I'll be in touch about an account in the next few weeks for a marketplace I'm developing.

Perfect timing too, I just started looking at our options for developing something similar internally.

Would love to see the systems that Etsy / Ebay for handling this type of fraud.

How would this sit with payment gateways from a PCI standpoint?

An ideal customer would be an e-commerce marketplace, I imagine that Sift Science would want to receive as much information about the customer as possible, including credit card / address details. Are you guys completely PCI compliant? You're taking 10 out of 16 credit card digits...

From a quick glance of your website you make no reference to PCI.

So I love Google Reader, been using it from the very beginning.

I love offline clients, quite often I'm stuck in a remote location where 3G has yet to penetrate so I like to have a couple of hundred items to read which will sync when I reach connectivity again.

I need the RSS service to track what I've read across multiple devices and have the client support offline usage. Any recommendations?

Think of your database in terms of code version control. You want to track the changes that are made to it, adding a column could be a migration, renaming a column could be another.

A migration enables you to track the changes you made and possibly rollback to previous migrations (database states) if ever required.

From my experience in Nepal credit cards are pretty much non-existent....apart from the local cards which only work within the confines of Nepal & India.

Learning Rails now is the equivalent of starting to watch Coronation Street (British Soap) last week (The show has been running since 1960).

I agree that it is incredibly difficult to get up and running on Rails. Efforts are under way to get one click installs working so that you can get working in no time at all but these all take time and money to develop.

Just because a software engineer completed a college course does not mean they have finished learning, they're just beginning. That's why I love this profession, there is always something else to learn and apply.

Stick at it, you've learned a lot, BUT there's ALWAYS going to be a lot more to learn no matter the domain.

Your employer should be able to get you on a 457 visa fairly easily; they just need to prove that you are qualified to do the job and they can't find a local to undertake it. The 457 binds you to that employer for the term of that visa unless you find another employer to take it over.

You would have issues getting a different visa than the 457 though, they require 5 years experience if you do PR by yourself.