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ivix··on Have young people in Japan stopped having sex?
Because it should be 'married to a jap' but for annoying and outdated historical reasons, people will think you are racist if you say that.
ivix··on New LAX car rental company offers only Audi A4s – and no clerks
Strange! Compare to: http://www.mazda.co.uk/buying-owning/maintaining/service-sch...
ivix··on New LAX car rental company offers only Audi A4s – and no clerks
In most parts of the world 10k+ intervals have been standard for a long time.
ivix··on Why was Mini USB deprecated in favor of Micro USB?
Same here. Also I find it much more difficult to insert the micro plugs. I'd like to know the real reason for the change.

After all, RJ45 plus are notoriously bad, but no one has ever changed them in decades.

ivix··on Why does this Java program terminate despite appearing that it shouldn't?
Why do you say so? Do you suppose that a test pilot gets fired if their plane crashes?
ivix··on Tracking devices hidden in London's recycling bins are stalking your smartphone
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ivix··on On why removing features makes people unhappy
furthermore in the upcoming release we will complete the process by eliminating clutter such as punctuation and paragraphs we welcome comments on this but we will merely read them smilingly with a bag of popcorn
ivix··on On why removing features makes people unhappy
I would really like to know where this bizzare attitude has come from. At what point exactly did the gnome devs decide that they were at war with their users?
ivix··on Culturalism, Gladwell, and Airplane Crashes
The entire article is undermined by this sentence:

" If you think that a Korean person in a professional setting would show any disrespect to a person who is 14 years older just because he slightly outranks the other, you know absolutely nothing about Korean culture."

Therefore confirming that cultural issues DO have an impact on people's behaviour.

ivix··on Stop Penalizing Boys for Not Being Able to Sit Still at School
Thanks. It was kind of cute how the american terms were explained using more american terms.
ivix··on Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes
Interesting that the health system in Finland has the concept of paid 'luxury' options. In the UK NHS that would be considered anathema.
ivix··on “Accounts merged and now my files are gone”
Have you considered that the story presents an interesting case relevant to designers of these kinds of UI?
ivix··on Ask HN: How did you move from a salaried job to contracting?
I tried to find the commission rate on their website but failed, which makes me suspicious? How much do you actually have to pay for their services?
ivix··on Poll: Full-time software engineers in London, what's your annual salary?
Yeah, that would be the threshold for me to begin to consider commuting to central London (I'm in Cambridge).
ivix··on Poll: Full-time software engineers in London, what's your annual salary?
Yes, see here: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-2269520/Best-paid...

Some people seem dissapointed that developers are not being paid more than airline pilots: it's just not realistic outside of a boom economy (see: bay area).

ivix··on Poll: Full-time software engineers in the Bay Area, what's your annual salary?
Why will living costs double? Cars and fuel are just as cheap and sv housing costs are pretty close to London averages for example.
ivix··on What people use their Raspberry Pi's for
Why? A Raspberry pi is nothing special - it's just a cheap computer.
ivix··on U.S. is the only developed country with no guaranteed paid vacation or holidays
Sure about that? Compare their policies to British equivalents at the time.
ivix··on Flickr gets new UI, new Android app, 1 TB free space
For most normal users taking a normal amount of photos, that's absolutely fine.
ivix··on Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr
You might want to fix the counter so it handles petitions with responses numbering over 1 million..
ivix··on Google's Driverless Future
Because setting up a remote control car with a camera is currently impossible?

That's trivially easy in comparison to forcing an autonomous car to do something dangerous.

ivix··on Manchester City Council
Whole heartedly agree. So dissapointed to see people picking holes in the design, when actually the site's functionality works extremely well and is far ahead of almost any other comparable local authority website.
ivix··on Robot Finds Mysterious Spheres in Ancient Temple
The page is actively hostile towards readers. On my mobile device, a large 'survey' box covers the text, which cannot be closed. The discovery.com website is broken.
ivix··on Job hunting experience (and few advices)
I sent him my CV only to be told it "was corrupt and unreadable" and that he couldn't open it. I had to convert my "corrupt" ODT file to a MS Doc file.

Lose this attitude, fast. Do you want to convince recruitment agents to change their word processor, or do you want to find a job?

ivix··on Nokia announces Asha 210 with World's First Dedicated WhatsApp Button
There is truth to this. For example Ikea, is actually a seller of extremely cheap furniture to poor people. They even make you pick your own products from their warehouse! However the marketing cleverly inverts that so that shopping at Ikea is portrayed as an aspirational goal.
ivix··on Facebook Home over a week later: only 500K installs with a two-star user rating
I think you've got confused between a rating and an in depth product review.

If I have the "wrong friends" for a product to be useful to me, then I would probably not rate it highly.

ivix··on Yahoo shuts down six products
Wow, did not realise that a) Yahoo kids existed and b) it was so embarrassingly terrible.
ivix··on Never Say WordPress When Selling a Web Design Project
If you do that, you are talking about technology.
ivix··on All American Airlines Flights Grounded, Experiencing Nationwide Computer Outage
Departure slots. When one comes up you have to be ready to go immediately.
ivix··on New Debian Project Leader elected: Lucas Nussbaum
After trying to install a rails app on Ubuntu , frankly the entirety of ruby and its notion of how a mature language should be packaged is pure amateur hour. Rvm is a mess, the various versions are a mess. For example v1.9.3 appears to be considered the same as 1.9.1, and random bugs appear when moving between versions. WTF?
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