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fizz_and_buzz

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    Comment #7701812

    Where I live, signs that change to adept to the traffic flow a pretty common[1]. Also, sign for construction sites are not in gps databases. [1] http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F…

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    Comment #7392907

    At my work we are considering to open an office and incorporate in the US (We are based in Germany). Are there states that easier to set up an office? Delaware? Our costumers are m…

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    Comment #7334667

    For some strange reason it is users in Europe that prefer manual transmission, since basically every car is available also with automatic transmission also. If anybody cares, here …

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    Comment #7313279

    They add a little javascript function that they call advertisment.js or something similar which just adds a div to the page (e.g.: document.write(' '); ). They then check if the di…

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    Comment #6938012

    > The majority of the internet traffic in the world routes through the USA regardless or origin / destination. I was suspicious of your claim since this didn't line up with my expe…

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    Comment #6776032

    Well to be fair, the parent comment brought up the US not the one you are quoting.

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    Comment #6445820

    This is definitely untrue. There were a bunch of studies in Germany that concluded the opposite, which is why the laws were changed here. It is now often illegal to change lanes e.…

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    Comment #6321134

    Why not Germany :( Or rather why is it restricted to the US and the UK?

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    Comment #6128694

    Haha, I kind agree, but I also lived in the US for a while. I talked to a coworker a while back though, and he came back from a conference in the US and was annoyed that waiters ke…

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    Comment #6112660

    > An O(n) algorithm is also O(n^2), O(2^n), etc. To be fair, it is pretty common to be a little bit sloppy with this definition. People often say O(...) when they really mean Θ(...…

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    Comment #6034084

    Really? That seems odd. I have been using firefox on a 6 year old macbook pro for many years and mac is not exactly there best supported platform. I can't remember the last time th…

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    Comment #5740267

    > it's a big player in a fast growing economic sector I have the impression that the blogging market is actually kind of over-saturated.

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    Comment #5435958

    "Ms. Amoruso also outgrew eBay, which she said was a terrible platform to start a business. Competitors started flagging Nasty Gal for breaking the site’s rules by, for example, li…

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    Comment #5399553

    Those kind of geographical terms are hardly ever well defined (same with continents etc.), mostly because there is no rigorous way to define them.

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    Comment #5036229

    They are actually phasing out the HPHPc translator and are now developing, as far as I can see, a more conventional one, which translates php into bytecode and can perform JIT on t…

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    Comment #4942299

    I would rather not disclose to the owner that I have any interest in the domain. I feel that then they will definitely extend the domain. I assume only somebody who wants to use th…

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    Comment #4942094

    Thanks a lot, this is very useful information. As far as I can see they have never actually used the domain in any way.

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    Comment #4941974

    Thanks for the answer. Just to clarify, we do not have a trademark on the domain, but only on the company name i.e. on "our_company_name" and not "our_company_name.com". I assume w…

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    Ask HN: How to go about domain hogging?

    I know this topic has been discussed to death, but there is so much contradicting information on the internet. Here is the situation: My dad owns a business since '95 here in Germa…