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hermitcrab

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About hermitcrab

Developing products as an Indie since 2005.

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    Comment #49120782

    Detailed down to the level of individual trees and houses. You can even see ridges near my house that might be from ridge and furrow agriculture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ridg…

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    Comment #49116028

    And run it on exactly the same dates as any FIFA matches.

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    Comment #49116012

    Game recognizes game.

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    Comment #49115885

    "The investment fund Fifa is dealing with - Thrive Capital - is led by Josh Kushner, the brother-in-law of Trump's daughter Ivanka." https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c…

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    Comment #49072241

    The British government gave/sold Enigma machines to various allies after the war. Somehow forgetting to mention that they could decrypt them. Cunning.

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    Comment #49072156

    The fact that the Enigma never encoded a letter as itself was a significant flaw in the design, which could presumably have been avoided. Better training for the operators would al…

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    Comment #48998620

    Castles come up for sale fairly regularly in the UK. They are (generally) relatively inexpensive to buy, but ruinously expensive to renovate and maintain.

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    Comment #48998601

    They have also completely omitted the entire chain of 'Palmerston's folly' Forts built around Portsmouth harbour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmerston_Forts

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    Comment #48998567

    Castles became star forts, with stone/brick augmented with massive amount of earth. These were relatively effective against artillery into the 20th century.

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    Comment #48998522

    I suspect the Mongols destroyed a lot of Asian castles and city fortifications. They never made it to Japan.

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    Comment #48997906

    Which is why advertisers used to pay much more to advertising in paid magazines, than free ones.

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    Comment #48997896

    The same way they do with Google Ads - they won't. In my experience (with small companies) most people running ads have little idea what they are doing and don't monitor the result…

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    Comment #48997862

    Would be interested to hear how much you were paying per click, if you feel like sharing.

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    Comment #48997854

    Click prices are only ever likely to rise.

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    Comment #48997839

    >In a world where agents are searching, building, and signing up for services, how do you advertise your product? I've been running a 1-man software business for over 20 years and …

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    Comment #48939672

    Both require a lot of refining, before they are any use. ;0)

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    Comment #48939648

    Interesting summary. I'm surprised you didn't mention any desktop ETL tools (such as Alteryx, Knime, Easy Data Transform).

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    Comment #48918790

    "Ah, but that's different!" I was told when I asked some Spanish people about the apparent hypocrisy of Spanish enclaves.

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    Comment #48848233

    I get this on both FF and Chrome.

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    Comment #48810074

    A vague article. With one sentence per line. Most annoying.

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    Comment #48508112

    Fun. Maybe you could add some random features for a bit more variety. Shallows, islands, fog banks etc.

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    Comment #48458306

    Well done to the journalist that uncovered this. Makes a change from copying and pasting press releases that many 'journalists' seem to do these days (partly because journalist org…

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    Comment #48453020

    >Are not ~all flags made to express unity? Usually the unity of some humans against other humns.