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This is probably country-dependant. I’m from Australia and the prices shown are the final price, with everything included, because businesses here are legally required to do so.

That's interesting to know. Thanks.

Am I the only one who's wondering why we're reading an article that is supposed to be published/had been published 7 days from now?

Hey there, I'm from Malaysia but have been studying and working in Australia the past 7 years. Am really keen to get to know some Malaysian devs and find out what the software indu…

I play Starcraft 2 quite a bit, and can confidently say that no matter how good your strategy is, it just doesn't work without good execution against any decent player, and by dece…

> Seth absolutely deserves to have a forum to tell his version of the story, but I find it more than a little annoying that after everything he's done, he's still able to leverage …

> Today's tech "entrepreneur" rarely looks like Elon Musk, someone who genuinely seems to want to do good things for the world. The skeptisism exists because there are a lot of sta…

Interesting. Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to explain.

> What distinguishes one from the other? The drastically different way you pronounce a word, or even the choice of words. Well for example for the sentence "I feel very cold". Mand…

Wow. So what are the times when one would choose one reading over another?

I do understand that when people refer to Chinese it means Mandarin. However, if Mandarin is a language does that mean that Hokkien, Foochow, Cantonese, Hakka, etc are languages to…

Wait so the Chinese reading in Japan is different from the Chinese reading in China and most parts of the Chinese speaking world (ignoring the influences of accents)? Can you provi…

Do share with us why you believe that to be the case.

I'm a Chinese, and I can easily understand written kanji (one of the 3 Japanese writing systems) as it's essentially traditional Chinese characters, but the pronunciation is a whol…

Well bunnie is Singaporean, and most if not all Singaporeans can speak Mandarin (not a linguist but Chinese is more of the language, and Mandarin the dialect, albeit the "official"…

Some may refuse to do this as a matter of principle - not sinking to the level of those you despise.

Any idea what the upper limit is? Pretty sure an hour's fine, as I usually open a few article together with their respective comments page and then go through them at leisure. I wo…

Are you guarding against malicious users who send automated emails containing large attachments?

Out of curiosity: What are the positive reasons in having commented out code?

Major do'h moment for me. :P Got so used to using a VCS that I took some things for granted.

Good read. But regarding deleting commented out code, I have always have a strong aversion to doing so even though I really want to, for fear that someone somewhere might want it. …

While I do agree with you that the opportunity cost based analysis is better, I do want to point out that for this context (or any context where this might be the case) the opportu…

I'm really interested to know more about your experience learning programming for the first time, and the times after as well. You can shoot me an email if that's what you prefer. …

> Even better if you have more than one friend (hopefully not too be an "if") then you can have a "round robin" approach with a group of friends. How DVCS was first conceived. ;)