Yeah I guess - but for me it seems like the focus should be on the facts rather than theatrics. That said I have sat on a jury where the performance of the prosecuter played a pivotal role in papering over some of the mistakes in the investigation. But the guy was a perfect gentleman at all times. Innocent until proven guilty.
That said I have sat on a jury where the performance of the prosecuter played a pivotal role in papering over some of the mistakes in the investigation.
I sat on a jury once where the behavior of the prosecutor really hurt his case, because he acted like a total dick and was demeaning and rude towards the defendant. In theory that should have nothing to do with the actual merits of the case, but people being people, it created a certain measure of sympathy for the defendant.
In the end, we acquitted the guy for a number of reasons (mysteriously "missing" evidence, an incompetent investigator, perception that the investigator and victim may have lied, etc.) but the prosecutor's behavior was definitely something that all (or most) of the jurors picked up on and commented on.
I believe that simple things like how the prosecutor (or the defendant) carry themselves, and how they act towards other participants in the trial, can absolutely affect the outcome of cases, at least sometimes.
That seems like a stretch. Judges routinely make questionable rulings. Heck, in this case Alsup did a great job in the first (jury) trial .... and then Oracle appealed and the original decision, which I thought was right, was overturned by judges.
I did. And I know the article isn't about syncing - it's about Apple deciding they know best how to manage your digital media files. I'm just making a general comment.
The problem with "syncing" is if I delete a file on one device, what does sync semantics say should happen? It is ambiguous, which is why syncing is a stupid semantic. Copying files and deleting files is unambiguous.
And where have you read about this "widely misused pension system"? I am Greek and I can asure you that this is another one of the "rumors" floating around about Greece which, as all rumors, is a blatant lie.
In fact, the pension system in Greece has been following the European standards since at least 10 years.
I am so sick and tired of outsiders spewing nonsense all of the internet about Greece without knowing any real fact.
If you read the articles -- and if you follow the proceedings in Greece, this is linkbaity headlines.
Title: "120,000 families claiming 'ghost pensions' for relatives who died years ago"
Actual content: "Greece has halted welfare or pension payments to 200,000 people either because they are unentitled to the money - or because they are dead, a Labour Ministry official said on Wednesday."
Not that the 200.000 number includes all pensions under examination -- and most of those were found to be absolutely OK in subsequent checks.
So, first the "dead getting pensions" were far from "120,000" (more close to a few thousands -- and of those "dead cases" most were recent deaths of a few months were the reported death wasn't yet registered (the bureacracy is chaotic).
The final tally was some 40.000 problematic pensions (which in a huge messy bureacracy like Greece includes pensions missing a few supporting documents, having 1% less "pension credits" than needed, etc), and around 2.500 cases of "dead pensioners".
Moreover, of those "dead pensioners" most were cases of people who died with no relatives etc and weren't declared to stop the pension being deposited. Of the 35 million euros deposited to dead pensioners, the state found that the 21 million euros were such and reclaimed it immediately ( http://www.enet.gr/?i=news.el.article&id=380165 ). The rest could be actual fraud cases.
Not as impressive as the BS baity headlines that preceded the investigation one year before. The government merely wanted to give an impression of wide corruption, in order to sweeten the passage of some anti-pension laws.
There are no European standards for pension systems. It's typically one of those things that hasn't been unified.
Both the pension fraud and the early retirement age in Greece where hotly debated and well documented topics, not "rumors".
I think the problem here lies in the different cultural perception of the phrase "widely misused". For Greek values, 1% is a bureaucratic rounding error. For North European values it's sign of massive corruption.
What difference would it make? The Rails box is the same for both columns. He could have ommitted it and just add a generic "backend framework" box with the results being the same.
Probably more than that. It might work at the IP layer, rather than TCP layer. That could mean changing router software, but I doubt they will do that since that could kill adoption. We'll see.
Try Invoice Machine (http://invoicemachine.com/). I don't know if they support Greek characters or not, but they are a small Swedish team so they are definitely internationalized.
Honestly the posts with the format "How I made this much money in a ridiculously small time-frame with my low-price-product/service" CAN be a bit off-putting to the reader who is not familiar with this kind of posts. I have already read quite a lot of those and still whenever one of them pops up on my news feed I still get the feeling that the writer comes out as a cheater rather than a marketing genius.
A cheater? What, did he break the rules of the Capitalism Game?
Casting aspersions like this is in very poor taste. You can't even question his actual actions — instead, you just feel like the author is a cheater. This is not reasonable discussion; it's slander, and it is hostile to the purpose of Hacker News.
This is an interface that you can program. For example, you can make a JSONP request to it (e.g http://api.azer.io/?callback=foobar) and fetch display/process my personal info in your app easily.
I'm from Greece. We have 40h work weeks since the first of May 1892. Overtime pay is a joke for any Greek worker. We are expected to work overtime until all daily tasks are completed and then leave. Seriously people who live in countries with 35h work weeks and overtime payments have it really easy.
