Argorak

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by Argorak 13y ago
No, OS X is also free if you upgrade in contrast to windows.
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by Argorak 13y ago
Even the 0.6.1 changelog is hardly noteworthy.
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by Argorak 13y ago
Full changelog: 0.6.2 FIX: styling bug that caused light themes to be unusable Names do bring you on the front page, however minor the message might be.
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by Argorak 13y ago
By the way, King did not only file trademark for "candy", but also "saga", which turns out to be a problem for "The Banner Saga". http://www.polygon.com/2014/1/22/5335766/sto
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by Argorak 13y ago
That would assume that salary is a pure function of the work you do. Berlin has certain advantages for tech employers: * It is an expat-friendly city * Nightlife is great, if you like the makeshift style * It is the epicenter of the german
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by Argorak 13y ago
It is treated as salary nowadays, just with odd payment terms.
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by Argorak 13y ago
> and only way not to get it is to leave company before the payday. There have been rulings that yearly, regular bonuses have to be paid partially if you leave before the payday. For "Weihnachtsgeld", which is a fixed bonus, t
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by Argorak 13y ago
Take this statement with a grain of salt. Living costs are shooting up dramatically, currently.
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by Argorak 13y ago
Considering there are quite some illustrated books about programming, especially "why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby", the whole thing doesn't seem to hurt either. Kids have different tastes, like everyone. So why not an ill
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by Argorak 13y ago
I would count the initial reply under that. Gallows humor is very hard to pull off without being involved yourself and there is the clear danger of overdoing it. I think the replies are an example of both.
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by Argorak 13y ago
This is not mostly because of the Stasi, which became a hot topic in western germany after the wall came down. e.g. in 1981, there was a census planned. It met so much opposition that it had to be delayed until 1987, especially because of d
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by Argorak 13y ago
Sure, they are between a rock and a hard place in that respect. But that doesn't help you if you want to push your data somewhere out of access from the US. The company in question has to comply to the requests just as they do in the U
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by Argorak 13y ago
Also, US companies have to comply with the patriot act even for data centers outside of the US. EC2 in Europe is hosted in Ireland only.
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by Argorak 13y ago
6wunderkinder seems to use Amazon AWS: http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/6wunderkinder/
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by Argorak 13y ago
Unsurprisingly, there is high interest in Argentina for Bitcoin. The latin american bitcoin conference was in Buenos Aires and there is a foundation. http://labitconf.com/ http://www.bitcoinargentina.org/ A
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by Argorak 13y ago
I would really like to try Mail Pilot, but it doesn't have S/MIME-support. Some people actually use that actively :(.
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by Argorak 13y ago
No, because that has me navigating a menu.
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by Argorak 13y ago
I love -p, but it still falls short of darcs interactive commit (which it is definitely inspired by). darcs interactive commit allows you: - to add files in the same process (in two steps: intent-to-add and then the file itself) - revert of
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by Argorak 13y ago
> Does Canonical have the software engineering capability to maintain a bunch of stuff (an init system, a display server) that's really unrelated to their problem (making awesome products for users)... Thats an odd statement. It imp
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by Argorak 13y ago
How is this a CTF then?
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by Argorak 13y ago
Also, offline use.
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by Argorak 13y ago
Another piece of info that is missing: there were elections in germany last autumn. Going into negotiations for a "no-spy" agreement also meant that the administration could say that they are doing something. Even though the negot
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by Argorak 13y ago
Protests and aggression are close friends in France. For example, kidnapping the boss to prevent layoffs (or at least get better severances) is something that happens regularly.
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by Argorak 13y ago
I had a similar issue, but came to the other conclusion: my blog is running on Middleman, and I kept it that way. My biggest problem with Ghost: lack of offline support. So while I can edit if from everywhere in a browser, I can only do tha
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by Argorak 13y ago
Python is used throughout the whole product, both server and client. AFAIK, especially the UI is written mostly in Python. I am not an expert though, but I do follow their very interesting dev blog. A few references: http://highs
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by Argorak 13y ago
Because I expect that as a a paying customer. GitHub has no obligation to improve them, sure. I am just opposing the view that GitHub is handling all this so much better. The only difference is that they leave the product stale instead of s
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by Argorak 13y ago
Along with speakerdecks creators (Ordered List), GitHub acquired gaug.es and Harmony. Both are still running (although gaug.es has subsequently been given to Fastest Forward in November 2013). But that is really all I can say. As a gaug.es
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by Argorak 13y ago
> But in a few years, we could imagine that the majority of contributions come donated for free from volunteers. Would it still be fair then? Yes, because running a project, mentoring, moderation and releasing in an orderly fashion is f
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by Argorak 13y ago
While I generally say that I don't give a lot about people writing me business letters as persons, I tend to remember them better. Joel -> Buffer is a connection I have. It still kind of creeps me out, because I don't have a pe
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by Argorak 13y ago
The others, to clarify, in that case being: a court.

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