Derbasti

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by Derbasti 14y ago
Technically, it is like threads, but it includes messages from other directories that belong to the thread, thus showing you the whole coversation including your answers and archived messages. Graphically, it shows all the messages in a con
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Oh, you know, lunch in Cologne, dinner in Munich, then back home. Or maybe a leasurely afternoon stroll in the Black Forest or on the shore of the North Sea. Something like that.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Well, I live in rural Germany and the trains I am taking are mostly filled with commuters between small towns. And swiss people. I don't think there is any reason to fear being mugged here.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
> like, instead of , say, 9-5, you arrive at 10 and leave at 4? Exactly. But I work on the train. Also, I work from home two days a week.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I knew a guy who bought a flat-rate take-every-train-for-free ticket (ca 4000$ in Germany) instead of renting an office. Not my idea of the perfect working place, but it worked for him.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
> Someone needs to stop trying to arrange their life around their tech and try it the other way around. I work on my laptop on my commute on the train. This saves me two hours every day and allows me to live in a beautiful place. Someon
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by Derbasti 14y ago
The laptop in question was a 1.6 Ghz Core Solo with 2 Gb of memory and integrated graphics. Even with x86 outperforming ARM at similar clockings etc., a current generation quad core 1.5 Ghz tablet will probably be in a similar performance r
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by Derbasti 14y ago
This very much reminds me of the Steve Jobs quote that in the future, laptops and desktops will be like trucks. They will always be around for those who need them, but most people don't need trucks. Personally, I don't quite see that yet wi
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by Derbasti 14y ago
In Germany, OSM maps are beautiful and extremely comprehensive. Apple maps are woefully incomplete and ugly as hell. If Apple is indeed using OSM data, they threw away half of it when creating their own maps.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Look at any mapping provider: Google, Bing, Ovi/Nokia, TeleAtlas, OSM... They are ALL way better than Apple. Apple allegedly is using OSM data, yet their maps are ridiculously bad compared to OSM. Town names are missing, there are next to n
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by Derbasti 14y ago
The only thing that bugs me about Fusion is that it is usually one hell of a buggy mess right after release. They are usually very quick and thorough to fix that though. Overall, I quite like Fusion and really see no reason to switch. Any c
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Only caring about the top quartile (aka ignoring the majority) is dangerous, because it has been proven that humans are not very good at judging the relative intelligence of people more intelligent than they are. Thus, a dumb population wil
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I firmly believe that the human brain is incapable of basic mathematics. When I add two numbers, say 145 and 394, I have memorized a few rules and tricks that let me break that down to something like 1+4 (hundreds), 4+9 (tens), add one to t
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I guess you are asking this question in reference to "my computer has not had a virus in years". By the naïve measure of "my antivirus did not ever find a virus", which might not be 100% reliable, as the article points out. However, it sho
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Frankly, my computer has not had a virus in years. It has been on the web, it has downloaded stuff from dubious websites, it has installed stuff. But no viruses. That is not to say that there is no malware any more, but the infection vector
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I know and use both Ubuntu and Windows regularly. At the moment, OSX is still my operating system of choice mainly because the hardware is seriously great. The OS itself is becoming more and more awkward to me.
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At the time, I did look into that stuff, but the Modified folders were not the problem. There was something else going on.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I don't ever put photos on my iPhone and I didn't sync my iPhone in the last year or so. Besides, I don't take all that many pictures with the iPhone.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I am still using OSX, and modestly enjoying it. But I feel the same way the author does. (Here is my list of complaints: http://bastibe.de/how-apple-is-failing-me.html ) Still, I find that OSX is a fine environment to run Unix software. M
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by Derbasti 14y ago
My iPhoto Library grew rapidly over the years. As in: it doubled its size, even though I did not add many photos. Thus, after a few years, I ended up with an iPhoto Library of 60 gigs that contained 30 gigs worth of photos. And apparently,
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by Derbasti 14y ago
No, the command line is about executing textual commands. Whether you use a mouse, a touch screen, speech recognition, a keyboard or something else to do that job is entirely up to you.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
It's not like VS2010 ever integrated nicely with the look of other applications. I mean, blue... That said, since they are diverging from any kind of standard look, making the colors customizable is certainly a good thing.
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Imagine how I must feel: They didn't support Windows ME, either!
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On the Virtue of Contributing to and Using Open Source Software(bastibe.de)
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Why is it better? And better than what?
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One: This stuff should be called "documented abuse of children" and nothing else. Two: Documented abuse of children is a MacGuffin, not an end.
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She is using names a lot, but no VB. You define your own functions with IF/ELSE and the like and then replicate that function by dragging it to other cells I suppose. So that is kind of an anonymous function that you map to a vector of data
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by Derbasti 14y ago
Yesterday I discovered that a friend of mine is very used to many ideas in the functional programming world. She is an accountant, using Excel. If you squint you eyes a little, Excel can be seen as functional programming: No mutable data, v
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by Derbasti 14y ago
I think there is a lot of truth to the argument that the customer is best served by a product that is created for the customer. However, I think both Amazon and Google and Apple and Microsoft are in this for the long haul. They probably fig
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by Derbasti 14y ago
As far as regular comments go, this is probably true. But then, comments serve more than one purpose. Not all comments are there for those special edge cases. For example, what about docstrings? That is, comments that contain documentation

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