Kurtz79

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by Kurtz79 8y ago
It has been explained multiple times to several people (Donald Trump, one of them), that for EU countries is impossible to establish individual trade deals, they must do as part of a block. https://www.businessinsider.com/tr
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
Brexit has done a lot of damage, at least in EU countries (and not in all circles), to the image of British people as reasonable, realiable, level-headed fellows. But apart from that, I'm not sure what bad press you get?
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
With a similar background I tried both Ruby and Pyhton at about the same time many years ago. I didn't dislike Ruby, but I found Python much more intuitive, as you did, but I suspect that in great part was because it had a similar syn
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
Agreed completely. In addition, a huge difference between traditional media, and modern "fake news" is accountability. As biased as they can be, traditional articles always come with an author name, and published or run under the
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
I would think that if you are setting up a charging station, buying half a dozen of commercial credit card readers would be cheaper than developing/testing/maintaining a specific payment app.
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
The moment you say "everybody does that" (which is often very debatable), you are implicitly being an apologist for the subject of that specific criticism.
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
(somewhat related) Still my favorite essay by Paul Graham: http://www.paulgraham.com/stuff.html
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
"Anything you do for work eventually wears out and becomes "just work". That's why it's called "work"." So true. As someone that likes to watch Twitch, it is not uncommon to see streamers abandoning a
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
"To survive a Northern winter, bees change the composition of the swarm by shrinking the overall population, caulking the hive, getting rid of the deadweight males (i.e., ALL of the males), and laying just enough eggs to preserve a min
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
Not necessarily, since someone would need to build the server backend for anything more complex than a static website. As other people have noted, classifying "web developer" as "frontend web developer" is a bit restrict
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
Nice catch. I cannot think of any other reason than a typo in the original prints, and the people reponsible for digitizing the books have mechanically filed them with the date reported in the body as that of the first edition. Maybe it is
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
I have played OS 1 and it has the best combat of any CRPG I have ever played (think X-Com with magic). Plot, setting and characters I found quite unremarkable, though. But still the best "traditional" RPG I have played in many yea
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
Cannot recommend this blog enough , where the author is playing methodically computer RPGs in chronological order (he has started in 2010 and I think its going thorugh 1992 still...) , with detailed descriptions and reviews: http:/&#x
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
It has changed compared to the initial version. Pretty sure that a string like "c\+\+" was there before. It seems that in the new version the old patterns have been commented out, the search method was changed and c++ removed alt
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
This honestly seems just a mistake. Skimming a few of the posts, there are maybe 15+ references to C++ for post, and 1 for Julia at most. The detection algorithm seems to be a bit iffy.
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
Myabe the regex pattern is checking for the pattern but not as a separte word? "scalable solution" "excellent benefits"
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
Well, this was due to the fact that the dangers were recognized when adoption was already widespread and, as you mention, dozens and dozens of years of PSAs, bans and medical consulting were necessary to lower consumption rates. Maybe this
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
I was following the website frequently at the time and I fully agree. Bur I was just commenting that that the author is spot-on at least in that many readers do not take these explanations into account and they see just 28.6% of winning cha
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
"Saying "this is not something their readers follow suit on" - only if you're a reader who doesn't understand probability." Unfortunately that is the more common case, and I agree on the author on that that mos
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
You must be a fun person to be with, what a needlessly arrogant and abrasive answer. It was cleary not a request for "education", but a way of starting a discussion on the use of this term, that neither seems to be used consistent
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
"But unlike Detroit’s automotive model of the mid-20th century, relatively few middle-class jobs were created, and the region is marked by a vast concentration of wealth in the upper, white-collar reaches." After reading it about
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
I think that the combination of factors that made our individual existence in this world possible it's by itself a miracle (without necessarily attaching religious connotations to it). Hell, just the existence of humanity itself it&#x2
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
I believe that nostalgia about the (supposedly) better times is a constant in most cultures.
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
"Strange Brews is a BBC Travel series that invites you to indulge in one-of-a-kind beers from all over the world." I really don't see what is strange or supposedly immoral about it. Newspapers have run articles covering speci
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
...which means that the pictures have a bias, and they don't represent the state of the whole country at the time. (not that there is anything wrong with it)
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Just the first paragraph is depressing, what a world we live in.
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In general (not only for video editing), it was an incredibly powerful machine sold for a fraction of the price of comparable hardware of the time, even for personal computing. Apple and PCs were easily selling for 1000$+, while a basic A50
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I had no idea you could expand the RAM up to 3 Megs! I remember I had to save for months to be able to buy the meager 512KB "brick": https://goo.gl/images/jUzQVD It allowed me to play The Secret of Monkey Isl
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
The A500 is my favorite machine ever, it basically merged the best of both worlds from PCs (interface, general purpose OS, programmability) and consoles (dedicated audio and video chipsets, you could use a normal TV as monitor). It took ful
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by Kurtz79 8y ago
...so? It's exactly the same case as the article: "What I wanted was to write full-time. Or, rather, I wanted writing to be my main mode of being in and engaging with the world. But I hadn’t simply awakened one morning and decided

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