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by MandieD 5y ago
Oh - forgot about that problem and wild goose chase the one time I foolishly tried to save my employer money on a hotel booking. Learned that lesson, never booking outside of miserable Concur for work travel again (should I ever travel fo
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by MandieD 5y ago
I’ve had a decent 15 years or so of using Expedia (.de and .com, depending on where I was traveling and which credit card I wanted to use). Prices and availability generally in line (maybe slightly higher prices) as Booking.com, without the
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by MandieD 5y ago
After spending most of my adult life in Germany, I have to be extra-vigilant when doing anything with money back in the US - from remembering that the prices on the shelves are several percent lower than what I’m actually going to have to p
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by MandieD 5y ago
Keeping a separation between wants and needs can be trickier than it sounds. Avoiding a want becoming a need is important to preventing lifestyle creep. Over the top example: buying a travel trailer because you think it will save money on h
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by MandieD 5y ago
The turn-of-the-century digital lifestyle, just with some upgraded components. A worthy goal. “Convenience” is the truly obscene “c-word”.
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by MandieD 5y ago
I’ve learned a lot of textile arts to a “basic mastery” degree and moved on - wasn’t a waste, because I now better understand and appreciate things I see in museums and old churches, and a lot about the economics of pre-industrial/earl
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by MandieD 5y ago
Hm. Aspirin is wrong, or at least US-centric, because Bayer still has the trademark for it in Germany and much of the rest of the world. A packet of 8 is somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 EUR at pharmacies here. The much more reasonably-pr
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by MandieD 5y ago
Microsoft comes close - my most personally irritating example was them trading “Lync” (short, wonderfully searchable, very little rubbish returned) for “Skype for Business” (impossible to search for specific technical matters, and the site
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by MandieD 5y ago
The “best” part: when Google Maps auto-translates German business names into English, making it especially useless for a non-fluent German speaker to find them while driving. For example, a fabric shop named “Stoffe Bauer” was rendered as “
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by MandieD 5y ago
I’ve been calling this phenomenon “over-internationalization, but “over-localization” is a bit snappier.
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by MandieD 5y ago
Related: over-internationalization. Just because I’m browsing from an IP address that appears to be in Germany, doesn’t mean that I want your site autotranslated into German with no way to switch back, even when I type “/en” or take ot
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by MandieD 5y ago
In Germany, most contracts (and any regular job has a contract) say something like 1 month notice for the first six months on both the employer and employee’s side, and 3 months for the employee after that trial period, and possibly longer
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by MandieD 5y ago
There’s a very faint, tiny “favorite” in the line of faint, tiny links right below the title of comment pages for bookmarking. It took me about three years on HN to notice it, but now I have a wonderful, shareable collection of the cleverer
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by MandieD 5y ago
When someone accidentally sent me 200 EUR about 15 years ago it sure as heck didn’t stay mine: their bank contacted mine, which then contacted me to warn me that they would soon be pulling it back out. The sender had transposed numbers in t
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by MandieD 5y ago
Pssst… don’t work for “tech” companies in big German cities - work for old-school manufacturing firms in second-tier metro areas like Nürnberg and Braunschweig. Salaries are close to Munich/Berlin, housing is much closer to sane (but s
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by MandieD 5y ago
It doesn’t help that the compulsory “Business” edition is burdened with the anti-feature of Docker Registry but that SSO is still “on the roadmap.” There’s no way we would have gotten the product through IT Security Management on time, much
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by MandieD 5y ago
Especially when oil for fuel is obsolete because an awful lot of my home state’s prosperity and thus tax revenue is still tied to the oil industry.
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by MandieD 5y ago
The train between Machu Picchu (Aguas Calientes) and Cusco had three classes, the lowest of which was restricted to Peruvian citizens and residents. To be clear, Peruvians were free to use the second and first classes if they were willing t
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by MandieD 5y ago
Same here - lacking that, some information on how it is hosted and what you plan to do with it (monthly subscription? Collecting the data for research?) would be nice before having to hand over an email address.
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by MandieD 5y ago
Thanks for giving a snappy way to call how I now feel about the lack of original-version American movies and TV series on streaming services in Germany. They’re all dubbed into German, and there is no legal source where I can hear the actor
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by MandieD 5y ago
Or hire someone who wants or needs to work part time. One of the things I appreciate most about Germany is that I was able to switch to part time after coming back from maternity leave, but still do the same type of work.
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by MandieD 5y ago
We paid 2000 EUR for a 55" HD (1K) Sony in 2010, and would happily go down a bit in size as it's now mounted over a piano that frankly sees a lot more use than the TV. I'm completely ok with paying 1000-1500 EUR to get a 40&q
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by MandieD 5y ago
This should be the top comment - as a Baby Buddy enthusiast who isn’t interested in setting up a second child profile, I’m thrilled to find out about Drip!
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by MandieD 5y ago
You can always throw away data you logged but later realize you don’t need, but you can’t go back in time and log data you now wish you had. The benefit to the Baby Buddy approach is that whatever device with a web browser was closest to ha
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by MandieD 5y ago
“…giving away your child’s data”: What part of self-hosted are folks not grasping here, of all places? To be very specific, that data lives in a volume connected to a Docker container running Postgres, accessed by another Docker container
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by MandieD 5y ago
If my late mother had been around for this, she would have thought I was nuts for going to so much trouble to breastfeed, and let me know on a regular basis :) I treasure the detailed baby book she kept about me, though. My nerdy app data i
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by MandieD 5y ago
Uh, you did see the self-hosted part, right?
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by MandieD 5y ago
Anyone who actually knows me would laugh their ass off at the thought of me being a controlling, micromanaging parent: I’m far too absent-minded. They’re more worried about me forgetting to pick him up from daycare or that he’s in the car.
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by MandieD 5y ago
Hm. I should have said “why it might matter” because not everyone ends up with a baby surprisingly uninterested in nursing…
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by MandieD 5y ago
Baby Buddy helped me out in large part because even before I had a kid, I was kind of scatterbrained. After… oh god. I kind of get why a lot of people react negatively. If you had the happy path, you think lactation consultants are ridiculo

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