MatthiasP

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by MatthiasP 13y ago
If Scandinavia is the "Dark Land" then the British model of society can only be called the "Black Hole".
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by MatthiasP 13y ago
Yup, that's pretty much my experience too. I think locals are so used to foreigners in a tourist role that they don't want to get more deeply invested into people who may leave in a year or two anyways. But i also think all this i
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by MatthiasP 13y ago
I can't be the only one who immediately thought of this xkcd comic when reading the article: http://xkcd.com/451/
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by MatthiasP 13y ago
I guess he would have a much harder time getting a feeling for a city where he could not casually pick up what people are talking about due to language barriers.
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by MatthiasP 13y ago
"It's like I go out of my way to not do the work I'm supposed to do." Well, that's exactly what you do and it helps thinking about why you avoid doing some coding. Sometimes this behaviour comes from thinking that y
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by MatthiasP 13y ago
With the difference that there is no law in Germany that forces companies to introduce backdoors into their products.
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by MatthiasP 13y ago
It really depends on which layer of the software stack you are working on. The closer you come to the hardware the more mathematical understanding you will need, e.g. writing a compiler. But it's also very true that if you work with hi
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by MatthiasP 13y ago
But this image of nerds existed way before the Big Bang Theory first aired. They just picked that up, stereotyped it and made a comedy show around it.
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by MatthiasP 13y ago
Too many students see a PhD as potential career and income booster instead of what it really is, the first step in becoming a scientist.
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by MatthiasP 13y ago
Comments on HN are probably as good as comments get on the internet. I doubt that there are websites out there with a better community.
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by MatthiasP 13y ago
A cat that wants to be fed at 6:30 in the morning works wonders as well.
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by MatthiasP 13y ago
Except for the socially progressive part...
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by MatthiasP 13y ago
Seems like most of the Holy Roman Empire doesn't want to be streetviewed.
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Don't Believe a Word of Last Night's 60 Minutes NSA Interview(gizmodo.com)
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by MatthiasP 13y ago
If Snowden fled to Iceland, Switzerland, Germany or France he would be already sitting in a US prison cell.
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by MatthiasP 13y ago
Out of most jobs in the Valley? Is it really that bad? I still have the illusion that being an IT professional gives you more freedom of having an 'unpopular' opinion than any other industry. As long as your work is in high demand
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by MatthiasP 13y ago
I remember when Julian Assange won that poll some time ago. To no one's surprise TIME didn't give him the title but as usual to some mainstream politics lackey.
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by MatthiasP 13y ago
"The difference between good at math and bad at math is hard work. It’s trying. It’s trying hard. It’s trying harder than you’ve ever tried before." -while that's certainly true, when people say they are "bad at maths&qu
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by MatthiasP 13y ago
This sounds a lot like you are suffering from social anxiety. It's a common and widespread mental disease and is usually treated with CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) and/or antidepressants. Some studies show that regular endur
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by MatthiasP 13y ago
All this changes is that from now on Apple will always have a 'we did not receive a 215 warrant' in their transparency report, no matter if they got one or not.
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by MatthiasP 13y ago
So it is now official that Nexus devices get 18 months of software support and then it's game over? That's quite disappointing, even Samsung supports the Galaxy SX line longer.