StudyAnimal

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by StudyAnimal 10y ago
Oh course, the products in Gift Guides aren't meant to be the ones that most people can afford. No one wants to look at a gift guide of moderately priced mid-level gear. Gift guides give people something to aspire to. And I think a lot
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by StudyAnimal 10y ago
You can do this on projects sometimes and its not necessarily as great as it sounds. Its ok when the office building is over the road from where all the consultants stay, but occasionally the meeting rooms in the hotel get used too, especia
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by StudyAnimal 10y ago
The "professional" market doesn't care about visual cohesion. They either use just one app anyway or have them custom written to use their nvidia quadros with whatever UI they like, But the senior execs that need the absolute
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by StudyAnimal 10y ago
I personally respect, and am thankful for the fact that people exist that have opinions that differ, even a lot, from mine. Especially on moral issues. I find it pretty immoral to have too much faith in ones moral framework. I will do busin
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by StudyAnimal 10y ago
I was being toungue and cheek. Of course reading a book is an experience, as is taking drugs. And its not just chemical , you might go to the park and have an adventure between two blades of grass or something. Its not like people just drop
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by StudyAnimal 10y ago
Well, if real wisdom requires experience then the harm you are talking about is probably slightly less harmful than the pseudo-wisdom one feels when reading another persons experience in a book. After all reading a book doesn't give us
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by StudyAnimal 10y ago
Probably just a simple analog oscillator. You know for that extra warm sound that record player listeners love.
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by StudyAnimal 10y ago
Its a shame the article "wont go into details" because it is only the details that are interesting. The rest is known. Tim Patersons wikipedia page mentions he had access to CP/M source and copied at least the "API"
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by StudyAnimal 10y ago
It refers basically only to the IBM z/Architecture machines. (I think no one else makes them any more. There were some IBM compatible (heh) Japanese ones recently). You can call a cluster of PCs a supercomputer, but you cant call it a
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by StudyAnimal 10y ago
Surely when writing a technical book, rather than a novel about some specifically English people or in a English context, it would be hard to make it specifically British rather than international English. I am trying to think of scenarios
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by StudyAnimal 10y ago
Or the guy in the marketing department that "knows about the techy stuff".
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by StudyAnimal 10y ago
I come from a country where there are always plenty of open cashiers and no lines. If I saw a queue there I would leave and not go shopping because its either overloaded or some system was down. When I first came to Germany I kept seeing th
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by StudyAnimal 10y ago
Really, wow I never felt that. I always put them in my bag at the natural speed. The only social pressure I felt was when paying before finishing packing. This lead to the next persons groceries being mixed in with mine and accidentally pac
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by StudyAnimal 10y ago
Its not really. Most people would get it from the "asian shop", but many "German" supermarkets have a small shelf for "international" stuff like asian noodles, taco shells and russian stuff.
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by StudyAnimal 10y ago
Its not padding though. Its picking the right business where the market will accept higher margins than usual.
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by StudyAnimal 10y ago
No I think except for the politicians and military most people just got the standard model of Trabant or nothing.
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by StudyAnimal 10y ago
That was my immediate thought too, and I half expected to see 20 year old article. First thing I looked at was the date and I thought, "I wonder what this guy is writing about".
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by StudyAnimal 11y ago
ETL is just a small part of it, and engineers should probably have more of a role than they do. My last project was a data warehouse one, where the thing was obviously slapped together by PowerCenter users. They thought it was all about the
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by StudyAnimal 11y ago
Disagree completely, all I could see was the lack of even the fi ligature.
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by StudyAnimal 11y ago
Two good reasons but (especially outside of the hard sciences) a third reason is possibly even more relevant than supporting a research career or a teaching skills. That "Doctor" title is prestigious. Your employer can pay you mor
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by StudyAnimal 11y ago
I don't know many Germans that do not have a credit card these days. You are right that the EC card gets used day-to-day (but maybe less than cash) but most Germans have a credit card for online shopping.
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by StudyAnimal 11y ago
Actually most of the time German VISA and MasterCards work as a debit card. Payments are cleared from your checking account / Giro, instantly or nightly, so you are never really in debt, rather than being a second account that is alway
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by StudyAnimal 11y ago
"That has resulted in an awkward arrangement, akin to sending a warship into battle with its skipper stuck onshore." This seems a bit overstated. Its more akin to the head of NASA not having a space suit, or the head of the Olympi
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by StudyAnimal 11y ago
I am not going to get sucked into Scientology or any other organised religion, but I expect consistency from governments. I find it despicable that governments get to pick and choose which insidious organizations get their blessing. Of cour
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by StudyAnimal 11y ago
Yep its all bullshit that is why I put "below" in speechmarks like that.
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by StudyAnimal 11y ago
Those "millions" of programmers had work in their own countries I presume. Long before a small fraction of these "millions" get around to leaving and moving to the west, the market would have stabilized a bit. Wages woul
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by StudyAnimal 11y ago
I am a software development manager from Europe. Right now we have to turn down projects because we don't have enough people. If we have more people we can start more projects and make more money. My wages will go up as I will have a l
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by StudyAnimal 11y ago
As someone who did the completely normal thing of leaving one country to go work and live in another, I agree completely and can barely understand those who do not.
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by StudyAnimal 11y ago
I had some access to a mainframe this year and learned the basics of z/OS. Things do feel very restricted and slowish, you really notice that it comes from a batch background, and interactivity came later. A UNIX user might find it a b
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by StudyAnimal 11y ago
Which is exactly what one should expect from a 16th century pope.

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