Tharkun

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   by Tharkun 9y ago

   You are quite right. My comment was made tongue-in-cheek. Healthy verbal abuse is part of all of my best friendships.
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   by Tharkun 9y ago

   That's what fighting is.
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   by Tharkun 9y ago

   More like "are you not trained?".
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   by Tharkun 9y ago

   I fail to see the controversy or even the surprise. Fighting is a skill like any other: learnt by trial and error. Tai Chi's curriculum, for all its benefits and martial origins, does not include fighting. The article talks about judo,
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   by Tharkun 9y ago

   > try talking to yourself like you would your best friend. So swearing at myself, basically? Strange advice.
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   by Tharkun 9y ago

   I rather like the declarative style of Maven. Maybe I'm just resisting change, but I don't like gradle. It requires too much "programming" for a build tool. But I agree with your statement about Maven/Gradle's
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   by Tharkun 9y ago

   I disagree. I'm very fond of the way Java classloaders work, and how they let me do non-trivial things with relative ease. Tools like Maven don't solve anything related to classloading in my book. All they do is make it (a lot) ea
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   by Tharkun 9y ago

   On the other side of that, sending mail to gmail can be rather challenging. They have a tendency of 541-ing mails for no apparent reason, under the pretense of "poor mail server reputation". Basically you don't control who ge
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   by Tharkun 9y ago

   Ah yes. Just what the world needs: more organizations throwing their data over the fence at Google's walled garden. We might as well decomission decentralized e-mail and move everyone on to GMail and FB Messenger. Sigh.
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    by Tharkun 9y ago

    Not entirely sure why you were downvoted. American banks are pretty horrible from a technology point of view. I've dealt with a couple of US banks, and they're still very much stuck in the "paper cheque"-era, with no des
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    by Tharkun 9y ago

    The same protections that are in place to access bank accounts right now. Strong authentication being the most obvious one.
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    by Tharkun 9y ago

    How will teller be impacted by PSD2? Will it make your life easier?
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    by Tharkun 9y ago

    I think parent is referring to 3-D Secure (3DS). This is basically an authentication step which delegates most of its implementation to your bank (or whoever your credit card provider is). I'm not sure what Standard Bank is doing with
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    by Tharkun 9y ago

    The cynics would be right. I've seen financial instutions report data using poorly defined regexes on bank statements. Regexes which could easily yield false positives and negatives.
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    by Tharkun 9y ago

    Walled gardens are awful things in my book.
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    by Tharkun 10y ago

    Because Java is a fine and mature language?
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    by Tharkun 10y ago

    > If they didn't want to be approached, they would find a way to leave the event or avoid it in the first place. That's plain false, and quite frankly a mean assessment. Being somewhere by yourself and not interacting can be a
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    by Tharkun 10y ago

    Being prepared to talk is important. Knowing when to shut up is equally important. Recently interviewed a candidate who seemed promising, until they started to rant. I didn't want to interrupt them because I was hoping there was a poin
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    by Tharkun 10y ago

    Part of her skull was damaged when she was a child. At the time it was replaced by some kind of plastic. But from what I gather it slowly started to deteriorate, until it got infected and pressure built up and it had to be removed/repl
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    by Tharkun 10y ago

    An acquaintance of mine had a part of her skull replaced by a 3D printed part, made by Materialise. While it sounds spectacular, she was out of the hospital in days, none the worse for wear.
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    by Tharkun 10y ago

    Human.
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    by Tharkun 10y ago

    I wonder how long it took for westerners to stop throwing their "night soil" out the window and start installing and using toilets. What always struck me as strange is that the Romans had and used public toilets, but afterwards Eu
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    by Tharkun 10y ago

    Thanks for that! Oh and for the sake of completeness: I'm not in any way affiliated with SpiderOak, though I suppose some of my post history mentions SO quite often as I'm a rather heavy user of their services.
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    by Tharkun 10y ago

    Interesting. We haven't had much luck with SAAS in financial institutions. In our experience they want everything on site and running on their own hardware and software. How did you manage to convince them? Or are you limiting yourself
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    by Tharkun 10y ago

    Yeah. Have fun working out date arithmetic, leap seconds and time zones on your own. What could possibly go wrong.
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    by Tharkun 10y ago

    Not really. Car exhaust contributes to both. Reducing car exhaust will reduce particulate pollution and CO2.
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    by Tharkun 10y ago

    So this project ran from 2014-2016. Any word on whether anything was accomplished?
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    by Tharkun 10y ago

    I press it to my face to answer that question. Somehow my face is much more reliable at telling the difference between cold and wet than my hands.
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    by Tharkun 10y ago

    The blood/brain barrier makes it difficult to deliver chemical means to the brain.
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    by Tharkun 10y ago

    Thanks, that looks interesting, even in spite of the less than ideal specs.