Tichy

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   by Tichy 13y ago

   I wonder if she tried GLS Bank? They style themselves as a fair/alternative bank only investing in ethically good things. Lot's of people I know moved their bank account there. It would be interesting to hear if they reject to giv
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   by Tichy 13y ago

   I think he probably made a typo and meant to write "below" instead of "above".
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   by Tichy 13y ago

   Thanks! I'd say that Germany is still pretty safe, but I admit that there are places that even I as a German feel uneasy about - mostly the rural areas in former East German states. Also the way asylum seekers are treated here seems pr
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   by Tichy 13y ago

   Do you have a citation for the 100 deaths? The number seems rather high - from the three events you cite there were "only" five deaths (killed in a fire).
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   by Tichy 13y ago

   You'll find such people in every country, I don't think it proves anything about the general sentiment of the population.
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   by Tichy 13y ago

   I'd say doing science requires a specific mindset. Using amount of knowledge as a criterion seems wrong - how did the first scientists come about, presumably they didn't know anything at all yet?
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   by Tichy 13y ago

   Same here, also the article mentions that men are four times as likely to commit suicide.
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   by Tichy 13y ago

   I think the Spiegel did an article on Ludum Dare a couple of days ago, so they were already aware of it and had writers watching it. This game just seems very original and went viral quickly, so it was something worthy to write about. I don
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   by Tichy 13y ago

   Can you get a micro-sd card that is several times as big as 64GB? Or is the concept to keep a pile of sd-cards with all your data on it? I guess it is conceivable, but why would anybody want that?
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    by Tichy 13y ago

    But then what do you want? Isn't there a technical limit to how much local storage a phone can have? Syncing to some external disk seems unavoidable?
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    by Tichy 13y ago

    I don't understand why "no removable storage" implies that you'd have to use a cloud provider? Why not just use the fixed internal storage?
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    by Tichy 13y ago

    Really overly dramatic. Just because they are nice enough to say "use of the machine is optional", you are not losing your rights if eventually you have to pass through. What if they had never put that option on display to begin w
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    by Tichy 13y ago

    I must admit the questions of the JetBlue assistant also made me wonder how often they have problems with religious fanatics. I don't envy the people on either side of that story.
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    by Tichy 13y ago

    I know what the deniers are going to say: the risk is just equivalent to dumping a banana into the ocean. Whatever.
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    by Tichy 13y ago

    I've heard the same about the Apple App store, not sure if Apple did anything to prevent that in the meantime. Not sure if it should be prevented. In any case there will be more apps than anybody can browse manually, so all the app sto
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    by Tichy 13y ago

    That kind of thing would indeed be questionable, but it didn't sound to me as if Google wanted to implement it that way. From their history it also seems unlikely (ie giving away Android).
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    by Tichy 13y ago

    Except that in my experience, software development is mostly about learning things just-in-time. Most projects pose new challenges, or you want to use new technologies, and so on. Imagine you hired some Cobol developers some decades ago, an
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    by Tichy 13y ago

    Providing internet access is not the same as locking somebody into their cloud services. There is such a thing as win win in business. Yes, Google benefits if more people are on the internet, because of the network effect - more people sear
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    by Tichy 13y ago

    It's very well done.
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    by Tichy 13y ago

    I must admit that I find it a bit depressing that creating the web site for the game looks like a more complicated job than the game itself.
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    by Tichy 13y ago

    What does liberalism mean in that context - the belief that everybody is only responsible for themselves? (Again serious question, I don't know how to interpret this).
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    by Tichy 13y ago

    I'll put them on my "to be checked out" list.
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    by Tichy 13y ago

    What I don't understand is why anybody would think of India as a traveler's paradise? Because everything is cheap for a western person? Does one need a huge amount of ignorance to enjoy traveling among hordes of poor people? (Real
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    by Tichy 13y ago

    That can't be true if only for the broad generalization. How are they supposed to have tested all possible, conceivable video games? Would like to know how they did test, too - did they follow kids who played video games over a 30 year
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    by Tichy 13y ago

    Why do you automatically assume that not being able to complete the tasks you assign for yourself is a medical issue? Maybe "boys being boys" (and sometimes girls) just means they are not well suited for the kind of tasks that the
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    by Tichy 13y ago

    Sometimes less is more. Not implementing every fancy feature under the sun might be a bonus and keeps the language clean. I know I never managed to like generics in Java. Don't know C#, though.
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    by Tichy 13y ago

    So much hubris in so few words.
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    by Tichy 13y ago

    I'll have to look at that in the morning, thanks!
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    by Tichy 13y ago

    Does Await convert those async calls back into synchronous calls, or what does it do? Because that would be kind of defeating the purpose of doing things asynchronously? And you don't have to nest all those callbacks and write them inl
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    by Tichy 13y ago

    I used to think like you but apparently 123456 is a very popular combination. I was very surprised when I heard that. Best is probably a real random number generator.