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by _ak 13y ago
I guess that proposed interview is supposed to get people out of their comfort zone and test whether how quickly they can adapt and learn from a manual and simple examples and then at least be able to write simple programs.
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With emscripten, anything is possible nowadays. And it blows your mind.
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by _ak 13y ago
Before 2009, it was much better, especially S-Bahn, which used to have much shorter intervals. But no, S-Bahn decided to be cheap on maintenance, which ended catastrophically in 2009, and they still have to recover from that. They're s
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To be fair, even the most gentrified areas in Berlin are still affordable compared to Hamburg, Munich or Vienna.
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Now does it allow unsafe memory access, or does it not? And does the unsafe package allow you to build a C-style manual allocator or not (regardless of whether it integrates with Go's new or make operators)?
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by _ak 13y ago
Go can do unsafe memory access. Andrei has no idea what he's talking about.
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by _ak 13y ago
Hey, when a Nobel prize winner like Ivar Giaever can understand the science behind climate change by surfing the internet for a day, then of course everyone HN can do so, too. /s (For those who don't get it: http://www.
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by _ak 13y ago
An attitude "It's just a shell script" can be dangerous when you have software that is supposed to be built on multiple platforms. You can never be 100 % sure what your /bin/sh is, be it bash, ash, dash, ksh, zsh or
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by _ak 13y ago
Where "everyone else" is at least two different syntaxes in the first place, Intel and AT&T.
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One of my previous employers still uses CVS to version and deploy configuration. One reason why git is not an option is the simple fact that you can't check out subdirectories in git.
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The CCC previously published a German minister's fingerprint. They acquired it by lifting a water glass he had used at a public event. http://www.edri.org/edrigram/number6.7/fingerprint-schauble
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...and that is why you don't use PayPal, no matter how loud people scream that they want to use PayPal. Seriously, PayPal has screwed over so many individuals, businesses and projects in the past, the obvious conclusion is that PayPal
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by _ak 13y ago
That's not it at all. Food stamps and subsidized housing don't empower people to just do what they like doing, become entrepeneurs, etc.
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Socialism is such a harsh word. All it really needs is a welfare program for the general population that doesn't punish those whose jobs have been automated. A system how to solve that has been discussed in Germany by left-leaning part
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by _ak 13y ago
The US will try anyway. Years ago, when the F-117 was still in use, the USAF would regularly acquire permits to fly cargo planes from Germany to Italy over Austria. What they then attempted was letting a F-117 fly really close to the cargo
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by _ak 13y ago
Actually, the US, the UK and France had contracts with the Soviets that guaranteed them access to Berlin by air. They didn't have correspnding contracts for access via streets and railways, though, that's why the Soviets could blo
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by _ak 13y ago
> no need to learn German, everyone speaks English! That's only in the startup scene, really. Most tech companies' primary language is still German, and the English proficiency of people you need to interact with in day-to-day
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by _ak 13y ago
Well, that's US-American imperialism for you: declare de-facto jurisdiction over everything, afford rights to nobody. Be that at the US border or at US-run detention facilities outside the US like Guantanamo.
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Well, active interest helps as well. I started learning English in school at 10 (German native speaker, 29 years old), and starting at the age of 14, I became actively interested in watching US-American movies (well, the usual mainstream) i
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by _ak 13y ago
Have you paid for your annual Go compiler license subscription yet? Yeah, me neither.
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> I think we need more than 1 account of Go in production before we start high-fiving each other about Go in the mainstream. http://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/GoUsers http://code.google.com&
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by _ak 13y ago
Yes, it's all a conspiracy! Because that's how open source development at Google work: create shitty technology, spam HN, Reddit et al. with it, and then let the massive Google workforce and the fanboys upvote the postings. /
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by _ak 13y ago
I concur. It's more code, but it's still really easy to understand, and basically precedes Go's concurrency model.
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"Things to commit before you quit your job if you want to get sued your ass off by your former employer."
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http://tour.golang.org/
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> Why complain? Because the person in the article is German, and Germans love their privacy-by-default and opt-in. Datenschutz über alles.
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Nobody reads Software License Agreements. Barely anyone reads (and is able to fully understand) the GPL (no matter which version). That's real life. Suck it up, Stallman.
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> The U.S., as far as anyone has demonstrated, does not set out to kill journalists because what they write is inconvenient. I remember that prior to the invasion of Iraq, the US said that any journalist that is not embedded with US tro
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We never really could. NSAKEY, anyone?
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Lack of available flights? Flights from East Asia and Oceania to the Americas are relatively rare and expensive compared to going the other way via Europe.

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