bjoernd

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   by bjoernd 13y ago

   That's a common thing I didn't understand about my fellow CS majors. Many of them did not want to become developers and even took pride in the fact that they made it until the final exams without ever having to hand in a single pr
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   by bjoernd 13y ago

   True. That's why you should use end-to-end encryption for your mail. There's a reason I'm sceptical about these things: over here in Germany, the government is trying to establish a nation-wide email service (DE-mail) that is
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   by bjoernd 13y ago

   They are virus-scanning and spam-filtering my email. So they at least have the ability to read all my email. Doesn't sound secure to me.
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   by bjoernd 13y ago

   SIGMOD (a database research conference) has set up a reproducibility committee [1]. Their goal is to ensure that the results can be reproduced by someone from the outside. If they succeed, you get an additional label for your graphs saying
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   by bjoernd 17y ago

   If Microsoft chose the other way and provided a set of alternative browsers with its OS 1) Would they be required to provide tech support as well? 2) Who whould chose the browsers that'd go in there?
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   by bjoernd 18y ago

   Really neat stuff - I use it to sync FF bookmarks between my three computers.