chokma

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by chokma 9y ago
No, it's by law. You have a minimum of 4 weeks notice in Germany (some exceptions apply, for example you are hired for temp work). So you cannot quit on the spot, and your employer cannot fire you on the spot, unless it is for gross re
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by chokma 9y ago
The time frame is symmetrical - both employers and employees have to give 4 weeks notice (default). In my case, the US parent company decided on 12 weeks, probably to retain the software developers. Note that depending on unions (rare in IT
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by chokma 9y ago
Something like that is used in The Dark Eye and also in Ars Magica. For every virtue or advantage your character has, you should also select a flaw. This makes for some interesting and quirky characters. Some flaws are "easier" to
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by chokma 9y ago
In Angband (ascii rogue-like), there was an auto-roller to solve this problem. So char generation was also a bit of "what are my chances to get a reasonable character with two or three really good attributes in the time I am willing to
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by chokma 9y ago
https://sourceforge.net/projects/daocanalyse/files/?source=n... A Dark Age of Camelot (MMORPG) chat log file analyzer written in Perl in 2003-2005 helped me land my first dev job. I switched careers (due to l
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by chokma 9y ago
Do you mean digital influencer in the sense of social influencer? The latter can be measured quite well, depending on the method. Using affiliate-like CPC click-through links on their social media accounts allows the ad network to observe e
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by chokma 10y ago
And the price for Biba Pro (on which Chime is based) previously was $10/user/month...
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by chokma 10y ago
Okay, I see the appeal of sticking it to the man (in this case, the privacy invading tracking agency). If I could have an addon that _reliably_ hides my web browsing habits from advertisers and evil government agencies while making their li
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by chokma 10y ago
Hm... From the perspective of the ad network: Lower click quality drives up the merchant's cost of sale (COS). Sitting between the merchant and the publisher, the ad network tries to balance this out, by - mixing good and bad traff
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by chokma 10y ago
If you want to download the set as a torrent (to save pushshift.io some bandwidth cost), you can do so via magnet:?xt=urn:btih:UGFLA4QNEXGEFKYYY5ZU37JIHWEEYY5R&dn=reddit_data&tr=udp%3a%2f%2ftracker.openbittorrent.com%3a80&tr
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by chokma 10y ago
I am currently doing a (simple) sentiment analysis for the complete reddit comment set. Perhaps when I am done with that, I can have a look at the HN corpus (where to download?) for correlations between upvotes and users, though I doubt tha
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by chokma 10y ago
I've been using it for a couple of months for Apache Spark - it allows me to create succinct big data jobs running on a Hadoop cluster. Short code which does not try to be too clever for its own good is really great at making the algor
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by chokma 10y ago
This is still a problem even if the Störerhaftung (WIFI-owner being liable for misuse) is removed: When the police comes looking for someone distributing CP, they go by the IP address and take everything that remotely looks like a computer
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by chokma 11y ago
Prions are indeed scary - I still remember a comment to the effect that pathologists can never be really sure their instruments are safe to work with again. ( http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2011/11/29&#x
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by chokma 12y ago
A good way of finding your own giants is trying to comply with all licenses your own software depends on. When writing a LGPL licensed CMS server, I tried to find all sub-projects to make sure we could distribute the software safely. Sadly,
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by chokma 13y ago
Same for hetzner.de: the default sources.list points to their [for the moment] outdated update-server.
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by chokma 13y ago
With "openssl version -a" you can see the built time. root@x ~ # openssl version -a OpenSSL 1.0.1 14 Mar 2012 built on: Mon Apr 7 20:33:29 UTC 2014
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by chokma 13y ago
When reading chapters 1 and 2, the author focuses heavily on the "nothingness" (hvl - wisp of air) of all human endeavors. But I think it's significant that he does not loose hope altogether: "There is nothing better for
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by chokma 13y ago
An important customer once told me "Yes, I have read about the manual, but it is so much easier to call you." - the problem with lazy customers is that they will make false assumptions about what the software does (everyone will probably do
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by chokma 13y ago
The amazing thing (as far as I have been following it) is that Uberspace encourages its users to learn to use the command line and SSH instead of restricting them to a "safer" GUI with fewer options. It will be interesting to see if educati
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by chokma 13y ago
Indeed, it's always a pleasure to work with them. Having worked with Jonas before, I can say that they are extremely competent and deliver great customer support. Ask a question by mail and you will get a detailed answer instead of random b
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by chokma 14y ago
I do not see my side project as a distraction from my day job (it only distracts me from my other , non-commercial side projects). Stuff I learn at work is often applicable in my side project as well - and vice versa. I can re-use the code
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by chokma 14y ago
Using perlbrew, I can install a version of Perl without messing up the system installation, as would the default package manager. I have to migrate data from a legacy Catalyst app which pulls in a lot of modules with specific versions, whic
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by chokma 14y ago
Indeed, RequestPolicy, AdBlock+ and NoScript are the essential default plugins, both from a security and usability perspective. But sometimes the content will not load at all, because to show an article's text, the page uses Google's ajax,
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by chokma 14y ago
Thanks, seems I have misread the license terms :)
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by chokma 14y ago
From the license page, it does not look like you are allowed to use your copy at work (would be great if this were possible ;) ): "Personal licenses are not available to companies in any way or form. Transfer of personal licenses to any thi
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by chokma 14y ago
> the use of encryption will become illegal The problem with outlawing encryption is: everyone needs it for business purposes and to protect public / private infrastructure. If SSL encryption were to be forbidden, e-commerce would becom
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by chokma 14y ago
Indeed, battery powered lights can be problematic (due to 70 year old laws...). But a powerful LED light source is great as an additional gadget. (Although, at 4-6m range, this item is not sufficient to illuminate the road ahead).
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by chokma 14y ago
Health applications - a review for an app which allows you to record you stool consistence (for Morbus Crohn) could negatively affect your chances for employment as well as open you to ridicule by others. "You gave AcmeFamilyPlanner 4/5 sta
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by chokma 14y ago
> However by the author's same reasoning it is not important to be happy either. After you have died it will not matter how you felt while you were alive. But being happy does matter in terms of how you feel now or while living. I think

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