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by chokma 14y ago
In Europe, it's about 12-30 million € / km for high speed tracks (according to Wikipedia).
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by chokma 14y ago
And Ubuntu server 12.04 seems to enable this by default without access limit - sudo a2dismod status helps to disable it.
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by chokma 14y ago
Many users like their WYSIWYG text editors (even though they are often problematic between older browser versions or with "paste-from-word" or conflicts with other JS-includes). And the expectations are rising - one customer of ours would l
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by chokma 14y ago
And some games provide a much longer entertainment value - Torchlight / Diablo / Starcraft / Zangband ;). Hm, and this is topped by pen'n'paper roleplaying games, where a couple of rule books can last for years.
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by chokma 14y ago
> Grains is proven to be suboptimal, causing inflammation in the intestines and the rest of the body ( http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2821887/ ). From the study, it is refined grains that are problematic, while whole grains
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by chokma 14y ago
And Certificate Patrol: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/certificate-p...
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by chokma 14y ago
I am still looking for a Perl IDE which offers autocomplete - or at least the option to jump to where the currently selected method is defined. Something like the Groovy/Grails-support in IntelliJ - but of course, Groovy is somewhat easier
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by chokma 14y ago
Request Policy Add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy... Better than "Private Browsing" or "do not track" for 3rd-party surveillance, because it will not load other server's tracking images / javascript. Only
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by chokma 14y ago
http://www.flickr.com/photos/girirajnet/3621281339/in/photos... ==> looks like this image is from 2009
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by chokma 15y ago
re: 4. Reflect: Reflect, but do not ruminate. Rumination (going endlessly in circles in your mind in a bad-thoughts-feedback-loop) goes with depression / mood disorders. To help with reflection, write down what weighs on your mind and analy
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by chokma 15y ago
The Grails framework has a plugin to organize resources like JavaScript - http://grails-plugins.github.com/grails-resources (scripts will by default be added to the end of the page and even if your page consists of several template files
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by chokma 15y ago
7. Small team of programmers, sharing an office with the boss and his secretary / saleswoman, several people smoking, and the office radio running music you do not really care for. And a wall mounted webcam pointed at the programmers "so th
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by chokma 15y ago
I have heard from someone involved with project management of military aircraft software that the process includes verification of machine code produced by the compiler, that is: you have to prove that the code generated is exactly what you
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by chokma 15y ago
Also using RequestPolicy addon on Firefox will dramatically cut down on stuff loaded from 3rd-party websites (including: Google analytics, Facebook like button, ad- and tracking services of all kind)
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by chokma 15y ago
Also worth a read http://stackoverflow.com/a/6163129 (Perl and Unicode and why it's really hard)
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by chokma 15y ago
I also prefer light backgrounds - for example the KDE konsole color scheme (light colors with black letters, a different background color automatically assigned for each tab). Websites with white-on-black cause afterimages which persist for
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by chokma 15y ago
Adblock Plus, NoScript, RequestPolicy - the latter also helps against privacy problems with Facebook-like buttons etc.
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by chokma 15y ago
I have been working with the RC/Beta-version for some time now because I need the Grails 2 integration for a new project - and it works really well, it's a joy to work with this IDE. Also, bugs in the development versions were fixed quite f
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Apple asked German court to ban Galaxy Tab 10.1N(fosspatents.blogspot.com)
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by chokma 15y ago
Interesting to find a study that shows how changing your thinking may reduce depression. Coming from the other side (happiness research) in a study from 2006, Sonjy Lyubomirsky et al showed, that talking or writing analytically about negat
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by chokma 15y ago
To continue the plumber metaphor: some systems are like black boxes with a lot of pipes sticking out - and they will route their raw sewage into your freshwater connector depending on barely documented and sometimes non-deterministic config
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by chokma 15y ago
Hm, you can only register as a developer if you have a Paypal account - and the Paypal page you are directed to does not work. Well, perhaps it is for the best, given Paypal's history.
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by chokma 15y ago
A valid Java program is not always a valid Groovy program - see http://groovy.codehaus.org/Differences+from+Java == in Java is identity, in Groovy it is .equals() Inner classes are not supported.
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by chokma 15y ago
Hacker News: no other news on that day. http://images.schedim.de/hacker_news_steve_jobs.png (from Do 06 Okt 2011 09:15:01 CEST)
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by chokma 15y ago
Another very useful addon in Firefox is the RequestPolicy plugin, which blocks requests to other sites. You have to explicitly allow a site to connect to Facebook or Google analytics. The only downside is that it is sometimes a hassle on pa
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by chokma 15y ago
I agree that you should test on more limited hardware. But on the other hand, I use my high end development machine as the benchmark for how fast it will go with a production worthy machine (unless one is willing to throw really insane amou
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by chokma 15y ago
Rob Weir has pointed out a lot of OOXML-problems over the years: http://www.robweir.com/blog/2007/07/formula-for-failure.html http://www.robweir.com/blog/2008/05/fractured-yearfrac-and-d...
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by chokma 15y ago
It will be interesting to see how they get around (anti-)gambling laws, at least here in Germany. The moment you offer real money for winning in luck-based games (as opposed to skill-based ones) like Diablo3, you may run afoul of the state
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by chokma 15y ago
And even if the content is available today, that does not mean it will be available tomorrow. Recently I found a new music video posted in the official channel of a record distribution company (nuclearblast), which a couple of days later wa
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by chokma 15y ago
Yes, Paypal operates with a Luxembourg banking license in Europe ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Bank_status ). Note that banking in Europe is in part regulated by national law of the member states. To operate as a bank in Germany, y

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