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by d3ckard 6y ago
Which countries have Russian roots? I'm not aware of any.
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by d3ckard 6y ago
Hopefully! Nice to hear something optimistic about Europe. As a Pole still remembering passports and closed borders, I definitely hope we manage to build unified Europe, even with setbacks we face.
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by d3ckard 6y ago
That’s a false argument. Pretty much every employee is productive enough to be living a decent life. The same can’t be said about their bargaining power.
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by d3ckard 6y ago
Let me help you - iPad is the ultimate content consumption device. It’s by far my favorite electronic device and by far the most used. I work on my computer, I communicate on my phone, but I relax on my iPad. Internet browsing, shopping, wa
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by d3ckard 6y ago
Sure, the only real limitation inside the processor is the number of addressing bits if I remember correctly. However, in case of laptops I think it doesn't matter since they're kind of sold as a platform. The main point was - it
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by d3ckard 6y ago
Processors have RAM limit as well, independent of vendor. https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/75992/i... Look at "Memory specification" part.
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by d3ckard 6y ago
It's hard for people to be creative under pressure. Half the work in management of software companies is managing employee stress so they can do their work efficiently. My point is precisely that to get creativeness, you have to create
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by d3ckard 6y ago
That's good though. That means they have to invest in R&D instead of depending on exploiting cheap labour to brute-force their way into the market. If they invest in R&D, they need creative people who are up to date. Such peopl
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by d3ckard 6y ago
I do not think this is the case anymore. I have seen driving schools ads promising you can take the test on their cars(still not your own, but at least the one you got used to during training).
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by d3ckard 6y ago
This is not the best example. In Polish for example there is a whole different word for ‘0’ floor ( parter ), and the word for the rest of floors ( piętro ) kind of assumes that level is above ground, so we do use 1 based indexing there.
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by d3ckard 6y ago
I agree that you do not need to read books, but books are a good proxy for demanding content. If I count articles, the short texts from some gossip portal are valued as much as Harvard Business Review, science journal or whatever else, but
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by d3ckard 6y ago
I think the problem is wider. In Poland average Pole doesn't read even one book a year. I don't think we can keep having modern society if most of the people do not read.
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by d3ckard 6y ago
Strongly disagree. Why of software engineering is to formalise business processes so they can be replicated and automated. The code is most definitely "how" we get there.
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by d3ckard 6y ago
That’s more dependent on language syntax IMO. When you have traditional C-style loops, maybe. When you use ranges, iterators etc. it doesn’t make any difference.
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by d3ckard 6y ago
I love what you did here. Great mnemonic!
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by d3ckard 6y ago
That solely depends on your use case. There are three reasons to use command line and none of them has anything to do with being easier: 1. It's faster. You can(and will after some time) remember hundreds of different commands. That me
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by d3ckard 6y ago
You repeat the previous content without any example on how they are better. To you it seems that not having to use command line is an advantage. To me it's not, making your argument moot.
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by d3ckard 6y ago
And do you have any proof of that? Because in my humble opinion, the command line is great solely because keyboard is (up to now) the best input device we have invented. Any graphical tool requires eye-hand coordination, which slows things
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by d3ckard 6y ago
You do realize some of us use command line not because we have to, but because it’s usually easier to do so?
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by d3ckard 6y ago
Thanks from me as well. It’s been more than 5 years since switching from Ruby and I have never regretted it. You did and continue to do great work(and whole team as well). Can’t wait for the big thing at Lambda Days!
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by d3ckard 6y ago
Original Unix was created in a couple of years. While your point has merit, you’re overestimating by much.
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by d3ckard 6y ago
That's just untrue and Paul Graham wrote a great essay on that(Python paradox, mentioned in another comment in this tree). I have been working with Elixir for last 5 years, so I guess I can give some first hand opinion. 1. When your co
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by d3ckard 6y ago
Out of curiosity, which facts do you mean? The law is stupid of course and an attempt to fight for their point of view(that is: xenophobic, racist and intolerant), but history is a subject rather widely discussed in Poland with all the side
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by d3ckard 6y ago
I think you miss a crucial fact here - large part of Soviet block was incorporated by force and wanted to get rid of their influence as fast as possible. Nobody misses USRR here in Poland.
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by d3ckard 6y ago
Diesels are much more economical than petrol. Whether it is cost efficient depends on yearly mileage and how good a deal you get, but it’s a fact. My diesel E Class with 4 wheel drive burns considerably less fuel than my previous petrol Gol
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by d3ckard 6y ago
They aren’t. Also, it doesn’t seem to make sense to use only French examples in midst of English written text. I don’t think its a major problem of course and main project page contains English examples, I just found that funny.
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by d3ckard 6y ago
It’s such a French thing to write software supporting French and English while making all the examples in README French...
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by d3ckard 6y ago
Also shows a major failure of Linux community of those times - open source got big thanks to MIT and similar, not GPL.
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by d3ckard 6y ago
This rings very true. I'm a night owl and in the beginning of my career I worked in mostly 13-21 bracket, with strong preference for hours after 17 when office got quiet. It was great, but at some point it started to impact my life ver
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by d3ckard 6y ago
I seriously doubt censors missed that. I think they were playing the game as well. Seksmisja quote is a good example of that.

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