dr_faustus

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   by dr_faustus 12y ago

   Well, this is (has always been) the standard in Germany and it works pretty well. We even have one of those great German words for it: Reißverschlussverfahren (= zipper procedure). Concerning people not letting you in: In case of ending lan
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   by dr_faustus 12y ago

   I REALLY hope he survives. And not only because he is a hero and I hope not a single person has to die from that horrible disease anymore. The other reason is that one of the reasons for the long lasting epidemia is distrust for foreign doc
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   by dr_faustus 12y ago

   And everybody knows: Somalia is paradise! You can even become a pirate! Arrrrrr!
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   by dr_faustus 12y ago

   Since you only have to change the CD once about every hour, its not as bad as it might seem. ;)
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   by dr_faustus 12y ago

   If you really like Bach and are interested in his complete works, you should definitely check out the Hännsler Bach Edition. ( http://www.haenssler-classic.de/en/series-and-editions/johan... ) Its 199 Euros which is
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   by dr_faustus 13y ago

   While his work on distributed computing was certainly great, I find it curious that the press release doesn't even mention the achievement of Lamport that probably was important to lot more people: The creation of LaTeX. Sure, its not
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   by dr_faustus 13y ago

   Its ridiculous to compare the take up of an execution environment to that of new programming languages. Of course it takes MUCH longer for a language to get traction than for a simple piece of infrastructure using a language that has been a
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   by dr_faustus 14y ago

   Dont worry! The founders of instagram where afraid of this as well and they devised a poison pill before they sold out! All you images have been made useless for any commercial use by the application of shitty "lets make it look like a pola
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   by dr_faustus 14y ago

   I love Ruby with all my heart but that seems to be quite a mess. While a not-well-thought-through feature in some application can be forgiven (and maybe even removed), in language design it cetainly has no place. And while this should be a
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    by dr_faustus 14y ago

    Oh yeah! Please lock me in to your crappy Red Hat knock-off so you can screw me royally if Larry changes his mind and wants to extract some money from its users. IMHO, Oracle is certainly the LAST company you should use any product from unl
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    by dr_faustus 14y ago

    Just searched in my Spam folder for the email address I only use for Dropbox et voilà: I got the spam messages mentioned. After the password-gate last year ( http://blog.dropbox.com/index.php/yesterdays-authentication-... ) this is the sec
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    by dr_faustus 14y ago

    Sounds exactly like my day, except I get up an hour earlier to reread my favorite chapters of "Art of War" and I go to sleep an two hours later which I spend getting inspired by amazing TED talks or Udacity courses about one thing or anothe