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by geff82 9y ago
...it is worth mentioning that indeed the ARRL license manuals are worth every penny! Just great books.
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by geff82 9y ago
I am a German (in Germany) having the Extra Class ham license and soon becoming a volunteer examiner for the ARRL. I can tell you: at least getting the Technician License is a piece of cake. If you just want to have your license, one day of
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by geff82 9y ago
Ok, just my datapoints: mid-30, married, 2 children, never smoked a single cigarette, never taken any other form of stuff that is covered by the „War on drugs“ or that soon could be (or any other „prescription“ drug like painkillers). I dri
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by geff82 9y ago
Haha, Moodles, have you not heard about Merkel jailing the opposition, executing people in the thousands, censoring the internet with the (very much known to her) Big German Wall, and the corruption in everyday German life?
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by geff82 9y ago
That should be the sign for the sane investor to get out of China. Rulers that want to stay forever usually get to a high level of stagnation, corruption and suppression rather sooner than later. The status of a supreme leader can only be c
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by geff82 9y ago
In Germany, this is called "Fachinformatiker für Systemintegration" and is an official professional apprenticeship for which you do not pay money, but GET PAID as you are spending 30% of your time in school and 70% applying your k
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by geff82 9y ago
My colleague is a 64-years-old devops guy. He looks like 78, he sounds like 80, but his brain is working at full speed and his IT-knowledge is not only very current, but also backed by 35 years of experience. He is the most valuable guy in
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by geff82 9y ago
Interesting that the battery aged extremely fast when iOS 11 got installed and took the performance down to the „really unpleasant“ level.
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by geff82 9y ago
Thanks for pointing out the „over time“ aspect! Many people with problems want to do some kind of 30-day-program to get rid of problematic traits. Yet it might take years to really change how you think and what the outcomes are. I, for one,
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by geff82 9y ago
Thanks, very interesting.
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by geff82 9y ago
Don‘t forget many German parents still engage in helicopter parenting, too. But it is frowned upon by the majority. I for one, as a 6 year old in 1989, was allowed to travel by bike to the next village alone or with friends. I was buying br
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by geff82 9y ago
Interesting thing is about gender and technology jobs. In „evil“ Iran, about 50% of students of computer science are women. Being a female software developer is common. Cousin of my wife is a programmer, another female friend of the family
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by geff82 9y ago
Welcome to my world in Germany :)
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by geff82 9y ago
It is still an amazing tool if you want to build classic desktop applications or games. Blazingly fast, easy to use. Not fancy in the Visual Studio/Jetbrains way, but it always feels rock solid to work with.
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by geff82 9y ago
Cool someone cares about the special needs of the fan of classical music! There is another cool site, too: www.idagio.com . It is a Spotify for Classical music.
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by geff82 9y ago
Beginning 1999, if they were paid from a bank account...
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by geff82 9y ago
Thank you for mentioning that! I could not believe when I saw "my" Germany so close to the US, because for Germany, this number must include every little sailplane field and a lot must be missing from the US. What I really wondere
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by geff82 9y ago
You, man, said it right!! I am just invested with about a thousand Euros in the crypto world, and I mainly did it for one reason: I don‘t want to be last in the game and get some hands on experience. But mainly, I just want to be able to te
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by geff82 9y ago
They switch back to Windows in a time of total vendor lock-in in the office software space. In the time when they started their Linux project, one really could switch from Office 2003 to Staroffice/Openoffice. But now, in the days of c
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by geff82 9y ago
The US, in principle, has so many fantastic places and welcoming people and nice traits that I can‘t name them all here. The problem is, FUD about the USA has never stopped me from feeling this was my secret mother country. Hell, my wife an
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by geff82 9y ago
Interesting. As the most die-hard German USA-fanboy one could have imagined, I can only say: since Trump, even I reconsidered my plan to move to Texas and currently plan to just stay here in my hometown Frankfurt, as there are currently no
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by geff82 9y ago
Just a quick look at the design reveals the rear wheels are nowhere near the center of gravtity. This is important if you want to rotate on take off at reasonable speeds and land smoothly. He should know such basic stuff if he really flies
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by geff82 9y ago
Great to see someone is doing this in 2017. I was writing my own bootloader in 2003 with together with a little command interpreter in pure assembler. It taught mena lot about computers, it changed my thinking about what software really is.
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by geff82 9y ago
Question for me as a Westerner capable of reading/writing arabic script: does anyone see an example where the name "Ali" is written? I wonder a bit. In the pictures, it is not shown (except for the picture coming from Bulgari
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by geff82 9y ago
Being better than killing people is not the problem here.
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by geff82 9y ago
Turkey in total is in decline. It is the classic way of the dictatorship: after some initial successes in the economy, the leader wants to get more and more power, surpresses more and more diversity, tries to bring under control the thought
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by geff82 9y ago
Even if you are not in the US, start with the US License! It has the best books and is convertible to many national licenses and it is cheap. Due to the American Volunteer Examiner system, exams can be and are held in many countries around
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by geff82 9y ago
He was a hero in many ways. His personality made the world a brighter place.
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by geff82 9y ago
Just a personal observation: when I first moved into a giant-open plan office in 2015 in a big German company, I got significantly more sick. It was horror. Also, bathrooms were unusually crowded, probably helping spread diseases. Since the
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by geff82 9y ago
Thou-Shall-Not-Do-Business-With-Dictatorships!

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