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by geff82 9y ago
Objectively speaking, no other consumer tech company grooms and refines their products do much as Apple. (Only got my first iPhone last year after being so hackerish minded as to avoid ever using them... could not be happier)
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by geff82 9y ago
Honestly, my wife and I had no previous exposure to leaks besides "there will be something expensive". And then it felt like the real Apple magic. We sat there and at every product presented we said "Wow, we want this. NOW!&q
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by geff82 9y ago
I always wonder why it is an unknown fact for many that in Texas houses are still very affordable, even in metropolitan areas. I follow the market there closely, and you can get quality homes for the cheap. Is it that the high property taxe
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by geff82 9y ago
While helicopter parenting is a thing here in Germany, too, it is still possible to use your sane judgement as a parent for a lot of things. My daughter is not yet in school (so I am not into a peer group that talks about such stuff), but I
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by geff82 9y ago
I love this article, because in its essence, it does not prepare you for prepping as much as leading a solid life. It is also one of the first articles about prepping with a positive tone. I personally do some mild prepping (as my mother al
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by geff82 9y ago
Hi Peter! I would like to move to the USA on an E-2 Treaty Trader visa. Problem: wife is Iranian (and so far only has such passport). She also owns some land in Texas. Any way for us to move anytime soon?
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by geff82 9y ago
I am a father myself in Frankfurt, Germany, where we have one of the highest relative number of children compared to the rest of the (rather childless) country.
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by geff82 9y ago
When I was a child, I remember to regularly see other children with disabilities. Recently, I figured that I see almost no children with real mental/physical disabilities any more. Then it dawned upon me that they are probably all &quo
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by geff82 9y ago
What a negative view of life...
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by geff82 9y ago
I always like to think Free/Open source Software is the only known occurrnce where socialism works. You give 100% of what you have for free as a programmer, but in that very same moment you make everyone, including yourself, richer and
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by geff82 9y ago
As someone very much interested in flying, I find this article perfect.
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by geff82 9y ago
Brutalism is meant to expose the function in a "brute" way, not necessarily to hurt the eye (yet it does not care). Bad user design might be brutal, but not Brutalism. I think "UX/WEB brutalism" should be based on t
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by geff82 9y ago
[x] Easy string handling (compared to C) I like how you say python-like syntax... as so many borrow from Pascal
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by geff82 9y ago
Good broadband is no doubt still an issue in parts of Germany, especially if not cable is available. But I see a big political push and discussion on how to have higher standards and how to reach them. No one says "well then, lets make
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by geff82 9y ago
Remember: at least the US were the first country to ever have internet at all :) So from whatever we profit now, USA invented it.
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by geff82 9y ago
One more little sign America is more and more retiring its leadership in the world, opening doors for other nations to be more developed? In a time where many European countries aim at providing 100Mbit as a minimum in the next years and th
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by geff82 9y ago
Maybe when I am 60, 70 or 80 the film industry will get their shi* together and finally agree on a solution that has long been found in the music business. For a truly complete platform, I would FOR SURE pay more than the 10$ a month for Ne
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by geff82 9y ago
Can I talk with her for long periods of time? And if we don't talk, is it awkward? Do we have the similar goals? Do we have the same family values? Do we have an understanding for each others hobbies? Do I like the family I marry into
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by geff82 9y ago
>> I have always hated the notion that having a happy marriage is about filtering through many candidates to find the one perfect partner. Dating is no machine learning where you need a large sample to get it right. It is rather takin
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by geff82 9y ago
You should also read part 2 of the article. After some relationships from 18-28 that all ended unhappy, I decided to screen my next partner in a very rational way. Of course I wanted romance and some attractiveness out of my next girlfriend
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by geff82 9y ago
You never stop learning reading HN :)
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by geff82 9y ago
And I also did not say "as long as there are hormons, learn to live with rape and violence". Everything should be consensual.
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by geff82 9y ago
As a German where prostitution is just seen as a regular trade, some general points. 1.) While paid sex is surely available at many places, we still do not live in one big brothel. 2.) Why should people have to film their act of having sex
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by geff82 9y ago
Well, as someone who can not sit doing nothing, I accumulated a lot of knowledge. I did Coursera courses, studied some courses at university, studied for a total of 5 boat- and radio licenses (Europe...), I did about 6 IT certifications tha
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by geff82 9y ago
You sound like my colleague Michael. It is you? ;) Essentially we were doing Coursera stuff together.
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by geff82 9y ago
Ok, thanks for sharing this. I made this observation for the last 3 years myself, not as an employee even, but as a contractor. I had three positions at two companies, all paying quite high (150k$/year). I changed the positions because
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by geff82 9y ago
How much a month does the subscription to the open source code cost? ;)
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by geff82 9y ago
What is your nationality?
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by geff82 9y ago
For all you non-Nobel-Price holders that aren't uneducated and want to live somewhere else: Germany welcomes you. Actually, having a bachelor's degree in the STEM field almost automatically gets you a visa for "searching work
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by geff82 9y ago
The good thing about people with a criminal record: you know what they did! You will never know this of the people around you who got away not being caught. Do I know if my neighbour did not rob a bank 10 years ago? No. So working with ex-c

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