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by geff82 10y ago
Comparing a Macbook and a Lenovo is like saying "My BMW is better than the Ford F-350 Superduty". Want to have style and best design? Take a Macbook. Want to have lots of Ports? Thinkpad. Need Milspec? Thinkpad. Want to have 17 ho
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by geff82 10y ago
Sometimes I suspect lawmakers are among the dumbest of all possible human beings.
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by geff82 10y ago
Main question: where would it be based?
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by geff82 10y ago
It is two different countries. It always depends, where your main/your first business will be. I, for example, could easily set up a company in Dubai with ZERO taxes. But as my main customers live in Germany, it will be difficult for m
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by geff82 10y ago
If I got rich, I would do the following: try to work "as I want". That means: shorter days in my most active time (like 10-4pm), go on vacation with my family often (in a rhythm of 6 weeks work - 2 weeks vacation). I think, for m
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by geff82 10y ago
Of course hardware is different than software. But the goal is noble. Would you stop it, just because there are "limitations"?
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by geff82 10y ago
I used expect heavily at several clients in the past and have never seen someone else use it. I never used it as a precise tool, rather as a Sledgehammer. I think I remember I used Expect to script remote machines (expect was literally the
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by geff82 10y ago
Nice idea in the current climate. If we now also stopped talking about religion, we'd have a freemason-like room for open conversation.
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by geff82 10y ago
So I open a bottle of champagne as another surpressor is gone. He did not care about the lives of his opponents, so I have nothing against his own departure. Would have been great if he had used his power to build up something.
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by geff82 10y ago
During all history of mankind, wrongdoers were using "words spoken by the mouth" to do all kind of bad things. Yet I miss total surveillance of privately spoken words. Even without total online surveillance, by the nature of compu
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by geff82 10y ago
In central Europe, make sure to become a contractor as soon as possible working for larger companies. That way you will be back at the old level.
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by geff82 10y ago
There are some English-Only jobs of course, but the competition for it is higher. If you know the local language, you have a lot of offerings to choose from (at least it is like this in Germany outside Berlin and banking-Frankfurt). Not kno
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by geff82 10y ago
Manual transmission is not somehow cool, it just shows the inefficiencies of a regular gas engine more openly: that the engine has to run in a certain small band of RPM to provide the energy for driving. Automatic transmission covers the de
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by geff82 10y ago
We got so much advice on how we should handle the sleep of our baby daughter and we didn't follow any. The first weeks, she was sleeping close to 20 hours a day, which gradually became less. But she showed no real day-night pattern. Al
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by geff82 10y ago
Your death penalty govermnent can't resurrect you from the deaths. And also most people stop caring if your sentence was correct after they killed you. Years behind bars are a horror, but at least you can do something about it. And in
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by geff82 10y ago
Can't tell you, Edge has been my default because it is ok, but I use Chrome sometimes.
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by geff82 10y ago
That is annoying, too. But it is not "in my system".
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by geff82 10y ago
Windows also has an annoyment-subsystem now, reminding you to use Edge once a day when you start Chrome. That is why I am switching my last desktop to Linux in the minutes I write this post. I will not accept an OS that tells me what I shou
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by geff82 10y ago
The nightmare is also that in some countries, when the police knocks on the door to arrest you, you might get killed in a gruel archaic ritual called "execution" at the end, even if you did nothing wrong, just the odds were agains
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by geff82 10y ago
I see enormous rates of adoption... Office 97 could easily be replaced by Staroffice if you wanted, but Office 365 is almost impossible to escape once you have put your data on it.
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by geff82 10y ago
They allow pictures that are so shocking horrific that one has to vomit.
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by geff82 10y ago
As long as they remove breast pictures instead of pictures of beheadings (I complained several times as they appeared in my newsfeed, but they were always deemed as "ok"), our world is not going anywhere in terms of peace.
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by geff82 10y ago
Hope I can still buy my later bizjet there :D
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by geff82 10y ago
Inread lots of english software documentation and listened to podcasts and thus got fluent at English. I spend the childhood in France and thus became fluent in French. I married my teacher for the Persian language and by spending lots of t
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by geff82 10y ago
I think the perfect office has 5-8 occupants that work on related/the same subject. That way, you can still communicate if needed, still have calm times where you can concentrate and don't have to fear you have so sit in a 2-3 peo
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by geff82 10y ago
I think of it as the following: the book is how the fundamentals really are. Taking those fundamentals and truths, you apply some smaller adjustments to make a world worth living.
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by geff82 10y ago
"Economics in one lesson" is a classic worth reading and thinking about. While you don't necessary have to follow the libertarian way of thinking it guides you to, it still shapes your critical thinking about economic policie
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by geff82 10y ago
Gnuplot is one of the reasons that makes me love the open source/Unix world every time I use it. Writing a plot in code, embedding it in LaTeX... all while having the fingers on the keyboard. You get connected to your machine like that
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by geff82 10y ago
In Germany, I use Xing (Linkedin equivalent) to get a new job whenever I want. You have to know the right groups for your field of work and get part of them(examples: the "Freelance"-group for contractors, the "Linux" gr
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by geff82 10y ago
Your inherent hatred for humanity fascinates me. I still have to grasp it. So Costa Rica is living on renewable energy now, strongly reducing any harm on any living beings, and you, at least that's what one could read in it, don't

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