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by geff82 10y ago
The problem we currently have in politics it demography. People get older and older, the baby boomers forgot to "produce" children. Elder people tend to be deeply conservative and anti-technology. And as they are the majority now,
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by geff82 10y ago
I heard from Adobe that they will close their headquarter near London and move to their main operation to the Paris office. The UK branch essentially becomes a sales office, nothing more.
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by geff82 10y ago
He'll go down in history as one of the worst leaders the UK ever had. Which he already was before yesterday. By the way, if he let the people decide on such a super topic as leave/remain in the EU, why does he not let his people v
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by geff82 10y ago
Actually yes, but I am more familiar with UK, US, German and Swiss business/company laws. As I am also considering moving to the US in 2017/2018 (in case Trump is NOT president), an Estonian e-company seems to be a good fit to hav
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by geff82 10y ago
I'll take my UK company home to Germany at the end of the year. No need for a base in a non-EU-country.
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by geff82 10y ago
People are equal, cultures are not.
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by geff82 10y ago
Yes, because Jails and ZFS are cool. FreeBSD has superb documentation and a giant software repository.
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by geff82 10y ago
Just as a note to you: when I drive through Teheran, there are often rugs in the middle of the road so cars drive over them. This is how they are made "old" and sell for many, many, dollars.
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by geff82 10y ago
I remember spending an entire holiday at the spanish sea reading a thick Delphi 3 book... and I had a great time, especially after returning home and programming all the software I had designed in my mind.
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by geff82 10y ago
I often find myself contemplating to move my information consumption back to a purely paper based approach as long as this is still possible. After all, good newspapers and magazines do a good job at curating the most important information
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by geff82 10y ago
You see, there are two types of people going to concert nowadays: the first group goes there to listen to the music, enjoying the atmosphere, have a good time. The second group goes there to film everything with their phone, take selfies, p
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by geff82 10y ago
The advice not to do astrophotography is meant for the beginner. He wants you to concentrate "on the thing itself" first, on watching the stars, navigating to an object, controlling the telescope, getting a feeling for what eyepie
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by geff82 11y ago
While what I wrote is the contrary to what you say, you are absolutely right, too (so you get an upvote). But Merkel has her very own style of doing stuff, and in the current situation that she maneuvered herself into, her decision made som
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by geff82 11y ago
Nobody seems to see how Merkel got this thing very right. 1.) Law says: you may prosecute it. So she "allows prosecution", as she also can't ignore diplomatic implication of doing otherwise. 2.) She also declares that the gov
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by geff82 11y ago
The german criminal police (in US: FBI) once called me and insisted on a good talk because of something. They finally visited me sensibly at my workplace, dressed up as customers (promised not to tell my coworkers who they really were). The
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by geff82 11y ago
Is it based on any major distribution
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by geff82 11y ago
Persian is a beautiful language. Especially when spoken by females, it sounds so soft and precious (ok, in my mind there are "man"-languages and "female"-languages, depending on which sex sounds nicer when using them)
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by geff82 11y ago
While being pro-western most of the time, I do not buy into stories like this one in the current political situation. Might be the truth or might not. It won't matter that much after all (except for the authors of headlines). Do I soun
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by geff82 11y ago
I think not providing meals/refreshments on any flight longer than 30min is just wrong. Why? Of course on could argue that if you "pay less you get less" or that meals are not needed on short flights. But the true story is th
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by geff82 11y ago
Might be. But it does not matter that much. A sheikhdom is something else than your regular dictatorship. As long as you stay away from critizising the ruler directly, you can talk about pretty much everything (depends on country of course)
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by geff82 11y ago
TAOCP is not to learn programming or to cover everything modern. It is for the intellectual exercise, for widening the mind. And that is where its beauty lies.
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by geff82 11y ago
You are also free to negociate your own fare. The Taxi to the airport costs 40€ at my place, but I get it for 25 by my local taxi driver, night and day. Uber was more expensive the single time I could legally use it.
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by geff82 11y ago
most useful thing ever. All you need in 90% of the time. Hope to see it in Redhat soon :)
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by geff82 11y ago
"Flying Car" seems so cool, but really think about it. Would you drive your car-airplane around on the ground all the time? An airplane already costs lots of money to maintain when it is only flying and sitting at the airport. Now
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by geff82 11y ago
They should just add a cap at 1 TB (plus maybe a pay option for more) and leave Onedrive as it was. And by that I mean: Onedrive like it was on Windows 8.1, with file representations. I convertet many people to their ecosystem in the Win8 d
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by geff82 11y ago
Since I learned farsi and live with my Iranian wife, I actually can't speak french fluently any more. After 3 days in France, the reverse thing happens and I talk to my wife in French, which she does not understand. Somehow, French and
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by geff82 11y ago
So a foundation with a 300 million Dollar budget can't support the most widespread free mailing software out there? A software that shares many parts with the Firefox browser? This makes no sense to me. It's ridiculous that they s
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by geff82 11y ago
Try to be the leader. Try to be the one others look up to. Try to do a perfect job that everyone appreciates. Be the one who teaches others. If you did all that, you are ready to move on.
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by geff82 11y ago
In reality, the imbalance is even greater as many men aren't fit for marriage/relationship. Look at the men living on the streets, look at the criminal statistics, look at universities: too many men get lost somehow along the way
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by geff82 11y ago
Marriage is simply a human need as long as it still takes 20-30 years to raise children. If you do not at least promise your partner to be there until the end of life, there can be no (perceived?) certainity that you are not shooting yourse

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