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by ivanhoe 6y ago
I'm from Serbia, so no, I'm not really privileged with any of that as we've got oppressive regime in power, inefficient police used to look the other way on crimes, and fairly close-minded and conservative society. Of course,
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
I don't think memorizing commands is really the problem. Learning just 8 git commands (clone, pull, checkout, checkout -b, commit, push, merge, rebase) will cover like 99% of situations average dev will ever encounter. And when you nee
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
Hey, just because you're Italian how do you dare to explain why Italians do this or that... If it's of any comfort, I find your post informative, thanks. And who cares of carma points anyway...
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
> People change over time and normal human communications have a natural sunset built in as people forget exactly who said what. It's true, but I'm not sure it's as good thing as you believe. I was born in communism, and t
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
Or it could be: "Hey Ivanhoe, your buddy from government here. That thing that we discussed, no problem I arranged everything, T says it's cool, just wire us the money and the project is yours." In my view, if someone is goin
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
> Additionally you’re also ignoring the whole “people have the right, to not have their emails stolen” argument No, just the opposite, that is an excellent argument and I think that the privacy should be the real focus when we discuss th
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
True, there are things that might ruin someone's life even though there's nothing bad about them, but the list of actual crimes and bad things that people do is WAY longer, and being able to prove it is definitely useful...
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
Other than whistleblowers and activists fighting the dictatorships (and they can work-around this), what is the case where not being able to prove who sent the email would be a good thing?
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
I have to say that I find the amount of effort that's put into silencing these particular weirdos scary - and it's also deeply hypocritical because conspiracy theorists are being shushed down for believing in imaginary and impossi
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
I think OP meant that it's OK to be middle class mediocre, nothing especially bad or shameful about it. Being poor is the other extreme of the system - just like good luck and smart decisions can make you rich, bad luck and stupid move
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
Not sure how ABBYY FineReader is priced these days, but it was always giving me excellent results.
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
You can do it for even less in most of EU countries. You just need to get a job or create a company to get a work visa, and then stay for 5 or 6 years, learn some basic language and that's it.
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
> or a thinly veiled claim that other languages are perhaps "less democratic" They are exactly that, less democratic, as the language standard is dictated by a committee of academics/politicians, leading to it often diver
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
It's about the amount of pre-processing the food gets in our mouth, so the effect they're measuring depends on the time the food has spent in the mouth, in contact with enzymes from saliva, and how finely ground it was by our teet
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
> E.g. take a look at this guy's code snippet's HTML source in the middle of the page well, on the other hand manually crafting the syntax-highlighted block of code isn't a lot of fun either
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
Not sure if I should feel lucky or depressed that no one outside my team will ever care about our meetings enough to spy on us...
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
I'm genuinely curious to hear your suggestion on what to do instead? How can one get a free answer online that is guaranteed to be the actual best solution to the problem?
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
The parent post says: "Excel interprets a number and then formats it as a number, but in healthcare, 10 digit numbers are really strings." - so I was under impression that the length for that particular column is fixed - probably
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
I'm from Belgrade, trust me it's far more complicated than that. There are Chinese pushing into the whole region who are a perfect fit to the current corrupted dictatorship going on in Serbia, there's CIA pushing weapons to M
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
Couldn't you validate the data on upload or if it's such a common problem just auto-fix it by left padding w/ zeros?
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
yup, that's how we used to do it in 90s, as long as code is compiled it has a fairly decent performances. Downside is that debugging is far harder than with the scripting languages.
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
IMO the better title for the post would be "Unfortunately, I don't setup the clean environment for each of my tests"
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
> So here's a smaller community where the majority is fine with high taxation Yes, but it's not the majority that runs offshore companies in Panama, but those rich enough that it makes sense for them to go through the trouble o
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
Or one can use `bind space:magic-space` in .bashrc to activate the auto-expansion of the history on space
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
It's not about immediacy of it, privacy will never be high priority to someone whose very day to day existence is uncertain and/or who already lives in a system with much worse human rights abuses, corruption and injustices (and t
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
> A "flowchart" has very specific meaning in programming contexts [1]. This tool is for wireframing [2]. Wireframe also has very specific meaning for UI/UX people and this is not it. This is some combination of site map an
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
In my country the law explicitly says that you have to drive such small mopeds/scooters in a such way, keeping close to the right side, that cars can easily overtake you. They are treated exactly the same as bikes, can drive on bike la
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
> If the answer is yes, where are all the local apps taking over the world with their low prices? They're out there, but you've never heard of them because to market them to Western public you have to pay Western prices for ads
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
> is it really the same across all EU countries? Nope, not at all. Even prices within the country are not the same, e.g. in Croatia the price on the seaside is a bit higher than the prices in Zagreb (the capitol). For comparison, in Zagr
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by ivanhoe 6y ago
Isn't that just the decimal part? In my mother tongue (Serbo-Croatian) it's common to call this just the decimals - e.g. in 12.34 the decimals would be 34... I'm really surprised that English doesn't have a similar short

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