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by jakobe 14y ago
My Mac app grosses around 3k € / month ( http://jabakobob.net/mdbviewer/ ). Might not be much for someone living in SF, but it's more than my day job at an Austrian research institute pays.
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by jakobe 14y ago
5 minutes!
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by jakobe 14y ago
What point would there be in living when everybody works on extending life and noone works on making life enjoyable?
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by jakobe 14y ago
As a smart person once said, every headline ending in a question mark can be answered with "No."
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by jakobe 14y ago
Sexual harassment does happen, but very few people talk about it in public. In fact, most people don't even talk about it in private. It's very much possible that it is common, but noone ever told you about it (except for bloggers who are n
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by jakobe 14y ago
The blog post was clearly not talking about "a cheesy pickup line". Please don't make a pretty obvious case of sexual harassment seem harmless.
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by jakobe 14y ago
You must understand the concept of capacity: Capacity describes the amount of charge (number of electrons) needed to create a potential difference (voltage) across a gap. The capacity between ground and shaver circuit is tiny, so only a rea
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by jakobe 14y ago
Apple develops a technology called Airplay that it licenses to 3rd parties. Developers reverse-engineer the technology and sell apps that circumvent Apple's licensing model. Apple removes those apps from their store. I am not the least bit
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by jakobe 14y ago
By "phone support" I mean a phone number that I can call when I have problems, such as all emails disappearing from my inbox. I don't see how the page you linked would help me.
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by jakobe 14y ago
Phone support? Where? I have looked for phone support when all the email disappeared from my gmail inbox. There is no phone support for Gmail.
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by jakobe 14y ago
Yes, but they show you that QR code only AFTER you gave them your phone number and typed in the confirmation code.
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by jakobe 14y ago
When someone asks me for money, I just give them money. I dont care what they do with it. I think people complaining about being deceived are just looking for excuses for being greedy. The end result is the same, no matter if the beggar is
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by jakobe 14y ago
I think the trick is to just pay the SVA the extra money without asking questions and then hope that the Finanzamt accepts it. But I'm not a specialist and I haven't tried it yet; but I will try it this year.
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by jakobe 14y ago
I'm in Austria too. My accountant told me that it is possible to just pay higher SVA payments. So if you assume that you will have to pay 5000/year, but they only charge you 3000/year, you just pay them an extra 2000 EUR on your last paymen
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by jakobe 14y ago
The most important thing for page loading times is reducing the number of network roundtrips required to view a page. A visitor across the globe will have a latency of around 300ms per request. If you include a javascript that adds a link t
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by jakobe 14y ago
In practice my theory is right.
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by jakobe 14y ago
The film is not a documentary, and it's no wonder you haven't heard of it; it's targeted at the audience of the phdcomics webcomic. I assume they don't aim for the mass market, but try to cater to their readers. If you target a small audien
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by jakobe 14y ago
That's the theory. In practice, people who think that $15 are too much, will either forget about it (and not come back when its cheaper), or they will pirate it.
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by jakobe 15y ago
The quality of the job postings is extremely low. "Looking for an experienced Android developer as an intern". Are you kidding me?
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by jakobe 15y ago
If you can write down your terms of service in a simple and clear manner, why include the obfuscated version?
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by jakobe 15y ago
Why not link to the original post?
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by jakobe 15y ago
That may be why technical people might have a hard time learning languages.
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by jakobe 15y ago
I wonder how many high quality applicants he would get if he just described what the fuck the job is about. I often look through job ads out of curiosity, and it's remarkable how generic most of them are. Maybe they promise "high profile cl
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by jakobe 15y ago
As a Mac developer, I have to disagree. I've had great experiences with Apple's customer service, both as a normal customer and as a developer. I always got helpful answers from a human being within a reasonable time. They sometimes make it
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by jakobe 15y ago
I don't understand how anybody can complain that "restrictive" is a bad adjective for a license that contains hundreds of restrictions. "Freedom preserving" sounds a bit like Orwellian double speak.
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by jakobe 15y ago
I did a masters equivalent degree in theoretical physics, now I'm doing a PhD in computer graphics. A coworker who did his PhD in theoretical physics is now doing a post doc in mechatronic. Many people might specialize more and more, but if
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by jakobe 15y ago
It might be difficult to find a formal and logically coherent definition of "restrictive" vs. "permissive", but I was thinking in more pragmatic terms. Like with porn, "I know it when I see it". As I see it, required attribution somewhere i
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by jakobe 15y ago
"You are using free code". It's not free. The cost for this "free" code is that I apply the same license to my own code. Of course the original author can put whatever license on their code. But the license effectively renders the code usel
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by jakobe 15y ago
I can't include code under GPL in my own code without changing my own code to GPL. That's why it ruins my day.
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by jakobe 15y ago
No. "Restrictive" vs. "permissive" captures exactly the relevant information. If I look for some code to include in my project, I don't care if the license is "copyleft" or "copyright" or whatever. I just need to know if including the code

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