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by jakobegger 7y ago
Surprisingly, Apple doesn't care a bit when developers fuck you. One app that I bought on the app store for 60€ just refused to start one day if I didn't buy an additional annual subscription. When I complained to Apple, they just
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by jakobegger 7y ago
I agree that 10min is a threshold. We have a bus line nearby that has a 15min interval. It's close to useless for short trips, and I only use it rarely. The busses with 10min interval are okay. The average wait is still longer than I&#
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by jakobegger 7y ago
I asked the same question a week ago and got some great answers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22032891 TLDR: There are many different types of simulators.
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by jakobegger 7y ago
Why sell an update for x when you can sell a full sim for 20x?
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by jakobegger 7y ago
A 5km run is probably between 30-45min activity. If you run at a medium pace, I don't think that would be an issue. If run as fast as you can, I agree that you should take breaks.
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by jakobegger 7y ago
I'm pretty happy about the fact that everyone has an expiration date built in. I know of very few people in power who don't start abusing their power in some way eventually. Eventual death puts some limits on the amount of bad thi
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by jakobegger 7y ago
> replace tipping with higher wages I'm not suggesting to "replace" tipping with anything. I'm saying you should pay waiters enough so they don't depend on tips. Tips are a nice bonus, but they shouldn't be
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by jakobegger 7y ago
Ha, same here. I thought my catering side job was pretty sweet (7€ an hour!) until I once scratched someones car on the way to work and it cost me 350€, which was more than I had earned in that job. I've since realised that cars are ve
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by jakobegger 7y ago
I don't think the system will fix itself by banning tips. That doesn't help anyone. What society should do is require a decent base pay (regardless of tip). That way I know that my server can make ends meet if I tip them or not, a
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by jakobegger 7y ago
> Germany didn't even have a minimum wage until fairly recently We don't really have a minimum wage in Austria either, but wages are regulated per industry. So employers are still required to pay certain wages, even though we d
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by jakobegger 7y ago
I remember that! It's such a great feature! Unfortunately it doesn't work correctly for the PDFs I get from my accountant. It's one of those features that are really obvious, but probably surprisingly hard to implement.
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by jakobegger 7y ago
I think this is how a lot of enterprise software is sold. Potential customer says "it's missing x", sales person says "we'll build x in two weeks", product is sold, devs have to figure out how to build x in two
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by jakobegger 7y ago
No, they just aren't affected by the old bugs. Most bugs affect only a small fraction of users, because bugs that affect many people are usually found during QA. So the majority of your users will not be affected by the existing bugs.
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by jakobegger 7y ago
> this feels like a business or management issue It's not a management issue, it's deeper than that. Whenever you change something, you risk breaking something. It doesn't matter if you have unit tests, integrations tests,
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by jakobegger 7y ago
But it seems to me those conspiracies often only affect a small (but vocal) minority of the people. I recall a similar issue when they started to introduce a prescription database in Austria. There was a lot of fearmongering in the media, d
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by jakobegger 7y ago
On the contrary, my job taught me that desktop software can be extremely reliable and does not actually break all the time. Many of my customers use versions of my app that are a few years old without any troubles. When the user is in contr
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by jakobegger 7y ago
Can someone explain how Airplane Simulators for pilots work? Do simulators have the same hardware as real planes, or do they have a software model of the airplane? If you simulated a broken AoA sensor, would the simulated plane behave simil
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by jakobegger 7y ago
In her blog post she says that they had a long relationship, decided to have a baby, and after the baby was born he began another affair and left her to care for the baby alone. I wouldn't say "he tricked her into having a baby&qu
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by jakobegger 7y ago
> After our son was born, I received a call from HR notifying me that one of us would have to leave the legal department where David was now Chief Legal Officer (...) This sounds like the worst possible policy I can think of. Get pregnan
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by jakobegger 7y ago
You could probably say the same thing about 90% of scientific papers. Almost all research is narrow in scope, and more research is always needed. And calling other research fields "nonsense" is also something that researchers from
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by jakobegger 7y ago
I already knew some basics of vim, as I've been semi-regularly using it for a long time to edit files on the command line. Everytime I ssh into a server I use vim to edit text files. I can get everything done that I need to do. My stru
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by jakobegger 7y ago
Countries with public rail systems (or railway companies that are largely owned by the state) are usually way better than privately operated railway lines. Private railway service almost always sucks (crappy trains, high fares) and is only
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by jakobegger 7y ago
OK, it's been about an hour. I learned the following: - there's a visual mode for selecting text - I can now yank and paste text in normal mode - I learned to use :split and :vsplit to open new files, and ctrl-w to switch between
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by jakobegger 7y ago
> one hours is defiantly enough to get to know the main Vim bindings I'm going to do an experiment. I've been struggling with Vim for a long time. I need to leave in about one hour. Instead of wasting time here on HN, I'll
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by jakobegger 7y ago
Can someone explain why I would use this over Shairport Sync [1]? Setting up shairport is so easy, and it works great with iPhones and Macs as audio sources (which happens to be what I use). Is Snapcast just more compatible with Linux clien
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by jakobegger 7y ago
Most neighbours are decent folks, so security may not be necessary. For example, I had an open Wifi for years, so the neighbours could share it if they wanted. I also had passwordless Airplay speakers, and only once soneone tried to play mu
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by jakobegger 7y ago
First of all, I don't live in the US. I pay taxes to my government so that they build infrastructure, run public services, etc. Foreign governments normally don't do anything for me, so I don't pay them taxes (unless I'm
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by jakobegger 7y ago
If your own government sends you a manipulated device, is that really better than a foreign government sending you a manipulated device?
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by jakobegger 7y ago
Or a journalist saw a chance to get famous quickly and didn't bother to verify the sources. The story was so good that everyone wanted it to be true and nobody said that it looks like an incoherent mess.
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by jakobegger 7y ago
The chip on the photo of the article is just some random component (was it a voltage regulator?) that the journalist bought from Digikey or Mouser or some store like that. No suspicious chip was ever found on a Supermicro board. The story i

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