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by jan_g 17y ago
I'm talking about Yugoslavia and 80s. Borders were officially quite tight (you couldn't import anything beyond some small value), but lots and lots of people used illegally traded foreign currency to buy food, clothes, toys, computers(yes,
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by jan_g 17y ago
Yes, you are correct in respect with local currency. However, in my country there used to be quite vibrant currency black market instead of alcohol storing. People most often replaced all excess local currency with deutsch marks. At the ex
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by jan_g 17y ago
FTA: "The result of receiving total silence, especially for a prolonged period, has a number of unwanted effects on the listener, including the following ..." Besides what is listed in the article, prolonged silence may result in media plat
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by jan_g 17y ago
Hm, maybe you didn't search thoroughly enough ? Or maybe I don't understand what you're asking for. Anyways, try Version control->Show changes view. With this you open Changes plugin and under Local tab you will have browsable local cha
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by jan_g 17y ago
I think that Android doesn't need advertising. It's something that people mostly don't care about. However, they do care about quality, which Android may provide for handset producers. So maybe, Google is not even trying to put effort in An
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by jan_g 17y ago
Granted, it won't win beauty pageant, but why do any of us use tools like gimp ? To get stuff done. Multiple windows were annoying (especially in combination with multiple desktops :-)), but other than that gimp qualifies as a good tool.
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by jan_g 17y ago
>before Java lots of folks couldn't use them because computers weren't powerful enough, but now they aren't using them because schools stopped teaching and switched to vocational java training. Talk about self-denial. Java is definitely
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by jan_g 17y ago
>(Attenborough, by the way, must rank as one of the greatest contemporary Britains...) True, it's almost unfair to compare any documentary to his documentaries :-) His books are also great, check out 'The Private Life of Plants'.
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by jan_g 18y ago
I don't need additional evidence for stuff that is common knowledge. Certainly, what you say about western nations' exploitations in the past (and present) is true. That does not make criticism of Dubai untrue or unnecessary.
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by jan_g 18y ago
What you are saying is not true. If some individuals (like one billionth of Earth population) decided to buy, shop, play golf, etc. in Dubai that does not mean that everyone on Earth collectively ignored/supported/whatever some medieval reg
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by jan_g 18y ago
>If their revolutionary spirit and humane conscious suddenly spring to life, it's only because Dubai represents the oriental Other This is not exactly correct. There's nothing sudden about Dubai criticism (foreign worker exploitation, e
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by jan_g 18y ago
It's not old, it's just wrong to emphasize _the tool_ so much. Don't know about the author, but being productive doesn't equal being masterful typist. I had a member of the team, who was above average productive in notepad (yes, notepad!) a
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by jan_g 18y ago
Rigged ? I don't think that anyone is meddling with tele-voting. However, it is true that some people vote accordingly to nationality more than to song quality. The principle is the same as in politics, where people are more likely to suppo
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by jan_g 18y ago
I have found out that unit testing is great if you use it sparingly, that is only use it on public methods of public API. So, if I write server-side software, I unit-test only facade methods that are invoked by clients. And I always run the
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by jan_g 19y ago
You have to ask ask yourself, "why's that so" ? Why the so called day coders do Java, C# or COBOL and not Smalltalk, LISP or Ruby ? There's a reason for everything and in programming the reason to use language a instead of language b in a s
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by jan_g 19y ago
There are thousands of java me based games. The market is actually quite thriving (at least here in Europe), as kids seem to like having games on their phones. So, having java Me on iphone would enable selling all those games to iphone owne
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by jan_g 19y ago
Two words : google android. At least emulator looks ok, we have yet to see actual devices.
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by jan_g 19y ago
As article correctly points out, firefox has managed to become successful browser. It is perplexing to me, because I find Opera just as good if not better browser.
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by jan_g 19y ago
I would not say, that PS3 was a flop. Sale numbers are in the millions. And, since we are talking about high-def video, as high-def player PS3 whoops ass (in sales) compared to any other high-def player. I also do not agree completely about