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by janfoeh 8y ago
No doubt about it, the Vespa wins hands down when it comes to build quality and resale value. The build quality comes at a significant cost in weight, though. Ride quality - both have their strengths. In the end I'd still choose the Ni
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by janfoeh 8y ago
I would agree with that notion. I drive a Niu; it's very much fun to drive and I enjoy it, but I have a rather utalitarian view of it. Meanwhile, my girlfriend tried and liked it, but ultimately settled on a Vespa and loves it dearly.
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by janfoeh 9y ago
This statement is either very poorly thought out, or needlessly accusatory and inflammatory. I would say that if you claim that a massively complex system like public traffic, with thousands of participants, many of them badly or completely
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by janfoeh 9y ago
How did you manage that? Apple mails me an invoice every month. Which is more than I can say about quite a few subscription services (looking at you, lynda.com).
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by janfoeh 9y ago
This is just fancy cache-prewarming. The client still decides what resources to request, but those it wants to fetch are available locally at request time. ("just" as a qualifier for nefariousness, not usefulness)
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by janfoeh 9y ago
Me.com! I had already almost forgotten about that. I know that iOS devs hated stuff like Core Data with a passion, but from where I'm sitting, iCloud has been so painless and trouble-free over the years that I have almost forgiven them
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by janfoeh 9y ago
Apple has been doing that for as long as I have been a Mac user - Quicktime 7 -> X, iMovie 11 -> 13, iPhoto -> Photos.app, iWork '11 -> '13, Final Cut Pro 7 -> X ... etc. They generally seem to have few qualms relea
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by janfoeh 9y ago
So you would prefer FaceID over TouchID?
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by janfoeh 9y ago
Oh come on. I say if you're willing to undergo major reconstructive surgery just to read my emails, go ahead, you've earned it.
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by janfoeh 9y ago
You're all wrong. Live begins when the kids have the left the house and the dog's dead.
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by janfoeh 9y ago
There are a couple of interesting alternatives available here in Germany: 1. lockboxes or cut-resistant package containers which are clamped to your apartment door and can be opened with a PIN, such as these https://www.paketbutl
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by janfoeh 9y ago
Well, that's what happens to me 6/10 times. I have six Packstations within five driving minutes around me, yet as soon as the one I've addressed my package to was full on delivery, DHL insists on returning it to a parcel hub
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by janfoeh 9y ago
slashdot, but with a better comment engine ... but worse moderation. While rose-tinted glasses may be involved and /. never was Metafilter, if I had to design a community policing system today, Slashdot would be where I would s
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by janfoeh 9y ago
That's an interesting interpretation that did not occur to me. Thanks!
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by janfoeh 9y ago
Thank you, that interpretation was the one that made the most sense to me, too. But I figured I might be missing some context from British culture or class dynamics.
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by janfoeh 9y ago
Just for the record - that wasn't me.
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by janfoeh 9y ago
One anecdote from around the same time, possibly apocryphal, is widely shared. At a chambers that had expanded and was bringing in more money, three silks decided their chief clerk’s compensation, at 10 percent, had gotten out
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by janfoeh 9y ago
I think they mean http://www.taxi.eu/ . It's a single app used by large taxi dispatchers all over Europe; in Hamburg, at least HansaTaxi uses it, the largest and IMHO best dispatcher. As far as I understand it, taxi.eu
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by janfoeh 10y ago
Yikes. I hope your friend did not suffer any permanent damage. Thanks for telling me about the recipe! I never knew Dulce de Leche could be made in a pressure cooker - that's on my to do list for tomorrow now.
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by janfoeh 10y ago
Happened to my parents and me, back in the mid-90s. Luckily, nobody was in the kitchen the moment it happened. All I remember is that it left a decent dent in the vent hood above the stove, and Gulasz... Gulasz everywhere. Then again, I was
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by janfoeh 10y ago
The IKEA 365 garlic press is simple, sturdy, clever and only seven bucks: http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20152158/?query=I... The receptacle swings open, making cleaning trivial.
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by janfoeh 10y ago
Disclaimer: I'm writing this on Firefox. I was one of a couple of ten thousand people who donated money ten or so years ago for their famous NY Times ad when they were still going head-on against IE. I like them. This being said: if th
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Best Buy vs. The Apple Store(m.signalvnoise.com)
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by janfoeh 10y ago
> Shitty code often makes the world a better place. That's one of those things I have probably read - and agreed with - a hundred times before, but never that succinct. I will make that mine; I hope you don't mind.
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by janfoeh 10y ago
Sure, for larger projects a good, well-thought out and consistent framework is a godsend. No doubt about it that plenty of people make very good use of the frameworks and libraries at our disposal. But on the other hand I cannot count the n
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by janfoeh 10y ago
Thank you, and I hope you are right. Again, don't get me wrong - when I was writing what was called DHTML almost fifteen years ago, I would have killed for the APIs, capabilities and cross-platform stability we have today. It's a
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by janfoeh 10y ago
I appreciate your position, I really do. It's not like I am clear-cut on this myself, even if my frustration makes it sounds like I am. I appreciate that the language, the platform and the web itself needs to evolve. But I object to th
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by janfoeh 10y ago
I've said it before here and I'll say it again: the JS ecosystem is moving in the wrong direction. Sometimes I feel that with Javascript, we developers have taken something that wasn't ours, and we're in the process of d
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by janfoeh 10y ago
While they doubled down on phasing out nuclear after that, initially Germany's exit was decided upon in '98. It was a, if not the major topic in the first federal election I was allowed to vote in.
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by janfoeh 10y ago
This might help alleviate the overload a bit, at least while browsing: Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/millennials-to-sna... Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox

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