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by jlg23 8y ago
Not sure where we disagree: Bad documentation is bad. Yes. But what is specific about inline comments per se?
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by jlg23 8y ago
> a ThinkPad remains a ThinkPad. Uhm, no. My a20p, bought in 2001 still works. I only swapped the HD once and the keyboard every 6 months or so. I bought my last thinkpad 4 years ago and (given limited time and budget) had only a single
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by jlg23 8y ago
> Secondly (and ironically), experienced users of these libraries eventually find inline documentation to be more of a distraction than a help, cluttering code with comments they no longer read. Do they? In 20+ years of professional soft
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by jlg23 8y ago
To be fair: you can do that with probably any unixoid OS. IMHO, it is just much easier with BSDs because a) documentation of how to do it is much easier to access than on linux or the other two(TM) and b) BSDs tend to follow the KISS-princi
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by jlg23 8y ago
> Women in the GDR typically became pregnant at a very young age (18-21) because a family with a child had the right to get its own apartment. This is one way to look at it. The other way: free, guaranteed child care (probably mandatory
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by jlg23 8y ago
In the US. Good luck in other countries[1]. [1] I've been to much more countries where the currency of choice is top-up cards for mobile phones. Master- and VISA-cards issued by local banks are usually only usable for national transact
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by jlg23 8y ago
> However, an important difference between old TV and current-day streaming is that it is much easier to pirate shows that are streaming. As someone who grew up recording (and distributing to friends) one-to-many streams (a.k.a. terrestr
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by jlg23 8y ago
> I also wonder how long the increase in quality in Havelhöhe can last before some beancounter sweeps in and turns the system on its head again based on some pretext. I hope that this never happens, but reality has a way of throwing a wr
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by jlg23 8y ago
To put his work in context: He taught people how to identify a Russian medal (IIRC, it was 20 years ago..) before image search or tabbed browsers were a thing. Even if there had been image search, most people would not have had the bandwidt
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by jlg23 8y ago
> So I'll say up front, you're right to say I don't have 15 years of experience to back this up. And if your takeaway is, "this idiot doesn't know what they're talking about", fine, I'll take that.
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by jlg23 8y ago
Let me hand you some binoculars, it might be hard to see the details from the vantage point of giants' shoulders: * A lot of things "missed" is what further research proved to be "obvious" conclusions of exactly the
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by jlg23 8y ago
As a German who had to take US-americans to the ER twice, once in Germany, once on Curacao, my observation can be summarized as "WTF?". In both cases the patient initially refused treatment out of fear to receive a high bill. Both
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by jlg23 8y ago
.. to Very Winterkorny Streisand, or short VW Streisand? ;)
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by jlg23 8y ago
I too am from Europe and I organized my first commercial techno party in Berlin in 1997 and every single artist named Atkins as a pioneer wrt electronic club music. Wrt your music categories, your ontology is screwed just by its existence:
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by jlg23 8y ago
If your subject benefits from a 3d representation at all. I dare to say: most do not, just as most do not benefit from video. I think the real revolution in teaching will be when we have enough well educated, well paid teachers. Imagine the
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by jlg23 8y ago
> computation in Excel is becoming a solid meme Somebody said that a decade ago and the responses provided invaluable pointers into regions of PL-theory I would not have consider explored this well... Happy reading ;) [1] http:/&#x
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by jlg23 8y ago
Yes, the article does focus on #5. I don't know the authorities who "have observed", my observation differs a lot: most businesses that still exist after 5 years have done exactly that. But that, of course, requires a "w
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by jlg23 8y ago
I built up connections during employment and open source communities (the latter was much easier 2 decades ago). Ever since, my "marketing" is: * Try to over-deliver in some aspect important to the customer (time to delivery, docu
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by jlg23 8y ago
No need for time travel here... I currently live in the south of Morocco and this is exactly the kind of advice I am given here constantly. My SO went through months of dietary restrictions based on such advice; got her to hospital 2 week
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by jlg23 8y ago
Pushing configurations to devices has been around for at least 2 decades. Everybody does it and unless we are bashing big companies, we usually agree on "automatic software updates are a good thing(tm)". I don't see any diffe
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by jlg23 8y ago
> Note length, tempo, velocity, progression and other stuff are minor worries in comparison. Those things can be felt, without learning. Can it? How do you learn a piece for which you only have a sheet? I would go even further and say th
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by jlg23 8y ago
> I'm confused why anyone would spend time doing this Plain, good, old fun?
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by jlg23 8y ago
Looks fine in lynx on a 80x25 terminal ;)
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by jlg23 8y ago
> They only bear fruit in nearly pristine, undisturbed forest .. and various backyards or just along the road even in larger cities. Some consider them a nuisance[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_nut#Haza
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by jlg23 8y ago
From the article: "Since this person disabled GPS tracking on the car, the owner had to utilize a different method of tracking down the alleged crook."
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by jlg23 8y ago
Did you actually perform experiments to substantiate your claim? As in: Do you have numbers that clearly show that there is a net benefit when you make the user experience as bad as it is today?
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by jlg23 8y ago
This is not specific to Alzheimer but applies to the general concept of market-driven medical research.
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by jlg23 8y ago
WRT the difference between soldiers in Paris and Italy: "Finger close to the trigger" usually means a proper drill in trigger discipline - I'd take that anytime over "relaxed" soldiers.
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by jlg23 8y ago
> However, with the live coding languages, you can literally redefine the function that is causing grief. More, you can, on the fly, define a new helper function that it should call to handle the current input causing trouble and redefin
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by jlg23 8y ago
What exactly are you missing and what are the other differences?

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