jlg23

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by jlg23 10y ago
Yes, though without the negative connotations the term "hawala" carries in the West because all transactions are still fully documented and the broker gets a much lower share (for pure monetary international transfers in the hawal
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by jlg23 10y ago
> why would contributor contribute if they don't get a cut? I can only speak for me: Because I did not pay anything for the foundation I built on. If someone comes and asks for a cut (and I had this more than once), I give it to the
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by jlg23 10y ago
TL;DR: Buy our awesome tool to be fit for the changing world of work.
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by jlg23 10y ago
> Our current police and justice department like to do magic with the statistics I suspect you are doing the same: "2-3%" probably does include everything: Scratches on parked cars, lost passports or IDs that are reported stole
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by jlg23 10y ago
>I would like to know what is morally wrong in defeating a system designed to beat you. You know it is designed to beat you, you accept the terms and conditions by entering a casino. Which makes you, if you think it is OK to cheat then,
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by jlg23 10y ago
thanks :)
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by jlg23 10y ago
Keep on waiting. Every single transaction method has been broken. If not the method itself, the environment in which it has been used. Your personal experience is not a valid scientific reasoning. If it was: "I have not used more t
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by jlg23 10y ago
Do you have any data to move your statement from subjunctive into the realm of evidence based science?
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by jlg23 10y ago
I friend of mine, alternative spectrum publisher for 40 years, found a pretty good solution: For every book he buys, he has to get rid off another one. Literally: One book into his library, one book out. His motivation was that he simply di
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by jlg23 10y ago
> When it comes to working on a large project in a team, I suspect Forth doesn't scale. [...] It's too flexible If, in any language, flexibility is a problem for a larger team, fire the lead developer. The article does a good j
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by jlg23 10y ago
Amen. And it is dead simple to implement. I did it in common lisp 3 years ago for an IRC-bot - a lazy Sunday afternoon and 50 lines of code later I was done. I would not want to write code in Forth on a regular basis, but reading (and makin
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by jlg23 10y ago
> I've seen projects waste so much effort making the code uniform This one is usually an automated task. Everyone agrees on a coding style, configures his/her development environment and first time you work on a non-std file y
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by jlg23 10y ago
The one that fits your need. If you keep the persistence layer properly separated, you can switch DBs as your needs evolve.
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by jlg23 10y ago
>> There is no "glorious" PC hardware anymore > Just built a PC at home for gaming and Windows tinkering, and I have to say - it feels pretty glorious. Oh, I was just speaking about laptops since that is what the OP was t
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by jlg23 10y ago
Of course. But considering things I do not consider essential is like saying "yes" to "you save $1 when buying 5 apples, we charge for 4" when you only wanted one in the first place. The OP wrote about the specific &quot
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by jlg23 10y ago
> You have to realize that MacOS, Windows, even typical Linux Desktop is not an optimal environment for a professional programmer, or for any other computer based job which involves a lot of writing, reading and maintaining flow state. I
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by jlg23 10y ago
> These rants are typical but would be much better if people identified the glorious PC hardware they are using. As someone who's never bought Apple HW (but used it, when paid for by employers, as secondary devices): There is no &qu
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by jlg23 10y ago
> Do you know how many times Poland has been invaded or partitioned in the past 300 years? 177 years. Poland has not existed as a sovereign country from 1795 to 1918. Since not even the Polish can agree on an answer to your question, I&#
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by jlg23 10y ago
Fascinating collection of "insights" you have there. > They failed to have a unified front on the Iraq war. All member states of the EU consider pluralism a core value. But yes, it would have been much nicer if all of Europe ha
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by jlg23 10y ago
I wonder how the German OP is helped when Germany left the EU. What do we do with Oettinger? Tie him to a tree and hope someone feeds him from time to time? He is German, we'd have to take him with us!
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by jlg23 10y ago
a) My patient might be dead by the time the donor dies, less profit for me. b) "deliberately poor care" or "generous amounts of painkillers"? The alternative phrasing is exactly how assisted suicide works in societies wh
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by jlg23 10y ago
"around a third of the $100 saving you make over the price of an average hotel room" Up to 30USD of the 100USD I save compared to a regular hotel? PER NIGHT? In that price range, $30 are a mere tip.
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by jlg23 10y ago
True. Before a surgery, never ask your anesthesiologist how exactly the anesthetic s/he'll give you works.. You might get an honest "we don't know" as an answer..
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by jlg23 10y ago
> do we know that the poultry/fish industries can absorb the cost of "humanely" raiding these animals without collapsing? Enter the Tardis, go back 200 years and replace "poultry/fish" with "cotton&#x2F
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by jlg23 10y ago
> Forty year old code in Common Lisp, which also has a standard, a single standard, just works. Mostly. If not, just (pushnew :symbolics *features*) or whatever the code was created on. Especially the very old lisp code regularl
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by jlg23 10y ago
> so maybe everyone should just wait 20 years I'd hope that people with misguided optimization agendas that effectively cost me as an employer money will be weeded out before 20 years pass. The QED is the rest of your post; I don&#x
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by jlg23 10y ago
> The way I think about it: any extra effort that has no direct impact in making my life "as a programmer" easier, is a bug that needs to be fixed. And 20 years later I am able to differentiate between "minor chores"
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by jlg23 10y ago
I cannot answer your question the way you probably intended, but, for self learning: ITERATE is an attempt at providing a generic LOOP, which is built into CL and is somewhat specified in the standard. REPEAT is part of the ITERATE package.
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by jlg23 10y ago
Hear, hear. Indeed, "welcome" to everybody who takes the time to understand what (s)he is talking about.
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by jlg23 10y ago
Wow. I just wasted 10 minutes of my life... TL;DR: whois data may or may not leak information. PS: My first OSINT-binder is from 1986 and that article did not provide anything, anything at all, that goes beyond what that folder contains.

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