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by johnyzee 18y ago
I haven't noticed or heard complaints about it. They have teams of people taking care of the fleet in exchange for unemployment benefits, I believe this includes redistributing once in a while.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
In Copenhagen we have free city cycles in the entire central city area. Just slip in a coin and you can take the cycle out for as long as you want. When done park it at any of the stations and take your coin back. Also, pretty much every st
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Agreed, the EEE (on which I write this) has surprisingly short battery life for such a limited device. However, the SSD more than makes up for the battery consumption by being silent, blazingly fast and mad robust (this is my four year old
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by johnyzee 18y ago
In the case of youtube it seems most copyright owners tacitly accept the presence of their material, probably because they recognize the promotional value. It's a weird situation now where people casually link to illegal material, like a Fa
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by johnyzee 18y ago
A fair piece of youtube's success owes to illegal, copyrighted content (yes, including the rickroll).
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Entire sections are missing, f.ex. process. Others are naive, f.ex. build automation (no continuous integration?). Obviously skewed toward geekery (he is the Indian geek after all).
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by johnyzee 18y ago
> > Past the third generation, minorities stop being minorities. They become culturally indistinguishable from the overall society > Where are you from? This has not been the case with Muslims in Europe at large. Premature. The
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by johnyzee 18y ago
This is sweet - a visualization of the collective psyche. It would also be interesting to see one with websites filtered out.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Skype was developed in Estonia by outsourced developers. I think it's fair to say they've been pretty successful.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Beyond a certain threshold they're just making shit up to make ever more exclusive stuff for rich people to spend their surplus on, without adding any more value than exclusivity itself. The funny thing is that the exclusive brands are crap
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by johnyzee 18y ago
> "We wear t-shirts because clothes don't matter, but if you wear a suit you're unfit for startup hacker life." That puts into words my vaguely-formed concept of why I defiantly wear dress pants and expensive shirts (+ suit and tie for
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by johnyzee 18y ago
I have two things to add: 1: The consequences of lifestyle won't hit until you cross thirty. Unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, poor posture, poor sleep habits, extreme stress - none of these matter when you're young, so you think you're inv
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by johnyzee 18y ago
> So, instead of asking, "How can I get more time in my week?" I ask, "How can I use what I learn from my clients to cut through the fog on my own software so that I don't need as much time?" Yeah, setting up CVS tunnelling to my client
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Later caliphs f.ex. among the Ottomans were quite progressive particularly politically. But you are right. I just note that there have been different standards, and for a time the prevalent standard was not opposed to science, learning and
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by johnyzee 18y ago
> Averroes was a pretty crappy Muslim by today's standards. Today's standards are the problem. The above mentioned scientists did consider themselves religious Muslims (Averroes reconciliated Aristotle with Islamic thought in the face o
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Islam was not originally anti-science, as evidenced by the fact that the whole body of basic sciences builds upon Muslim scientific tradition (certainly true of medicine, chemistry, optics and astrology, most of basic math etc.). It is not
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by johnyzee 18y ago
If they are not offshore I assure you that it is only because they can get away with even less taxes by having a registered charity as a holding company for their assets, or whatever other shell game company structure is more profitable the
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Damn it, now I really want to eat Turkish delight. Haven't had those things in years (for reasons I shall rediscover after the first one). Luckily I am living in the ethnic enclave of Copenhagen.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
GWT applications ARE straight javascript. It's how you create and maintain those humongous javascript applications that is the question. And GWT is a killer answer.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
GWT is a major game changer which the world has yet to discover. I predict that soonish we'll begin seeing web applications that weren't possible before, and this will force a big shift into GWT or a GWT like web application development par
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Agreed, customers who agonize over price are generally trouble down the road.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Kierkegaard nailed this long ago, when he said that everything is subjective, and that no wisdom can be transferred from one person to another, except through directly living and experiencing it. (Kierkegaard wanted his gravestone to say 'A
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by johnyzee 18y ago
The HN system works better than any other I have seen (it's kept me in line whenever I was tempted into adding noise rather than value). I don't think degradation of HN over time is unavoidable, clearly a lot of smart people here put energy
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by johnyzee 18y ago
I think they think about this the same way they think about their returns policy: They just assume that most people will be reasonable, and not go out of their way to abuse the system. On a tangential note, I seem to notice more and more ho
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by johnyzee 18y ago
A suit alleges to have had his identity stolen... I, for one, am not surprised.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Honestly, both Sweden, Denmark and Norway have growing problems with influx of immigrants and refugees, who are unable to contribute, but nonetheless must be offered the same benefits as everyone else. This is creating a dangerous backlash.
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by johnyzee 18y ago
wsdl2java has worked really well for any WSDL I've ever had to work against (consuming fairly rich both Java and .Net web services from Java). Note that there's been a fair bit of resistance to Axis2, with a lot of people preferring to stay
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by johnyzee 18y ago
"Has anyone in the history of computing ever really taken advantage of the "transport layer agnostic" aspect of SOAP?" At my current enterprise gig, SOAP messages are passed via MQ. This provides for additional facilities (transactions, mes
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by johnyzee 18y ago
I don't think that's controversial. It makes you think (way, way) out of the box. It's the same reason people smoke pot for creativity - you come up with weird ideas and some are really good. Of course, only to begin with do you know what t
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by johnyzee 18y ago
Exactly. The key is what pg hinted at, that parent's like their kids to be cute and innocent, which is usually self-serving if we are completely honest about it. However, pg seems to assert that the alternative is being jaded and cynical, w

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