kahawe

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   by kahawe 15y ago

   If you enjoy doing that, there is always Slackware or NetBSD or debian-unstable as well.
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   by kahawe 15y ago

   I have to say, I agree with your general resentment but I had to set those examples straight because they actually do not support your point. Most of those small, boutique shops probably don't recruit a lot of people, I am sure of that. But
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   by kahawe 15y ago

   > now we don't. Yes, yes you still do. Iron horse, Kona, Fuji, Cannondale.... Mesa, Fryette, DrZ, Carr, divided by 13, 65amp, 2Rock, Fuchs, Lovepedal, Catalinbread, Earthquaker Dev, Devi Ever, Death by Audio, CMATMODS, Dwarfcraft... L
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   by kahawe 15y ago

   > What souvenirs can I bring back from the United States to Germany, I had nothing to say. The joke is on him: pretty much ALL typical American exports and products are extremely common parts of daily life over here in Euroland... we
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   by kahawe 15y ago

   On one or two of those times he got away for being a minor... and allegedly when they got him for phone card and credit card fraud, they might have offered him a deal and he snitched on and betrayed the whole scene that actually built him u
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   by kahawe 15y ago

   Working in Germany, the really sad part for me is seeing how TÜV and Lufthansa, of all companies, blindly bought into his shenanigans. This should tell you how absolutely clueless people were about all things IT, Internet and PC back then.
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   by kahawe 15y ago

   > Evidently he was a hacker of some ability; That is the really important part: NO, he never was. He was always all smoke and mirrors, show and PR stunts. And from his BBS days all the way to megaupload, he has never done anything but
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   by kahawe 15y ago

   The difference is that for the up-coming change, you can NOT opt out of it and it goes far beyond "we'll also search your google+ profile for you!". If it was really all about the users and their experiences, then why is there no way to opt
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   by kahawe 15y ago

   > If you don’t get that, then you should probably work somewhere else. If I was working at a company and my boss would use such "STFU"-style statements, I would consider quitting sooner rather than later. And here is why: I remember i
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    by kahawe 15y ago

    > consumers bond with value. > Porsche, BMW And who do you think actually dictates that value of a BMW or Porsche vs. a VW or Merc? Image, marketing and market segmentation. Way more than actual product value or actual quality..
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    by kahawe 15y ago

    I do not really understand what the dis-agreement here is about. For me it is very clear that Apple was one of the first (or at least few) PC companies that really understood how to both engineer AND market to a broader range of customers.
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    by kahawe 15y ago

    > no official apple store. no apple billboards, tv ads, etc. apple marketing is non-existent These are FAR from being the only means of apple marketing YOU are being exposed to. I think even in the States while the iPod was catching o
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    by kahawe 15y ago

    > The difference is the rather important fact that sports teams, unlike most technology companies, accomplish absolutely nothing useful or productive other than to provide entertainment. I am not a sports guy or fan by any means but t
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    by kahawe 15y ago

    Also, this: http://www.hackerland.de/hackertales/kimble.htm (in German) Especially interesting to see how what he did with megaupload was 100% the exactly same thing he did back in the BBS days.
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    by kahawe 15y ago

    This is pretty much all in German but I still decided to post it because it gives an insight into Kim Schmitz's ("kimble", recently in the news because of megaupload) past and this collection must not be lost. It is pretty much nothing but
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    Kim Schmitz trolling in the German CCC newsgroup, 1996-2000(arnold.babsi.de)

    5 points by kahawe 15y ago|3 comments
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    by kahawe 15y ago

    > Kim Schmitz has made a lot of money over a five to seven year period doing this. Probably more famous amongst German hackers but this is also the Kim "kimble" Schmitz of insider-trading letsbuyit.com fame who pulled PR stunts like l
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    by kahawe 15y ago

    Those with 10 and more hours each night on average: how do you do that, don't you miss those hours for doing stuff and do you just like it or would less hours actually make you feel tired and sleep-deprived?
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    by kahawe 15y ago

    I was promised something by the (outrageously) surprising claim in the headline and the article could not remotely keep up... and this was the first analogy that came to my mind - in both cases something was promised but then not fulfilled.
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    by kahawe 15y ago

    GDP (PPP) 2011 estimate - Total $4.469 trillion[5] (3rd) - Per capita $3,703[5] (129th) GDP (nominal) 2011 estimate - Total $1.843 trillion[5] (10th) - Per capita $1,527[5] (133rd) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India This als
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    by kahawe 15y ago

    And these are all good points why it does not HURT them to do that. But my question was... why DID they do it?
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    by kahawe 15y ago

    Also, in 10 years you are 10 years behind on working experience and have a big hole on your CV with nothing much to show for but a couple of blog entries and tons of pictures. And I couldn't agree more with your last paragraph.
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    by kahawe 15y ago

    > but so long as you find a hostel/apartment/friend with some basic cooking utensils and Internet, it's not too hard to keep your costs very low. Sorry to be nitpicking here, that "minimalism porn" thing is a completely new curiosity
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    by kahawe 15y ago

    Yes, I understand that but the question then still is... why would they spend time, money and resources to give you all that material for free? Other institutions in the "diploma business" will surely peek and try to keep up and I do not se
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    by kahawe 15y ago

    > Amazing how offended some people seem to be by him omitting a few thing - who really cares If I promise to give you 50 bucks for some software you wrote and then I only give you 10, you wouldn't be offended or complain, right?
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    by kahawe 15y ago

    Also, they have all other things provided for them without actually owning them.
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    by kahawe 15y ago

    I think it is great that Harvard and Stanford open their course material on the internet but can someone explain to me why they would do it? I mean, what is in it for them - a bit of PR and friendly headlines aside? Their name and status al
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    by kahawe 15y ago

    > via powerful search I do the same but google mail's search is not really useful as it does not let you match substrings so it can be really, really frustrating unless you meticulously manage your inbox with tags.
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    by kahawe 15y ago

    Could someone enlighten me what all those vendors licensed from Microsoft?
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    by kahawe 15y ago

    Here it works like this (in my own layman terms): once you file for bankruptcy you'll have someone assigned to handle your company's business and this person's duty is to find out whether the company is just suffering from temporary cash fl