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by kahawe 15y ago
Depending on industry and country, unions are by-and-large very strong here in the EU, especially in Germany, and I wouldn't be surprised if they would very quickly put their foot down once such a practice becomes known.
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by kahawe 15y ago
Yes, I realize that and was sort-of pushing for this reply... in a way you can apply that to hackers and sysadmins too because just turn off a couple of mail servers or routers and people's lives will get worse quickly as well. The point is
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by kahawe 15y ago
Technical question to UK-based hackers... OP says: " ...it wasn't quite the amount of money I was owed for unpaid overtime, but it was something. " Can you as an employee in UK lose pay like that when your employer goes bankrupt? Aren't the
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by kahawe 15y ago
While the article is a nice and up-stirring read, I have to play devil's advocate here and ask: So how many lives have garbagemen changed in the way OP talks about? How much impact do workers in a steel mill have? What about other simple bu
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by kahawe 15y ago
There is so much research available on how to make your employees work better, more efficient, how to make them happier, healthier, more productive, how to provide a positive team environment etc but still the majority of companies treat em
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by kahawe 15y ago
I can fall asleep at pretty much any given hour of the day... unless it is the actual time in the evening at which I should go to bed. I had a terrible case of getting a "second wind" rush at night around midnight and even worse after 3 or
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by kahawe 15y ago
Seeing how that worked out with European flights passenger data, I am surprised there is no discussion of making European banking data being stored outside of Europe somehow mandatory - to prevent terrorism and all that good stuff.
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by kahawe 15y ago
Also, the government does totally not fake numbers, does not actively buy cars and other products to create temporary, fake demand spikes to attract western companies to produce in China but only under license in a Chinese owned and -run fa
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by kahawe 15y ago
Can you only do the usual teaching-English gig or can you actually get decent and well-paying IT or managing jobs? How open are people to foreigners? Are you actually considered about "equivalent"? What about health care, social insurance,
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by kahawe 15y ago
I am glad Jonathan enjoys seeing and living in another place and it has always been a dream of mine to live/study/work in Asia but one question: is it not a HUGE trade-off to move to a place where the ONLY thing you can actually do is teach
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by kahawe 15y ago
Well, there are books, movies, TV shows, there is art and music and languages... and you haven't even touched on seriously studying different sciences up to a respectable level. I think it would benefit humanity a lot if people could have a
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by kahawe 15y ago
Yes, it surely isn't nice to see one of the older Linux distributors likely gone but honestly... I cannot think of a single unique or outstanding feature that mandrake could offer back in the day and by now, desktop-linux is firmly in the h
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by kahawe 15y ago
So, what do you think of Dave Chappelle?
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by kahawe 15y ago
> shit tends to crop up everywhere. It’s a very reddity kind of shit. I would say that is a very internet kind of thing... just avoid those places where it becomes too much.
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by kahawe 15y ago
I have been using netbeans and eclipse for a long time and can even remember using the abomination that was jbuilder... currently I am using an older netbeans version (6.1/6.8) for very specific product-centric development and it works just
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by kahawe 15y ago
Isn't it funny how practically all rich, developed, western countries have rising life expectancies but especially on the internet you get the feeling that by 30 they will just grab and bury you because your life is over...
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by kahawe 15y ago
I am sorry for what happened to you but here is some hard truth: there is not a single girl in this world who is worth killing yourself over.
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by kahawe 15y ago
Those are the kind of personal hacker blog posts I really like: most of the time spent was actually hacker-stuff and he presents the results - not 90% spent on an article of pointless musings for nothing but self-promotion.
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by kahawe 15y ago
> for showing that you don't need a label, you mean: for showing that Louis CK doesn't need a label.
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by kahawe 15y ago
Yes, nowadays you can easily record video and audio and edit both very comfortably on your home computer and if you know a bit what you are doing, you will get pretty good results. Yes, nowadays there are a lot of ways of easily distributin
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by kahawe 15y ago
> We made some bad experience when asking people to make a decision, quite frequently people would ignore the question on the first-run page for one reason or another and then wonder why Adblock Plus "isn't working" ...sooo, instead y
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by kahawe 15y ago
> I wonder if any other famous artists saw their work differently than the rest of us? Ludwig van Beethoven's hearing started to deteriorate early on and eventually he became completely deaf though he continued to compose. Of course t
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by kahawe 15y ago
Cheese, frozen chicken, truck with window-blades, laptop battery and phonebook armor, mixing some MOO with MEOW, snow plow rocket sleds and the list goes on and on about things with at least potential military use - heck, even white mice in
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by kahawe 15y ago
> My interest in Mythbusters faded as their excuses for blowing stuff up every week became increasingly absurd and pointless. And the Obama episode? Really, the best they could think of was Archimedes death ray because it wasnt "teste
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by kahawe 15y ago
Judging by the "The Pragmatic Programmer" book on subversion alone, this series of books has got to be absolutely horrible because they literally half-copied the svn redbook and dumbed it down so you pay good money for so very little inform
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by kahawe 15y ago
And on top of that even more questionable what this having 15 credit hours towards a doctorate are supposed to tell us? That he wasn't good enough to finish it? And more specifically what it is supposed to tell us with regards to children's
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by kahawe 15y ago
> simple math The point probably is your and other people's definition of what "simple math" is and should be...
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by kahawe 15y ago
> "I help oversee an organization with 22,000 employees and a $3 billion operations and capital budget, and am able to make sense of complex data related to those responsibilities." ...which all requires a completely different skill-s
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by kahawe 15y ago
German sources with further links and discussions: http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wissen/europaeische-ueberwachungs... http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Kritik-an-geplanter-U... http://www.heise.de/tr/artikel/Fahndung-im-Datenraum-107
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by kahawe 15y ago
My native tongue is German, I had English as my first and French as my second foreign language and also had quite a few years of Latin in school and I am dabbling in Asian languages just for myself. I can see how Latin will probably not hel

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