kahawe

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by kahawe 14y ago
> Music performance is one of the hardest things to be satisfied with every time... Even the greatest Jazz legends would typically say they only had a handful of performances in their career where they were really satisfied and where ev
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by kahawe 14y ago
Hello from Europe! I think you are vastly under-estimating the startup scene over here... but granted, being quite far from the Valley surely doesn't benefit them; the whole Internet and IT are very much focused on the Valley and NewYork du
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by kahawe 14y ago
"re-tabling it before the European Parliament until it passes" is completely different from "tabling it again after x years after new information surfaced". The former suggests pretty much immediate, repetitive, DoS style re-tabling and an
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by kahawe 14y ago
> The European Commissioner responsible for the treaty, Karel de Gucht, has said that he will ignore any rejections and re-table it before the European Parliament until it passes Is it just me with limited political understanding or i
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by kahawe 14y ago
In Austria and Germany the telcos were trying to push a similar technology called "BTX" ("Bildschirmtext", German for "screen text") or "Vtx" (Videotext) but it never really caught on and died even faster when the internet came around. But
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by kahawe 14y ago
> and tries to share his experience I think the point is: he might be trying but he is doing a horrible job at sharing that experience because the only thing he gives us is "he is a big picture thinker", he "cranks through to dos" and
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by kahawe 14y ago
Taking a stab in the dark here but I am wondering how important users messing with their boxes are there. I assume more "beige boxes" are either bought together from cheap components and been assembled by the users themselves or are general
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by kahawe 14y ago
> there's great value with legacy systems in not getting rid of the people who have been working on them for the last 20 years, and know all the idiosyncrasies and foibles. As someone who unfortunately has been in touch with CA-7 and
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by kahawe 14y ago
> What has Google "forced upon users" with Google+? If I remember correctly, on launch I suddenly had a profile that was rather cryptic to opt-OUT of and I somehow ( despite never having added them ) still PUBLICLY show up as a contac
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by kahawe 14y ago
> To lead an organisation, one has to know what is happening in it I agree with you but reality shows us different a thousand times over and still these companies exist... even AOL is still around.
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by kahawe 14y ago
> This is something I have a hard time understanding. Why do companies always seem to insist that everything in their operations is within their full framework? There might be actual reasons of efficiency and using synergies and if yo
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by kahawe 14y ago
> Move out to Oakland From all that I have heard and read, do NOT move to Oakland.
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by kahawe 14y ago
> tales of inns being built on the ice Do you have any sources or links for this? This sounds really interesting, I want to read up on it!
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by kahawe 14y ago
> Good communication is universal. That's the point - IMHO this was NOT "good communication". There were some techniques in there that could be helpful in general but this was by no means a good conversation or a good example of commu
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by kahawe 14y ago
> Perhaps most amazing is many people's apparent assumption that banks would never engage in this kind of behavior. I was sort-of witness to a shouting match between a well educated son and his hard-working working-class rest of the f
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by kahawe 14y ago
> I'm surprised that this behaviour seems to be tolerated. Yes, it works, but so do a lot of other slimy subterfuges and shady business practices I think this is not a fair comparison. Shady businesses try to rip you off and somehow g
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by kahawe 14y ago
> I live an overly solitary life, and I crave for company. My social circle is nearly empty, no GF, and almost all my friends have moved to other cities, so I have just one close friend. Damn, I need to go out. I need more human contac
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by kahawe 14y ago
All these examples of what is obviously not or very shitty art according to OP suggest for me that OP does not "not get art" but they cannot reconcile these examples of modern art with their own understanding of art. The only question I wou
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by kahawe 14y ago
Can you elaborate on that? Why do you say that?
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by kahawe 14y ago
> He calmed down. Is it just me or does this example conversation feel really horrible, not-involved and distant? I can see how this technique of mirroring and showing empathy can work well in certain situations but it is less "commun
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by kahawe 14y ago
I don't usually do this but I am going to officially tell you: Yes, yes you are not only being too sensitive but you are freakin' blowing this completely out of proportion. Wanting to "freakin kill someone" is a very common figure of speech
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by kahawe 14y ago
I have played EVE for some time as a rather unimportant pilot battling in a big corp in a huge alliance that was fighting the back-then biggest alliance in the game. EVE is nothing short of amazing in terms of what CCP is doing. They are on
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by kahawe 14y ago
Hello from Europe! You would be surprised how many rights inmates have over here. I am pretty certain the same applies to schools, they don't have fundamentally more rights over their students in any way I could remember.
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by kahawe 14y ago
Great and interesting answer and links! Thank you very much!
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by kahawe 14y ago
> But Perl is one where, depending on the circumstances, the response could plausibly be as article says: boredom. "Yeah, sure, whatever. I'll go upgrade them." (Certainly there are others, but Perl is definitely one of the best in thi
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by kahawe 14y ago
You fail to realize that they might very well be in a position where nothing but costs and liquidity matter, no matter how much great work you are doing there and how beneficial it might be for them in the long run. And no, this doesn't nec
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by kahawe 14y ago
> I agree that businesses should always been looking at costs, but only in relation to the benefits. Just looking at costs and trying to reduce them is meaningless. I know exactly what you mean and this is a very engineer kind of view
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by kahawe 14y ago
> Sending out a mail to a bunch of your subcontractors asking them to agree to a cost reduction is not only silly, but it also shows you have no clue how to run a business. It is a mildly smart and efficient way of demonstrating brute
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by kahawe 14y ago
I think what you are asking is not how to be more motivated but how to work much more than 40 hours a week on a regular basis, namely on your 9-5 AND your personal projects... if I was you, I would be very careful not to overload yourself a
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by kahawe 14y ago
One thing that I always find very unsettling when reading things like that: how Germany is somehow always an epitome of efficiency and productiveness. I am working here and I absolutely do NOT perceive it like that and friends who are also

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