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by kbart 10y ago
"Please what kind of programmer would ever do this?" I've seen some coding rules/guides that explicitly forbid short form of 'if' statement usage.
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by kbart 10y ago
I think this young programmers cult is more US centric problem. Or should I say SV centric problem. I didn't notice such widespread age discrimination in Europe. I'm not that old yet (30), but I've worked with many older prog
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by kbart 10y ago
"the US is paying full price to subsidize the cost to much of the world. The US is the profit center that makes possible the steeply-discounted-almost-free sales elsewhere." Yeah, right. So why we pay ~30% more[1] for the same i
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by kbart 10y ago
Yes, I sure hope we can use GNU/Linux on phone one day. It wouldn't be that hard to make, given an unlocked hardware platform and open source drivers for baseband and graphics module. Actually, I have done a device very similar to
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by kbart 10y ago
“It has to be their decision, whether they want to connect their account with Facebook,” Johannes Caspar, the Hamburg data protection commissioner, said in a statement. “Therefore, Facebook has to ask for their permission in advance. This
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by kbart 10y ago
What's the quickest way to do that?
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by kbart 10y ago
Past what? Topics interesting to women? Though I agree that this emoticon is ugly and it took me some time to understand what it symbolizes.
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by kbart 10y ago
If you refuse to hand over encryption keys in court, after you'd been officially charged that's one thing (though not saying that it's justified either), but if you've been stopped for i.e. mundane traffic check and aske
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by kbart 10y ago
From article no. 0: "<...> police stopped them for unrelated matters and discovered the shock images upon inspecting their mobile phones" What?? So police in UK can now ask to inspect inside your phone without any warrant
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by kbart 10y ago
"How does it make sense to have 2 different units of time in there?" This way it's easier to calculate how much energy your appliances uses. For example, if your vacuum cleaner is 1000W (1kW), running it for an hour will us
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by kbart 10y ago
"The reason we ask for your name first is because we want to create a more personal chat experience." When I'm doing a research online before buying something, I really don't want "personal chat experience" w
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by kbart 10y ago
"The top 5 global pharma companies spent 42 billion USD on R&D in 2015 alone." Pharmacy companies are are not aiming to cure diseases, they aim to invent drugs that make good money. Eradicating diseases is harmful to their b
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by kbart 10y ago
It's a political problem. Tax sugar and junk food heavily and the problem will solve itself over time.
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by kbart 10y ago
When you think of it, why not? If it didn't work as expected, at least it will be an evening well spent..;]
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by kbart 10y ago
And how many "Kings" do you know personally?/s What me (and presumably, OP) trying to say is, that an ordinal person should be much more worried about their private data being collected and used (virtually) unconstrained by t
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by kbart 10y ago
Yeah, I found tone of these articles distasteful as well. It looks like only criminals are worried about their privacy. I'm pro-privacy, but not so much worried that police gets a warrant and wires my chat as I'm concerned about G
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by kbart 10y ago
Don't worry, running by Google, it won't stay around long./s
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by kbart 10y ago
I'd say that Buddhism is more like philosophy than a "real" religion. Though I agree that there's no clear definition of what "religion", especially now, where every nutjob can create his own "religion&quo
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by kbart 10y ago
I don't see word "secret" anywhere in his answer. EDIT: http://imgur.com/a/niewu
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by kbart 10y ago
I wonder if similar ruling[1] for alternative OS'es as with browsers could be reached? 1. http://ec.europa.eu/competition/consumers/web_browsers_choic...
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by kbart 10y ago
Big (if not major) part of humanity are used to some kind of drugs too (alcohol, tobacco, sugar, coffee etc.), but we don't say there's something more to it. Religion is a drug for one's mind to make feel better and ease exis
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by kbart 10y ago
I've had sleep problems for years. Few simple things that usually helped me: 1) a glass of whisky. 2) sex. 3) relaxing, silent background music (Dead Can Dance is wonderful, but I guess it's a matter of taste).
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by kbart 10y ago
What's wrong with an old school navigation bar and page segmentation? You really don't need JS to display simple blog or other text-mostly webpages.
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by kbart 10y ago
What you described here is a simple corruption. That's not quite what guanxi is.
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by kbart 10y ago
So I guess those Chinese making your gadgets in 18h factory shifts are all billionaires by now.
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by kbart 10y ago
Before computer games there were also sports, cards, books, alcohol, drugs etc. It's only a consequence, not a cause of humans inclination for exciting their reward centers with least possible efforts.
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by kbart 10y ago
"Apache Milagro (incubating) establishes a new internet security framework purpose-built for cloud-connected app-centric software and IoT devices that require Internet scale." Are they trying to achieve some kind of 'most b
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by kbart 10y ago
"two 20kb toddlers." Is that a mistype or do you really measure babies in kilobits?
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by kbart 10y ago
No, your link only talks about digital goods , that are exemptions. Of course, you can't pay VAT for digital goods (subscriptions, ebooks, mp3 etc.) on arrival, because there's no shipping and thus customs are avoided, so VAT mus
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by kbart 10y ago
True, but that's what reflexes are for.

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