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by kephra 11y ago
If someone upvotes your negative comment, the complete thread goes up a bit. Thats the opposite, that your want with a downvote.
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by kephra 11y ago
I've heard rumors, that Monsanto is behind the legalization of marijuana, planing to sell seeds, fertilizers and herbicides. Is there any truth behind this rumor?
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by kephra 11y ago
NoScript will prevent most of those evil trackings by default. e.g. cdc.gov displays fine without any JS, and google analytics or addthis on my untrusted list anyway. Its still possible to browse without JS most of the time. Some pages are
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by kephra 11y ago
So a HR who successfully poached an employed coder, hired someone who is willing to drop work at the moment he gets a better offer. The other HR stupidity is, that its much easier to get a raise, if you switch jobs often, then if you stay i
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by kephra 11y ago
> You will go through 6-8 interviews!” I thought: “YOU will hire a bunch of unemployed people”. Can someone explain why HR managers have such a severe prejudice against hiring unemployed people? Imho, its their job, to select those peopl
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by kephra 11y ago
I don't understand the point in removing cyclic references, coming from FORTH, Lisp, Smalltalk point of view those are required, if you split a big recursion into smaller factors. The recursion automatically becomes a cyclic reference
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by kephra 11y ago
e.g. money is badly represented as float. just my $0.0200000000001 on that topic.
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by kephra 12y ago
I sometimes think, that the reason for this age discrimination was the switch from female to male coders in the early 80s. It was that sudden break, that introduced the computer kid as a replacement of the former cheap female workforce, and
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by kephra 12y ago
> Same with learning Python. A language is like an instrument, once you know one, learning the next will be much easier, because you already know about rhythm and harmonics. Each new instrument, even a new guitar, is a ear opener, as it
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by kephra 12y ago
I compare coding with making music. You can teach everybody to make music, but most people are to shy to begin. Learning to make music requires lots of boring practice. Lot of people fail after a few month of guitar lessons as a kid. But th
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by kephra 12y ago
shameless plug A fellow sailor made the following video showing his velomobil in normal day traffic in a suburb of Cologne Germany. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UNAK8xkpBU Topspeed is "only" around 45mph (70
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by kephra 12y ago
Hawala حوالة could be an option, if you know wealthy Jewish or Muslim in your country. They certainly do business, and know how to transfer money.
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by kephra 12y ago
Lets say a great senior coder is twice as good as an average junior coder. The factor ten comes into play, when teams grow up, skills get diluted, and communication overhead kills the project. Lets say the great senior was able to code 20 h
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by kephra 12y ago
sorry /me stupid kraut trapped by Wikipedia, and 2005 plant reclassification. The German Acacia Wikipedia entry only contains the genus Acacia, while "Akazien" points to the tribe that is including all those plants that are
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by kephra 12y ago
I wonder why Acacia? This plant is not native to Africa, but only from Australian continent. I checked other sources, and found references to "Hardy, drought-resistant acacia trees now dig their roots into 330 miles of northern Senegal
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by kephra 12y ago
You need a 2nd trusted but independent person, who writes an application that runs on your webserver checking its own signature, and the hash sums of your code, after this trusted person started it with a password only he knows to access th
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Rutgers: online facial recognition system presents major privacy risk(dailytargum.com)
2 points by kephra 12y ago|0 comments
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by kephra 12y ago
Egon Bahr (former prime minister) and Willi Brand (former chancellor) are reliable sources for the Kanzerakte. US barracks are extraterritoriality zones, and US soldiers are not under German jurisdiction. And better read the 2+4 itself, and
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by kephra 12y ago
West Germany is still occupied by US troops. The 2+4 treaty is !NOT! a peace treaty. Russians just withdraw their troops from east Germany. Take a look in the 2+4 contract, neither US troops nor US atom rockets are allowed in east Germany.
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by kephra 12y ago
"The reason there aren’t more women computer scientists is because there aren’t more women computer scientists." The reason is, that programming changed from a badly payed women job in the 70s to a highly payed men job in the 80s.
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by kephra 12y ago
bookmarked great site. I was long searching for a slim light for 14500. Your site at least showed exactly one. I guess slim 14500 is an unusual wish. Nicely done!
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by kephra 12y ago
The battery part is extremely bad/dangerous, when it comes to rechargeable Lithium batteries. First it shows an UltraFire. Please avoid UltraFire and TrustFire cells. Those are refurbished used cells with a new shrink wrap and an prote
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by kephra 12y ago
It depends. There should be a way to find and index those user comments, if they have a positive SEO value. This conflicts with the goal, that blog post itself should be at delivered as a static content, at best from a static file, to withs
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by kephra 12y ago
ok I finally can read your article. And sorry you are missing the main point. Rendering static content client side using JavaScript is a bad idea, even if you have fast network in terms of latency and speed. The main problem with this AJA
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by kephra 12y ago
Dont depend on databases to deliver static content, could be the lesson learned. http://kephra.de/blog/Make_here_CMS.html <- shameless plug ;-) This static site generator only requires make and bash. Being bilingual
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by kephra 12y ago
> If I had an accountant I wouldn't be searching for this info! Most accountants only know B&M, M&D, and SBOs. Accountants who know international tax laws, are seldom seen in the wild, but mostly employed as specialist in bi
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by kephra 12y ago
Yes, if you are wealthy and live on a high tech world. But Traveller Tech Level is defined as the maximum level an economy can sustain with a population of 10 ^ TL. So 10 people, even with books of knowledge will be at TL:1 bronce age withi
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by kephra 12y ago
Ask any old military veteran. To old to rock'n'roll, to poor to rest. You have 10 years to earn enough money for retirement. Is that a reason to risk an adventure, that could earn that money? Also children out of school, wife divo
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by kephra 12y ago
Unfortunate they use D&D with its simple and rigid class system. A classless system like Runequest is much better to express the wide range of possible fantasy trope characters (trope=young boy knows nothing, explorers the world, become
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by kephra 12y ago
Let define "enterprise customer" first. This is someone for whom the terms, conditions and prices of your website do not apply. Enterprise customer = Ask for quotes. So you might delay the question of how they pay you, once you ha

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