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by kephra 13y ago
I own two android devices, a Defy+ and a Nexus 7, and I have no use for them, and instead use an old gray screen Nokia dumb phone. The main reasons are: - Battery life. My Nokia holds 7-14 days, depending on how much I actively use it. - In
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by kephra 13y ago
The classical browse job offers, send resume, get an invitation to an interview, get the job does not work anymore. Optimizing for the best cover letter, great resume, or tricky interview questions is a cargo cult. The only reason to optimi
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by kephra 13y ago
Languages change, their compiler changed, a Gentoo backup would come with sources of the compiler you used to compile your C++11preBeta project also.
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by kephra 13y ago
I might want to add this advise to coders also: You fix some bug in some free software, to help some other company. Write them a small invoice, don't be shy of asking for money. You win a customer. Coders like me are cursed by infinite
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by kephra 13y ago
imho, he is missing the most important point, and walking in the wrong direction instead. He is true, that science requires recomputation, the ability to verify or falsify results. But recomputation in science is more then just the ability
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by kephra 13y ago
True, a bag of words would perform better. man bash | tr '[:upper:] ' '[:lower:]\n' | awk '/./ { bag[$1]++ } END { for(word in bag) { print bag[word], word } }' | sort -rn | awk '{ print } NR>
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by kephra 13y ago
/me wonders are candidates allowed to chose their favorite language? man bash | tr '[:upper:] ' '[:lower:]\n' | sed '/^$/d' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head | awk '{ print $2 }' | fmt
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by kephra 13y ago
Those people you describe have no place in the job market. Their only value is to consume. Give them free money, so that they consume WoW, THC, beer and the like. Someone has to consume our overproduction. But, I'm living in an area th
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by kephra 13y ago
My current focus is on machine learning for industrial application. 15 years ago my main focus was the paperless office. And before that common office automation. Its true, that not every coder is freeing people from work. But in average we
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by kephra 13y ago
I'm a programmer. My job is to free people from work, for more then 35 years. An unconditional/basic/universal income or negative tax would allow those people to enjoy the freedom I provided for them, while unemployment is a
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by kephra 13y ago
There is also one main difference between US and German book market. Ordering a book in US took two weeks or even month, to ship the book to Boston, before Amazon disrupted the broken US book market. While ordering a book in Germany takes a
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by kephra 13y ago
It depends on your business model, e.g. Wizards of the Coast did it this way: They payed in stocks. One share equaled $0.50. e.g. a "drafting table" was valued 200 shares, or about $100 of fictive money. This later became $280,000
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by kephra 13y ago
I wonder how many of who voted "None of the above" standard X11 fonts like misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-* ? At least its good that "None of the above", and it reminds me on an old Yellow Biafra claim: Every election should
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by kephra 13y ago
I think its interesting to compare how law enforcement movies differ in various countries: - French is imho the most realistic: Police is corrupt and lazy, and they solve crime because they participate in crime. - Western Germany (Tatort):
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by kephra 13y ago
I prefer to work remote for ages, but I dislike the choices of tools. Publishing valuable business critical documentation into the cloud looks to me to like typical US stupidity, I prefer to host them myself. I host my own teamspeak, my own
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by kephra 13y ago
Its still stupid credit cards. Most eCommerce sites have a profit margin of less then 10%, often around 5%. Charging 2.85% + $0.30 kills most business ideas.
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by kephra 13y ago
Clarification: Merkel said "Das Internet ist für uns alle Neuland", not “the Internet is new to all of us.”. Now Neuland does not just mean "new", but "new land". Similar as America or Africa was new land after
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by kephra 13y ago
"WAH! My site is under heavy load! I am working very hard to bring it back soon!" thats a progress to the prior cookie and redirect hell.
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by kephra 13y ago
webcache - so this site worked - and went down by a Hacker News DDoS of only 31 points (3100 visitors) in 56 minutes. /me sings http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE
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by kephra 13y ago
w-hat are they doing wrong? http://www.lingscars.com/ redirects to http://www.lingscars.com/_donotsteal.html Firefox (NoScript) shows: The page isn't redirecting properly Iceweasel has detected that th
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by kephra 13y ago
> This didn't render in chrome, I had to look at the source of the page to read it. This is a classical example of doing css+js wrong. Loading the page with js disabled, shows a blank page. Disabling css, shows the content in a nearly n
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by kephra 13y ago
Thats not true: e.g. "27321 Finkenburg, Germany" no street, no house number. And the Finkenburg is in western Germany, close to Bremen. It was a former Saxenschanze, an artificial hill between Weser and Dike, that is surrounded by water sev
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by kephra 13y ago
Lets cross check what the United Nation has to say about NAD: http://www.unece.org/trade/untdid/d04b/trsd/trsdnad.htm As you can see, only the 3035 "PARTY FUNCTION CODE QUALIFIER", telling if this address is a buyer, a supplier, a shipper
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by kephra 13y ago
http://movie2kmovies.blogspot.de/ is still up, but not telling, why the main site is down.
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Movie2K Disappears Without Warning(torrentfreak.com)
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by kephra 13y ago
Most technical computer topics have an IRC channel on freenode. Often google shows up a page for the active channels. The searchirc.com sometimes shows dead channel.
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by kephra 13y ago
I would suggest the relevant IRC channel. First ask a smart question that is on topic, next PM those who answered, if they are for hire.
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by kephra 13y ago
The problem I have with the "Can I help you?" question comes from the standpoint of an old German UseNet and IRC user. Here we have the special word "Metafrage". A Metaquestion is a question that can be answered by Yes/No, provides no infor
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by kephra 13y ago
It always surprises me that gender prejudice turned by 180 between 1970 and 1980. Programmer was a cheap woman job: Typist, data typist, COBOL programmer was a typical career. It was believed that men can not even type 40 years ago, when I
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by kephra 14y ago
two suggestions: - you need a favicon, so its possible to pull your site into an icon bar for bookmarking. - you need a search engine registration, so its possible to use it from search engine tab in browser

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