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by kitsune_ 15y ago
Well, in most cases the GUI stack will be different anyways. There is no "official" Android or iOS support from Nokia / QT for instance. I've deployed ASP.NET MVC apps on Linux / Mono and it was a relatively painless experience. The desktop
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
A lot of people just like C#. I think it's fair to say that it's a well designed language. It also depends on the task at hand and your personal preferences. I had to develop a couple of iPhone apps and in the process I've developed a prett
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
The underlying theme of the millennial generation is a sense of entitlement. A lot of people live under the illusion that their college degree is an accurate indicator of their intelligence and entitles them to enormous sums of money. Well,
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
Apple products are classical status symbols. Interesting to me is the idea that aesthetically, the original iMacs were worlds apart from the current models and it took Apple more than one try to find a classical design that worked. The curr
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
I have both an MBA and an X220 and in everyday use I think the two machines are comparable in feel and weight. Of course the x220 is a little bit bigger and heavier but the difference isn't really noticeable. In the end, both are very port
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
I have a MacBook Air at work and a X220 at home, I'd say the X220 looks better. Classic Sapper.
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
True, I bought an X220 (IPS, 80GB mSata, 320GB HDD, 8GB of RAM) in Switzerland. I paid about 1100 Swiss Francs (Imported from Germany). A MacBook Air would have cost me much more.
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
I added Stanislaw Lem in the reddit thread, didn't get a single upvote :( He's one of my favorite (sci fi) authors. Deep, absurd, comical. By the way, I think Solaris is some of his weaker novels. I particularly like The Star Diaries, The C
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
Indeed. Reading around the web an hour ago, looking for confirmation of the then-minutes-old news that Jesus had resigned as prince of the apostles, I repeatedly encountered and bridled each time at use of the adjective “shocking” to descri
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
I own this book. Recommended. It's much gentler (not necessarily easier) than most algorithms books.
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
From his facebook: https://whichtestwon.com/archives/5274 rolling eyes
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
What strikes me as most odd is the fact that conservative'ŝ constantly point out that 50% of people pay no taxes at all. They use this figure to illustrate a demand for raising taxes on these people. I never heard a conservative ask the que
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
The problem is, that in almost all of the west, without government spending, 30% to 50% of society would be in deep poverty. To me it looks like the elite and the government collude to pacate the vast majority of have-nothings. A large perc
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
Does anyone have any experience with Autonomy and its IDOL technology? I visited their site and they look a little bit shady :)
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
The HTC Desire was the best phone I've ever bought. Especially coming from an iPhone 3G, which was very buggy and slow.
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
Is that Comic Sans?
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
No, no, no, no, no, no, no. "There is little difference between personalization and the relevance of search results." Even if you're a Sailor Moon fan, you might actually be looking for information about the rock rotating around this planet
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
Well, actually, people do live in the Gobi Desert (for example in Erenhot - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erenhot - a city with 16'000 inhabitants).
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
When, 9 out of 10 experiences with a company turn out to be negative, it could be argued that you build up a negative bias. I'm not saying that there are no decent people at ACN, there definitely are. Either way, Accenture has an awful repu
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
I'd blame the person and not the company myself if it were not for a) Witnessing the havoc Accenture consulting unleashed upon a couple of businesses personally b) Knowing, albeit superficially, a load of people who currently work or had wo
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
My experience (off and on-work) with Accenture was horrible. A small anecdote (out of many): I visited a good friend of mine, a true math and programming genius, who was in the middle of his PhD at the ETHZ. An acquaintance of my friend sta
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
Thank you. I'm a .NET developer by trade. (ASP.NET MVC). Yes, I know Haskell. Yes I know python. Yes, I've used django. Yes I've programmed in PROLOG and EIFFEL. Yes I can use a shell and succesfully configured a linux server countless of t
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by kitsune_ 15y ago
First of all, I do not have to LOVE my job. As everything in this world, most things have good and bad sides. Surprise! Applying the concept of love to something as mundane as a job is ridiculous. Just a couple of generations ago, a job wa
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by kitsune_ 16y ago
Regarding "the zone" and "uninterruptability": I often wonder whether programming attracts people whose modus operandi is what it is, and "other people" would, for instance, have no problem with being interrupted, or whether programming is
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by kitsune_ 16y ago
I always missed the historical context in high school, especially with chemistry and to a lesser degree physics. You always knew that the current model you were being taught was "kinda wrong" or not the current state of knowledge (Rutherfor
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by kitsune_ 16y ago
I didn't use "lofty" with a qualititative judgement about the morality of communism. "lofty" has a Germanic origin, "luft", which means "air". It can be used to describe idealistic but unrealistic endevaours or ideas. One man's idealist is
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by kitsune_ 16y ago
Just like communism, capitalism is mainly a lofty idea which breaks down as soon as it is confronted with reality. This is true for every sociological model, including capitalism. Just like "real socialism" there is the de facto "real capit
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by kitsune_ 16y ago
It's not possible to deduce where this comes from: a) the talk / book b) added by the blog author On top of that, even if it was from talk, you don't know whether it was added in jest or in earnest..
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by kitsune_ 16y ago
This is BULLSHIT, the guy (Oehmen) is a mechanical engineer with a management focus. He worked at my alma mater (ETHZ). His field of experties is supply chain risk management. Look up his papers, he isn't a nuclear physicist. I'd say he's a
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by kitsune_ 16y ago
Sorry, but I'm about to Godwin this thread: "If Adolf Hitler was such a bad leader why did so many people follow him?" I think both statements are ludicrous and smell of intellectual laziness.

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