martin_k

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by martin_k 15y ago
Hamburg and Munich are among the most expensive places in Europe. Living costs in Berlin are probably half (you can rent a place for under 200 EUR if you wnat). There is also a much better startup and developer scene. So if you are into the
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by martin_k 15y ago
The minimum share capital of a GmbH in Germany is 25,000 EUR. Registering should not take much longer.
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by martin_k 15y ago
I agree that this could be bad PR for the Pirate Party. But then Anonymous is not the Pirate Party and their goals don't necessarily line up. The way I see it, Anonymous' actions are usually less demonstrations for a particular cause, but
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by martin_k 15y ago
Well, taking down Paypal and Visa after they stopped processing Wikileaks donations didn't "help much" either. But it is some form of protest after all.
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by martin_k 15y ago
Anonymous allegedly took down two police websites in return. http://twitter.com/anon2060/statuses/71577232199524352
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by martin_k 15y ago
I just had a similar experience with my Macbook Pro (Mid-2009): The SATA controller supports SATA II. But if you use any SATA II drive with that model, you get occasional freezes in the best case, and the machine doesn't boot in the worst.
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by martin_k 15y ago
No, for businesses or schools this is a monthly price that includes software and hardware updates.
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by martin_k 16y ago
Usually it's 4 weeks in Germany [0], but you have at least 9 statutory holidays in addition. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_statutory_minimum_emplo...
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by martin_k 16y ago
+1 What a great way of making yourself feel a bit more insignificant and smaller.
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New GMail Service Disruption(google.com)
2 points by martin_k 16y ago|0 comments
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by martin_k 16y ago
I remember Ilan Spillinger ( http://www.xbox.com/en-US/Press/Corporate/ilan-spillinger ) saying something like that at a talk he gave recently- Microsoft Research played a huge role in the development, iirc. /edit: This talk has some info a
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by martin_k 16y ago
True, but the point was that Microsoft has previously realized that it can be a good idea to open their HW platforms to developers and researchers.
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by martin_k 16y ago
I don't actually find that too surprising. Microsoft did basically the same with the Surface SDK.
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by martin_k 16y ago
What exactly is it in Gmail's Conversations that you prefer over Apple Mail's Organize by Thread feature?
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Seth Godin: Three ways to help people get things done(sethgodin.typepad.com)
4 points by martin_k 16y ago|1 comments
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by martin_k 16y ago
Do you mean that particular message, the fact that the editor takes a while to initialize or do you perhaps use the latest Chrome dev build and it's not loading at all? (I'm one of the developers behind this.)
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by martin_k 16y ago
There currently is an issue with German GMail addresses (the ones that have to use @googlemail.com). So if you have trouble signing on, try using a different authentication method.
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by martin_k 16y ago
There is a nice Ignite talk by a female Google engineer at http://igniteshow.com/videos/im-barbie-girl-cs-world She argues that Matell is actually breaking with stereotypes here for a change (though inadvertently)- and that it's a good th
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by martin_k 16y ago
www.paypal.com works for most people.