maze-le

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by maze-le 10y ago
At least it was an amusing waste of time.
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by maze-le 10y ago
Yet, the british never worked their prisoners to death or conducted mass killings on an industrial scale.
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by maze-le 10y ago
You'l have to show the sarcasm tag, I almost fell for it...
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by maze-le 10y ago
This may be true, but Bremen, Niedersachsen and Schleswig Holstein are not in a very good shape either (at least compared to Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg). But what all of this shows, is that there are a whole bunch of historical and socio
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by maze-le 10y ago
Do you have any sources for that claim? I would be genuineley interested in the methodology of this research. Its just anecdotal, but here in Germany it is the other way around. The Catholic south is prosperous, whereas the protestant north
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by maze-le 10y ago
> If you do backend, the user doesn't give a shit about your clean code It's not about the user. Coding in a 'clean' way is something you do for your colleagues and maybe future colleagues, who will have to maintain a
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by maze-le 10y ago
Some XML dialects become very confusing if features are added as an afterthought without consideration of syntax and sematics. Microsofts Wordprocessing XML for example has caveats like w:permStart: <w:permStart w:id="0"
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by maze-le 10y ago
Whats worse, after a while, and enough trolling in different styles, this tool might ban more and more legitimate attempts to communicate.
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by maze-le 10y ago
I honestly fear the day my boss stumbles over this idea.
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by maze-le 10y ago
Not necessarily. There are fields like complexity and computability wich are pureley mathematical in nature and have little to do with actual code, but much with the abstract theoretical fundamentals of code in general. And on the other han
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by maze-le 10y ago
This will be the day I abandon Windows completeley. Right now, I only use it for games anyhow. But as you said, it will probably be a long way, with enough time to make alternative arrangements
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by maze-le 10y ago
Yes, my thoughts exactly. He could had made 100x that money on the black market, so no wonder we still have problems with 0days traded there. How long would you work for $1,000? Some days, a week, two? If you spend more than a week on this
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by maze-le 10y ago
> If such incidents were rare two decades ago and increasingly common today, then clearly something is going wrong That is just plainly wrong. In the 70ies, 80ies and early 90ies we had more terrorists and more terrorist attacks, that ki
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by maze-le 10y ago
> Most religions promote "us vs them" attitudes That is right, but I suspect, that if it weren't for religion, people would find another narrative, to create a "us vs them" attitude. Nationalism is an example tha
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by maze-le 10y ago
It is always interesting to hear how things are going from someone who actually lives there. I condemn these extrajudicial killings and find it abhorrent to call on the population to kill their neighbours, whatever problems they may cause&#
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by maze-le 10y ago
Although the example he gives (AdBlock plus) is definitly a scam, as you can buy your way into it, so your ad will not be held at ransom.
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by maze-le 10y ago
> "If you think that this is just how all people are naturally" Gee, I don't think that. Why do you think I have such an opinion? I am from Germany (the eastern part), and have family members who are AFD-supporters and wor
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by maze-le 10y ago
Facebook (social media in general) is not equivalent to the internet. All of what you just enumerated is still possible. I have wonderful dialoges on HN, exchange ideas at erlangcentral or reddit and create collectiveley on github. It&#x2
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by maze-le 10y ago
I (and I think we all) have worked with crappy open source and good proprietary, as well as good open source and unusable proprietary software. But one thing you said stays true: "at least I can fix a problem or implement a feature th
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by maze-le 10y ago
> The human-written poetry develops a single, coherent subject with each passing line Yep, thats it. The machine-written poems make seemingly correct sentences, but fail to create a coherent sense. Its quite easy to spot. The machine-wri
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by maze-le 10y ago
> Which will simply be filtered out These were the last words of the database admin before he went stark raving mad... But seriously "filtering out" is a goddamnd hard problem, if the dimensionality of your problem space is hig
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by maze-le 10y ago
There was this idea floating around a few weeks ago, about a startup that curates online sockpuppets of obidient citizen personas (I think it was in response to landlords surveilling their future clients). What was sureley meant as sarcasm
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by maze-le 10y ago
> How would you like it if you lent someone money, and they purposely defaulted, with the intent of not paying you back? By not lending this person any money in the future... A default has very harsh consequences and is not pleasant at a
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by maze-le 10y ago
I'd actually see this as a problem. Germany is already percieved as too powerful in the union. And in the fields, where they really have influence (e.g.: Eurogruppe) they screwed things up pretty much. Besides other nationalists alread
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by maze-le 10y ago
Well, the UK has always been a country that I had in view when thinking about working abroad. I think I can cross that off my list now. On the other hand, there is Ireland, wich I think will get a boom of tech companies migrating from the U
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by maze-le 10y ago
... and Scotland, Ulster, Flanders, Catalonia, the Basque Country, Verona, Corsica. There are more separatist movements than one might think.
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by maze-le 10y ago
I wonder how many good people just had enough of it and left. In environments like these you either go mad or get so detatched from your company, that you don't give a shit about anything anymore... or you just leave...
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by maze-le 10y ago
> but is anyone there using nano really? Yes, because vim is a pain in the ... and emacs is too big sometimes.
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by maze-le 10y ago
Maybe you never met them, because they won't admit it openly, you know... because some people might judge them as a 'bad person'.
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by maze-le 10y ago
Not for new projects, but we have to maintain quite a few old ones...

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