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by mcbetz 12y ago
Figo.me (which afaik has no affiliation with Fidor, despite the resembling name) has provided a restful API for German banks for some time already. You can find the docs here: http://docs.figo.io Among the supported banks you fi
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by mcbetz 12y ago
As far as I can tell from the imprint, there are no connections between the two companies. One is based in Munich, the other one in Hamburg.
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by mcbetz 12y ago
Very good elaboration. Most of the times, objective science has way fewer resources to spread the word than industry groups. One can only imagine how our society would look like if power and money was distributed more evenly and information
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by mcbetz 12y ago
Listening excessively to one lobby group is as hazardous as eating excessively exactly one staple - be it sugar or wheat. Moderation is important, both in politics and nutrition.
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by mcbetz 12y ago
So here's an indepth article in English: http://www.deepdotweb.com/2015/03/12/shiny-flakes-bust-38-ho...
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by mcbetz 12y ago
I prefer MacPass over KeePassX, because it support Keepass2 files by default - KeePassX only does in the non-stable version. That's the only annoyance with Keepass: it has two non-compatible file types and you need to stick with one (a
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by mcbetz 12y ago
Keepass (Win/Linux) and MacPass (Mac). Certainly not as polished as 1password, but it's Open Source and cross platform. And it has plugins for FF and Chrome for auto entry on websites (Win only so far). What I often use and enjoy
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German Silkroad clone Shiny-Flakes got busted
6 points by mcbetz 12y ago|1 comments
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by mcbetz 12y ago
They also have a longer list with 10.000 words. http://wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de/Papers/top10000de.txt Google gives you 80% right translations, a more reliable dictionary is PONS ( http://de.pons.com/%C3
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by mcbetz 12y ago
German native speaker here. I don't know where you got these words from, but they surely are not the 1000 most used German ones. Within the first 10 rounds, I got "Mitte Kritik" which is nonsense, "uns Stadt" which
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by mcbetz 12y ago
People like conferences because they can get out of the office and socialize with people who are similar to them. And surprisingly enough, quite often new business partnerships, employments or, yes, friendships start at conferences. Even wi
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by mcbetz 12y ago
Right, my bad. I got taken away by his name, location of death and which country he influenced the most.
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by mcbetz 12y ago
Thanks for the addition, I have not heard about Mencius before but will certainly check him out. Surely the idea of goodness is older than Rouseau, yet his work is probably the beginning of a new stream in western philosophy.
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by mcbetz 12y ago
There is obviously still enough ego in America to claim that C. Rogers was the first to argue that men are fundamentally good. Frenchman Jean-Jacques Rousseau formulated that already in the 18th century in his "Second Discours" -
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by mcbetz 12y ago
What the story does tell is that there were pro gay activists in Germany before the Nazis claimed power.
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by mcbetz 12y ago
Even if it is critical for some, for me it feels exactly how open source works: someone uses an application in a way that was not intented or thought about. And it turns out, that there is a problem with that approach. Someone will blog abo
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by mcbetz 12y ago
Rick Brewster, the creator of Paint.NET, damped my hopes already: "This affects nothing for Paint.NET at this time." Source: http://forums.getpaint.net/index.php?/topic/30284-microsoft-...
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Ask HN: Which .NET applications might be (better) on Mac/Linux soon?
6 points by mcbetz 12y ago|4 comments
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by mcbetz 12y ago
"Your web app runs on magic. Make it run on science!" @assertchris. Perfect newsletter. Book should be excellent too. Deserves support.
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Servers for Hackers – The Book(book.serversforhackers.com)
3 points by mcbetz 12y ago|1 comments