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by mduerksen 7y ago
A journalist is a person who collects, writes, or distributes news or other current information to the public. [1] Check. You can argue about whether his style is commendable or not (for codes of conduct see [2]), but that does not change t
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by mduerksen 8y ago
This is certainly only one small aspect, but: Don't upspeak. [1] It's one example for non-verbal behavior that impacts the perception of your stance and status. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_rising_te
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by mduerksen 8y ago
Journalists: Please stop taking social media seriously. It vastly misrepresents the importance of issues. People that actually have opinions worth talking about don't have time to engage heavily in it, either because they are experie
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by mduerksen 8y ago
To add some use cases where an SPA would be the favorable choice: - Web-tech front-end for an embedded device. The device, which often has very limited CPU cycles, is not burdened by rendering. - Apps that are intended to be running locally
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UI lit by the lights in your room - By former Apple Engineer [video](youtube.com)
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by mduerksen 8y ago
On the contrary - ML is a great motivator to finally grapple the "prerequisites". During school I never understood what the math was for, so my unconscious brain never saw the necessity to actually learn it. Now I want to learn
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by mduerksen 9y ago
Possible explanation as follows: The perks for those jobs in our culture are different ones and on average women prefer a different mix. In western culture, my experience has been: When you tell some acquaintance you're a software deve
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by mduerksen 9y ago
Instead of "stay married, for religious reasons" I'd say "stay married, with religion as an anchor" (not sure if OPs agree, but I'd suspect they might). Religion is not the primary reason, but added security. &
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by mduerksen 10y ago
Syncthing is sorely missing iOS support. I know they have their reasons not to implement it[0], but I feel that feature might be worth the hassle. Photo sync on iOS without iCloud is a huge pain atm. My backup strategy involves a NAS folder
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by mduerksen 10y ago
Yes there are crazy cyclists out there. Once a year I meet one. Do you know how many careless car drivers I meet? At least one each time I bike more than 3km. Not crazy (those I find every 100km), just careless. But thats enough to threaten
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by mduerksen 10y ago
30+ mph! Thats tour de france velocity with a lot of kinetic energy (albeit still less than a car at 10mph I think).
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by mduerksen 10y ago
Which "normal circumstances" are you referring to? Suggesting that a fall itself might kill a cyclist is pretty far fetched. Lying on a street - yes. Because cars might roll over you, cause of the kinetic energy. Getting squished
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by mduerksen 10y ago
Please calculate the kinetic energy of a car of 1500kg at 30km/h vs a bike of 100kg at the same speed and reconsider your argument.
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by mduerksen 10y ago
_.filter is NOT equivalent to Array.prototype.filter. The array could be null/undefined, in which case the _.filter just works fine, but Array.protoype.filter does not. I hate to riddle my code with null checks I actually do not care a
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by mduerksen 10y ago
Well, you cannot reduce motherhood to the simple fact that a birth has taken place. That is why it would be pretty offensive to characterize a mother as such. A woman that has given birth almost certainly has also taken care of the child(re
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by mduerksen 10y ago
Yes, thats one aspect of the perfectionism I was talking about.
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by mduerksen 10y ago
Tax reductions are set against the payments though, so only really well earning parents actually benefit from them. I suspect the reasons are more social ones. Examples: Having children is not being valued highly, having a career is. Imagin
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by mduerksen 11y ago
I agree some parents get too involved and stop doing anything they like because they think their kids need 100% attendance and "only the best" (which is actually not). That said, I have a hard time to believe that you could get aw
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by mduerksen 11y ago
Stripes target group is developers. Developers, designers etc are special groups, predispositioned in certain way that may make them assess the trustworthyness of an offering differently, i.e. more analytically than most other users. "
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by mduerksen 11y ago
They do convey something very important: credibility. Or, at least, they coerce the fast pace internet viewer into having that first impression. I know its silly, but the average viewers mind will subconsciously attribute more effort and qu
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by mduerksen 11y ago
So was it the rogue employee, or the conspiracy of the evil management to find a scapegoat for the cheating they decided to do? I always read about these 2 explanations. Both quite entertaining, and a little to much Hollywood-like to be com
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by mduerksen 11y ago
The word "optimisation" should not be confused with considering computational complexity , and I believe we are in dire need for a catchy word for the latter. One of the most important steps in programming is: How many elements c
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by mduerksen 12y ago
He is wrong about this one. The quality of marriage is neither binary nor one-dimensional, it varies over time, and most importantly, can be influenced for the better or worse. Its graph over time is also also not monotonic decreasing. I
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by mduerksen 12y ago
>The Demonstration against TTIP with roughly 50.000 attendees in Berlin a few weeks ago received no news Wait, what? I'm on the mailing list of stop-ttip.org and had no idea. How can I be sure to get notified of any scheduled demo i
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by mduerksen 12y ago
Thanks for the pointers! I find myself needing this surprisingly often: An array of elements in a certain order which I also want to lookup by Id. Sometimes the order is defined by configuration, sometimes by some other criteria that is n
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by mduerksen 12y ago
The benchmark is wrong atm, the compared functions do not yield the same result. (comp (map inc) (filter even?)) means filtering first, then incrementing. The opposite for (->> data (map inc) (filter even?) ... - which i
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by mduerksen 12y ago
JVM Feature Request: The ability to preserve a complete JVM state (in this case with loaded Clojure stuff) and quickly start from there. Does anybody know if something like that is possible/already exists?
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by mduerksen 13y ago
You can be proud of anything or anyone who you can identify with or somehow are connected with, without any accomplishment on your part. You can be proud of your kids because they belong to you. You can be proud of your family because you b
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by mduerksen 13y ago
This tool might be useful for quickly sifting heaps of job descriptions, but it is easy to fall victim to attaching too much meaning to its results. Putting anyone into a category because of the wording of his statement is generally only of
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by mduerksen 13y ago
Your work-life is only one area where self-discipline comes into play. If you are content with just earning enough money for living, that's fine. I agree with you on that. But a lack of self-discipline might hurt you in areas which are

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