mironathetin

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by mironathetin 5mo ago
I think you are right and I voted your contribution up. But you don't really think it will work? Developers were kings once. Big companies turned them into slaves.
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by mironathetin 10y ago
Well, yes and no. People who take their backup drives away from the computer tend to have - a completely outdated backup. There is no 100% safety. If power fails while the backup is done, well there is still the original disk. How high is
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by mironathetin 10y ago
".. do you actually TEST those backups?" yes (of course), see my post above. I have used time machine repeatedly to restore lost or damaged files. I also replaced harddrives several times and played back my carbon copy clone. It b
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by mironathetin 10y ago
Mac: Carbon Copy Cloner and Time Machine on separate usb disks. I use the system scheduler to wake the machine at night, mount the disks, start both backups, unmount and sleep the Macbook again. Rock solid, runs every night since years. Ev
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by mironathetin 10y ago
Well, I do expect the availability of applications has been checked before moving to Linux. If not, ... bad management (not impossible that the move was planned badly though). But if you know exactly what you need, you can also develop soft
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by mironathetin 10y ago
For a local government a preference of local business is not only ok. It should be the first choice, the second choice and also the third one. In this case, as there is totally different tax flow involved as the article nicely explains, lo
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by mironathetin 10y ago
If Munichs public service personal has issues with Linux and Libre Office, they need a proper training, not a switch of platforms. Without training nobody in this world would be able to properly use Microsofts products as well. And this is
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by mironathetin 10y ago
yes, I wanted to add that remark as well, especially because the topic is about kids. But I didn't. And of course bicycles are far less dangerous than any car. So there is no reason to complain or criticise this great achievement.
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by mironathetin 10y ago
"This is very true in London, unfortunately ..." I admire the Dutch. They use the bicycle everywhere and in all weather conditions. The result? Their cities even sound so different. It is calm, very little car noise. Amazing.
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by mironathetin 10y ago
"... I do have less ability to do brilliant-late-night-ninja-coding stunts,..." Isn't this an advantage as well? How many ninja stunts have you seen without hundreds of bugs and being easily integrated into existing stuff and
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by mironathetin 10y ago
Franz Werfel: Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand. The story of an Austrian aristocrat and politician, who is - through his marriage - well established in society and on a safe carrier path, who discovers that he might have a child with a j
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by mironathetin 10y ago
What do you want to say: it is hopeless to cultivate bicycle usage in the US?
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by mironathetin 10y ago
"And then there is the stigma that if your riding a bike, it means you obviously have DUI and/or other issues." Here in Europe bikes become a lifestyle item. Just get yourself a real cool bike, with a carbon belt drive or one
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by mironathetin 11y ago
"Cities make it easier for kids to go outside and be kids." The other way round. I grew up in the countryside and we could literally play on the streets without risk. Visiting friends was actually easier. We simply took the bike,
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by mironathetin 11y ago
"For example, if I use the same word ten times in the same paragraph, this tool would replace it by synonyms;" Very funny. This would make terrible prose, I guess. It is part of the art to say things only once and thus make repeti
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by mironathetin 11y ago
Yes, I agree with that too. I prefer a well done computer, that is stable and low maintenance compare to a super high end one. But I wouldn't mind, if Apple could offer both: close to cutting edge hardware plus a stable OS. I also used
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by mironathetin 11y ago
"You're solving problems. If you do work to solve those problems, fine, but having more "output" doesn't make you go from a 1x to a 30x engineer." No, you're not only solving problems. Especially with a co
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by mironathetin 11y ago
This is a funny reply, if you remember yesterdays discussion about Apples missing computer innovation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10980023 enjoy
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by mironathetin 11y ago
So true. But apple even drops people who just want a cool new toy. I have my Macbook Air for 3 years now and, although I am fine with its performance, I would buy a new one. But the specs have not changed at all. So I keep my old machine. L
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by mironathetin 11y ago
I think that will be wrong too. A good team lives from a variety of experiences and abilities. The trick is to find the right team member for the job.
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by mironathetin 11y ago
yeah, that's taking away a pragmatic developer from what she does best.
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by mironathetin 11y ago
"If you let someone merge, make their exit, pass you, you're enabling flow." yes and no. If you let someone merge in heavy traffic, and (s)he has to break hard right after merging, the flow stops. This is what happens - inde
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by mironathetin 11y ago
"...and brake as hard as possible " I think braking hard is the beginning of all evil. Others behind will also have to brake hard and a whole bunch of cars comes to a standstill. Keep moving is key, which means: anticipate what wi
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by mironathetin 11y ago
As long as you are alone and in control, I agree. But in a project with a large java inheritance hierarchy, polymorphism maxed out by some remote developers, it is easy to really get lost.
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by mironathetin 11y ago
"The trick to sane OOP is doing as little of it as possible. When you maximize the number of pure methods, minimize mutable state, minimize inheritance and so on, you are doing OOP well." Maybe... The attempt to forbid (global) st
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by mironathetin 11y ago
We shouldn't forget that life is a marathon not a sprint. I personally make sure I am not tired while I work. If tired I found out that I make mistakes that I have to repair the next day. This cannibalizes my concentrated time on this
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by mironathetin 11y ago
"it would seem that VWAG was unfairly singled out" If you look at the true numbers, yes. But VW has been targeted for intentionally cheating. And don't forget, some Audi engines are also inherited from VW.
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by mironathetin 11y ago
I was about to write: "there is something like printed journals" (I read it at the physiotherapist while waiting for my treatment). But it is online: http://www.auto-motor-und-sport.de/testbericht/real-abgaste
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by mironathetin 11y ago
By the way, as a reaction to this issue, a german motor magazine has measured real life compliance to the Euro-6 norm for a couple of popular cars: VW Golf, Opel, Audi, Mercedes c-class, Fiat 500 etc. All, and I mean ALL of them emit 2-8 ti
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by mironathetin 11y ago
oh yes! This I also do not understand at all. They replace the software and all of a sudden the emissions are ok and the unsolvable problem has been solved.

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