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by patrickg 13y ago
Not only that, it also tells you if there is an "island" in the middle of the road where you should step over. The arrow has a bar through it (looks a bit like a cross sign)
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by patrickg 13y ago
I had the same problem as a beginner ( http://stackoverflow.com/q/14577162/317915 ) and I think it's a valid criticism. If the documentation (go doc) could help that would be great.
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by patrickg 13y ago
I use bash as my everyday shell since 1996. I keep on reading the "how great zsh is" articles. And I always try zsh. But after a few minutes/hours, I go back to bash. It's really hard to change.
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by patrickg 13y ago
I have no idea how to address that aspect. I am sure many people try to make a new law to forbid "Mein Kampf", but others want to make a "annotated" version of the book. Let's see.
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by patrickg 13y ago
The (at least here in Germany) well known book "Mein Kampf" by Hitler loses it's copyright in 2016. The state of Bavaria uses copyright law (German: Urheberrecht) to disallow any distribution of the book. There is an ongoing discussion how
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by patrickg 13y ago
Serious question: does the 3d mode add any information? I am distracted by it but perhaps the size of the blocks have any attached meaning? Is there a 2d variant available? Otherwise: very interesting to see such a large infrastructure used
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by patrickg 14y ago
Great! I will try it out. It uses lpeg based lexers and a Lua api. Now my daily (coding) work is 99% Lua coding, so I feel rather comfortable with it. I also like the file chooser (I am on Mac OS X), much faster for me than the system wide.
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by patrickg 14y ago
Isn't that why we look at best/average _and_ worst case? Not only the worst case alone?
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Happy 15th Birthday XML(en.wikipedia.org)
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Xmlprague conference proceedings [pdf](archive.xmlprague.cz)
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by patrickg 14y ago
In case of the email address: I think facebook is violating german law by storing my personal information which I'd consider private. (I am not sure if they still do that.)
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by patrickg 14y ago
Perhaps not so much about tagging the photo, but a) uploading a photo of me or b) giving facebook my email address (yes, thats common practice).
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by patrickg 14y ago
Any kind of personal data must stay privat unless I decide that can be revealed/public. Name, DOB, and address are personal data. I must have the right to prevent companies giving my address away (public or other companies).
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by patrickg 14y ago
I believe that this is the current situation in Germany and I assume other E.U. countries.
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by patrickg 14y ago
Good point :) I think my point is: "if we don't implement SOPA, we (the companies) are all gonna die!" Don't know how to express it in general, but I hope I can make my view clear.
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by patrickg 14y ago
Many companies will go bankrupt if X will happen. X=(tape recording, internet, ATMs, privacy laws, any kind of regulation). I can't really hear this argument any more. Sure, any regulation will have bad side effects, but who are we? A plane
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by patrickg 14y ago
TeX is more or less one big pascal function with lots of gotos. While this makes it very hard to port to a more modular (and non-pascal) system, the source code (in typeset format: http://abel.math.umu.se/~lars/misc/tex.pdf ) is very reada
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by patrickg 14y ago
We have this tax in Germany as well. They just don't call it a tax, but every household and company has to pay 216 Euro/year. They used to bind it to having a computer/radio/tv/mobile phone (with radio/internet) but now you even have to pay
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by patrickg 14y ago
For employees, pension and unemployment are mandatory, correct. Don't mix up tax and health/pension/unemployment because (that was the starting point of this thread) one can believe that if you say 50% tax these insurances might come on top
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by patrickg 14y ago
Correct, they are not wrong. Its like this in Germany (tax wise): ( http://i.imgur.com/6oiGx5B.png ) - the lower blue curve is the amount of tax you pay. The x-axis is the amount of money you get (on which you have to pay tax) and the y-axi
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by patrickg 14y ago
The taxes are the same everywhere in Germany. What differs is how much you pay for pension insurance (and how much you get out of it, IIRC).
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by patrickg 14y ago
Berlin is in Germany. You could check the official tax calculator: https://www.bmf-steuerrechner.de
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by patrickg 14y ago
50% taxes in Germany? Example: you get 42.000 Euro/year, you pay ~20% taxes. If you earn 100.000 Euro/year, you pay 30%.
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by patrickg 14y ago
Not related, but also interesting. The railway U1 in Berlin going right through a house. Amazing when you are in front of the house's door. http://www.bahnbilder.de/1024/-hausdurchfahrt-im-uebergangsb...
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by patrickg 14y ago
> Only, in that case, isn't a whole new language ecosystem a bit of an overkill to avoid some of the inconveniences you'll have using C/C++? Sure. I've started from scratch and Go seemed to me like the perfect match (not that there aren
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by patrickg 14y ago
+1. For me a killer feature is that I easily create executables for lin/mac/win on my machine and don't have any dependencies at all (JVM for example).
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by patrickg 14y ago
When I click through the years, I see its slow decay.
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by patrickg 14y ago
Is openstreetmap good enough for such a purpose to replace google maps?
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Show HN: A pure Lua QR Code generator (+ documented source)(speedata.github.com)
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by patrickg 14y ago
When installing via .pkg, you can place a file in /etc/paths.d that adds to the path. For example, when you install in /usr/local/rethink/, you just add a file (e.g. /etc/paths.d/rethink) with one line: /usr/local/rethink/bin. Thats it, ver

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