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Fun Trivia: When Volkswagen announced that their canteen would offer vegetarian and vegan alternatives, Germany's ex chancellor Schröder made the headlines with deriding this decision and calling the sausage the "Kraftriegel der A
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One of the things that suck most about being poor is that you need to have money in order to save money. You need to have enough money to buy a certain level of quality, and if you don't have it, you're forced to buy cheap stuff t
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We're heavy Alexa users. Since we are a family, the #1 use case is of course farting noises, but other than that, we use it to: - Set ourselves reminders - Manage the family calendar (reading out of reminders, reading the calendar, sc
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We tend to overestimate our Future Selves: They will have more time, they will be less tired and more motivated and generally be a better version of our current selves. This is why we trust them to implement the New Year Resolutions we&#x27
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I wrote this a couple of years back - it’s a bit out of date though: http://www.philippflenker.com/hecto/
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It’s trivial for Siri to know the song that is currently playing - Spotify signals it to iOS so that iOS can display it on the Lock Screen. It’s likely much easier for siri to construct a URL based on this information than to try and get a
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This is not marketed as an alternative input mechanism for people who have otherwise no difficulty typing code. It's an input mechanism for people whose abilities to type are limited.
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People routinely place Vienna to the south of Munich, when in reality it is almost exactly due east. I think this is because the generally somewhat valid heuristic - Austria lies to the south of Germany - does not apply to the special case
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Just look back 3 month and assess how many of the things that happened were predictable (keeping in mind the fact that hindsight is 20/20). I wager every company in the world was affected by the world wide changes right now. Those who
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The article actually proposes the same. However, I see some issues with this: - _Very_ common forms usually need to have optional fields - Addresses being a notable example, where almost everything is optional (example: PO boxes in Germany
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What works great for me is using _songs_ , ideally a sentence not directly from the chorus of a lesser-known song, complete with punctutation and some obvious replacement rules (such as `and` -> `&` ) . The reason why this works so g
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That applies only for people who have absolutely nothing. The point is: To pay 100 EUR per month hurts much more when you only have 1000 EUR to spend, much more than it would hurt to pay 1000 EUR a month if you had 10000 EUR at your dispos
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It’s actually easy. Just meet up with old friends, talk about ages long past and inject a meaningless, completely fabricated detail into your version of the story. Wait a bit, then meet again and do the same. Someone will bring up said deta
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Yes and no. It's the system in which people act (which, in turn, is created by people). For example, I once left a company where people were discussing endlessly, passionately and often by yelling at one another. On the surface, I left
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Dead spiders reanimated as creepy necrobots(livescience.com)
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I think that the conclusion this thread draws is wrong, because less overall colors make color accents stand out more. In other words: If everything pops out, nothing does. Most of our furniture and walls are white, gray/stainless stee
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Looking at the Emoji list (in general, not from the link above) I can see plenty of emojis displaying concern, sadness, grief and other "negative" emotions.
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Plumbers and carpenters find purpose in what they do, and so do engineers. Getting paid is just one factor of several for job satisfaction.
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Not saying that I share these arguments, but the thinking is usually not to put non-human life over , but on the same level as human life.
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Because in a busy environment (where consistently more than one person uses the elevator) the scenario of making a wrong decision and having the wish to correct it occurs far less than the scenario where someone does not pay attention to wh
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As a huge ASOIAF fan, I had the same concerns after Game of Thrones was announced and first details were shared. The crucial difference, though, is that GRRM himself was involved in the series.
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The HN title is right, it's the article's title which is at odds with its contents.
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I think that as an industry, we are about to move past this. Companies slowly realize that these leetcode tests do not assess the skills they need. We currently lean towards simple coding tasks paired with extensive collaboration slash pair
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I can tell you that I have worked at several companies, and am currently working on another company, where negotiation skills do not determine your salary.
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Traveling through Germany with regional trains was one of my favorite pastimes back in the 90s, but the prices have increased dramatically: The "Wochenendticket, which was valid either on Saturday or Sunday, started in 1995 costing aro
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It's not uncommon to travel through Germany using only the regional trains. There are several tickets tailored to this, like the "Quer durch's Land Ticket", which is valid for a full day. I, for one, used to travel a lot
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Congratulations! Though in claiming that since it worked in your case, it will work in the majority of cases you commit the anecdotal evidence fallacy.
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Learning helps you pay your rent in the long run though, as it lifts your overall qualification level.
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A big fallacy that I always see - and that is implied by this post - is that the work ends after shipping, a.k.a. "build it and they will come". That doesn't happen any more. So after you "ship" it, you need to prom
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I was able to successfully navigate tricky negotiation situations using his advice, but salary increases were never a part of it. I believe salary increases should reflect professional skills and not negotiation skills, and I avoid companie

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