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by pluma 8y ago
I think the standard approach to this problem is that good translators come up with jokes that are similar in spirit even if they're not direct translations. If I recall correctly, the works of Edgar Allen Poe are famous for having lib
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by pluma 8y ago
As a German who sometimes watches German dubs, one mistranslation from English I notice very frequently is "eventually" becoming "eventuell" ("possibly"). The pair is one of the most well-known "false frie
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by pluma 8y ago
The problem is that there is never a phrase-by-phrase exact match when translating. Everything is ambiguous and in order to translate from one language into another you need to resolve that ambiguity while you're also adding new ambigu
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by pluma 8y ago
When Japan's emperor recently announced his future resignation, he didn't say "I resign", he talked about his age and deteriorating health. In all likelihood straight out saying "we surrender" would have been i
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by pluma 8y ago
Germany here. Have been to several weddings including my own, the cake was always real. Typically 1-3 tiers depending on the crowd, the first slice is traditionally shared by the groom and bride (feeding each other) after cutting, then the
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by pluma 8y ago
What the article doesn't really clarify: Cologne was a Roman colony . The full name was Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium. "Colonia" means "colony" but it's also the highest tier of recognition Roman cities c
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by pluma 8y ago
I know you're being facetious, but Office 365 is currently being rewritten in JavaScript: https://twitter.com/thelarkinn/status/1006746626617008128 So the online version of Office 365 and the desktop version
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by pluma 8y ago
> VS Code. Yeah, I am not at all interested in an electron based code editor. Have you tried VS Code and decided it's bad or are you just being prejudiced?
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by pluma 8y ago
Well, my country literally committed the original Holocaust yet you probably don't automatically assume I'm an anti-Semite because of my nationality (and if you balk that so much time has passed since the end of WW2, think about w
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by pluma 8y ago
You sound like you haven't really had to do much real-world work in JS or C++. Apart from managing memory, what makes C++ complicated is accounting for the differences between OSes and shared libraries and even different hardware capab
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by pluma 8y ago
You're assuming the Friedman doctrine[0] is universally accepted as "that's just how companies work". That view is not universal, even if it's the norm in the US and plenty of large companies see it that way interna
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by pluma 8y ago
Also I can't really muster any sympathy if a company is punished for having spent "billions of dollars at significant risk" to develop something intentionally anti-competitive. That's like saying "but we spent a lot
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by pluma 8y ago
It's sexism in the systems sense, not in the personal bigotry sense. The fun thing about sexism (and racism, etc) in the systems sense is that the intentions can be neutral or even positive yet the outcome can still be sexist (or racis
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by pluma 8y ago
If you think Webpack is solving an easy problem, you don't understand the problem.
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by pluma 8y ago
As a European I guess this explains why Sim City's zoning never made much sense to me.
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by pluma 8y ago
An important distinction is that T-Systems (a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom) is not a subsidiary of Microsoft. AWS EU on the other hand is presumably still a subsidiary of the American Amazon Web Services Inc the same way Amazon EU S.à.r.l
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by pluma 8y ago
You could just call it "privacy sensitivity" but by international standards Germans tend to be more "paranoid" when it comes to protecting their data. The reason I'm using the phrase is mostly that it's not alw
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by pluma 8y ago
Just to be clear, Privacy Shield is a self-certification. The certification process consists of filling out a few fields with generic company data to generate a policy and then paying money. It doesn't prove a business implements priva
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by pluma 8y ago
I'm surprised how many people still conflate NoSQL with "document database" and only think of MongoDB or CouchDB. I'd love to hear how MemSQL addresses graph data, for example.
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by pluma 8y ago
> And the UK has almost no leverage (or has none to be precise). Exactly. The UK's main leverage in negotiations was "do what we want or we leave". Now that they're leaving, there's nothing left.
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by pluma 8y ago
IOW Ireland is looking increasingly appealing.
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by pluma 8y ago
With the precedent of Safe Harbor and the Snowden revelations, I'm surprised any European company preparing for GDPR wouldn't at least have flagged US services as high risk even when they're Privacy Shield certified. Privacy
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by pluma 8y ago
Fun fact: because of German paranoia, MS offers Office 365 Deutschland , which is mostly identical with Office 365 but operated by T-Systems (a German company not directly affiliated with Microsoft) and hosted in Germany. It's obvious
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by pluma 8y ago
Well, this was completely predictable. Privacy Shield seemed extremely flaky considering how suddenly Safe Harbor was shot down. I hope most European companies were smart enough to drop hard dependencies on US companies for privacy relevant
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by pluma 8y ago
Ironically laws like the GDPR actually even the scales for European companies targeting the European market. Previously American companies got away with a blatant disregard for local privacy laws whereas European companies had to do their h
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by pluma 8y ago
I know US HN sometimes has a problem understanding consent and fair use, but those are essential if you want to intuit whether forwarding an e-mail is legal or not. If you're not sure whether the author of an e-mail is okay with it bei
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by pluma 8y ago
This may depend on your jurisdiction but I'm 99% sure this isn't how things work in Germany. First of all, the author retains ownership of the copyright. They can freely redistribute copies of what they have written unless they&#x
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by pluma 8y ago
The point isn't that the vote itself was held in the middle of the World Cup, the point is that the time during which the public would have had informed itself about the issue and news coverage might have featured it overlapped with th
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by pluma 8y ago
> At this point serving static html to the EU is the only safe choice. Technically even serving a blank page means you need to also serve a privacy policy because accessing the blank page requires the user to submit personal data for tec
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by pluma 8y ago
Yeah, universities do this. Apparently there's a kind of "copyright filter" already in effect and the only way these institutions can work around it is by having these agreements where they simply pay a fixed fee to avoid hav

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