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by qwerta 12y ago
Quite opposite. Github is an anti-resume for dedicated hackers. You should not mention it, if you want to get 'normal' job in some corporation. - github shows you spend too much time programming outside of daily job - it shows how
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by qwerta 12y ago
I have friend in Czech republic. Local hospital (or butchery as she called it) screw up routine procedure, so she gave birth in 7th month and can not have more babies. On damages she would get around $10.000, perhaps 5x more if she is celeb
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by qwerta 12y ago
>> Imagine joining an engineering team […] for a bridge in a major metropolitan area. > Programming is like building structures out of Lego, but I never run out of Lego bricks Nice two articles. One says programming sucks, reply s
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by qwerta 12y ago
Just for illustration, in Europe I usually carry around equivalent of $700 in cash for petrol and other daily expenses. Less hassle and practically no risk of being robbed. But yes, most people here prefer credit cards.
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by qwerta 12y ago
Calling Type XXI failure is kind of (mo)ironic. Soviet submarines and to some extend western submarines are practically build on top of it. It is like saying jet-engines are failure :-)
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by qwerta 12y ago
Again, I am arguing against being EXCLUSIVELY vegetarian, I also think rice potatoes etc are good value for the money. Back in my old days in post communist Europe, the cheapest eatable meat was horse (kind of like a beef). Most vegetables
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by qwerta 12y ago
Sure, you need balanced died, I objected about being vegetarian. Meat is important because it gives fat and other important nutrients, it would be expensive to get those exclusively from vegetarian food. Checkout rabbit poisoning for some
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by qwerta 12y ago
I live in Europe, so I can not really say for US. For 1 burger you need like 4 pounds of vegs, so the meat is cheaper here.
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by qwerta 12y ago
Practical experience, I lived on $4/day for most of my life. Energy is important if you are moving a lot. Also sleeping outside (in cold) drains energy very quickly. Obesity and related problems are usually associated with lifestyle, m
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by qwerta 12y ago
On $4/day you should avoid being vegetarian, get cheap food with as many calories as possible. Better value for money. EDIT: I get lot of down votes, so just to clarify: I am objecting to being _exclusively_ vegetarian. People on $4&#x
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by qwerta 13y ago
This is really bad! This practically mean that most EU companies can no longer use American based cloud providers, even if data are hosted in EU. Even email address is 'personal identifiable' private information and needs to be ha
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by qwerta 13y ago
I had interview with an american company recently, and they asked for my racial profile as well.
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by qwerta 13y ago
I tend to use checklists for everything. It saves a lot of thinking. I would recommend Zim or other personal wiki.
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by qwerta 13y ago
I have opposite problem. My project is almost production ready, but I have not even published performance benchmarks yet :-) I would find helpful if author would outline how PR is done.
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by qwerta 13y ago
I think author is just in wrong community. Some modern strongly typed language would suit him better. Hell even Python would do.
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by qwerta 13y ago
There are well respected standards such as SQL 92. They could also just take SQLite specification and use it. Many SQL databases support multiple SQL dialects.
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by qwerta 13y ago
I started as maintenance programmer. I learned from that and now I just walk away from bad code, unless I get resources to fix it.
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by qwerta 13y ago
Some regions in Chine have probably highest penetration of electric vehicles in the world. There are lot of electric bikes in Peking, Shanghai and other large cities with air pollution problems
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by qwerta 13y ago
Developing countries will abolish medical patents and will start making generic replacements.
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by qwerta 13y ago
Why everyone has to write new code to learn? I find best way to learn is to read existing code. When I find interesting project, I download source code and read it from top to bottom. I may even fix a few bugs before hitting compiler.
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by qwerta 13y ago
Notice period could be anything from 3 weeks to 2 months. He could be also hired as a contractor and not to have his contract extended.
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by qwerta 13y ago
What if technician needs CEO to make quick management decision? It cuts both ways, several times I worked over weekend, just to see deployment postponed by couple of days for some paper work.
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by qwerta 13y ago
> We have to keep our tools running 24/7, even if that means working the occasional nights and weekends. Does this apply to CEO as well? As JWZ wrote nobody of higher management had to sleep under their desks.
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by qwerta 13y ago
I am actually Czech and my business is based in Prague :-) Slovakia made lot of progress in past 10 years. In business friendlies it is ahead, it also has more stable and simpler laws. In Czech rep every new government totally changes ta
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by qwerta 13y ago
For small innovating business-friendly countries I would suggest Estonia or Slovakia. If you like sea and nice weather Slovenia, Croatia or Monte Negro.
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by qwerta 13y ago
There is a lot of interesting stuff in soviet space program. For example the Vostok spacecraft (Gagarin) is still used on orbit 50 years latter for biological experiments.
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by qwerta 13y ago
I use TDD extensively and it helps me a lot. It works like version control for progress. It splits problem into small parts which can be solved separately. I can work on very hard problems, without fully understanding them. But I agree: for
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by qwerta 13y ago
14 years ago I played online chess on Yahoo. The could expand it by providing J2ME, Symbian, Android, iOS and HTML5 clients... But no they still only have original Flash version... Yahoo is irrelevant now, yet another wanna be internet comp
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by qwerta 13y ago
People are shooting at ducks, this sort of drone will be next.
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by qwerta 13y ago
For Java I highly recommend H2 SQL DB. It has everything (parsers, sockets, webui...) in very tight and nice package.

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