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by qwerta 13y ago
Unproven innovative technologies are not necessary bad. They can give you edge over competition. The real problem is to restrain yourself when applying them, and have a fallback plan.
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by qwerta 13y ago
Is not there some 'anti hacking' law in US? Aaron S. got like 30 years for downloading a few documents. Call FBI and see what happens.
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by qwerta 13y ago
I think socket A was good example. Some motherboards could accommodate Duron @ 600 Mhz and Athlon XP 3200+
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by qwerta 13y ago
I think most people hate him subconsciously for inventing JavaScript abomination. The current back splash is just an camouflage for that :-)
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by qwerta 13y ago
Have a serious look at KDE.
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by qwerta 13y ago
China before mongol invasion was like that. Too bad they hated their own warriors, we could had industrial revolution 7 hundred years earlier.
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by qwerta 13y ago
I found that it is very important to have enough free capital (energy, money) to catch opportunities when they come. If you work constantly at limit of your strength and have no free energy to even explore, it is practically equivalent to b
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by qwerta 13y ago
Voluntary redundancy offer is pretty widespread. But there is usually exception for developers and other highly qualified people. Devs cant quit :-)
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by qwerta 13y ago
Make sure you read their license, it could be slightly modified GPL. Some licenses (such as Apache 2) has clause which makes any contribution Apache licensed.
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by qwerta 13y ago
I have a question: If there is an dead account which never had any sort activity, is there some legal/moral way to get its username? I would like to buy it, but owner does not respond. There is also no trademark violation, so I can not
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by qwerta 13y ago
Ridiculous. Question: In EU countries debts expire after 3 or 5 years, if no party claims them. It is not possible to remember and start collecting 10 years old debts. Is there similar period in US?
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by qwerta 13y ago
Monads are probably biggest thing which happened in functional programming in past 20 years. It actually made functional programming relevant. And basic FP is must have for most modern languages. And monads are relevant for actors, event dr
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by qwerta 13y ago
I am not sure about 6 months, I guess it could be 2 years instead.
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by qwerta 13y ago
I wonder why Ada is not widely adopted by security community. GCC supports it for ages and it is as fast as C
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by qwerta 13y ago
They do, but only way to make some real money is to sell vulnerabilities.
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by qwerta 13y ago
Already is, I forgot to write bike AND equipment. The limit is about 1000 euro every 6 months.
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by qwerta 13y ago
I am tired of this stuff on hacker news. I am Czech and we have really bad history with Russians, but this is just ridiculous.
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by qwerta 13y ago
yeah typo. I guess Hacker News needs static compiler for comments.
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by qwerta 13y ago
I am not sure. If it is part of contract, it may require signing new contract by employee.
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by qwerta 13y ago
Czech republic and some other EU country actually have this in law. If employee with non-compete clause loses his job, employer has to pay his salary in full for duration of non compete. There are some exceptions such gross misconduct, volu
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by qwerta 13y ago
Ireland has cycle-to-work scheme. It deduces price of bike from your income tax, practically it means you pay 40% less for a bike. Ireland is probably the worst possible country for cycling (rain, wind, narrow roads with walls on side) but
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by qwerta 13y ago
> “Feigned surprise” (when someone gasps and says something like: “you don’t even know about monads?”) Too often the surprise is real. There are developers who do not know basics such as loops, conditions, arithmetic and so on. I use Ja
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by qwerta 13y ago
Perhaps Debian will get more funding, now when it is officially out :-)
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by qwerta 13y ago
I run KDE with dark theme, Skype is dark as well. On some inferior desktop environment you could use window inversion. OSX has some hotkey which inverts colors...
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by qwerta 13y ago
NoScript with whitelist works well enough.
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by qwerta 13y ago
Russians did this tactics against Napoleon. It is flat country, so they effectively had to burn down half of their country.
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by qwerta 13y ago
So what? Most people in Europe do not know where Washington state is. Anyway US already intervened in Ukraine several times. I just hope this will not become another Iraq.
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by qwerta 13y ago
I found this very true, even for other kinds of low-level. I do database engines in low level Java.
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by qwerta 13y ago
The funny part is there are more police-men now, then during communism.
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by qwerta 13y ago
... probably yes, ask that question again in 10 years. I bootstrapped because I had to stay at home with new born baby. I took my open-source hobby project and turned it into business. Work load, working hours, and money are similar to my p

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