stormking

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by stormking 9y ago
No, you are wrong, this law applies to everyone.
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by stormking 9y ago
It's not "adults who live with their parents" who are shamed, but specifically men. For women, it's completely acceptable and probably even "proves" that they're more responsible than men. Must be male pri
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by stormking 9y ago
Yes, I use it to trigger actions on certain messages in one of our APIs instead of hardcoding them. Incoming data -> is it a valid messages at all? -> if it is a message of type x, hand it over to class X -> if it is a message of t
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by stormking 9y ago
Just use Emacs and follow-mode.
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by stormking 9y ago
> What's the killer feature of iTerm these days? Panes.
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by stormking 9y ago
Before the UN, two countries could go to war and nobody else would care. "If they want to go to each other's throats, let them." War was seen as a legitimate extension of politics, not as an absolute last resort only valid fo
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by stormking 9y ago
I mostly avoid painkillers, not because I think that pain is "good" but because I think a little bit of pain is simply not worth taking drugs. My advice is: Unless you're really suffering, try sucking it up for a few days.
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by stormking 9y ago
> Well, I suppose in Germany they also have a week of vacation, sick leave, or disability to take off while feeling this pain and drinking tea. No, we don't have "a week of vacation, sick leave, or disability". We have as
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by stormking 9y ago
On the one hand, you're right: Humans are a part of nature. On the other hand, the definition of "natural" is "untouched by humans".
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by stormking 9y ago
The Dune series, especially "Dune Messias", made me a vocal critic of organized religion. Books by Vernor Vinge made me a liberal (european meaning, pro free markets and individual responsibility). Ken McLeod made me aware of the
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by stormking 9y ago
I recently visited the first Five Guys franchise in germany and got really disappointed. The meat itself is better than the burgers at McDonalds or Burger King, but the rest of the burger is equally bad. There are at least two local burge
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by stormking 9y ago
It's more likely they don't want to go to court because they know the accusations are bullshit.
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by stormking 9y ago
Now 178.
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by stormking 9y ago
Outside of a pure development environment, you can't just install software on a machine. You have to create a change request and have it approved. And the latter just won't happen for stuff like tmux, there's simply no busine
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by stormking 9y ago
> almost everyone, even people who are multilingual, probably search in a single language. You're completely wrong.
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by stormking 9y ago
Try http://coconut-lang.org Not pure, not perfect, but still great!
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by stormking 9y ago
"Worse is better" refers to interface complexity vs. implementation complexity, not to software quality.
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by stormking 9y ago
The distinction between micro and macro evolution is a typical strawman. Everything one can't deny anymore without looking incredible stupid is called "microevolution", the rest "macroevolution". There are still man
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by stormking 9y ago
What makes you so sure that it's an "overwhelming majority of employees"?
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by stormking 9y ago
What are you talking about? At all (german) companies I ever worked at is was common to request a "Polizeiliches Führungszeugnis" (essentially police records or the lack of such) first thing during the trial period. This is absolu