thejdude

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by thejdude 12y ago
Depends. Maybe you should get a bonus if your work really has such an impact. And if you talk managing a team, that's not a developer position, that's a lead position (to me anyway).
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by thejdude 12y ago
Yes, but healthcare is a few 100 bucks a month, which we pay too, only for us it's mandatory by government. Vacation sounds like a real problem, but it seems like you could circumvent that by going freelance and just taking off x days
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by thejdude 12y ago
That's low to you? Wow. Just wow. Over here in Europe (or at least Germany) salaries are incredibly uniform (doesn't really matter if you suck or get as much done in a day as others in 1-2 weeks; if your bugs get constantly reopen
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by thejdude 12y ago
From my experience the problem isn't the existence of bugs (like the existence of gravity), but the widespread occurrence of the cowboy programmer with very limited attention span. Often there are tons of TODO comments left in the code
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by thejdude 12y ago
I use different mechanisms for different reasons. I used to have Flash on click-to-play, but then YouTube feeds me flash videos, so now I've had Flash turned off for a while. I don't really miss it. The reason is that Flash drains
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by thejdude 12y ago
OTOH, Emacs isn't that accessible to many users, and its idiosynchrasies can be very offputting. I also quit Emacs after a while because I wasn't totally happy with it. I think that's why there are so many attempts to built n
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by thejdude 12y ago
I haven't used Emacs in a while, so I'm very rusty, but why would you run a remote Emacs in SSH, and not use your local Emacs to access remote stuff via TRAMP? In my Emacs days, I've never really used the terminal version. Mu
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by thejdude 12y ago
That, and you can actually turn off third-party cookies. There's absolutely NO reason you should have them on, and I've been surfing the web just fine this way for 15 years.
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by thejdude 12y ago
Isn't that what you are for, if you're computer-literate? The first thing I install on my gf's computer or phone is Firefox and configure it to sensible settings (turn off third-party cookies, install ABP and Ghostery and stu
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by thejdude 12y ago
There was a monthly in August something, and I just installed the latest one which is from today. It may not yet be built for all supported devices though.
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by thejdude 12y ago
Are you sure? My Galaxy S 1 (one) still gets updates, as does my S3. They're monthly milestones now. Maybe you need to install CM 11 first, so the system has a base to work with. I think you can see if your phone gets updates if it&#x2
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by thejdude 12y ago
The general lack of updates is exactly why I use/install/recommend Firefox. That and the automatic syncing w/ Desktop and the regular performance improvements. (Chrome isn't an option. I can't even turn off third-pa
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by thejdude 12y ago
AFAIK Qt is much more than a GUI framework, and even modular these days, so you could leave out the GUI parts if you want. So you can use all kinds of Qt libs for different things, probably even for building a web server. Whether you WANT t
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by thejdude 12y ago
Thanks a lot for that! In my current project there are quite a few Polish people, so I always thought it would be nice to learn a bit of the language. So far we're only picking up the swearwords, so this may be a good complement.
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by thejdude 12y ago
This is what I think, as well. Car pooling/sharing is supposed to be sharing, i.e. split the cost. If you charge every pessenger individually you're trying to make a profit, not sharing or pooling. Since the government considers t
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by thejdude 12y ago
Well, we don't have that many black people, but every day on the train I see, and where I live, I'm surrounded by lots of Turkish people, Polish, Russians, a few blacks (I think the family a few houses down is of French origin), S
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by thejdude 12y ago
As a European I'm surprised by the very stark black-white separation in US culture. Why do the two (almost) not mix, even after centuries? During my student year in the US, I was friends with students of all colors - culturally they we
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by thejdude 12y ago
Well, on one point I do agree: you should have your life/finances sorted out (meaning: positive cash flow, enough to raise kids) before you have kids. Everything else is just irresponsible. Generally, it's a personal decision. How
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by thejdude 12y ago
While most of US population growth is AFAIK due to immigration, and traditional WASP families have a rather low growth these days, that used to be different, due to cultural differences. Germany has been low pop-growth for a long time now (
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by thejdude 12y ago
Funny that you say that, since the USA is a country where in many states even school is not mandatory. Why should kindergarten be? In Germany school is mandatory until you're 16 (if I'm not mistaken), but kindergarten is completel
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by thejdude 12y ago
Children have always been expensive, haven't they? But I think that's more of a cultural issue - people prefer consumption to investing in raising kids. And working children don't usually bring in lots of money, but back in t
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by thejdude 12y ago
AFAI have heard, East Germany still has much better child support infrastructure than West Germany. They also have a different culture. Women in or from the East tend to marry younger and get children earlier in their lives than Western wom
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by thejdude 12y ago
Usually, immigration is good for the economy and for everyone who lives there. Germany is pretty cheap country to live in (food is probably the best and cheapest in Europe to come by, but salaries also are rather low, esp. compared to the U
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by thejdude 12y ago
German here. The initiative to provide a kindergarden for every child is quite a failure. It was decreed by the federal govt that every city (i.e. local govt) has to provide enough resources, but there simply aren't enough kindergarden
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by thejdude 12y ago
Sure they did, but not everybody. There have always been adamant non-smokers just as there have always been convinced smokers.
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by thejdude 12y ago
I found that the easiest/best way to read PDFs on an e-reader is by extracting the text with PDFminer. It throws away the images, and the formatting often sucks, but at least you can read the text pretty well. I didn't try 2-colum
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by thejdude 12y ago
The UI truly is horrible. I use calibre for converting web pages I want to read offline into epub, but then I use the file manager to transfer the epub onto my device - it seems to be the easiest way. Also, on every single conversion I have
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by thejdude 12y ago
I find it insane that the US created this monster of a health insurance system, forcing people to purchase their health insurance through their employer. So far, this looks a major PITA for employees, because (correct me if I got this wrong
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by thejdude 12y ago
But then you're judging something you haven't learnt yet. Just saying... I assume you have your reasons to refuse Lisp.
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by thejdude 12y ago
It started with being interested, but as I said, the more people I meet, the more I'm just bored by them. Travelling didn't help at all. Yes, nots of friendly people, but also lots of aggravating tourist assholes (interestingly, I

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