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by thomasz 11y ago
I love aufheben and Zug, which both have roughly a billion meanings. Btw, you might like "The Awful German" by Mark Twain. http://usa.usembassy.de/classroom/Mark%20Twain/Mark%20Twain%...
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by thomasz 11y ago
You would to expect a significant drop in traffic after the ensuing PR nightmares, fbi raids. Followed by years of lawsuits from people who claim PTSD symptoms and what not after being forced to watch CP.
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by thomasz 11y ago
I don't think nothing good can come from throwing random pictures that may very well contain child porn at random users.
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by thomasz 11y ago
FYI, HPG is the armed wing of the PKK, not a Yezidi militia.
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by thomasz 11y ago
unless you have a disability, then fuck you and everybody like you.
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by thomasz 11y ago
Most people who act like a horde of drunken monkeys on vacation act like perfectly normal people at home.
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by thomasz 11y ago
That was 2001. There was no SAS loophole to exploit. If you desired to sell software, you had to ship it. In a box. The GPL was as viable for businesses back then as the AGPL is today.
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by thomasz 12y ago
He didn't work for the STASI, he volunteered for the Waffen SS. > Grass was born in the Free City of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland). In May 1945, after service as a soldier in the Waffen SS, he was taken prisoner by U.S. forces and rel
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by thomasz 12y ago
Fingerprint and iris scanners have been compromised with nothing more than a high resolution image https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVivA0eoNGM
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by thomasz 12y ago
That is usually a strong crackpot indicator.
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by thomasz 12y ago
Maybe I'm missing something obvious, but http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/standards/Ecm...
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by thomasz 12y ago
She's the exception that proves the rule. Her rise was made possible by the turmoil caused by the reunification that opened up that career path for highly educated people who kept their distance to the regime. [1] is another example wi
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by thomasz 12y ago
Politics in Germany is an apprenticeship trade that takes countless hours from adolescence onward. You do not have the time to become a successful scientist and a successful politician in the same life.
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by thomasz 12y ago
Correct me when I'm wrong, but are those two not economists who gave a flying fuck about empiricism?
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by thomasz 12y ago
http://www.ikvm.net/ runs java bytecode on the CLR
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by thomasz 12y ago
Actually, it can make a lot of sense to let a house rot until it's beyond repair.
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by thomasz 12y ago
Am I the only one who actually likes the right to be forgotten? I can understand that it's a PITA for search providers, but I honestly think that your shit just shouldn't stay with you forever. It would be highly problematic if it
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by thomasz 12y ago
Well, it's a dishonest move then. The law only applies to search engines, and it doesn't protect your recent artistic endeavors from criticism.
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by thomasz 12y ago
No. It's just that the people who want to get systemd and those do not care deeply about their init system have left and only those who see it as a threat to linux still bother.
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by thomasz 12y ago
A message queue stores, well, messages, so it is really good for events. But I also need to persist state machines that run for months. They must be queryable and so on. A db is good at this. On the other hand, I've had a very unpleasa
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by thomasz 12y ago
> I've played with the idea of a hybrid system: Register jobs in Postgres, use RabbitMQ as the trigger mechanism. But this puts a burden on the processor, which now has to use two APIs. I've had exactly the same idea for my nex
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by thomasz 12y ago
I'm pretty sure you can get trademark protection for short, common words, as long as they are not descriptive or common for the protected areas. You can name your car bar and your bar car, but not your bar bar and your car car.
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by thomasz 12y ago
Are you sure that this is really because of Gen0 collections all by themselves, and not because the short cadence of collections leads to a lot of premature Gen1 promotions? I could imagine something like var a = InitGiantArray<Foo&
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by thomasz 12y ago
The usual wisdom in clr-land is that the generational garbage collector can cope just fine with a lot of small, short lived objects. It absolutely doesn't like big, long lived objects that reach G1, G2 or the large object heap and must
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by thomasz 12y ago
Two reasons: a) I can't imagine somebody bothering to support .net software on the Linux desktop without being paid for it. I know those guys[1] are a minority, but it takes only a minority to create an absolutely toxic atmosphere. Mai
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by thomasz 12y ago
> The tools people use in the movie industry are commodities with relatively slow innovation. People can get by on more or less the same skill set they had 15 years ago, and once the movie has been shot, virtually nobody has gained any n
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by thomasz 12y ago
sigh . This will get boring quite fast because a sizable portion of people participating in threads like that find the idea revolting that actions can have, you know, consequences , but what the heck... If you would find a recipe for a to
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by thomasz 12y ago
1) You really shouldn't have an open conversation about knowledge that can easily kill people. 2) I'm pretty sure that communication isn't the problem, the problem is that he want's to pressure them into fixing the
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by thomasz 12y ago
In the stone age, your computer was standing on top of the desk , with a monitor on top of it. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/Ibm_pc_51...
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by thomasz 12y ago
It makes it quite rewarding to quickly post conformist opinions in typical circle jerk threads, at the same time it punishes participating in smaller and older threads.

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