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by timwaagh 7y ago
Pascal isn't necessarily the worst choice to learn programming in. After all, it was designed from the ground up for education and Delphi is one of the few environments around sporting a vb-style GUI creation interface. In high school,
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by timwaagh 7y ago
I have no idea where Mbene is from. It sounded African enough. It is not like France never fought for Eastern Europe (ww1 they got drawn in because their alliance with Russia, ww2 because of alliance to Poland). Other than explanations base
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by timwaagh 7y ago
If it had been Grozny you'd have a point. But as far as I know the safety of lbgtq people is not under threat in Poland, despite the issue being heavily politicised.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Should not be hard to solve if they would have an algorithm to search Reddit built in. But perhaps they do not, in which case it gets much harder.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Plenty of other EU nations have had deployments in nato context as well so I don't know why you picked these three as being 'veteran'. Of course, the Brits aren't going to be part of this. In any case, not having to die
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Edit: please disregard and listen to the audio which explains this perfectly. Maybe the Canadian justice system is worth a look at too. I am not saying that such a conviction rate would always mean the same thing. Canada after all has a rep
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by timwaagh 7y ago
A OCA certificate (like the author holds) isn't actually that easy to pass. You sit through a 2 hour multiple choice exam. Maybe it was easy for him, but that says more about him. I had to study for a month to get up to a sufficient le
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Thanks. Although it doesn't really clear up the mystery of what that workforce of theirs is doing.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Of course, secret agents play by different rules. In the EU intelligence agencies generally aren't as intimidating so it's less of a concern. But if you do have reason to worry about this, investing in this technology might help a
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by timwaagh 7y ago
i guess that was wishful thinking on my part. Although it's not clear what 'security projects' will be allowed.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Will make life easier for criminals. I would love to have the arsonists who put my home on fire identified and safely locked away by a good camera. they would have had to deal with an 'attempted manslaughter' charge so they might
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by timwaagh 7y ago
i don't know what they do for money, but i suppose it's not giving away free internet browsers. so it might have something to do with that.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
i think Oracle has a very weak case, because i think it and especially its predecessor have always presented java as an open software, even going so far as to standardize it so that others could easily implement, resulting in the many imple
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by timwaagh 7y ago
i personally do not see the value in downvotes affecting your karma either. i agree with having a system to prevent some fanatical minority opinion from dominating, but right now it's just encouraging bullying.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
this is what i meant. to me these feel like somewhat of a hack, breaking the vr promise of natural movement through a game world. but i suppose it could still be enjoyable.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
glad you are enjoying your Quest. I did not consider it, but it remains something of a niche platform. not approaching mainstream.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
vr is just expensive and requires fairly high end hardware still. There are also are all kinds of software issues with it. like when i was playing a well known racing game, very often the camera would be somewhere other than the driver&#x2
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by timwaagh 7y ago
For Java I think Enterprise application servers remain key. This is nothing new but knowing jboss, tomcat, websphere and friends will give you an edge. Also certificates like OCA, OCP aren't useless and provide concrete evidence you ar
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Patents. Profit, hopefully, somewhere in the distant future. If you manage to make part of the process cheaper the real estate developers make more money and/or government can charge more for a permit.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
survivorship bias I guess.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
What I mean is that Indians typically will actually study for CS. Most European programmers get into it as a second choice. This is because people are taught to follow their heart without consideration for the labor market. Indians typicall
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by timwaagh 7y ago
yes, not having information science in high school is one issue. unfortunately, it's only where the list of problems starts.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
it's kinda sad european programmers get pushed out of entry level positions by typically more experienced indians willing to work for some premium above indian wage. this ensures programming is not a very well paid job in west europe.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
school is pretty terrible. if it wasn't for my parents being as strict as they were i would have let go way before uni. personally i'd rather see the whole system scrapped. it's easy to single out japan as its system has some
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by timwaagh 7y ago
make sure they are easy to get rid of (don't contract them for a fixed time period) or consider working with an established it consultancy. they will do the vetting mostly for you. it's perhaps a bit more expensive, but rates are
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Seems like such a waste. Is switching to python 3 really that hard? Is hardware that expensive? If this is indeed the right call it doesn't bode well for traditional scripting languages as the web scales to fewer high traffic apps. We
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by timwaagh 7y ago
got the title wrong. whoops. i meant this one: https://www.amazon.com/Zen-CSS-Design-Visual-Enlightenment/d...
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by timwaagh 7y ago
Zen and the Art of CSS Design is a good book.
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by timwaagh 7y ago
it makes hosting cheaper and deployment easier. you don't need to run a separate server program per app. you share your hosting with others. Sure, things like docker have enabled sharing for other languages, but i think there is still
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by timwaagh 7y ago
"Consider carefully whether the extra step is worth it". This is what I'm wondering about everyday /s

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