timwaagh

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by timwaagh 8y ago
I dont think the EU will want to sanction Italy over a budget that is, all things considered, within the usual 3% deficit limit. They are already in enough trouble picking more important fights with Poland and Hungary who have downgraded th
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by timwaagh 8y ago
years ago i wanted to create a restricted version of android for this purpose. so i downloaded the AOSP source. it turns out it is not so easy though and quite intimidating for your average coder. but maybe some sv wizards will create such
813.
by timwaagh 8y ago
Deep lesson: learn C#. decrement.
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by timwaagh 8y ago
I learned six languages in high school, because that's just about mandatory around here at the highest level. Dutch, German, English and French, as well as Latin and Old Greek. I can barely read french, barely hold a conversation in Ge
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by timwaagh 8y ago
housing isn't just a financial investment. people factor in the benefits of living at a certain place over just the investment value. to a person who will live and earn a big salary at a place with a lot of good jobs or send their kids
816.
by timwaagh 8y ago
Kinda surprised it's jira and not Microsoft's own TFS. Oh well. Nice for those who use jira.
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by timwaagh 8y ago
well one way to 'hack' your way to bankdom is through founding a company offering sketchy financial advice then expanding to sketchier insurances and payday lending, then to banking. takes about 25 years and you get to be public e
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by timwaagh 8y ago
have an exit strategy. development is something people are passionate about in a love it / hate it way. it's a hard job. that means you have to be able to get out of it someday. sure you might be promoted, but that's not with
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by timwaagh 8y ago
at the train station we have some Haskell application which does one thing: it does accounting of the number of free and parked bicycles in each rack. in this case a comparison with another programming language is useful. my comment is nece
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by timwaagh 8y ago
as others have already said Haskell's type system is more powerful. however more powerful does not always mean superior. Java strikes a balance between flexibility and ease-of-understanding, whereas Haskell allows you to construct the
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by timwaagh 8y ago
I like haskell. It reads like a math proof more than a cooking recipe. very elegant. I'm a math guy and i'd love to get back to it in my free time. But i don't think i could recommend it for the enterprise. not honestly. I tr
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by timwaagh 8y ago
I wouldn't like this. but for sure i'd do the exact same. a lot of criminals are dumb or not careful enough. they will catch a few baddies no doubt.
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by timwaagh 8y ago
basic economics. it helps if you have a great teacher. it tells you how the world works. basically when i started high school i was a communist. if i had gone on with that worldview i would have found things very difficult, like why this pe
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by timwaagh 8y ago
oh. thanks. thats great. but...now i have a graphical issue where the command line falls off the screen.
825.
by timwaagh 8y ago
i have. in addition to not launching on startup, it seems to have this same issue. i like that in pentadactyl i can just start typing out the text of a link. or use a number. so im not a fan, but it can work if you insist on a major browser
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by timwaagh 8y ago
it is a regrettable episode but they had their reasons. i would also wish this would not be used against this great project. everyone knows how territorial we can be as developers. people make mistakes. i have been using it and pentadactyl
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by timwaagh 8y ago
the main reason i dont use it is the hints work differently from pentadactyl. you cannot type characters of the link and have to use the letters that appear on the hint. so i'm still on pale moon+pentadactyl. but i think qutebrowser ha
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by timwaagh 8y ago
it's like they are trying to prove they aren't autistic or something.
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by timwaagh 8y ago
maybe the commission could prepare some 'tariffs' on the 'export' of 'grey matter' to soon-to-be not-EU countries. just saying.
830.
by timwaagh 8y ago
oh well, one can dream.
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by timwaagh 8y ago
debtors prison? i kind of like the concept of paying in real life for things like this. he gambled with somebody else's money. and lost. if he just goes bankrupt and gets debt payment assistence without suffering anymore consequence th
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by timwaagh 8y ago
Such a shame nature lends it's name to this absolute drivel. There are reasonable 'mainstream' explanations for the crash. I was fortunate to attend a lecture at my alma mater on that. It had to do with insurance and the diff
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by timwaagh 8y ago
i never saw petain as such a bad guy. In ww1 he changed the French strategy to something that wasn't batshit crazy and saved many lives. In ww2 he stopped a fight the French could not win. Signed a deal. Did what he had to do. I don&#
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by timwaagh 8y ago
yes
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by timwaagh 8y ago
my boss is hiring and i have a spare room to let. only half a world away.
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by timwaagh 8y ago
you had it too good when young so much so you don't appreciate your current life. you're a technical consultant. much better than a code monkey. you should be proud. but when you came from manager and events speaker, that kind of
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by timwaagh 8y ago
the obvious question: what hurdles remain before we can outsource this service to low-wage countries?
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by timwaagh 8y ago
norway is a huge country. sure you have bigger hills, but nobody lives there. what about those places where people actually live? snow isnt that big of a problem, you have salt for that. the simple problem is norwegians have too much money
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by timwaagh 8y ago
so you say the language he uses, talking about the left as if he is a part of it is a mere rhetorical trick? could be. i'm more interested in how he sees himself than what he is.
840.
by timwaagh 8y ago
i think this guy has better grasp on what is happening than 99.9% of the population. but he identifies as left wing (i think, since he talks about the direction of the left a lot). With these views there will be no place at all for him on t

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