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by wink 3y ago
Hmm, this does not match my experience (but it's been a while). I'm not saying it's been great but maybe it's because I didn't file a single business trip or hotel stay. FWIW I also have to file those now as you des
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by wink 3y ago
>> Germany will stay as it is for ever - there is no need to change in their view. > You are attacking Germans. I don't think so and I don't feel attacked. The problem is that German politics has been VERY conservative fo
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by wink 3y ago
> And then there's the wait time for everything. Appointment for visa extension: 8 months. Driving license conversion: 1 year. German exam: 5 months. What, you want the results for your exam also? Better wait another year then. Hone
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by wink 3y ago
I think there's a different problem with exactly this stereotype and people throwing it around a bit, even if you are not just being negative, but offering criticism including some solutions. I've been called that at times, but if
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by wink 3y ago
What I personally used most? Browsers, IE 5.5 and Netscape. My coworkers? Probably whatever version of Photoshop was current back then. I wouldn't call that particularly weird.
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by wink 3y ago
That makes no sense. You should at most have a single directory `~/.config` more and I suppose 90% of the tools writing or reading there could be configured to use ~/.${TOOL}rc
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by wink 3y ago
I guess you're assuming that getting a degree can't be as bad or worse than the job itself, and 4+4 years is plenty. I suppose even 4 years is plenty. Also I think this was in the UK, not the USA. Who says they did have debt, or a
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by wink 3y ago
The "beauty" of ASP was (is?) that it could be so many wonderful things. For me it was inheriting a codebase that was basically many HTML pages with VBScript AND JScript dynamic parts, in the same file. Imagine what everyone was s
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by wink 3y ago
We had the colorful ones at my first onsite dev job (a design agency) and they were constantly crashing, so my experience was 100% negative. Honestly surprised about people having good memories. OS X was pretty nice when it launched, that w
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by wink 3y ago
Look, I don't want to defend Twitter but ignoring 15 years of changes and the whole journey of scaling and then using the cost op just building a snapshot of the 15y old version is pretty disingenuous. That's a bit like starting a
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by wink 3y ago
counterpoint: Let's assume you develop a software written in Python for $dayjob and you're targeting Python 3.8 because that's where your deployment target is. It's Monday morning, you fire up your work machine and the c
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by wink 3y ago
I'd guess a good portion of us have been at that point in our lives but has moved on and downsized or shudders at the thought of keeping that monstrosity of a rack in service or updated :P
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by wink 3y ago
German here who was 13 in the 90s - while I'd heard of several people (and friends of mine) who drank alcohol at 13, it was a lot more common at 15 (but mind you, we're allowed to legally drink beer with 16, so I don't consid
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by wink 3y ago
Gave it a quick spin today, looks awesome. Thanks!
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by wink 3y ago
In Germany there are tons of signs that you should not park this way when it's close to a wall, probably because of the exhaust fumes. Sure, it's not a law but I suppose the tenants or shops won't be happy if you follow the s
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by wink 3y ago
I don't think that's a 100% yes or no argument (especially not beforehand( but I'd say I know more parents that are actually really hard to get a hold of since the first kid, as in... you try to work with their schedule and
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by wink 3y ago
Counting the ratio of nouns to verbs in a novel is an algorithm and I think it's like one of the most basic examples of what the thing in the article does, if I understood it correctly. But I guess there would also be people up in arms
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by wink 3y ago
Yeah I've seen comment that but I am not convinced. It's expensive, it hardly has more space to bring stuff than a normal bike, and the rain doesn't really bother me most of the time. I am not claiming to be rational here, bu
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by wink 3y ago
I didn't say the Z was relevant, it's just how most people I know identify this layout, but fine. "German ISO keyboard?" And no, it's also not "just" the big enter and pipe (and the left shift). It's
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by wink 3y ago
Yeah, FPM is great not for official/public packages (or libraries) but for "for some reason our $org installs internal (or patched, or just self-built OSS) stuff via package manager" and most often even all the versions, like
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by wink 3y ago
Probably offtopic, but is there a good way to use OSM for on-the-fly route finding on Android (pref bike)? I like to fiddle with stuff just like the next HN commenter, but last time I tried this with OsmAnd I quickly gave up, it's not
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by wink 3y ago
Not a 1Password fan, but if your business hinges on 3$/month you probably shouldn't do business.
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by wink 3y ago
I clicked the link and was confused about the list of 5 books at the top (not even sure if it was books or what it meant), that's why I looked at the comments first. :P
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by wink 3y ago
That is if you are lucky enough to have a choice of hardware provided by your employer, but usually "easily" fixed with an external keyboard if need be :/ Germany is pretty grim here, most not-even-huge companies will just or
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by wink 3y ago
Except that most cyclists I know (me included) would be too scared to use one.
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by wink 3y ago
The problem with eurkey is the high enter key on German keyboards, it's kinda made for US keyboards. (I usually map caps-aous to äöüß and that's good enough for me). My problem is a proper layout on a German keyboard, not some wei
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by wink 3y ago
I use chrome and firefox and I couldn't tell you any differences between the two download windows without looking at them. Neither party managed to break it in the last 15? or so years. I click on files and then I find them in the down
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by wink 3y ago
I'm not here to defend it but I only use it as a secondary backup for my mail server (so basically append-only) and for a low amount of gigabytes it's fine and just works. No, I wouldn't want to write changing 100GB there.
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by wink 3y ago
I have someone in an irc channel whose client always autocompletes `wink:` to `[0]:` - become untargettable. [0]: https://emojipedia.org/winking-face/ Apparently HN strips emojis from comments.
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by wink 3y ago
I'm not sure what your stance on non-electric bicycles is but just a leisurely cruise is faster than I can sprint.

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