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by wolfgke 6y ago
Google Removes 'Don't Be Evil' Clause From Its Code of Conduct https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...
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by wolfgke 6y ago
The author has to blame himself that he is selling his app in the Google Play store. Then, of course, the author is exposed to Google's despotism. Sell the .apk somewhere else.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
When you have to google for web development keywords, you are certainly not worthy. ;-)
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by wolfgke 6y ago
The reason you put this riddles online is to get to know people who love this kind of challenge. This is still the case if the solutions are available online, even though I would include a plead into my job ad not to post solutions online f
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> And the situation has only gotten worse since everyone and their coffee machine is running on x86. It is high time we created alternatives. That is why a third semiconductor company (besides Intel and AMD) creating x86 chips has come i
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Anybody else afraid to click some of the links in that post until you hear about legality of accessing (and controlling!) a DEA camera that's likely part of an active investigation? In Tor (or Tails), we trust.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Make use of the situation that because of COVID-19, lots of people wear face masks (or, more precisely, mouth-nose masks).
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Europe is gelling into a political unit, with the EU and all. Similarly, North and Middle America with the NAFTA ( https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=North_American_Fr... ). Keep in mind that the EU started
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by wolfgke 6y ago
Why the headline "The Eclipse Foundation Is Moving to Europe"? This is like writing "ACME Is Moving to the American doublecontinent". Europe is very diverse in sense of languages, countries etc. So, they should better ha
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> What I want to get at is "social distancing" is arbitrary (6 feet?) There do exist concrete studies on what distance makes sense; see for example https://medium.com/@jurgenthoelen/belgian-dutch-study-wh
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Overall, using "du" is acceptable in 90% of social interactions. This holds for private life. In professional life (except for IT industry and design industry; both are much more casual in the interaction style), it is rather
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by wolfgke 6y ago
That is true. Additionally, this is a clear signalling that Apple targets consumers and not companies. German Apple haters scoff that this informal addressing in Apple's commercials is a clear admission that Apple's products are n
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> I agree though about the big difference between the German and US management. I have a close friend that works at the regional Lidl HQ and she got reprimanded just after being hired for having used the singular "you" (less fo
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> If Amazon decided to enter the German supermarket landscape, Lidl (also, Aldi and others) would be in serious trouble. I doubt that since I think that Amazon's vision is very different from what many German customers want. Here is
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> You're not going to get particle physicists working on organic chemistry just because you've "allocated" them there If I consider what kinds of crappy jobs some excellent physicists who could not find a position in
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> That's not really how it works. People work on things they're interested in, not what they get assigned to. You have no idea how management and funding of large-scale research projects works.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> In the end, it's hard to ignore the fact that society as a whole is "commanding" us to work at the highest-paying jobs available to us It's in my opinion more complicated: My first point is that the metric that you
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Just look at facebook trying to build one website with 10000 engineers. Keep in mind that most most these engineers are paid for the fact that they don't work for another company that is perhaps competing with Facebook. They are g
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> The meal was suddenly changed halfway through, but there was no option to stop paying. Can't the respective student stop paying by quitting the university (of course, he will leave without a degree)?
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by wolfgke 6y ago
For me, it rather was "I had so much to do for courses that I had hardly any time to make use of or appreciate the incredible amount of ressources."
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by wolfgke 6y ago
That is why you should throw your smartphone into the trash. If you have no smartphone, the government cannot mandate you to install an app on it.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Having a bankruptcy on your record may make it difficult to get that high-paying job, as employers may not look favorably upon it. Why? I rather consider this as a sign that the person will be rather loyal as employee because he needs
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Our entire K-12 educational system and our culture is set up to paint a college degree as a ticket to "the good life". That's called "marketing".
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Cryptocurrency is a decades-old term as well (Bitcoin dates from 2009). Indeed, but decades (1983 or 1995-1998) older (except for the decentralization): https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ecash&oldid=94
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> There's lots of people who want to do stuff, but code is expensive. Nearly every work is expensive if done by other people.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> - No set up issues (visual programming is cloud-based) Cloud-based has nothing to do with visual programming or no-code (you can also do cloud-based editing of conventional code if you desire). Counterexamples: LabVIEW, Simulink. >
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> The web was supposed to be WYSIWYG, and that got broken. The web was never supposed to be WYSIWYG; this rather is/was a marketing claim by vendors of visual tools for generating websites. What is true is that it was supposed to be
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> See bubble for example - https://bubble.io . It’s basically “visual” Rails. The intention is to allow users to build complex, interactive software visually, without having to write code. Why the "hate" for code? I
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> Do you actually do that? Yes, of course.
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by wolfgke 6y ago
> My monitor can roate 90 degrees, but I prefer it landscape, it's more ergonomic not to have to tilt your head vertically, your eyes are horizontal. It's more like looking at an ordinary A4 page.

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