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by wott 10y ago
If I sum it up: 1. They did not manage to improve themselves a bit thanks to "the jerk"'s remarks, since the number of remarks (that he calls justified remarks) did not decrease. 2. They are now happy to deliver quickly. They
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by wott 10y ago
> OK search Damn... I can't even manage to figure out how it works. I consider myself extremely lucky when it returns the expected result, and that seldom happens.
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by wott 10y ago
Well, sometimes it is better to just click to downvote, because the only other possibility that makes sense is to leave a message saying that the guy is a scumbag shithead. In such (common) cases, the simple downvote is better for the healt
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by wott 10y ago
Note that it is still bullshit at that point.
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by wott 10y ago
GNU social, and others.
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by wott 10y ago
> If you spend more time writing / running tests that you would fixing the bugs they find, you may be doing it wrong. Why should those 2 activities be compared? They do not compare: writing/running tests is about discovering
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by wott 10y ago
Eh, you made it fancy to have to wear the same equipment as if you were on a factory assembly line or using a jack-hammer. Nobody thought of that for office work before. And those who still object to wearing those are considered as retarded
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by wott 10y ago
Using a map is not inferior. Quite the opposite. Once thing I noticed with most people who use GPS directions is that they have no idea where they are, no idea of their environment. When you use a map, you see the geography of the territory
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by wott 10y ago
Or you could lift your eyes from your bloody phone for a minute while you walk and see that there are signs on or above store fronts which say "grocery" or something like that...
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by wott 10y ago
> You either have a hardware problem (mechanical disk?) Windows 10 cannot work on a hard drive? In a way, it makes sense: when my father upgraded from Seven to W10, W10 never worked properly and killed the hard drive in a matter of 3 d
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by wott 10y ago
> You know how much effort engineering takes? Sales takes the same effort, Yeah, sure. That's the perfect example of typical commercial bullshit speech that drives me nuts at you guys. > from people of similarly specialised actua
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by wott 10y ago
It means they screw you with great contentment the other months. I don't wanna deal with such individuals.
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by wott 10y ago
Write proper documentation.
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by wott 10y ago
Exactly. When there is no price list, I do not even bother to go further, I switch to another product/company. Else I know I am gonna get screwed. First, the price will be set as my face fits (there is even an expression for that in my
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by wott 10y ago
I cannot decide whether you post is ironical or not.
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by wott 10y ago
Ah? I do not have to force myself a bit.
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by wott 10y ago
> There are a significant number of programming tasks where the typing-to-thought ratio is relatively high. Refactoring is one. Debugging is another. I might agree for a few cases of repetitive refactoring, but debugging? Definitely no
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by wott 10y ago
Pre- or beside-Internet, the days of FidoNet; the days of Usenet before its decadence; the days before Web 2.0; the days before business shifted from traditional forms to Internet; the days before smartphones, etc. There's no clear poi
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by wott 10y ago
> Food devilery Exactly.
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by wott 10y ago
He has already proven in others threads that he dried up the dispenser.
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by wott 10y ago
> For instance you can't drink in the street Untrue. A few municipalities forbid it, generally in specific places and/or for a specific duration, but the general rule is that it is allowed. > or be inebriated in public pl
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by wott 10y ago
Because we have already read many fine American gentlemen asserting the same thing in all seriousness.
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by wott 10y ago
I guess it is only a thing in junk food place (i.e. mostly American style places). Soda doesn't go well with "normal" meals anyway.
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by wott 10y ago
This is indeed a problem with languages without mandatory variable declaration. Is it the case of K, Q or whatever its name is?
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by wott 10y ago
Think that FPGA used to be programmed with schematic input. I don't think many people would like to go back there. As someone who went through schematic input for FPGAs, I wouldn't :-)
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by wott 10y ago
I have been "requesting" such a tool for a long time. Why? Because most of the circuits designed today are mostly digital, and they include IC which are very integrated: lots of functions, and often lots of pins. So, in the end, y
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by wott 10y ago
When people are young, they may be a fair share of desire into moving to a city; but when they "grow up", most of them would like to get out of there and they only stay there because of the job. When I say "most", I am n
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by wott 10y ago
Same in almost every city in France. Sometimes a small pole of office buildings has been built near the main railway station, but everything else is in the close suburbs because land and thus office surface is cheap there, and that's a
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by wott 10y ago
The criminality in Paris and surroundings is 2x to 3x the average of the country (including Paris). Also rent in cities like Paris is prohibitive for most families. There is also the problem that in Paris, as in smaller-but-still-large citi
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by wott 10y ago
> When there's snow on the road hiding lane markings, someone will come and clean it out. In Nordic countries, you don't see the lane markings for several months, they are under snow and ice. And sometimes, when it melts in A

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