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by wott 10y ago
You would have needed to get hold of a compiler then. Of the specific compiler that was used to compile that source, probably. A few hundred $ here and there, and hope it would compile on your machine.
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by wott 10y ago
It doesn't even take a concentration of a group of a specific origin. Take Erasmus students, for example, it's terrible. They come from various countries, so they do not speak the same mother language and do not share an identical
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by wott 10y ago
It ain't bad if you can take a breath sometimes. Enemies do not betray you, unlike friends.
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by wott 10y ago
Each of the stuff for which we read here people jumping and yelling "visionary!" "revolutionary!" "unforeseen breakthrough!" "brand new plan!" "disruptive improvement!", has been dealt with
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by wott 10y ago
> I keep waiting for California to go the way of Israel and have more fresh water than they need. You mean, steal water from Mexico?
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by wott 10y ago
Oh? I got the same. Well, almost, but the timing and weekdays match. It was "Er... sorry... the boss changed his mind... he went bonkers... that happens regularly, hem... he's... a lunatic. Sorry."
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by wott 10y ago
When a visitor would come, my boss would arrange fake working stations, with piles of files which were in fact white paper, and he would pretend the ghost-employees were on vacation, or on an outside mission. I have also applied to many job
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by wott 10y ago
Europe is already the most open market. The way proponents of such treaties try to sell them to us is that, thanks to them, European companies could go fuck other markets as easily as companies from other continents can already come and fuc
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by wott 10y ago
> There is not that much opposition to these trade deals - the opposition is usually from minority (i.e. political) or special interest group (i.e. an industry that would be disrupted, like agriculture). Are you kidding? A large majori
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by wott 10y ago
> Good quality local cheese does exist, but you're spending upwards of $20-$30/kg. That makes it something you only buy on really special occasions. Given that in Europe you can buy cheese that tastes better but is a tenth of
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by wott 10y ago
You wouldn't have to fix Windows machines either nowadays. 7 is way more stable than 95-98-2000-XP. I am rarely called about it, and when I use it, I don't have any problem. It's not unix-like stable, it starts to decay after
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by wott 10y ago
It's like software. Once you finally manage to get something kinda reliably working, you ditch it and start a new one.
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by wott 10y ago
So now you have a goal in life: to try it on a snowmobile.
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by wott 10y ago
Did you ever witness a sales person answer the question you asked him? :-)
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by wott 10y ago
If those are not made for showing off, I don't know what they are made for.
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by wott 10y ago
I've lived in place where it can be -40°F, and nobody parks his car in the garage. All cars sleep outside during the 4-6 month below 0°F. The cars (engines) are plugged and start without any problem (less problems than in my place wher
857.
by wott 10y ago
No necessarily better: if I picture your example correctly, there is a lot of space wasted as road (alley).
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by wott 10y ago
I remember reading that the building of the Disneyland in Europe was more costly than the one in the USA because they had to use real materials and kind-of-real construction processes, for customers are used to real historical stuff everywh
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by wott 10y ago
The budget can explain the fake materials, but not the bad taste. Keep the same materials, add bit of simplicity (i.e. get rid of some of the monstrosities) and the result would be both better-looking and cheaper. And more classy, compared
860.
by wott 10y ago
> developers from developing countries knocking down salaries That's not "remote" where the salary has to comply with the company country rules; that's subcontracting, freelancing...
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by wott 10y ago
> People, sentient, living breathing people have values. Does this include PR employees?
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by wott 10y ago
European here. Are there really people who live in those er... things, or are they only used to shoot porn flicks? On a more serious note, if they want to display different styles, instead of packing them together, why don't they build
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by wott 10y ago
I'm so glad people bring up new offsprings all the time. Thanks to them, despite our supposedly declining demography as a sad ageing country, we destroy one extra percent of my country's land every 8 years, just for housing (and t
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by wott 10y ago
An improvement for the legibility of what? There is nothing left to be read...
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by wott 10y ago
? They all look the same. White, white, and more white.
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by wott 10y ago
It is very slow indeed. And I have the feeling it continues consuming resources even when the page is finally loaded and stabilised, because my browser gets somewhat slower when I have reddit+RES in a tab, even though I haven't switche
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by wott 10y ago
The cancer has now spread to each professional, industrial, each institutional site I use. One after another, they fell into the mobile-friendly but desktop-unfriendly and any-real-use-unfriendly fad: white space everywhere, flat design, wh
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by wott 10y ago
OK, so all this confused discourse is to sell their stuff. And this: > We normally hire through traineeships lasting six to twelve months. This sounds illegal. Possibly for 2 reasons.
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by wott 10y ago
I don't know what treatment the photographer applied to his pictures. They look fake to me: the lighting is weird, the colours are weird. (I don't mean that they are are fake, not at all, I just mean that they look so).
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by wott 10y ago
So I checked a bit for the newspapers. None of the English newspapers I checked does it. In the USA, Wall Street Journal, NY Times, do it; but USA Today, LA Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Denver Post, Chicago Tribune don't. Washington Post

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