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871.
by wott 10y ago
I've often wondered: Is it an English thing or an American thing? Is it recent or has it always been the rule? Does it depend on the 'class' of the publication? To me it is unreadable, a real PITA to process such capitalised
872.
by wott 10y ago
> This is just an anecdote though. No, it is not. The guy is telling about a generic situation. And I can tell it goes the same way in Finland too. Yours is an anecdote though. You know pretty well your case is not common.
873.
by wott 10y ago
But is not applied for everyone. In my country, it doesn't apply to engineers typically: the only limit is 13h/day, 6days/week, so that's a "limit" of 78h/week...
874.
by wott 10y ago
> They enjoy an unbelievable quality life. They seem to be on vacation all the time and their cities are incredibly pleasant. Er... I think you accidentally dropped a bucket of green paint on the other side of the fence :-)
875.
by wott 10y ago
Even for white-collar and computer people, intellectual abilities do degrade over time too. If the task is demanding in that respect and you go below the threshold where it cannot be compensated by experience, performance will drop dramatic
876.
by wott 10y ago
No, it is not comparable by any measure. If I move 30 km from my home to the South, I won't be able to understand people and the culture is totally different, the meal hours are shifted by two hours, the food is different, the work t
877.
by wott 10y ago
Which South? If it is via the Atlantic-side line, only the 200 km near Paris are a high-speed line, the rest is a classical line (on which the TGV rides).
878.
by wott 10y ago
> I've ridden TGVs in Europe. At 250 Km/h (~150 Mph), it's bumpy enough that I have a hard time doing anything other than stare out the window. Uh? The only problem you may feel is the pressure in your ears when you are in
879.
by wott 10y ago
Oh, OK. Just have to do the same with the train :-)
880.
by wott 10y ago
Hmmyeah, but the result is so-so, it experiences a few troubles in the warmest days of the summer and trains (especially high-speed trains who both need perfect rails and put more strains on them) have to be speed-limited or in a few cases
881.
by wott 10y ago
> I think you're quite possibly judging the guy too much based on a simple internet comment. There are such judgements in every thread. It's even better when it is paired with the famous "I would not hire you" (or its
882.
by wott 10y ago
I my former company, it was simple: people who sucked at technical stuff were promoted to managerial positions, hoping that they would show some qualities there, and making sure they would at least not any more harm the projects they were p
883.
by wott 10y ago
Microsoft Excel has stopped working.
884.
by wott 10y ago
> quality control Weren't we talking about Twitter?
885.
by wott 10y ago
Ask you to what? Deathmatch?
886.
by wott 10y ago
I wish Twitter's walls were higher, so that they keep the shit they produce inside and it does not contaminate the worlds of journalism, politics and even real life.
887.
by wott 10y ago
This is typically the kind of absolutely clueless reaction that makes me even more depressed about human beings.
888.
by wott 10y ago
Almost all 8-bit computer were like that. I was so glad when I left REPLs and then debuggers and IDEs, to compiled languages and text-editor + command-line compilation and open source-code. I just cannot fathom the trend of the last 5 years
889.
by wott 10y ago
And the one supposed to maintain ConsoleKit, who abandoned it, was... a certain Lennart Poettering.
890.
by wott 10y ago
Manufacturing jobs are the only jobs who build base value, from which all the jobs derive. Service and retail will sooner or later collapse when there is nowhere to extract money from.
891.
by wott 10y ago
'Debate' in less than 140 characters, half of those being # and @ tags, is indeed a vibrant proof of a healthy democracy. What's next? A well designed debate platform that allows only emojis? A well designed debate platform t
892.
by wott 10y ago
We could dispatch psychological support units in this kind of life-threatening emergencies.
893.
by wott 10y ago
Yes, but you only need to carry a roll of duct tape for that purpose.
894.
by wott 10y ago
Absolutely impossible. There is hardware involved. I'd say something like 3 people for 6 months to 1 year (not all 3 being needed 100% of the time).
895.
by wott 10y ago
Yeah, I recently read on some forum someone who was looking for a quick C++ training for a friend and said "he doesn't need a deep training, just some basic syntax, he's not a programmer, that doesn't interest him, he&#x
896.
by wott 10y ago
unsigned long long if you want at least a 64-bit unsigned. uint64_t if you want a fixed-length 64-bit unsigned (and your compiler is at least C99, but I think long long came with C99 too). Note that unsigned long is at least 32-bit,
897.
by wott 10y ago
First line: > ULONGLONG tableOffset; It's starting well, for a C example... Oh, and it ends even better: > I write drivers for a living, not scientific or statistical analysis software. During this project, I quickly learn that
898.
by wott 10y ago
If the reports are correct, it is a dissident group that had been previously dismissed by the FARC because they refused the peace. And nobody was hurt.
899.
by wott 10y ago
In France, the average apartment is 66 m² (700 sq ft) and the average house 110 m² (1200 sq ft). Per person, that's respectively 33 m² (350 sq ft) and 44 m² (475 sq ft). I hope I got the conversion to barbarian units right, but I do no
900.
by wott 10y ago
> If you stop building walled-off kitchen/dining/family/living spaces, you have a lot more efficient use of the space you actually use. I though that fad was gone. That's a nightmare in real use. I don't want t

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