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by wwosik 9y ago
It's seldom for a debtor in need to choose the currency. If Greece kept drachma, they'd still need to borrow in euro or dollar as few would have drachmas to loan. US can take loan in dollars because everyone has dollars to park, w
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by wwosik 10y ago
This has been already thought of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Futurological_Congress " Instead, papers are distributed in hard copy and speakers call out paragraph numbers to call attention to their most sal
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by wwosik 11y ago
Are you me? Exactly same situation. And I find it much easier to concentrate in the solitude of my private office room (rented from a co-working company) and be more productive there.
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by wwosik 11y ago
Well, it's a known phenomen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syllabic_consonant E.g. in some West and South Slavic languages 'r' can be a syllable or its core, while in Polish it underwent a transformation
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by wwosik 11y ago
MVVM is a very good model though. I certainly enjoyed working with it.
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by wwosik 11y ago
There's a lot in this article that reminds me of Bruce Lee's: "Before I learned the art, a punch was just a punch, and a kick, just a kick. After I learned the art, a punch was no longer a punch, a kick, no longer a kick. Now
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by wwosik 11y ago
Yes, and "That's a nice kid you have. It would be really pity if something happened to him, right?" is a valid worry expressed over someone's child isn't it.
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by wwosik 12y ago
It's not shared I believe. It's like 1km where northbound traffic has two lanes, and then 1 km where it has just one lane and southbound has 2 lanes. Not Sweden, but you can see an example here: https://www.google.pl&#x
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by wwosik 12y ago
Well, the unoriginality is an advantage to me. Trying to discover yet which of the things is an active button gets tedious.
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by wwosik 12y ago
Well, that's the thing about Polish tongue (and many other too). Every single word does have a gender and you can't run away from it - in theory, masculine could represent gender-neutral meaning, but it would be very awkward to sa
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by wwosik 12y ago
That comment about shapes with more than one defining size property is very valid.
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by wwosik 12y ago
Well, C# idiomatic would be rather public interface IShape { float Area { get; } float Perimeter { get; } } public Circle : IShape { readonly float r ; public Circle(float r) { this.r
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by wwosik 12y ago
That's why we call them Freedom Fries ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_fries )
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by wwosik 12y ago
Never heard of it before, sorry. Though https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle says he's Lithuanian and his name "Jurgis Rudkus" is also rather Lithuanian than Polish. I believe Lithuanians do not like
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by wwosik 12y ago
Ok, I get it. Mature Ruby codebase sucks. Integer division changes are surprising. But what does it have to do with object-orientedness? > break functionality into lots of small objects > use immutabile objects as much as possible (e.
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by wwosik 12y ago
It's the cable breaking, not just falling down.
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by wwosik 13y ago
Ekhm, let me correct that slip: " in Poland [...] elsewhere in the USSR". Poland was fortunately never part of the USSR and hopefully never becomes even in USSR 2.0
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by wwosik 13y ago
Well, what if specifications included something like minimum heat output? If government / society wants it, why wouldn't they include it in the specs?
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by wwosik 13y ago
At first I thought you wanted to mean "Java is an class-oriented OOP programming language", but then I heard the whoosh.
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by wwosik 13y ago
Cool, Java Applets reborn
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by wwosik 13y ago
Apparently, money and power don't protect you from usual earthly human stuff. I only wonder whether it's a bane or rather a blessing to remind cold-blooded professionally successful technocrats, they are the same people as we are.
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by wwosik 13y ago
Huh, on what scale? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_equ... I just hate people saying what-not about easily verifiable facts.
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by wwosik 13y ago
> most of the subjects of the subpoena do not seem to be Americans who can raise the 1st Amendment issue in the first place Yes, that's why we non-US people love the US.
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by wwosik 13y ago
I don't know the case, but do you think talking about concrete corruption cases is "stirring unrest against legitimate government"?
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by wwosik 13y ago
The government does not levy taxes on US dollar, but on the income, be it in dollars, monopoly money, bitcoins, mussels or pigs. It's just in some cases the low scale of the phenomenon makes collecting the tax more expensive than the collec
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by wwosik 14y ago
I believe that, for once, formally you don't need MA/MSc to get a PhD. Another example could be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Banach
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by wwosik 14y ago
Well, I don't expect enormous leg room and posh seats, just to be comfortable (and clean). It may depend also what you define by those. Very often the car is a Mercedes so I'm rather fine with that. I actually prefer radio on, but never had
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by wwosik 14y ago
Is it an American phenomenon? In Europe I expect a taxi driver to be quick to turn up, helpful and knowledgeable about the destination. Granted, I don't expect water.
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by wwosik 14y ago
I think it's rather 0 - bio 1 - free range
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by wwosik 14y ago
I've found MOOC to be a real new hobby of mine. I believe they have more value for a lifelong learner or a professional than for a bored 20-something. I hold especially dearly edx courses (though I'm doing something at udacity and Stanford)

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