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by x3ro 7y ago
I must say I'm amused by the reactions here. I realize that the reporter displays a strong reaction to something that seems irrelevant to most people here. Comments then go on to raise concerns of rationality and objectivity. Yet most
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by x3ro 7y ago
I do understand the criticism of open plan offices and the resulting interruptions, I do myself prefer a closed office. And I definitely haven't been around as long as this person. That being said, it feels like this person is just ups
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by x3ro 7y ago
I thought exactly the same thing so I'm curious why people are downvoting you. I think saying both those things is logically inconsistent. Edit: especially in a jury-based system it seems like it doesn't matter whether you're
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by x3ro 7y ago
I know these, but there's also CSS so I don't understand why this needs JS..
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by x3ro 7y ago
I mean sure, if you were writing the website by hand. But every markdown processor I've used is able to derive these from headlines. And everything you can do in JavaScript you can also do when generating the page in the first place if
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by x3ro 7y ago
One dependency: Anchor.js — Provides nice clickable/linkable anchors for Markdown content Almost 6K minified to do something that the browser can do natively?... I know I've been out of frontend for almost three years but I'm
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by x3ro 7y ago
I can't speak for the US market, which this data apparently focusses on, but in Germany I think that PHP is still in fairly high demand, but definitely not nearly as well compensated as the more "enterprisey" technologies (eg
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by x3ro 7y ago
It may seem contradictory, but for me it actually helps. I use a macOS app (Noizio) to get a mixture of different sounds (rain/thunder/fire) and, in combination with noise cancelling headphones, it is the only thing I've foun
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by x3ro 7y ago
I'm not sure whether people use $2k CPUs in "most of the time all cores are idle" scenarios a lot.
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by x3ro 7y ago
I'm guessing here, but it's usually hard to convince the right people.. I've been through this for me personally, so obviously anecdotal, but even if you take an equivalent pay cut people are often reluctant to let you work l
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by x3ro 7y ago
The article makes it quite clear that this is not about people dying like you mentioned, but about delayed medical attention in large Amazon facilities that result in potentially preventable fatalities.
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by x3ro 7y ago
When I was young, I once paid 400 Euros or so (Germany) for illegally downloading a music album via Torrent. I remember reading of cases where people where dragged to court and ordered to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars per downloaded
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by x3ro 7y ago
I merely said that legality does not imply that no human rights violations are occurring. Also I'm talking about deportations (and the associated camps, whatever you want to call them) is a separate issue from border control, in my opi
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by x3ro 7y ago
Why do people always make the"legality" argument. Just because something is legal, doesn't mean something is right. The Holocaust was quite legal, at the time. Putting people in concentration camps and letting them die there
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by x3ro 7y ago
How are social stereotypes relevant to this? The same could be said for India, Germany, the US...?
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by x3ro 7y ago
Not sure if serious, but probably the contract you'd sign (at least in Germany there's usually a non-compete in there somewhere). Also it feels like this would be a lot more effort than just working one well-paying job. Imagine al
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by x3ro 7y ago
While this is very subjective, I tend to agree. All codebases I've read and worked on in C++ were eyesores in all but the simplest places. That being said, I think Rust macros are much worse compared to C++, if you ignore templates. Do
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by x3ro 7y ago
Yeah nothing to see here, just another historical extreme heat-wave hitting an entire continent. How dare they suggest this isn't ordinary. /s
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by x3ro 7y ago
Thanks for the input. I also think that there's a significant cultural difference in that regard. I just wanted to share my very good experience, because I didn't like the GPs conclusion that part time cannot work.
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by x3ro 7y ago
That's a lot of anecdotal evidence framed as facts. I for one have been working 80% for two years (Germany) and have never felt more productive and motivated. And not only that, but I've also been able to use my Fridays off to acq
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by x3ro 7y ago
Shameless plug: this reminds me of how I once spent an afternoon compiling the open sourced version of Keen Dreams using Borland C++ 3.1 :D http://x3ro.de/2014/09/18/keen-dreams-dosbox.html
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by x3ro 7y ago
Care to elaborate?
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by x3ro 7y ago
It's not about me, I know this. But I also know the reactions (and outrage) of the general public, who think "those violent protestors" are at it again, attacking the police. Intent is not magic. Even if the police intended t
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by x3ro 7y ago
If a police officer stops me for speeding and while giving me a fine dies of a heat stroke because it's really hot and they are dehydrated, did I kill that police officer? Because that seems to be the logic implied here.
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by x3ro 7y ago
Simply don't. Arguing that protestors should not enter the mine "because its dangerous" and beating them up to get them to stop entering doesn't make sense. This is similar to the recent Tweetstorm I read about a woman h
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by x3ro 7y ago
> I am just wondering when power starts to become misused from the legal point of view That is indeed a good question, and one of the reasons why e.g. Amnesty has been telling Germany the second time in a row that we need an external (to
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by x3ro 7y ago
Yep the problem is the "hurting" part. A common medium of demonstration in Germany, historically, has been the Sitzblockade (people sitting down blocking eg a road). Now, resisting when the police tries to clear up such a Blockade
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by x3ro 7y ago
The "jobs" argument is a common myth. There are very little jobs in this industry (around 10000). In comparison, the German government has destroyed several times that amount by recently removing subsidies from solar power develop
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by x3ro 7y ago
What do you mean by fragile? I agree that it's a shit job, but I don't understand how that should make shitty behavior okay. With the power that's given to you as a police officer, the expectation simply must be that you don&
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by x3ro 7y ago
With all due respect, that is ridiculous. There have been dozens such cases over the last years, with little to no repercussions the police officers. Amnesty international has repeatedly criticised police violence in Germany. This is not a

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