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by CookWithMe 14y ago
That is your biggest problem with word? How is that: I imported a simple Excel diagram, tried to resize it - and Word crashed. No problem, Word creates backups, right? Only problem: When Word opens the backup... it crashes. And suddenly I d
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
And the bottom says "Data was pulled [...] from all NewRelic customers with apps making external calls to payment gateways". So yeah, it is only at the bottom and I may give someone the benefit of doubt of not spotting that - but not if the
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
I call bullshit on the headline. "PayPal handles 60% of web transactions" is not seen anywhere in the original source (which is about payment performance), and it is probably wrong. NewRelic did collect data of their customers (and that is
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
So, if they ended up buying an android phone, does that really count as a mistake? After all, they didnt really want an iPhone, they wanted a smartphone, and that is what they got.
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
From wikipedia: "Popularity is the quality of being well-liked or common, or having a high social status." I doubt that Scala is less liked than COBOL, however, due to the age of COBOL, it is very likely that COBOL is more common. Don't rea
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
And what about Company C that puts in 80 hours? And Company D that puts in 100 hours? The math adds up, at least up to the point when it hits 168 hours ;) This is really the wrong model. There is a sweet spot of hours vs. productivity somew
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
> I love my two sons more than anything in the world. I would jump in front of moving train to save my children. There is nothing more valuable to me than my children. And while I selfishly love spending time with them, I also believ
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
Language lives, meaning of words change. If the mainstream decides to use the word "hacker" for something that you don't like, there is probably not much you can do about it (especially on HN, I thought Life Hacker was the wrong guy?).
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
Finally, the Groupon adds are gone!
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
People want to be respected for whatever they do, whether it is going home at 5 to their family or programming at night for an open source project. Yet both sides don't seem to understand that they need to respect the other side themself to
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
The case for replacing language X with languages X, Y and Z: I believe that if you really want to call yourself a computer scientist, you can not only learn one language, and that's it. Apart from the fact that languages evolve and eventual
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
I think this article is a really bad introduction, both to parallel and functional programming. There is just so much stuff that is badly informed, or simply wrong, e.g: > For a functional programmer there is no barrier to concurrency,
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
Agreed. I think we could do without "disagree" and merge "doesn't belong here" and "obvious spam".
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
Yes. At least for me, the value proposition of reading comments is that I get further (and propably different) insights from reading the comments on the topic. If there is just one opinion in the comments (because everything else is greyed
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
Isn't the whole point of reading comments to get more views on the matter? If all (upvoted) comments say the same thing, I wouldn't bother to read them.
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
Two reasons: In Germany the pre-paid carriers are actually (a little bit) cheaper. I assume they can be run more cost efficiently, not only because of the interest but also because they don't have to worry about people not being able to pay
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
I vote for a pre-paid per-MB pricing. And fair pricing, but yeah. I think it is comparable to a gas station: You drive more, you pay more. You drive less, you pay less. There are many reasons to feel raped by the oil companies, but that the
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
> The problem is scale. And not only for grading, but for teaching as a whole. There is just no smart solution for educating children at a larger scale - we have to do "brute force". The less children per teacher, the better. (Different
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by CookWithMe 14y ago
I never thought someone would use something associated with "Fail early, fail often" in the same sentence with nuclear reactors.
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by CookWithMe 15y ago
No car, Berlin. Never had a problem in the city. Holidays are a different story (I like to visit remote regions in the alps), but then I can rent one. When I visit other cities, I go by train or plane.
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by CookWithMe 15y ago
True. I still think it is a shame that neither Red Hat nor Jet Brains has joined forces with Scala/Typesafe. Both of these companies know how to ship products and make developers happy. This is something that Typesafe has to learn now. On t