StudyAnimal

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by StudyAnimal 6mo ago
If you can use a debit card to buy stuff online, then it’s probably a visa or Mastercard, which would qualify as a “credit card” for identity verification. Before people in other countries started popularizing the term “debit card”, most of
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by StudyAnimal 6mo ago
bEUro
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by StudyAnimal 2y ago
They are all different though, depending on the hardware. Microsoft's BASIC on the C64 and on the mac and on all other platforms were different enough to count as different dialects, certainly more than just different implementations.
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by StudyAnimal 3y ago
From my experience, it’s the individual. I always get paid more than the union members. I also notice that the non union members seem to have a bit more motivation and spirit and their own idea about their goals and where they want to go co
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by StudyAnimal 3y ago
They call themselves a software company. The guys in India that develop the software know what they are doing but the managers in Germany have no clue what they are doing. Sitting all day in meetings planning strategies for beating Tesla. T
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by StudyAnimal 3y ago
To be fair my background is similar but the system isn’t really more opaque. I remember having the same books for the PC as (in this case my slightly older mentors) had for the C64. Undocumented PC and Undocumented DOS stand out. However y
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by StudyAnimal 4y ago
And a drink.
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by StudyAnimal 4y ago
A German would point out, the very purpose of a job application is discrimination.
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by StudyAnimal 6y ago
Sql is fine as tweet sized selects. I developed my mental block deliberately after working for a company that had about a million lines of business logic implemented in thousand line sql stored procedures. Now I put as many layers as possib
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by StudyAnimal 6y ago
https://kurthaeusler.wordpress.com/2016/11/16/learning-the-m...
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by StudyAnimal 7y ago
Dutch weed stinks more than American beer
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by StudyAnimal 7y ago
If anyone is looking for an introduction to the modern version of the platform, this free e-book from IBM is great: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246366.html?Open
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by StudyAnimal 7y ago
Mainframes are general purpose machines optimized for high (IO) throughput of bulk business operations rather than number crunching. The answer to your question is probably marketing and avoiding confusion. You wouldn’t call a supercomputer
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by StudyAnimal 7y ago
Woah only 9 million , , that is a bargain and certainly a lot cheaper than the alternative. I thought MS would have charged military prices.
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by StudyAnimal 7y ago
LANPAR was invented in 1969, well before VisiCalc: http://www.dssresources.com/history/sshistory.html
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by StudyAnimal 7y ago
I did, no porn or even casual nudity to be found. It’s squeaky clean. Search terms that might return anything like nudity or violence return 0 results and I checked to see if I was in restricted mode or not. It’s the same as Snapchat, just
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by StudyAnimal 8y ago
People have been trying for years to undo this damage, Deming, Ohno etc. nowadays it’s probably mostly the agile community leading the way but I feel the curve is trending downwards. Most people here hate agile especially the fluffy cultura
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by StudyAnimal 8y ago
It’s basically for doing iOS app development. The other options are either too weak or not cost effective. Higher end models are usually too expensive.
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by StudyAnimal 8y ago
We normally use the past participle where you use the interrogative. Except in the last paragraph. Two separate people wrote that post didn’t they :-)
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by StudyAnimal 8y ago
Obviously (in these cases) there are market segments that favor all you can eat subscriptions and those that favor à la carte. It makes sense that for most things the heavy users get the sub and the light users get to pay for what they use.
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by StudyAnimal 9y ago
The uneducated ones we need to fill the jobs that educated locals won't do and won't be automated in their lifetimes. But a lot of them are educated and we need them too.
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by StudyAnimal 9y ago
Go away racist. Refugees need a safe place and germany needs fresh foreign blood to keep its society running. It's a win win. German children are going to take a long time before they start contributing and even then they will end up o
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by StudyAnimal 9y ago
No it's bad for society. Kids cost money, immigrants earn money. Penalize breeding, encourage immigration.
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by StudyAnimal 9y ago
Why encourage more population growth? To me it's natural that some more developed societies have less children, and other less developed societies have more, encouraging immigration is a win win without increasing the total population.
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by StudyAnimal 9y ago
"One small manufacturer insisted that immigration would dilute Japan's homogeneous society. " Good, that's exactly what Japan needs.
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by StudyAnimal 9y ago
I am no military genius, but Iraq and Afghanistan sound larger, more complex, and not as commandable by sea as a typical canal.
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by StudyAnimal 9y ago
Kim Justice is good but game oriented. For people interested in the machines of the era including more business oriented machines, check out Tezza's channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/tezzaNZ
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by StudyAnimal 10y ago
Wow, I thought it would be the other way around!
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by StudyAnimal 10y ago
Where are you actually located? I don't think there is anything happening in Berlin on Friday. I suggest getting involved in your local startup community and heading to wherever the events are, when they are actually there. You wont ha
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by StudyAnimal 10y ago
I don’t think I will pledge until I see drastic improvements in two areas: Content (still lots of posts pushing a very orthodox agenda, lots of self-help fluff and too much start-up techy stuff. Not enough challenging or interesting general

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