dadie

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by dadie 2mo ago
Beware though that only learning words may leave you confused as in my experience Americans tend to overload the same word with a different meaning depending on the context. They also often resort to idioms and cultural references. For reas
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by dadie 3mo ago
I think the bigger problem is that SQL is in almost every language a second-class citizen. And even calling it second-class can be seen as a stretch.
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by dadie 5mo ago
Sorry to be frank and for the upcoming rant as your site is mostly fine, but looking at most websites I visite these days be it from a company, a service, a webshop, an open source project, a forum, a blog, a newspaper or almost any form of
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by dadie 1y ago
Honestly, the second to last paragraph reminded me a lot of my experience with eclipse back in 2011 to 2014. I think it was called the eclipse dance back than. A random order of clearing the cache, rebuilding, disabling/enabling plugin
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by dadie 2y ago
Under privacy I understand that I have to the limits of my ability control over with whom I share information. But the same is true for anyone sharing information with me. If I have to input any data from someone else to a program without t
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by dadie 2y ago
Thank you for the link. This sadly makes me consider switch to another email provider. I think it is great that they listen to their customers, it really is, but it makes me think that what I value in an email provider seems to be different
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by dadie 3y ago
As someone who has been coding in Delphi for a living for the past 5 years I'd argue the syntax being verbose is only a small part of a larger problem, which is that (object) pascal is a very bad language for pattern recognition. The s
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by dadie 3y ago
While I can only speak for myself, I kindly disagree with the reasoning. The main reason that made me stop using RSS/Atom in my private life was that most sites stopped providing full feeds and instead opted for only showing the headli
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by dadie 3y ago
I'm in the partial "work from home" group and I agree to most points and would stress it is in my experience by far easier (and less stressful) to have a very good equipped home office than an at least half-decent equipped of
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by dadie 3y ago
Probably off-topic: I may miss something but I have the feeling the shown C program should segfault a lot as the variable `fname` in `char* make_filename(const char*)` does not seem to be initialized.
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by dadie 3y ago
I do not know why, but by default the body element has an overflow of hidden set via css. There is probably a good reason to do this that I do not know about. Would love to know the reason behind that from a WebDev as it strikes me as unnec
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by dadie 3y ago
It might not be the best example but in my experience Microsoft seemingly tries with Windows the approach of (almost) everything being an API. It might be the Windows API specifically or that I'm mainly driving Linux outside of work, b