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by filpen 13y ago
Fellow Italian here, started working in Germany 5 years ago right after my B.Sc. in CS, will be moving to Paris in March. I have not been working for a startup, but if you love programming there are plenty of cool things to do. I know what
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by filpen 13y ago
I live in Leipzig and I have no name on the doorbell near my flat door. If they deliver a packet to a neihgbor I have to go out and ring the doorbell at the entrance, or guess which apartment it is :)
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by filpen 13y ago
> Are ancient cities actually getting higher in altitude as old ruins get covered up? I recently watched a TV show from a relatively old series about underground cities where they showed the underground of Istanbul. Very interesting, bu
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by filpen 13y ago
Interesting, there are several international variations listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable#Words_co...
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by filpen 13y ago
In my spare time I am working on Seatbelt ( http://seatbelt.io ), a web app to help developers find pair programming partners. It's cool because I think we need to bring developers together and share the knowledge, and I am c
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by filpen 13y ago
Damn, it reminds me of one of the projects I worked on, a .NET Winforms project with about 2 MLOC. It was the result of automatically porting a codebase written with a RAD system called Gupta Team Developer / SQLWindows[1]. The origina
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by filpen 13y ago
How do you cope with the pronunciation though? It is my 5th year living in Germany, and as an italian I find the pronunciation much more straightforward in German than in English.
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by filpen 13y ago
Wow thank you for that, I just found out about her old blog and it looks very interesting! For clueless people like me, if the images used in her posts look familiar it's because she is the co-creator of the Head First book series: ht
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by filpen 13y ago
Ironically (or not, and I missed your reference) random, un-nerdy Germans already fight with Youtube videos being blocked and are faced with a similar message very often [1]. I see at least two problems: the leverage that the other party ac
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What if the Internet is something much bigger than we think? [video](vimeo.com)
1 points by filpen 13y ago|0 comments
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The Start-Up Trap(blog.8thlight.com)
149 points by filpen 14y ago|139 comments
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by filpen 14y ago
While looking up Walker's Alias Method I ended up here http://forums.udacity.com/questions/1012915/resampling-walke... , where people say it is not Walker's method, but Vode's. I can't verify it right now but I thought it might be of inte
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by filpen 14y ago
Thank you for clearing that up, much appreciated. I also noticed that most of the time the container tends to be used as a Service Locator indiscriminately around the code base, which tends to create more problems than it solves. On the oth
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by filpen 14y ago
Interesting. Do you mind expanding on this? What problems were they trying to solve?
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by filpen 14y ago
I also don't get what the author's issues are. Half of the article seems to be against XML configuration, and I don't come from a Java background but it seems that there are containers for Java that do not necessarily require an XML configu