kahawe

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by kahawe 13y ago
Martha, regardless whether this is or isn't a con, I honestly think the only right thing to do would be to take that money and invest it in a local, honest and well-run charity to help the people starving and going blind and dying because t
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by kahawe 13y ago
I am sorry, I HAVE to ask out of personal curiosity and to play devil's advocate... What tells me "Martha" even exists and that she was admitted to hackerschool and will actually go to NYC with the money she just begged for? Even the twitte
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by kahawe 13y ago
More often than not, I am wondering just how much complexity one could spare themselves from if they would just use tomcat and postgres/mysql/some-nosql instead of a full-blown oracle-enterprise DB and a serious-business "application server
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by kahawe 13y ago
I know this will not be the most popular opinion to voice but you know what? I call major first world problems. By now women (thankfully!) have the right to vote, to study, to pick and divorce their partners as THEY see fit, they are allowe
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by kahawe 13y ago
I like this story because it does not end with some explicit or implied "and then I hit it big time ( as a reward for my love )" as if loving what you do and sticking with it is some sort of super-secret method for guaranteed success. OP ma
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by kahawe 13y ago
This has for a long time been my only explanation for twitter. All the hash-tag and "centralized communication is awesome" came later. Twitter started out when blogs were popular and people were doing this "externalizing" on their freshly-s
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by kahawe 14y ago
Doh, now that you point that out... I misunderstood it. Thank you.
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by kahawe 14y ago
> If you really want to earn you need to be in the top 3-4 in the company. Best to be a founder. Very few people can do this. It’s a rare skill. Be realistic about your skills, background and ideas. As an addendum to this: be reali
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by kahawe 14y ago
> A reboot of the infected system would wipe the binary completely and... Why in the heavens would you reboot obviously badly administrated machines quite literally half across the globe if you otherwise took every initiative to not h
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by kahawe 14y ago
> I know people who claim that eating a mainly paleo diet makes them feel better. Well, there are people who claim fasting makes them feel better, too. Or living on allegedly nothing but sun light. I am not sure this is very good proo
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by kahawe 14y ago
Reading about any type of nutrition research has become beyond frustrating to me. There are constantly new results doing away with old truisms only to have those results, in turn, questioned and overturned by other studies and then there ar
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by kahawe 14y ago
Breaking news: people do immoral shit. Regardless of where or when.
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by kahawe 14y ago
I have been saying this for a long time... what we are really seeing in "web 2.0" is actually average folks catching up to what geeks have been doing for a long time, it's only on a much larger scale now but almost all you see nowadays has
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by kahawe 14y ago
I think the idea that you can just look at that one, oh-so-great management idea at Valve and then just apply it at your own startup or company is just more wrong than it might be right. All these places somehow grew into what they are doin
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by kahawe 14y ago
I honestly wish nothing Eric wrote would ever be linked on HN again. He had his hey-days, he grabbed enough asses at conventions and harassed enough unsuspecting girls and we should just never mention him again. This is not the 90s anymore
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by kahawe 14y ago
You know, all these allegedly deep and smart "worldly wisdoms" that people who "made it" like to share in hind-sight do not show you the countless other people who said something similar and did not make it or lived by totally different pri
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by kahawe 14y ago
And non-Dutch Caucasians, for that matter.
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by kahawe 14y ago
Just because certain expressions might still be used today and might not be on the fore-front of racism awareness does not make them any less racist. But you are right, the article had it wrong: > Originally the phrase 'Dutch courage'
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by kahawe 14y ago
It is just baffling to me how they were able to pull that off for 40 years and raise infant kids as well with practically no experience or training and no way out, after they had to leave so suddenly - when in comparison, Christopher McCand
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by kahawe 14y ago
That is interesting - when I was working abroad and only spoke my second language, English, almost exclusively every day for a good three months... it did feel strange and unfamiliar to go back to my native tongue of German at first once I
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by kahawe 14y ago
I keep clicking on "1 star" reviews but it doesn't show me anything!!! ;-)
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by kahawe 14y ago
It never ceases to amaze me how schmitz is doing the EXACT same thing for at least 2 decades now. He did exactly this on BBS, had other people upload to him and offer it up for download; then he ratted everyone he knew and worked with out t
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by kahawe 14y ago
You are welcome. > Would you say that this ability confers an immunity to therapy? I assume you are talking about me basically over-analyzing myself and it not helping me? The curious thing really is, I think ultimately I am just doing
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by kahawe 14y ago
I used to work with Sun for quite some time; I can say without failure every single Sun tech I came across was pretty damn cool, knew what they were doing and was hooked up in the Sun-universe enough so they could provide excellent pointers
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by kahawe 14y ago
Some of the most admired people are severely depressed and suicidal, people you would consider to be "contributing" and outstanding members of society. I must say, I don't think you have any clue what you are talking about and your "evoluti
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by kahawe 14y ago
I never found comfort in " all this pain is an illusion " but Pearl Jam's "Present Tense" lyrics have something simplistic, true and healing about them that honestly make me wonder how they could have written it. Especially the part leading
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by kahawe 14y ago
> Would that make a difference? Let's assume you are a very avid programmer and love nothing more than coding and to you it is the most natural thing in the world, then let's assume someone comes along and tells you your view is just w
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by kahawe 14y ago
The point is, no matter what you read or hear on the web or anywhere else... shouldn't you always be asking yourself how much you let it affect you? The illusion that the web is that one place to figure out more "truth" than in person, well
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by kahawe 14y ago
Set everything to private, don't let your profile show up publicly and don't add anyone from work - problem solved?
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by kahawe 14y ago
But this only delays the inevitable and you cannot stretch this game on forever either.

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