This is one of the big differences for me coming from germany to the US to visit. Back home I can happily approach a police officer at night while drunk asking for directions and expecting general help and friendliness.…
I'm a simple man. I open an article link. I see a signup popup. I close tab.
I think it is really sad that affordable furniture has gone down in quality so much. Now I walk into most homes and its full of pressed woodchips in furniture form. When I visit my grandparents old house (who are not…
I never get these pieces... I own a couple of different computing devices and they are just tools. Some fit a certain job better then others. Why limit yourself?
As a german i find the economic reasons of "why should we pay for the poor people" highly ironic... That's what we all founded europe for... stronger together!
This is simply not true. It is pretty reasonable to start a company in Germany and the authorities are pretty lenient and helpful (at least in the big cities). You will need a lawyer and tax consultant though.
Yeah, this is pure semantics. We attached certain names to certain frequencies in western culture and made rules about 'proper music'. It is quite fascinating how culturally influenced we are on what is beautiful sound.…
I was in a similar situation and it was a godsend. Go explore the world, hike, find love. Afterwards you won't believe what kind of energy you will have. It will be like the start of career 'i can do anything' level!
Since I discovered the Aeron stool (http://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/stools/aeron-st...) + standing desk combo for me years ago my back just thanks me every day!
I deleted my Facebook account when I started tracking my time for productivity reasons. For me it was a MASSIVE destruction of man hours just idling around reading nonsense. Against my worries meaningful social…
There was no manager above at that point. I loved to do it because it was super efficient for me. You get into the office when some problems had already came up and people already had tried a bit of effort to solve them…
I have worked on a noon to midnight in office schedule for long periods of time and noticed most people sharing the office with you take it psychologically as noon to five even when you are actually in office 50% longer…
In Germany you also have to account that your employer by law has to pay into your non employment and retirement funds. This is about 21% of gross income on top. If you make 100k, your employer pays out 121k. They also…
> can be added in 10 LOCs to me is kinda like you can easily make heavier elements by just adding a few electrons, protons and neutrons...
This is reminds of a story of friends of mine from South Africa. They took the kids out of school to travel all the way up Africa and into Europ and back down for a year. They got robbed three times. Two times in France…
I just love how the same people that called me the devil for using WPF back when .NET 3 came out are now calling me about angular with 'have you heard about this new and exciting paradigm?'...
Now a single city in germany is ~europe~...
EvE is real
I agree with Carmack on: "'good C++' is better than 'good C'" OOP has some brilliant patterns. It is also very hard to do correctly.
On a sidenote: All the points you listed apply to Canada pretty exactly and they hardly need police at all (in the parts that i know very well which is BC and NWT). Also thinking a shotgun is gonna help you with a…
This is just not true. You cannot just give a smart person with common sense some pages of API docu and suddenly they are software architects. This takes years of experience to do. What you can do is be a code monkey…
I did not mean to generalize too much, there is plenty of protest in america against this.
I don't get it why Americans stand for this. It's not like this is happening to minorities and the masses are just turning a blind eye. When I lived in the US and was in contact with a cop every single time I felt like…
I never said it was easy. It's enterprise features that HAVE to have a long lifetime. But COM is simple interface dispatching (it is actually much easier to implement COM in C/C++ because you have actual control over…
All i thought when reading the linked thread was "What a horrendous waste of so many developer hours". Tolerance is a two way street. It also means accepting minor things you necessarily don't agree with. These topics…
This is one of the big differences for me coming from germany to the US to visit. Back home I can happily approach a police officer at night while drunk asking for directions and expecting general help and friendliness.…
I'm a simple man. I open an article link. I see a signup popup. I close tab.
I think it is really sad that affordable furniture has gone down in quality so much. Now I walk into most homes and its full of pressed woodchips in furniture form. When I visit my grandparents old house (who are not…
I never get these pieces... I own a couple of different computing devices and they are just tools. Some fit a certain job better then others. Why limit yourself?
As a german i find the economic reasons of "why should we pay for the poor people" highly ironic... That's what we all founded europe for... stronger together!
This is simply not true. It is pretty reasonable to start a company in Germany and the authorities are pretty lenient and helpful (at least in the big cities). You will need a lawyer and tax consultant though.
Yeah, this is pure semantics. We attached certain names to certain frequencies in western culture and made rules about 'proper music'. It is quite fascinating how culturally influenced we are on what is beautiful sound.…
I was in a similar situation and it was a godsend. Go explore the world, hike, find love. Afterwards you won't believe what kind of energy you will have. It will be like the start of career 'i can do anything' level!
Since I discovered the Aeron stool (http://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/stools/aeron-st...) + standing desk combo for me years ago my back just thanks me every day!
I deleted my Facebook account when I started tracking my time for productivity reasons. For me it was a MASSIVE destruction of man hours just idling around reading nonsense. Against my worries meaningful social…
There was no manager above at that point. I loved to do it because it was super efficient for me. You get into the office when some problems had already came up and people already had tried a bit of effort to solve them…
I have worked on a noon to midnight in office schedule for long periods of time and noticed most people sharing the office with you take it psychologically as noon to five even when you are actually in office 50% longer…
In Germany you also have to account that your employer by law has to pay into your non employment and retirement funds. This is about 21% of gross income on top. If you make 100k, your employer pays out 121k. They also…
> can be added in 10 LOCs to me is kinda like you can easily make heavier elements by just adding a few electrons, protons and neutrons...
This is reminds of a story of friends of mine from South Africa. They took the kids out of school to travel all the way up Africa and into Europ and back down for a year. They got robbed three times. Two times in France…
I just love how the same people that called me the devil for using WPF back when .NET 3 came out are now calling me about angular with 'have you heard about this new and exciting paradigm?'...
Now a single city in germany is ~europe~...
EvE is real
I agree with Carmack on: "'good C++' is better than 'good C'" OOP has some brilliant patterns. It is also very hard to do correctly.
On a sidenote: All the points you listed apply to Canada pretty exactly and they hardly need police at all (in the parts that i know very well which is BC and NWT). Also thinking a shotgun is gonna help you with a…
This is just not true. You cannot just give a smart person with common sense some pages of API docu and suddenly they are software architects. This takes years of experience to do. What you can do is be a code monkey…
I did not mean to generalize too much, there is plenty of protest in america against this.
I don't get it why Americans stand for this. It's not like this is happening to minorities and the masses are just turning a blind eye. When I lived in the US and was in contact with a cop every single time I felt like…
I never said it was easy. It's enterprise features that HAVE to have a long lifetime. But COM is simple interface dispatching (it is actually much easier to implement COM in C/C++ because you have actual control over…
All i thought when reading the linked thread was "What a horrendous waste of so many developer hours". Tolerance is a two way street. It also means accepting minor things you necessarily don't agree with. These topics…