MrBuddyCasino

Interesting read, I didn't know that making fields final in Java does nothing for performance. Any idea what those "Generic Popular Frameworks" are? I put my money on Hibernate.

Yeah, I hated it as well. The black really destroys the whole page, maybe another color wouldn't disturb me that much.

A bit OT, but this is the first time I've heard about Hacker School. Is it as awesome as it sounds? If I wanted to join, how much money would I need to stay in New York for 3 months?

This was a pretty entertaining read. First I thought I would sense a smug sense of superiority of natural science over the humanities, but then I realized he performed the same test on his physics stu…

If you can read german, this one is more in-depth and is even more horrifying: http://www.monde-diplomatique.de/pm/2013/11/08/a0001.text …

Now this is what I don't get, because usually, that doesn't work. At all. I know from experience that imdb score is a much better predictor of how good a movie will be than a recommendation …

Now I'm confused. This comment says that the stack memory is not allocated by the OS unless actually needed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6728030 Is this not true?…

Have you read the article? He is simply suggesting to get a business license and act as a company, instead of calling yourself "freelancer". Its a pure image/marketing thing, and I can …

Thats an interesting link. I've felt the same about left-wing activists - paying lip service to tolerance, while being very close minded in reality. Doesn't mean I agree with nuclear power a…

Our history probably has something to do with it, but its also an issue of the media raising awareness since the 70s. Be this out of fear-mongering to boost sales or of a sincere feeling of responsib…

Also, the "Display" tab in Eclipse lets you execute random code while you are attached to a JVM via debugging, in the current breakpoint context - that is like 95% of a repl, imho. Many peop…

Low latency is more important than overall throughput when it comes to UX, so that is a measurement that makes a lot of sense. Has anyone experience with it?

I call bullshit on this. The nordic countries have a pretty great tech sector too, and they don't suffer from this. Its a policy thing, and I was always under the impression that this is a choice…

Yeah, this seems fishy. Wikipedia gives low rates for suicide in Netherlands, which I would expect to be correlated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Suicide-deaths-per-100000-..…

> stupid as women thinking sex will get them a commitment/favor/gifts You can't be serious? This happens a lot, I can't imagine how one cannot see it.

There are hardly any infos on how to install the signalmaster, and I'm a complete noob regarding node.js - is there a guide or something?

For 15 minutes of fame on HN, of course.

> Facebook is already impersonating your friends and family by showing fraudulent "likes" Do you have a source for that?

I have personally witnessed this too, and I also think its because they separate themselves from their former selves. Its something about becoming a new person.

Will never happen. But if ever, the Swiss design is imho the best one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC_power_plugs_and_sockets#Swis... …

Interestingly, omitting infix operator overloading was something the language designers were forced to do for time-to-market reasons, and in hindsight, is one of their biggest regrets. I don't ha…

Certainly not. I was just responding to dxbydt , who was questioning the statement that futures and promises are unfamiliar to many programmers, and I think they are, because I've seen some corpo…

I fully agree, thats why I don't like Scala. Readability and simplicity above everything. That doesn't mean that you shouldn't be familiar with the basic concepts of the programming lan…

Well he is kind of right. I'm familiar with enterprise IT, and there are very mediocre programmers at work. I'll bet you most of them have never heard of "futures". Sad, but thats …

Insurance is a good idea. Also, there are GmbH cooperatives, that have the sole purpose of limiting liability. Its members are basically freelancers, but are employed by this proxy company.

Its definitely big and active, not dead at all. The people are very open and most quite friendly, I can recommend it. Its just more on the hardware side of things, or at least thats the impression I g…

I'd be interested as well.

So very true, I live here as well and noticed the same things. Even the local hackerspace (which is Germany's 2nd biggest) is very hardware oriented, it seems. Mechanical engineering is just very…

I've heard that at Google, the team votes for the person they would like to see promoted. This seems to be a pretty good idea from the outside - can someone comment on this? There must be some Go…