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Tomte

162,201karma·32,335submissions·August 23, 2012
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Open Source Compliance, Functional Safety, Education Science.

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So basically you used a service that costs money, you didn't pay any, and now you're peeved that they'd actually like to collect? > They could have dropped any other amount they want…
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Probably because those 3% are homogeneous, while the 9% decompose into lots and lots of categories, all with specific needs, and all much smaller than 9%.
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In Germany the "rich" private schools are almost exclusively business schools. So it's only an option for you, if you're a professor of economics or finance, not if you're a p…
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No, Mitstörerhaftung is a purely civil concept that does not -- and could never -- extend to criminal law.
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Your server is co-located with other customers' servers.
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> It's like someone saying "Mehh I don't like calculus ... why don't these mathematicians make it just easier? Actually, modern textbooks do exactly that: they try to find pedag…
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The "EU court"? What do you mean? The European Commission?
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Great! I can't wait for CentOS. Well, I have to. :-)
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Since Commander Keen is still sold (on Steam), I'd be very careful with that statement.
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By now we have all realized that yes, Swift is indead a Turing-complete language and has even got bindings to Apple's own APIs.
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It's a warrant canary, it's a warrant canary!
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If I were a three letter agency who illegally threatened some crypto developer with unsavory things, willing to send him to Guantanamo or to outright kill him (as some people on HN obviously can imagi…
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Without knowing Swedish law, I'm rather certain he cannot. Personal bankruptcy is usually out of the question for debts arising from unlawful behaviour. You cannot evade damages or a penalty impo…
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It's time for a single man who speaks Latin fluently, knows how to cook, is able to talk at least superficially about philosophy and can even shut up every now and then to disrupt the Seattle d…
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I'm thinking this might be nice: http://www.graf-von-faber-castell.com/perfect-pencil There is also a cheap plastic version by Faber Castell (not "Graf von").…
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In university I actually tried to get into Ada, especially since I studied compilers with professor Ploedereder (great guy!) who was working on (and at some point chairing) the standardization in ISO.…
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I know that it's straightforward, I'd like to hear about pros and cons I haven't found myself.
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How do you think about MathJax vs. pre-rendering formulae to images and using those, with the TeX input as the alt attribute? Oh, and using STIX or whatever as web font.
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It already exists: world:command-marker
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I've read about "experimental partial MathJax support" or something like that in the changelog, but I haven't looked into it, yet. It's actually one of the big questions I…
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And the macro language is actually sane!
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I choose to believe Niels Ferguson when he says "Over my dead body.": http://blogs.msdn.com/b/si_team/archive/2006/03/02/542590.as... …
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Certainly possible, although this from the audit web page doesn't sound like that would be a big problem: "Wed, Oct 24, 2013: We have made contact with the TrueCrypt development team. They h…
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