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2,549karma·798submissions·November 19, 2014
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Google's automated translation of the official PR: https://www-admin-ch.translate.goog/gov/de/start/dokumentati... …
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..followed by "YOUR PROGRAM IS +*ç% AND YOU ARE INCOMPETENT". Cannot underestimate mental health issues after a barrage fire of those messages, usually by people who could not bother to read…
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Not feeling surprised :-(
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There is a recent album "Songs of Silence" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QEHcrb9bMM&list=PLvsYXqtYjM... but I think it's rather different from old funny tunes. E…
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Vince Clarke is using sw plugins nowadays. If it's good enough for Vince, it's good enough for me (says the man who plays with his Behringer 2600).
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It's more like Erlang threads - they appear to be blocking, so existing code will work with zero changes. But you can create a gazillion of them.
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I used to be a subscriber for 20+ years, they are worth their money. Why "used to", then? because a couple of years ago I could not basically find a way to have my paper version subscripti…
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I use asdf - https://asdf-vm.com/ - brew sucks if you need fine control of versions, multiple versions, etc.
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You are forgetting WebRTC with Membrane...
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Well, it depends of course, but in general police presence is way more attentive to "smaller" issues than in neighboring countries. As for experience, I have been living in CH for almost 20 …
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Yes, I agree with you, learning is complicated, because it's mostly un-learning habits you had for 20+ years. Stack traces suck, but after a while you grok them. The clojure/core is full of …
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YMMV. I always found it very welcoming and full of interesting people.
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It's because the little crime there is will be taken very seriously. Police will investigate your missing bike. And yes, culture and social expectations.
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I use multiple external displays (some at the office and some at home) with an Arm Mac and, frankly, it mostly works without thinking about it. Sometimes things change their shape because of the diff…
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For full trip down nostalgia lane, here is a full BBS that runs on Minitel (that is the same display protocol as Ceefax but bidirectional). https://minitel.retrocampus.com/ It runs on…
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I'm not sure I understand the reason why; for non-browser, you can set up a FreePBX or something in 20 minutes and it will work with any softphone. But if I was to use a chat today, I'd use …
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TLDR for non doctors: a lot of people who are on the older side take anticoagulants or anti-platelets, and when they hit their head on the front porch, with no other symptom but a small bruise, if the…
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> What's most game-changing, though, is that you have a backend, stateful process that is collaborating with a frontend, stateful process. ...given that managing state is the thorniest of issu…
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If they do it, they are not "incompetent"; it's just that is what people want/expect. You cannot afford to be the quiet piece after an ultra-powwah one when on radio on streaming..…
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In my informal polls, people we work with (users, resellers...) that are based in Argentina seem to be mildly optimistic.