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If you can use a debit card to buy stuff online, then it’s probably a visa or Mastercard, which would qualify as a “credit card” for identity verification. Before people in other c…

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They are all different though, depending on the hardware. Microsoft's BASIC on the C64 and on the mac and on all other platforms were different enough to count as different dialect…

From my experience, it’s the individual. I always get paid more than the union members. I also notice that the non union members seem to have a bit more motivation and spirit and t…

They call themselves a software company. The guys in India that develop the software know what they are doing but the managers in Germany have no clue what they are doing. Sitting …

To be fair my background is similar but the system isn’t really more opaque. I remember having the same books for the PC as (in this case my slightly older mentors) had for the C64…

And a drink.

A German would point out, the very purpose of a job application is discrimination.

Sql is fine as tweet sized selects. I developed my mental block deliberately after working for a company that had about a million lines of business logic implemented in thousand li…

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Dutch weed stinks more than American beer

If anyone is looking for an introduction to the modern version of the platform, this free e-book from IBM is great: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246366.html?Open

Mainframes are general purpose machines optimized for high (IO) throughput of bulk business operations rather than number crunching. The answer to your question is probably marketi…

Woah only 9 million , , that is a bargain and certainly a lot cheaper than the alternative. I thought MS would have charged military prices.

LANPAR was invented in 1969, well before VisiCalc: http://www.dssresources.com/history/sshistory.html

I did, no porn or even casual nudity to be found. It’s squeaky clean. Search terms that might return anything like nudity or violence return 0 results and I checked to see if I was…

People have been trying for years to undo this damage, Deming, Ohno etc. nowadays it’s probably mostly the agile community leading the way but I feel the curve is trending downward…

It’s basically for doing iOS app development. The other options are either too weak or not cost effective. Higher end models are usually too expensive.

We normally use the past participle where you use the interrogative. Except in the last paragraph. Two separate people wrote that post didn’t they :-)

Obviously (in these cases) there are market segments that favor all you can eat subscriptions and those that favor à la carte. It makes sense that for most things the heavy users g…

The uneducated ones we need to fill the jobs that educated locals won't do and won't be automated in their lifetimes. But a lot of them are educated and we need them too.

Go away racist. Refugees need a safe place and germany needs fresh foreign blood to keep its society running. It's a win win. German children are going to take a long time before t…

No it's bad for society. Kids cost money, immigrants earn money. Penalize breeding, encourage immigration.

Why encourage more population growth? To me it's natural that some more developed societies have less children, and other less developed societies have more, encouraging immigratio…

Germany is very immigrant friendly. No cultural bullshit, everyone speaks English and German is easy to learn. Fuck Japan they are just putting up bullshit barriers cos they are ra…