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Fellow Italian here, started working in Germany 5 years ago right after my B.Sc. in CS, will be moving to Paris in March. I have not been working for a startup, but if you love pro…

I live in Leipzig and I have no name on the doorbell near my flat door. If they deliver a packet to a neihgbor I have to go out and ring the doorbell at the entrance, or guess whic…

> Are ancient cities actually getting higher in altitude as old ruins get covered up? I recently watched a TV show from a relatively old series about underground cities where they …

Interesting, there are several international variations listed here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable#Words_co...

In my spare time I am working on Seatbelt ( http://seatbelt.io ), a web app to help developers find pair programming partners. It's cool because I think we need to bring developers…

Damn, it reminds me of one of the projects I worked on, a .NET Winforms project with about 2 MLOC. It was the result of automatically porting a codebase written with a RAD system c…

How do you cope with the pronunciation though? It is my 5th year living in Germany, and as an italian I find the pronunciation much more straightforward in German than in English.

Wow thank you for that, I just found out about her old blog and it looks very interesting! For clueless people like me, if the images used in her posts look familiar it's because s…

Ironically (or not, and I missed your reference) random, un-nerdy Germans already fight with Youtube videos being blocked and are faced with a similar message very often [1]. I see…

While looking up Walker's Alias Method I ended up here http://forums.udacity.com/questions/1012915/resampling-walke... , where people say it is not Walker's method, but Vode's. I c…

Thank you for clearing that up, much appreciated. I also noticed that most of the time the container tends to be used as a Service Locator indiscriminately around the code base, wh…

Interesting. Do you mind expanding on this? What problems were they trying to solve?

I also don't get what the author's issues are. Half of the article seems to be against XML configuration, and I don't come from a Java background but it seems that there are contai…