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I think you are right and I voted your contribution up. But you don't really think it will work? Developers were kings once. Big companies turned them into slaves.

Well, yes and no. People who take their backup drives away from the computer tend to have - a completely outdated backup. There is no 100% safety. If power fails while the backup i…

".. do you actually TEST those backups?" yes (of course), see my post above. I have used time machine repeatedly to restore lost or damaged files. I also replaced harddrives severa…

Mac: Carbon Copy Cloner and Time Machine on separate usb disks. I use the system scheduler to wake the machine at night, mount the disks, start both backups, unmount and sleep the …

Well, I do expect the availability of applications has been checked before moving to Linux. If not, ... bad management (not impossible that the move was planned badly though). But …

For a local government a preference of local business is not only ok. It should be the first choice, the second choice and also the third one. In this case, as there is totally dif…

If Munichs public service personal has issues with Linux and Libre Office, they need a proper training, not a switch of platforms. Without training nobody in this world would be ab…

yes, I wanted to add that remark as well, especially because the topic is about kids. But I didn't. And of course bicycles are far less dangerous than any car. So there is no reaso…

"This is very true in London, unfortunately ..." I admire the Dutch. They use the bicycle everywhere and in all weather conditions. The result? Their cities even sound so different…

"... I do have less ability to do brilliant-late-night-ninja-coding stunts,..." Isn't this an advantage as well? How many ninja stunts have you seen without hundreds of bugs and be…

Franz Werfel: Pale Blue Ink in a Lady's Hand. The story of an Austrian aristocrat and politician, who is - through his marriage - well established in society and on a safe carrier …

What do you want to say: it is hopeless to cultivate bicycle usage in the US?

"And then there is the stigma that if your riding a bike, it means you obviously have DUI and/or other issues." Here in Europe bikes become a lifestyle item. Just get yourself a re…

"Cities make it easier for kids to go outside and be kids." The other way round. I grew up in the countryside and we could literally play on the streets without risk. Visiting frie…

"For example, if I use the same word ten times in the same paragraph, this tool would replace it by synonyms;" Very funny. This would make terrible prose, I guess. It is part of th…

Yes, I agree with that too. I prefer a well done computer, that is stable and low maintenance compare to a super high end one. But I wouldn't mind, if Apple could offer both: close…

"You're solving problems. If you do work to solve those problems, fine, but having more "output" doesn't make you go from a 1x to a 30x engineer." No, you're not only solving probl…

This is a funny reply, if you remember yesterdays discussion about Apples missing computer innovation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10980023 enjoy

So true. But apple even drops people who just want a cool new toy. I have my Macbook Air for 3 years now and, although I am fine with its performance, I would buy a new one. But th…

I think that will be wrong too. A good team lives from a variety of experiences and abilities. The trick is to find the right team member for the job.

yeah, that's taking away a pragmatic developer from what she does best.

"If you let someone merge, make their exit, pass you, you're enabling flow." yes and no. If you let someone merge in heavy traffic, and (s)he has to break hard right after merging,…

"...and brake as hard as possible " I think braking hard is the beginning of all evil. Others behind will also have to brake hard and a whole bunch of cars comes to a standstill. K…

As long as you are alone and in control, I agree. But in a project with a large java inheritance hierarchy, polymorphism maxed out by some remote developers, it is easy to really g…

"The trick to sane OOP is doing as little of it as possible. When you maximize the number of pure methods, minimize mutable state, minimize inheritance and so on, you are doing OOP…