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pleasecalllater

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    Comment #41180520

    Nope. It's the opposite way. The cow produces so much milk, because it's milked so often. In normal world, cow produces milk for the children, and when they drink less and less mil…

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    Comment #40965978

    I hope unchecking the setting really disables the feature. I have hard time trusting Mozilla now... or rather I should write "again". On the other hand: there is a ticket [1] askin…

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    Comment #40438558

    This is a terminal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_terminal#/media/File:... The software is just emulating the terminal behavior. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_term…

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    Comment #39849304

    Hug him. Support him. His life is most probably ending and he is most probably quite depressed. Stay with him. Your company is just a job, just a company. What would you expect of …

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    Comment #38723269

    I'm involved in an Intervention Hostel in Poland/Europe. Many people need short-term help, not only with homelessness but they also need some real support. What is provided by the …

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    Comment #24351747

    yes! freedom! dangling pointers for everybody! But seriously: I wish more programmers had really good background (I'm not talking about academia, but e.g. learning from many books …

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    Comment #23509668

    I love the praised projects "xxx in yyy lines of code in zzz". While the reality almost always is: not documented, not tested, badly written glue for some libraries doing the real …

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    Comment #23465032

    > At no institution in Germany... It was in Poland.

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    Comment #23457318

    > E.g., in Germany you get the entire spectrum from “be a professors slave for 6 years with minimum pay” to “I don’t care where you are - but the publications count”. Yea... I want…

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    Comment #23280859

    For now. What about the future? I just don't trust any company which changes the agreements without asking for my consent. In this case I just want to close my account and delete a…

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    Comment #23280844

    I don't know the US law. I'm just wondering... if US companies have to ensure their software is fine according to GDPR for Europe clients, I'm wondering how it is with other law. T…

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    Comment #23090905

    > "What color is the sky?" Well, the answer is obvious: > The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel. I hope this is the good answer you support on…

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    Comment #22442548

    I'm always wondering what about people with disabilities, older people with problems with walking, pregnant women, families with four kids, etc. Sometimes the public transport for …

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    Comment #22266242

    Just calculate the TCO. Check out how much you payed for the car + gas + repairs + insurance + everything else. Then check how much you can get when you sell it after the 4 years. …

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    Comment #21908973

    Two. The number is two. You always need a backup server :)

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    Comment #21905649

    > - Remove most, if not all notifications from your phone. Not just work-related, anything that will stimulate your brain for no good reason My phone slipped into water and is not …

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    Comment #21792346

    Just like setting a cookie that I didn't agree for setting other cookies :)

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    Comment #21791243

    Yea, on the other hand: more and more recruiters require to have a nice list of side projects on github. I failed an interview a couple of times because of that. On the other hand:…

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    Comment #21771321

    I hope it's a joke, or something is missing there. I try to save as much as possible and I barely spend 25% of my income. Forcing me to spend more is not right. Maybe they were rat…

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    Comment #21680700

    Three things: 1. I have no idea why "hacking" aka "going fast and breaking things" is so glorified while "building good reliable programs" aka "good programming" is not. 2. How com…

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    Comment #21589025

    I always thought the GC pause depends on the heap size... a little searching... http://big-elephants.com/2018-09/unexpected-gc-pauses/ .