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FUCK YOU HACKER NEWS!

BTW: There's more than one Frankfurt in Germany.

I charge my Series 0 Apple Watch once a day when it's at about 50%.

The title of the post: Who Cares About Literary Prizes?

I probably haven't read anything that won a "normal" prize. At least not in the decades after school. I've read a few old books who won Science Fiction prizes like the Hugo Award. …

They still get a lot of development aid from foreign countries. Germany approved new €765.02 million in 2018. That's hard to explain.

I'm programming since the 1980s. This feels very, very strange to me. I wouldn't want to rely on so many moving parts even after the whole software got installed. They have a total…

Weppy is considered a known older one. That's a sign that I'm getting old.

Last time I wanted to give it a try they wanted to install on the small system drive. :-(

There are so many standardized languages out there that have many implementations. Some commercial and some free. Are there other free Ada compilers out there or is the language to…

Our political systems in the free world are very resistant to change. A party can be founded to further an important topic but people demand that they have a broader program and ad…

Americans have landfills and Germans recycle and burn the plastic. Where is all the plastic in the oceans coming from???

No new way to format a string?

Wondering how normal Germans would react to Libra. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJ26TbhZW8k (How to deal with money like a German | Meet the Germans)

No way. I hate localized error messages. At least in modern times as software vendors stopped putting error numbers into the message. It's very hard to find solutions online when y…

Isn't this half the fun of using JavaScript frameworks?

From the good old times, when IT people were allowed to laugh.

By the way: iPhone 4 supports iOS 7.1.2, released 4 years after the iPhone 4.