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Hey Tim, I knew what you were trying to get at, but wanted to point out that the sentence that you initially wrote wasn't entirely accurate. Of course I agree that attitude matters…

I know loads of hairdressers that have a good attitude.

Oona's work is always amazing. Loads of interesting hardware stuff in her blog. I wish I would be better at some mechanical engineering/electrical engineering stuff, my work is mos…

London and Berlin have 3).

Cheers, thanks!

Alright, got it. Thanks!

I didn't watch the numberphile video and just read this. Can someone explain to me why I am allowed to add a padding zero at the start without taking it out at the end? By adding i…

This is great, thanks! I unminified it first to look at the code, but it looks like its not doing anything nasty.

Who has the copyright for these images?

Exactly. The same is probably true for this one here: public bool ShowOptional() { bool bolReturn = false; return bolReturn; } There should be descriptions why the code snippets ar…

sure, but specific instances of both are sometimes baffling.

Yes, if you have an IDE you don't have this problem at all. I am more with the VIM/Emacs crowd though I guess. I didn't know though that you could create an "evaluation window" in …

Well, I looked into it but gave up soon-ish because it looked to annoying and my hack was sufficient for me at the time.

Ah, I forgot to mention gdb as well. gdb and python hooked me on this way of developing.

I am a fan of python. when developing python and needing a breakpoint I just write >> import pdb;pdb.set_trace() in the respective line and can then execute the code till that poin…

I clicked on that link as well and was astonished

Well, I believe that people should be left alone as often as possible and should only be interfered with when urgently needed. But I also believe that commanding wealth comes with …

Well, true, somebody that wants to game the system will find a way. However, you could still say that everything up to 20 Million* has a lower tax on it and you can give that to yo…

Exactly my opinion. And even though I normally lean towards free market related views when it comes to regulation and government, I think a high inheritance tax would be justified …

I am sorry, but what is the message here?

This is what I had trouble with grasping as well.

First of all I think that moving to another country because you don't like the US customs might be a bit extreme, but still: >> 2) Language barriers > One, you'd be amazed how much…

You are reducing the room of possible passwords quite a lot, I am not sure if that is a good idea. Firstly e.g. for MD5 your hashes are never going to contain Letters > f, no upper…

It wasn't a startup, but my general consulting setup for several clients. Also, in those 12 weeks christmas, bank holidays and all that stuff were included. I think I worked more t…

I've been freelancing in London and always calculate my yearly expected income by multiplying it with 200 to account for holiday, sick leave and general overhead. £350 * 200 = £700…