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I think Wolfenstein 3D compiles column scaling for each texture to speed up column rendering.
I did #2, then:

sudo mv units macunits
sudo ln -s $(which gunits) units
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The quote circulates through a lot of the german press for about two decades, here for example a international article from Der Spiegel

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the-price-of-uni...
How does this work? I guess they can not just ship the heavy guns via standard postal services? Aren't there controls in the shipping centers which check for scents of drugs, gunpowder, whatever?
why, when something works well, some people have an urge to change it?

shouldn't it be the other way around?

why not go through Germany state policies and copy working ideas over to other countries?

telling germans what to do sounds like a joke, people should learn from them, not teach them how to do things.
Make credit card number a mandatory field, and charge anybody who misses out on an appointment.
You at least had GNOME 1 already.

When I looked into GNU/Linux for the first time, my options were twm, fvwm and OpenLook.
Computing was not mainstream, so kids had a better idea about it?
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Well it's died down significantly from its original release. It was very much like how OP's is right now.
The US is skewed by absorbing a vast wave of Latin American immigration in the last 30-40 years, which is a perfectly reasonable comparison to absorbing East Germany (which was 16 million in 1990).
The differences between our economies are more complex than you've suggested.

Differences between the UK and Germany:

* Unions are very weak in the UK compared to Germany. Union reps sit on boards of major German companies, negotiate wages that get workers a better deal

* Germany's infamous mittelstand provides good technical jobs when compared to the UK which depends heavily on an unstable banking sector to bring in tax revenue

* Germany doesn't have the same crippling real estate market as the UK and has stronger tenants rights, long leases when renting

* Germany's benefits system is much more generous than the UK's
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Significantly sized lights in the north of Canada where nothing seems to be when you switch to map/satellite; what would those be?
Thanks everyone. Httrack is awesome, but yes, I mean smarter. Pup looks cool. I want the result to be something that turns 200 pages of staff bios into something I can pay someone $15/hr to copy-paste quickly into the new CMS. Boilerpipe does it nicely, but doesn't do the whole job without wget and some scripting, plus it costs money or is complicated (it's in Apache Tika, I guess).

But back on-topic, all I really mean to say is that something like this happens to me like every other week. Productize your scripts.
That is not the argument people are stating.

First, the problem is how absurdly low the wages have fallen in Germany compared with the 'productivity' gains leading to highly profitable exports.

Second, a problem seams to be as well how Germany was actually ignoring the fact that it is a part of a larger interconnected economy.

Both problems are already discussed at quite global / high levels and are tackled by institutions more proficient with these issues than the "schwäbische-hausfrau" who tends to be quite proud of _efficiency_ and _austerity_ but at same time misses the larger picture of global economics.

I think, it's not a bad idea to let world recover after the financial crises in steps. Now with USA and Germany quite on the track the rest of Europe and the World can be guided out of the trenches... one after the other.

One problem is the communication ofc ;) How to make the "schwäbische-hausfrau" understand all of that plus the fact that 'economic-growth' or rather 'economic-development' (which i find to be the more fitting word) in the magnitudes we were used to in the last 30 years will not come back for a long time...

tldr: Germany is still super. But will need to share its wealth more evenly internally and externally to benefit even more ;)

(edit:typo)
> Moving their Euros into bricks and mortar

This one is certainly untrue, most Germans rent

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_owner...

It's certainly true about debt, you have to have cash with you always in Germany because sometimes a shop accepts Visa/Mastercard, sometimes EC Karte (German banking debit card), and sometimes neither. You can rarely predict which is going to be the case.
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To criticize like Zed Shaw is easy, but create something which would be used around the world for so many years - a different story. That critique is just not respectful marketing to promote the books which isn't very good by itself.
The US stock market are driven by speculation, financial products are useless, the economy is fueled by printed money, the health system is expensive, consumption is largely useless, ...

Check out Germany sometime. It does not look or feel a lot poorer.
- pedaling makes you hot and sweaty; you arrive at the office being a mess

- when it rains you get super wet, much more than on a motorbike, because you have less protection and you don't carry special rain trousers with you at all times (whereas they're permanently stored on my motorbike)

- also, when it rains, if you cover yourself up to avoid the rain, you get even hotter and sweatier

I liked your point about people cheering for the cars, but those three are a bit disingenuous. I come from a country where "everyone" bikes "all the time". Perhaps we smell (I jest only slightly). But in the face of at least two countries where people cycle a lot, including for their commute, those three things somehow don't add up.

The distances: yes. The hills: yes, good point. It's not suitable for every journey. But sweat? Come on. And not just once, but three times.

It weakens the rest of your post, which is a shame because I think it's a good one.

P.S.: I'm not going to individually address the points to avoid turning this into some cycling pissing contest. Suffice to say: people cycle. It's real. Nothing inherently wrong with it. Correction: yes, inherent problems, but clearly nothing insurmountable.

EDIT: Can't reply to the guy below, just want to say you make a great point about showers! Showers at work are not just good for biking; also for running. And just for showering :P I'd love showers at my office.
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it is 10% talent and 90% hard work. Not the other way around.

I love coding Ruby. But all the design and front end work? From HTML5 to CSS. Forget it. But if I focused on "effortless" Rails coding only -- this would get me absolutely nowhere. Not to mention unix skills, administration, making customers happy, etc.

Sure, would be easier to work for a big corp and do Rails coding only. But then there are other hard or intolerable things there (intolerable to me!). Like bosses proud they can't code with BA's in Political Science. Or lazy coworkers. Or whatever else.

Life is hard and then you die. If you can find happiness in this sentence (and I can!), if you can still find sense in all of that and be happy somehow. That's happiness. Because sh*t always happens.

And all these rich young kids. They might have problems on their own too. They might have no social live. They might have had no childhood. They may have nobody candid to them to hang out with. They may be poor as far as their people relations go or as far as their free time goes. What's so awesome about working 24/7 and all the money when you have no time to enjoy it? This is being really poor. It's exactly like not being able to afford going to vacation because of lack of money. You can't go period. No money or no time, both make you poor. As lack of social live does.
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I live in germany and the infrastructure is rotting away. The bridge Schiersteiner Brücke is only the latest and biggest example. You only have to look into your local newspaper to find other examples.

Since 2003 the invest into infrastructure is net-negative: https://www.kfw.de/PDF/Download-Center/Konzernthemen/Researc...
USA have internal transmission mechanisms that even it out. It require a fiscal union or some other big common spending programs.
It's good to be ambitious, but the Paris goal of increasing share of trips from 5 % to 15 % in five years sounds somewhat unrealistic. I'd be surprised if you can double the numbers in five years.

In Helsinki, the share of trips made by bike is 11 % and the goal is to reach 17 % by 2025, in ten years time. I think even that is ambitious but not entirely unfeasible.

(However, it must be said that there seem to be vary many different ways to calculate the share of trips done on bike vs. other ways, and if you change the way you make statistics, you can of course indicate huge progress...)
> 'Are daily stand-ups an anti-pattern?'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines
German exports were growing before.

Germany was the world's largest exporter for several years. Now it's no longer.

> In essence, yes they had, but not as growing as this one.

Germany got more people now after reunification, built brand new production facilities in East Germany, built new production in Eastern Europe, got new markets, ...
This is why police officers, as public employees given the ability to take lives on the spot, need as much surveillance and review of their behavior as possible.
mocking/replacing the http/urllibs? save a traceback when a connection is made?
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Oh so it's actually a 5D grid that wraps around. Confusingly that would make the standard torus a 2D torus, they're referring to the surface dimension instead of the euclidean space it can be embedded into.
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Hi there,

I've build a real-time collaborative editor for online articles. The focus is set on collaboration, so a Story is a thing that gets build up by multiple authors of similar interests and skill.

I would like to get some tough feedback :)

(The link leads you to an open story - feel free to write anything that comes to your mind)
> Paris has a pollution problem. Instead of the smoke from Gauloise cigarettes and the aroma of freshly baked bread, the air is packed with smog, an issue that got so bad one day last month, the city forcibly halved traffic by allowing only cars with odd-number plates to drive.

Of course this could have nothing do to with Germany phasing out its nuclear power plants and having to reopen coal power plants instead.

They massively increased the share of solar and wind in their energy production, but still need more traditional methods of power generation to cover when those 2 are not providing energy, hence more coal [1].

And coal is incredibly polluting. See [2] for example for CO2 emissions :

> In July 2014, a group of NGOs published a study on the EU’s 30 worst CO2-emitting thermal power plants. German power stations featured six times among the 10 dirtiest.

CO2 is not the problem for city pollution of course, it's the rest of the small particulate matter that is.

[1] https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/germanys-energy...

[2] http://www.desmogblog.com/2015/01/24/coal-casts-cloud-over-g...
I'd like to hear the story how it turned up on github. This is a pretty good lisp from 1998 which compiles to C.

I know Elwood from my former background in the automotive industry, and I read they also created and produced a successful micro computer, the Mini Micro III.
I understand your logic, but find the list misleading. Regardless of hard work, Tesla was founded by an experienced millionaire.
Actually they can. The controls they use do not scale and therefore are only used for targeted and random checks. Having one out of 100 packages seized won't really hurt your bottom line.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church%E2%80%93Turing_thesis
Well, when it rains, there are two ways to get wet as you ride bike. You can choose: do not wear a rainjacket and let the rain make you wet. Wear a rainjacket and let the sweat make you wet.

Personally, I prefer the rainwater, and on the other hand I find it impossible to ride so slowly that I wouldn't get sweaty at all. So I wear lycra and carry change clothes in backbag; since I mostly commute to office which has good facilities for showers and dressing rooms, this works fine. It doesn't work if I have to go to a customer or some other meeting out of office, but then I take a car or taxi.
as i said:

> where if you use more computing power, you get to own more names
'Cause I'm good enough, smart enough...
And yet, when I am contacted by Iranian researchers, they all express dates and times in the Gregorian calendar. Obviously those with international contacts are not 'average', but still there is/must be wide spread use of the gregorian calendar - as your airport example confirms.

Either way, let's still for the sake of the argument say that all of Iran only uses the Islamic calendar. That still reduces the GP's point from 'to sell software in countries that are mostly Islamic, you must support multiple calendars' to 'to sell software to Iranian customers you must support multiple calendars'. Iran, just to state the obvious, is widely embargoed across the world, and it's quite challenging to sell anything there, legally (I have first hand experience to the extent that it wasn't worth the time for 5 figure contracts - and I suspect that even 6 figures wouldn't make it worth it).

To conclude, I don't think your contra-anecdotes are enough to counter the position that assuming Gregorian is 'good enough' in the vast majority of cases (again, those few writing software for Mormon record keeping, or history journal analysis tools, or -yes- software for Iranian state systems, probably know so much about dates and times that they don't need '100 things' lists to know what to look out for).
Paunch had nothing to do with Tor and wasn't exactly trying to hide his identity.
There is something ironic in how the Agile movement, originally the antidote to heavyweight processes, has been used to justify an explosion in highly detailed and prescriptive methodologies. To be clear, this is not intended as a criticism of agile methods per se, but merely a comment on how the world works.
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Where is the empathy of a well off white boy who runs over people with his car while drunk and gets away with merely a scolding - beceause his parents are rich and connected enough to get him a good lawyer.
I was watching last night. Is the Universe the Ultimate Computer?, with Seth Lloyd and others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atMuFCpxnUQ
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The most insane part of all of this: there is already a way to get this data. All the police need to do is show probable cause. Which, for any reasonable application, is straightforward.

I don't know if they are lazy, authoritarian, or both.
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> Your advice is, at best, useful only to those who already have their basic needs provided for.

Most of commenters on this site are software engineers — and this profession usually pays pretty well, to the point that we can safely assume that if the person is a capable software engineer, he has his basic needs provided for.
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It may make much more sens but it doesn't answer two fundamental questions of mine: why is there something instead of nothing and what do I do now ?

I doubt we'll ever get the answer to the first one in this life/physical realm. Philosophy can help ponder over the second one though.
This subthread reminds me of a procrastination-calibration tool and one of the finest pieces of software ever written -- EccoPro. Abandoned in its prime twenty years ago, it remains unmatched in function, has been virtually bug free, remains operational on Windows, and has been extended to support Lua scripts via binary patching. Full-text search and n-dimensional views of N dreams/projects, to surface non-obvious relationships and metastructure.
The major part of the value of domestic (as opposed to commercial) property is that of the land on which it sits, this is a non-productive use of that land (i.e. the land per se doesn't produce anything, unlike in agriculture). The money in domestic real estate would be put to better use if it were instead invested in enterprises that produced goods or services.
Sweat: maybe it's just me, I don't know, I didn't ask other people; maybe other people don't sweat as much, or maybe they don't mind. It's hard to tell, though, because I never meet people using bikes at my clients' offices.

And I don't see many people on bikes wearing suits; whereas in the subway there are many people with suits (i.e., "suits" aren't allergic to public transport).

A thing about Paris that I find is less true with other big cities is we're always in a hurry, and always late, because we always think we'll be able to make it. On a motorbike, this results in fines (and sometimes, accidents); on a bike, the ordinary outcome is arriving out of breath and, yes, sweaty (and late).
I bet their color hacks end up doing something weird or possibly nothing with emulators. No idea about the implementation details of any PC emulator, but it sure would be tempting for an emulator to just display the bitmap copied from the emulated machine's display buffer instead of emulating the actual display adapter. Even emulating the adapter wouldn't be enough, I suppose, as the color tricks rely on some unintenional (from vendors PoV) bleed behavior, probably on the analog side of things. So I guess a proper emulator should also emulate some of the analog details of the display itself.
Surprise: Germany could not build up East Germany and keep the West German infrastructure at the usual levels.

Next surprise: we have a lot infrastructure and it is expensive to maintain. Look how many airports we have nobody needs.

Next surprise: in places we need more infrastructure. We are for example investing a lot of money into the energy system. Or transport.
Ok, now I really have to learn Haskell.
I guess the kids who got it were a smaller fraction of the total population of kids, but a bigger fraction of the population of kids who owned a computer.
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Didn't see this until today, but yeah, that's exactly what I meant.

I don't use boot camp very often, but when I do the battery gets drained faster and the laptop gets hot to the point where you have to be careful not to touch the space between some keys.

Parallels/VirtualBox/etc runs fine, but makes running anything with a GUI extremely slow. In some cases it doesn't matter, but in others...
Most of the ridiculous "young computer whiz" success stories I've seen would be more honestly described as "young kid with mediocre coding skills gets lucky", or "young kid with successful parents is recipient of favor thanks to father".
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> Nobody claims that <> isn't "familiar". People are claiming
> that <> isn't very good, and they are correct with that.
> Those languages which made <> "familiar" picked <> because
> they added templates/generics/... after the fact and tried
> to bolt them onto an existing language without breaking all
> existing code.

What people are claiming this? Is there some argument

<Type, <Type<Type>>>

is much better than

[Type, [Type[Type]]]

in monospaced fonts? I agree I prefer it, but I know it comes down to subjectivity and familiarity. Not the most compelling reasons.

> impl Index<usize> for MyFunnyArray {
type Output = u32;
fn index<'a>(&self, _index: usize) -> &u32 {
&self.arr[random::<usize>() % 3]
}
}

impl IndexMut<usize> for MyFunnyArray {
fn index_mut<'a>(&'a mut self, _index: usize) -> &'a mut u32 {
self.arr[random::<usize>() % 3] = random();
&mut self.arr[random::<usize>() % 3]
}
}

Sure, you can write that, but you can also write:

fn getIndex(&self, index: usize) {
self.arr[random::<usize>()%self.arr.length]
}

Rust won't protect you from stupid mistakes. The only question is whether it will allow you to override index syntax.

myArray[3]
myArray.getIndex(3)

I actually prefer this small token of power, as opposed to having to write:

date1.compareTo(date2) < 0
date1.equalsTo(date2)
date1.index(at)

That gets tedious fast.

> As you might see, they are called i32 and u32, not i32 and UnsignedInt4Bytes.

Correct, because they are both built in literals. String isn't a built in literal. You can't have:

u32::new()

>Not sure what you suddenly try so say with "you can't
>modify this", "you can't mutate that".

>As shown in 1) [] can do whatever the developer implements.
>Sure, the usual language rules apply, I think nobody
>disagreed on that.

No matter how many time you call Index on your array it stays the same. What kind of trippy Index you want to implement is still there, only with uglier syntax.

> Yes, that's exactly the concern I'm raising here, because that's what Rust is encouraging.

It's not. All macro invocations are fenced in by macro calls. All syntax extensions are followed by extension calls. Could macros/syntax extensions do horrible things? Sure. So can regular code.
I remember working at a large company years back, where I was told the story of some pre-IPO ops guy that was still hanging around despite clearly not needing the money.

Some more recently hired SVP brought him with her on a trip to various offices as her go-to guy to make sure she wasn't bullshitted when discussing a specific project with the local teams. He had often brought along on trips like this in the past because of years of experience he had with the company infrastructure.

To be nice, each time she would offer to get her PA to book the flights and hotels, so he could benefit from her ability to get them booked into better rooms than the standard policy would allow for his role. Each time he'd politely declined.

Finally she pressed the issue and asked why he didn't want the better rooms.

Turned out he'd done well enough out of the IPO that he soon afterwards had decided to buy apartments near the local offices in the 5-6 cities across Europe where the main subsidiaries were, so he'd not have to stress with packing etc. when travelling there.
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AI software that finds a pattern in popular songs and produces hits. i will probably never write it but it may give someone an idea.