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No, it gets brought up because the after effects of that philosophy are still felt even today.

Depends on the use case. A local POS vendor is running most of their local databases in stores (1..10 registers) on the Express version. Not sure how often they archive data out of the main database, though.

You willfully mixed up and misrepresented the 2 paragraphs of my post. I hope that wasn't with malicious intent, so I will clarify.

The first paragraph dealt with the 'poor college student in Eastern Europe' side of doing a project, where every dollar counts and must be scraped for. In that world, going for .NET was unheard of, but the situation is slowly changing with VSCode and vNext.

As for the second paragraph, even well-funded projects have limits. Sure, let's say the limit for cost is 50k EUR with 300 EUR/month expected hosting costs. How happy will your client be when your cloud provider changes their pricing scheme and hosting cost is now 10-100x as large? Or when the requirements change and you need to buy some $EXPENSIVE_PLUGIN for that and you are locked in with your technology stack to one provider?

Mainly speaking: why should someone make a company and build some website and fill applications and all that (always with the high possibility of rejection), when you can just do 'apt-get install <technology-stack>' or as an alternative, git-clone-configure-make-sudo-make-install for the same thing? It's all about barriers to entry.

.NET isn't cool in the start-up world because of the pricing and licensing issues. You can happily start developing a PHP+MySQL application on a used 100 EUR ThinkPad: good free IDEs are readily available (if you even need one), no licensing headaches and can start hosting it with your nearby 20 EUR/month web host with shell access.

Although the situation is changing for the better in the .NET world, the hardware cost, obfuscated licensing and pricing issues still remain. I had to buy an i5 machine with SSD and 16 GB of RAM to get the same development experience with VS2015 that I had with Netbeans on Linux with 4 GB of RAM. Also, a project in progress went for ASP.NET MVC 5 + Azure SQL on Azure and I'm afraid every day that we might get hit with some unexpected performance or insane pricing issues after the launch. Even the reddit thread on /r/dotnet wasn't very encouraging with regards to that: https://www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/comments/46rgf6/do_you_run_a...

Isn't JIRA already using some Apache Ofbiz (pretty fullish ERP + e-commerce platform) components? That would be going pretty much full circle.

But there isn't a problem to solve for this community, because bullying isn't actually seen/acknowledged as a problem. Education officials are also only paying lip service and even that only after some very horrible case hits the newspapers and teachers are very underpaid for the amount of work they do. And the people who were bullied either won't get into any position of power with the capability to enact changes or are truly trying to forget it all.

It wasn't a subtle accusation, because in my experience people who say school violence doesn't happen or they never saw it happen are/were actually bullies themselves. This post just confirmed it with the nice twisting of words, 'defense of rape as normal high school experience', oh really?

I was pointing out how much, much worse stuff happens in schools than just being told to 'make a sandwich' and trust me, I would have been a very happy little boy if only that had happened to my friends and me. To be honest, starting from the author of the article, this entire thread displays just how sheltered of a life many of this community must be living to start an Internet crusade (because this is what it is going to end up when the social justice warriors get wind of it) because of a boring class with an unqualified teacher.

A school with "no violence or rape" wouldn't be just nothing wrong, it would be extraordinary. Even elite schools in developed and rich countries are filled with bullying: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/28/swedish-school-... Maybe you really ought to think about which school you went into in which neighborhood, which social clique you were a part of and if you still think no bullying happened, maybe it's time to think back on school and reevaluate some of your actions (hint: pranks and teasing might not be seen as that after all).

Not only identifiers, but comments and log messages too. I guess the code doesn't hold up to the high opinion I had of Cybernetica AS.

If the rest of the intelligence community treats their IT people same as Schindler in his tweets, it's no wonder they can't get quality staff.

No such thing as a movie, but there's a short fan film called Something Real: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ET8IFxPo61w If I remember correctly, Banks wasn't opposed to someone making a MMORPG based on Culture, I don't know how he felt about films. Maybe it's better Hollywood didn't touch it, the feel of Culture could probably be pulled off only in anime form.

I hope our galaxy's version of the Culture are good guys and backed him up, so he can have a very enjoyable and long life. RIP.

That counterargument doesn't work in the Netherlands: http://stuffdutchpeoplelike.com/2010/11/24/no-8-not-owning-c...

The hassle of job seeking can actually be a pretty good motivator for entrepreneurship. Why would one want to play the game of crafting CVs, studying for interviews and playing the interview game when all that isn't actually relevant to the work you want to and will be doing? You could be spending that time trying to develop or sell a product you actually do care about and if successful, will see decent return on your investment of time. And it's not like the interview game even matters, when in the end a nephew of the head of another department gets the job, no matter his 2.7/5.0 GPA.

The easiest test is visual: if the surface is bulging even just a little and/or the capacitor isn't standing straight (this one doesn't apply to Soviet electronics), it has failed. There are lots of tutorials on the net, there is definitely something on http://www.eevblog.com/ But the way I learned it was to just take an old PSU, try to get a component out and then solder it back on.

[edit:] Some googling found this thread for capacitor testing: http://www.badcaps.net/forum/showthread.php?t=17592 I found the badcaps community pretty good when looking for a new PSU, there seemed to be many knowledgeable posters.

The same problem applies to most point of sale hardware, the stuff we use doesn't mostly care about drivers at all. Receipt printers just want raw bytes sent to their port, no matter COM or LPT or LAN - OS is bit of an obstruction on the way. Kind of sad that web-based POS software can't take full advantage of the conveniences web brings (ease of updating the program, easier and prettier graphical designs) without losing the capability of interfacing properly with hardware.

It's not even the real unemployment number, because that unemployment only counts the registed unemployed (who are registered at the Employment Office and receiving financial aid for job-seeking). The actual number of unemployed and people working without taxes is much higher (how much higher, nobody knows).

OK, it's true that by some metrics (government debt for example), Estonia is doing pretty well. But Estonia's private sector debt (personal loans) is still over the top and is actually killing the workforce right now. Because of these loans, the wages aren't rising, even though the cost of living is thanks to joining the euro zone. http://statistikaamet.wordpress.com/2011/05/27/eestist-valja... (Estonia's department of statistics blog) has statistics about the year 2010, where the graph shows the most dominant age group of emigrants are men in the age of 25-29 and most people leave the country because of high unemployment. That's men and women leaving in their best working age, most of whom will never return.

So, yeah, Estonia might be doing fine by some short-term metrics, but in the long term austerity measures have done irreparable harm.

He is insecure about that for a very good reason, though, considering how media only started positively displaying people with hacker mentality after the last bubble hit (everyone else was getting fired while programmers were still being hired) and the Social Network (again, because of lots of money being talked about).

If you want more general knowledge, then db-class.org is pretty awesome too. Going through even some of those materials has probably saved me weeks' worth of work, because not only do you get general SQL knowledge and practice, you get a grounding in theory, XML and NoSQL too.

There was a discussion on stackexchange about Java books or such that was always linked to in case of duplicate questions. Then it got entirely deleted and so all the links to it from dupes got worthless too - and yet the dupes remained and still point to the 404 page.

In Estonia, A-language is usually English and B-language mostly Russian. Partly because 'travel West, you speak English, travel East, you speak Russian' and many Russian-speaking people live in Estonia. For techies, English+Russian still is a much better combo because of all the literature available.

Not American, but can't you be jailed for contempt of court?

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/jailed-for--280--the-return-of...

http://farquharlaw.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/debtors-prison-e...

People don't usually acknowledge it themselves, but that's how oral narration works - it has to keep the listener's interest and relate to them, be it either an anecdote or something that happened to one yesterday. Compare someone asking for accept ("permission" for telling the story): 'Hey, know what tall black guy living next to me? [audience reaction] So, yesterday we went to...' vs 'At a certain time, I went with this person to...' (you can add M. and N., if you want - like in Chekhov novels) The other version lacks any way to relate to listener(s) and would feel pretty dry.

Less people would moan about the McDonalds coffee lawsuit being example of a frivolous suit when shown that picture.

The community which had 'we cum when we kill men' as their slogan for a good while? Really?

The most surprising application I ever saw for MUMPS was the forums for a MUD named MUME I used to play: http://elvenrunes.com/cgi-bin/logs/mumps?rou=stats (the 'Code:' section)

Have you ever heard about the prosecutor's fallacy (related to the Bayes' theorem)?

And still they wonder why some young people are very averse to moving out from their parents' homes (I'm not referencing hikikomoris, that's a whole another matter).

Not only there, but zsh in urxvt on Arch Linux is able to do it too - I guess it's a general feature of zsh, then?