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revanx_··on Alive Beta – Live Coding in Visual Studio
I don't get it, what are the practicle advantages to using this? To me it just looks like a pointless gimmick. If I write a line of code I know what it will do since otherwise I wouldn't be able to write it in the first place.
revanx_··on The Inevitable return of Cobol
I don't think it's going to be an issue of finding people to take over COBOL systems, companies that are interested are simply going to round up students and give them part time jobs where they can learn COBOL and earn some side cash with a promise of a good job when they get out of college.
revanx_··on Greeks Reject Bailout Terms
"Greece’s debt ballooned once we entered the Eurozone"

It ballooned because when you entered the euro your country was now able to acquire and spend much more debt then before.

revanx_··on Greece
The problem of young people with academic degrees that can't find a job is not a problem isolated to Greece, this is happening everywhere.

As far as your comments, all I can say is that I shaped my opinion based on statistics and what other greeks told me.

You can't deny the fact that in the last decade, greeks have become accustomed to a certain life style that can no longer be maintained.

revanx_··on Greece
I've meet a handful of young greeks(Age: 17-29) since 2010 and when asked about their situation, especially the unemployment rate they all said the same thing, young greeks don't want to work unless it's a high paying gov. secure job with 6 hours a day 5 days a week schedule. Ironically all of them were gamers but considering that the unemployment rate is about 50% with young greeks, it's hard to argue with that.

Also one important thing was said many times, most of greeks try to avoid taxes or they don't pay them at all. They've told me this is especially rampant in tourism. It's hard to argue with that, depending on where you traveled you can experience this first hand.

It's so easy to blame everyone else for your own problems, lets not forget how much money has actually been pushed to Greece since 2010 via financial injections and what have they done with it? What good is it to keep pushing more and more money into Greece when the people and it's gov don't want to change and without change how can you expect any progress?

revanx_··on Livecoding.tv (YC S15) Is Twitch.tv for Coding
It's great however there is no plugin yet available for livecoding.
revanx_··on Livecoding.tv (YC S15) Is Twitch.tv for Coding
"You don't have adobe flash" " please download it"

Yeah sorry no, it's why I don't use twitch and it's why I won't use livecoding.tv

revanx_··on DuckDuckGo on CNBC: We’ve grown 600% since NSA surveillance news broke
It sounds like you have something against VPN providers...

There are loads of trash VPN providers, but there are a lot of genuine ones that really care about privacy activism and provide an honest service.

revanx_··on Encrypting Windows Hard Drives
There may not be any deliberate backdoor in BitLocker however I think it's safe to assume that NSA has access to the source code, probably found some angle to exploit.
revanx_··on Why did Borland fail?
I remember a few books coming out lately, Coding in Delphi from Nick Hodges comes to mind if you want to look at the latest for what Delphi has to offer.
revanx_··on Why did Borland fail?
Borland had its moments, Delphi(RAD successor to Turbo Pascal) was a total hit with Delphi 7 being the pinacle, unfortunatelly after that all went down the hill. Later on in 2008 Embarcadero Technologies picked up Delphi and has been selling it ever since.

If anyone is interested, Delphi today is on life support and exists only because it still has a strong base of followers from the Borland time. The rapid cost of development has pushed Delphi out of reach for younger generations who are not used to paying for development tools.

revanx_··on A YouTube built for gamers
Had no idea this exists, thanks!
revanx_··on A YouTube built for gamers
The player itself requires Adobe flash to run and I haven't had that installed since youtube started experimenting with HTML5.
revanx_··on A YouTube built for gamers
Am I the only one that dislikes twitch because you need adobe flash player to do anything and is on generally a javascript bloated website?
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