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Yesterday I couldn’t read an ancient Greek text on Project Gutenberg because I’m from Germany. Two days ago I couldn’t read an article on an US news site because I’m from Europe. The “WW” in “WWW” is a joke.

steschon Why Pascal Is Not My Favorite Programming Language (1981)

I was indoctrinated by this text. A fan of C and C style languages.

And I feel this was so wrong and that the world could be a better place if we would have turned into another direction.

steschon Grand Canyon Museum Had Buckets of Uranium Sitting Around for 18 Years

We were nowhere near the Grand Canyon.

steschon How Not to Do Time Tracking for Software Developers

Nope.

When the hours of the tasks didn't add up with the daily attendance you had to tweak your data or you couldn't close the day. Either added or removed 1 minute to the work day.

So a work day with 8 hours maybe had 7.98 hours of tasks. You tweak around a bit so that they both matched.

This was a reported bug (incl. explanation from a programmer) that wasn't fixed for a very long time. Maybe it's still broken.

steschon How Not to Do Time Tracking for Software Developers

At my last employment they had a time tracking software that said that three tasks @ 20 minutes each are 0.99… hours.

Hmm. As a software developer you get really frustrated when you have to deal with this expensive piece of software.

steschon Captain Marvel throwback site

Interesting how I get downvoted for talking about the comics I read as a child in a discussion about a retro comic hero website.

steschon Captain Marvel throwback site

What's the problem??

steschon Captain Marvel throwback site

When I was reading Captain Marvel it was either a man (Marvel Comics) or a little boy on crutches (DC Comics).

steschon German for Programmers

I even suspect that wrong gender is a running gag among Americans. See "Hotel das Alpen" on the show "Titans" and "Der Waffle Haus" on the show "Dead like me".

steschon Fossil vs Git

Would you recommend using fossil for Unity3D projects? Needs to exclude certain files and being able to deal with binary files.

steschon Blowing the Dust Off of an IBM AS/400 Server

PWRDWNSYS *IMMED

steschon Approaching the kernel year-2038 end game

> Some of the final steps in this transition for the core kernel have been posted, and seem likely to be merged for 5.1.

This doesn't sound as good as they wanted it to sound. I thought they were already save.

On the other hand, planned obsolescence could help and nobody is using 20 year old kernels in 2038 anymore. Hopefully.

steschon Red Programming Language: Plans for 2019

I followed the project up until then.

steschon Red Programming Language: Plans for 2019

I'm I shallow if I stopped caring about this project after they started with all this crypto currency stuff?

steschon Blender 2.8

Someone should add " [BETA]" to the title. People are getting very excited.

steschon Algol 68: A Retrospective

By the way: "Gill Sans" isn't a good fallback for non Windows computers. Hard to read on a Mac.

steschon Proof That iOS Still Hasn’t Gotten Undo Right

1452 ergonomics.

steschon I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier

Feature of the Instagram app. On your profile page -> hamburger menu -> the one with the clock. (I have all the texts in German. Maybe something about "activity" in the normal version?)

steschon I quit Instagram and Facebook and it made me happier

My average time on Instagram is 14 minutes a day. I need to cut it down a bit.

steschon PHP Sadness

It's not one of those "LOL! PHP is so stupid!" articles.

He even took the time tagging which sad points are solved in newer versions.

steschon Raku Perl 6.d [pdf]

  Someone's always playing programming language games
  Who cares they're always changing programming language names
  We just want to dance here, someone stole the stage
  They call us irresponsible, write us off the page