MrDosu

This is one of the big differences for me coming from germany to the US to visit.

Back home I can happily approach a police officer at night while drunk asking for directions and expecting general help and friendliness. It feels safe when they are around.

In the US and I am in the presence of a police officer I feel threatened and unsafe, even though I am a law abiding citizen.

In my personal experience it can be quite futile in general to deal with customer support.

My goto solution is to contact the public relations people instead with the same issue and it usually gets resolved very quickly...

I'm a simple man. I open an article link. I see a signup popup. I close tab.

For leisure travel the US is just not a viable destination any more. There's plenty of other beautiful places in the world. Why deal with all this political insanity...

I would argue quite the opposite.

.NET has the most comprehensive set of high quality paid libraries i have worked with so far. Yes they can be expensive, but you get long term support and professional documentation. For a commercial product this is worth a lot.

I think it is really sad that affordable furniture has gone down in quality so much. Now I walk into most homes and its full of pressed woodchips in furniture form. When I visit my grandparents old house (who are not rich) I see custom made solid wood pieces with carvings all over everywhere. This is unaffordable for me nowadays. What happened?

Rant: Now they just need to get their shit together and get VS2017 to perform at least as well as 2015 again for large codebases or i'm sticking with Rider...

I never get these pieces...

I own a couple of different computing devices and they are just tools. Some fit a certain job better then others. Why limit yourself?

As a german i find the economic reasons of "why should we pay for the poor people" highly ironic...

That's what we all founded europe for... stronger together!

An orchestra of fellow developer fingers dancing on mechanical keyboards!

This is simply not true. It is pretty reasonable to start a company in Germany and the authorities are pretty lenient and helpful (at least in the big cities).

You will need a lawyer and tax consultant though.

Yeah, this is pure semantics.

We attached certain names to certain frequencies in western culture and made rules about 'proper music'. It is quite fascinating how culturally influenced we are on what is beautiful sound. Other cultures will have different frequencies and composition rules they consider good or artistic. Seven different D notes is how you say 7 unique frequencies, not one.

I was in a similar situation and it was a godsend.

Go explore the world, hike, find love. Afterwards you won't believe what kind of energy you will have. It will be like the start of career 'i can do anything' level!

I used a CAT phone for hiking for a while and at first I was quite impressed by the sturdiness (dropped it on rocks multiple meters a couple of times). But there are some design flaws where the connectors are just covered by plastic plugs that leak water after a while and its not waterproof anymore. Would not buy one again.

There is a couple of ways to do it. From storing your conditions in meaningful variables outside the conditional to pattern matching and more. If conditions aren't the only branching operators.

I always wonder how these "five conditions ANDed together in an if" make it past code review in general (i know thats not where the actual bug was). I don't care how brilliant a programmer you are, but mistakes in those are very difficult to grasp.

Since I discovered the Aeron stool (http://www.hermanmiller.com/products/seating/stools/aeron-st...) + standing desk combo for me years ago my back just thanks me every day!

I deleted my Facebook account when I started tracking my time for productivity reasons. For me it was a MASSIVE destruction of man hours just idling around reading nonsense. Against my worries meaningful social interactions haven't suffered and I still keep in touch with people all over the world...

There was no manager above at that point. I loved to do it because it was super efficient for me. You get into the office when some problems had already came up and people already had tried a bit of effort to solve them themselves. Then you just do rounds after lunch and fix them. Then after people went home it was a good time to review code and catch up on the personal work.

I have worked on a noon to midnight in office schedule for long periods of time and noticed most people sharing the office with you take it psychologically as noon to five even when you are actually in office 50% longer than them.

Paired with socked sandals ofc...

As a German tourist the most annoying thing getting into Canada is to wait in line while all these other nationalities get questioned extensively before being waved through in 20secs. Wear your bright colored gore tex jackets guys!

I agree. Asynchronous programming is orders of magnitude easier to grasp than concurrency. Especially in low lock scenarios. Interlocked.Increment(yourPost) :P

Interesting trivia:

If you are from a foreign country and come to Germany to study in the universities, you also pay only that amount. There is a lot of diversity here nation wise in the universities. Education is considered a human right.

In Germany you also have to account that your employer by law has to pay into your non employment and retirement funds. This is about 21% of gross income on top. If you make 100k, your employer pays out 121k. They also have to pay half of your health insurance (also not counted in gross income numbers).

Can confirm.

As a comparison: I am a programmer with above average pay in Germany, my mom works upper management in a big company.

I make about twice as much as a steel worker and she makes twice as much as me.

The same jobs in the us would pay about 3-4 times a steelworker for me and triple to quadruple my pay for her.

can be added in 10 LOCs

to me is kinda like you can easily make heavier elements by just adding a few electrons, protons and neutrons...

This is reminds of a story of friends of mine from South Africa. They took the kids out of school to travel all the way up Africa and into Europ and back down for a year. They got robbed three times. Two times in France and once in Spain...

I just love how the same people that called me the devil for using WPF back when .NET 3 came out are now calling me about angular with 'have you heard about this new and exciting paradigm?'...

Now a single city in germany is ~europe~...