crussmann

I was never officially taught Sütterlin, but through family and other circumstances I can read it fairly well after a bit of a "warm-up" period.

What's interesting is that it's pretty much impossible for me to read if used for a non-German language. Sütterlin for English text? My brain cannot parse this at all - the script automatically flips my brain to German!

Over the last years, I felt my handwriting was deteriorating. I blamed my lack of practice and reliance on computers, and accepted that.

But, last year I got glasses. With them, my hand writing quickly improved. As an aside, I can type a lot faster on a touch screen now too. Presbyopia snuck up on me somewhere when I hit 40...

One solution nobody has mentioned is filming in another country. While there probably are laws restricting the "foreign" currency reproductions, I'd think it's unlikely the authorities in, say, Canada would spend nearly as much effort going after prop US currency as the Secret Service would in The States.

Definitely a translation, or written by a non-native English speaker. Things like using a comma as a decimal (0,03 liters) are a pretty big giveaway.

I think what threw me the most was how SI and US units were mixed right in the title (liters and miles).

Flipping through the rest of the site, it does unfortunately read like they're just churning out content to draw search traffic primarily for advertising.

Very surprising how long it took them to enter the U.S. market, especially given that they were in North America (Canada) long before.

It'd be interesting to know more about how that decision was made, and also if this has shaped the general perception of Ikea in Canada vs. The States.

For simple builds with dependencies, I find makefiles hard to beat. The only thing that has me pulling out my hair every time is the whole tabs vs. spaces thing, especially when on a machine that I haven't pulled in my .vimrc yet.

I think I still have Altavista bookmarked as http://altavista.digital.com somewhere...