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.