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Comment · 8 years ago
Not saying it's not stupid, but FWIW I noticed ACRush (competitive programming legend) is behind that startup - at least it should mean it's not a full-blown scam.
Comment · 10 years ago
Moving from the UK to Germany, I chose Deutsche Bank based on its reputation.
Pros:
* English! There is always someone on the phone who can speak English, and they can even send their letters in English. (for Germany, this is very rare)
* More "high touch" - there is a person assigned to your account
* I can't remember if this was the case in UK, but I noticed that transfers to some Western EU countries have no fees and happen almost instantly. Yay!
Cons:
* Buggy app and web interface, sometimes the login fails or hangs randomly (revenue was €31.95 billion in 2014, it's understandable that they can't afford spending too much on this)
* The way to authorise online transactions is with a piece of paper with 100 codes printed on it (TAN list). This was a shock, but it's apparently common here.
* Taking advantage of new customers. They offered me a loan which I later realised had a ridiculous interest rate. (I guess this isn't exclusive to DB, but silly me expected that a good, more prestigious bank would value longer term customer relationships)
* Stupid useless cards. The default account (€5/month) comes with a card (EC Karte) that can only be used at German ATMs and in most German stores. Good luck trying to do anything online with it. For that you need a credit card (extra €5/month), the very idea of something like VISA Debit seems completely alien to Germans.
Comment · 10 years ago
I keep all my dotfiles in a repo at ~/cfg, and have a script to perform tasks such as creating symlinks (e.g. ~/.emacs.el -> ~/cfg/emacs.el) and installing brew, antigen, etc.
Comment · 10 years ago
If I have to use a Windows machine, CCleaner is one of the first tools I install, it's fantastic. On OS X I use App Cleaner (I run it in parallel with `brew cask rm` just to be safe). PS: That's numberwang! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOZtWZ56lc
Comment · 10 years ago
Seems like a perfect task for asciinema
Comment · 10 years ago
I had a similar experience buying a somewhat expensive watch through them - my wife was surprised to receive a very fancy, and empty, box. However to their credit they sent another one immediately, no questions asked. I really hope for Amazon to fix the issues OP pointed at, as an amazon.de customer I'm extremely happy with them.
Comment · 10 years ago
This made me think of "The Making of: Dust", which describes the iterative (and serendipitous) process of creating [two of] the most well-known Counter Strike maps. I think it's a brilliant how a design that feels obvious involves a lot of work and uncertainty.
Comment · 10 years ago
> But meeting the needs of customers is what I get paid to do
That was like being slapped with a good dose of pragmatism – I love it!
Wrt the later part of your post, try Dart. It's annoying in entirely new ways, but it does away with a lot of JS pains; it's also mature, powerful, and production-oriented. It even comes with a VM to run it in, so you can pretend it's a real –boy– language. Its obscurity also means that it can be hard to come across help/tools (emacs completion, anyone?), but despite all the shortcomings I enjoy using it, and am happy to back Google's bet on Dart.
Comment · 10 years ago
Same [1], but I'm considering deleting it, as most of them are shit anyway. After seeing Assembly die in less than 2 years [2], I filtered my side project ideas through a "do you see this running in 10 years?" filter, and I saved them as bookmark folders [3].
1: https://github.com/andreis/ideas
2: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:wUe7XO...
3: here they are
cask.space: website for brew cask packages - categories, info, screenshots, discovery, etc.
"deep" ai: strong artificial intelligence - more of a career goal than a side project
docsite: simple, standardized landing pages for doctor's offices, á la jameda or zocdoc
games: tons of game dev resources and indie game websites - if I ever find time to work on one, I love game development
peer interviews: p2p pair mock interviewing for interview practice - an interest of mine (github.com/andreis/interview)
sidelog: a tool to organize [ideas for] side projects + collaborationComment · 10 years ago
Sourcegraph has pivoted into a git hosting appliance, it's pretty cool, even if nowhere near as full-featured. https://sourcegraph.com/