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Re:An Open Letter to Patreon on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @10:27AM (#15550365)
I once though about fickstarter.com (fick being the german word for fuck)...
Re:GNU Guile 2.1.4 released on Wednesday September 14, 2016 @12:13PM (#12498420)
I really admire Andy Wingo for all his great work. Thank you and the guile team for the the outstanding results!
Well there was this guy from my hometown who shared his facebook password to strangers on parties. You never knew what would appear on his facebook account after weekends.
Re:Don't replace people, augment them on Monday July 18, 2016 @01:29AM (#12113367)
>Augmenting people is the same as replacing them. >The person now has a greater output which means you need less of them.

Attention, i think this is a fallacy in multiple aspects. Maybe they don't produce more, just higher quality? On the other hand you have jobs where more is never enough, e.g. Scientists.

Re:Google Home on Thursday May 19, 2016 @06:33AM (#11729185)
It depends on the tts plugin you use. We have build and tested several tts plugins. I can recommend Microsoft Bing Voice and the new Google Speech API. Both are very rarely wrong.
Re:Stock Market Prices Do Not Follow Random Walks on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @07:23AM (#11064786)
> By analyzing the past returns of current S&P500 companies, the author is allowing for survivorship bias;

Thought so myself. Interesting to see what the result were with data from the beginning of the period.

Re:Dataset: databases for lazy people on Sunday February 07, 2016 @10:21AM (#11053100)
> Because managing databases in Python should be as simple as reading and writing JSON files.

Not the best sales pitch. :D

Re:Riemann – A network monitoring system on Tuesday January 19, 2016 @08:50AM (#10930687)
Used in production without a hassle for 2 years. For our setup and scenario it was a very fitting and good solution. Easy Setup and easy usage. Recommended.
Re:How Germany Does Prison on Friday October 23, 2015 @07:30AM (#10437919)
Berlin is a special case. You can stay weeks in cologne without seeing one police woman/man.