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Depending on where in the EU you are, it's already off.

Here's an IC used in some alarm clocks that uses the power grid's frequency, along with a list of products that use it: https://www.radiomuseum.org/tubes/tube_lm8560.html

We do revive the (recently) dead using electricity.

I am European. I'm not doubting the number the op stated regarding Berlin, I was just curious where other people look up salary information.

Out of curiosity, what's your source for that?

I get your point but I think a lot of people overestimate the amount of special gear they need to pursue certain activities. Sure, if you're going to be in the wilderness for days, hiking boots and outdoor clothing are a good idea. A few hours walking through the forest, you're fine wearing whatever.

Maybe it's this? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8469478

previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4561787

I don't know a Github competitor, but Fossil is a DVCS that also stores issue and a wiki in the repository.

Unfortunately I installed Hangout on my phone this morning and basically destroyed most of the utility GTalk had. None of my Google Talk contacts can send messages to my mobile, I can't see them in my contact list (not even people with Google accounts that don't use G+) and for the remaining ones with G+ accounts there's no presence information I can recognize.

Exactly, in fact I haven't seen any ads since I installed AdBlock 6 years ago.

I have a daily commute time of 1h each direction but I travel by train. I've been doing this for 2 years now and intent to keep it this way because I find it a lot easier to focus on reading than when I am at home. When I don't feel like reading I listen to podcasts or reflect my work.

For me, the difference is only visible using Firefox. Chromium even renders the inefficient original version smoothly.

First I thought that, too, but he mentions explicitly that tea alone doesn't work for him. So I tend to agree with what someone else on this thread said, that he might need to simply up his intake of nutrients in his diet. Especially protein and fat which produce more stable energy levels.

It's available for the Kindle or as a hardcover in the German Amazon store if that helps.

What's the point of this adjustment? Currently there is an offset of -34 seconds between TAI and UTC and aftwards it will be -35. Seems pretty random to me...

You can work with it or route around it when it doesn't make sense for you or the particular context i.e. it gives you choice. Additionally, I regard checked exceptions as automatic documentation.

> You end up having to declare 40 exceptions that you might throw. And once you aggregate that with another subsystem you've got 80 exceptions in your throws clause. It just balloons out of control.

What he completely ignores is the possibility to wrap exceptions to either aggregate them or to convert them into unchecked exceptions.

Calling them imbecile is a bit drastic but I've also seen ordinary people call any kind of smartphone an iPhone because they have no clue about this stuff. Same for MP3 players, which they call iPods. May be like calling any kind of vacuum cleaner a hoover.

The Wikipedia description of Geohashes is a bit odd in that its base32 decoding uses the alphabet with some letters (a, i...) left out instead of simply using [0-9a-v]. Anyone know why that would make sense?

There's another interesting article in the same spirit: http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2006/11/how_to_be_... HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3279190

I packaged this stuff into a small shell script: https://gist.github.com/1594482