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Continental Europeans have very bad experiences with British tourists. I really like Brits, but just if they stay on their Islands. And I am quite sure I get support from around a 100 Million dead guys from India.

Turks are a very big community (I guess more than 20 Million counting all generations) in Germany with a lot of not well adapted folk.

In my 2500 souls german home village live people from more than 40 nations. I never heard negative comments about them from one of the natives. But the shithole you live in of course may vary.


Aren't you just proving my point, though? Your post is objectively xenophobic.

> Continental Europeans have very bad experiences with British tourists

Funnily enough I've never been anywhere where our trashy British tourists go (why would I?). So actually I don't know what they're like, but I've heard very bad things. I've also heard even worse things about the Dutch, though.

> And I am quite sure I get support from around a 100 Million dead guys

Well whoever they are that you're talking about, they are dead, so I am not sure they're in a position to support you at all. Having said that, I wonder what the all the dead Europeans and Jews murdered by Germans would think of Germany.

> But the shithole you live in of course may vary

I live and work in Hamburg.

>Turks are a very big community (I guess more than 20 Million counting all generations) in Germany with a lot of not well adapted folk.

Yes, because of how the majority ethnic German population treated them and continues to treat them. It's a very racist country. That's what living and working in Germany and falling in love with a Turkish German taught me. Thank you for the cultural exchange.


People will always find reasons to complain:

‘Cliched’: Turkish-Germans react as president brings kebab on Istanbul trip

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/24/cliched-turkis...

(Not trying to make a point, I just found the controversy kind of funny.)


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Since you've continued to break the site guidelines egregiously (e.g. "Are you mentally ill?") after we asked you to stop, I've banned this account.

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> Are you mentally ill?

Is that really necessary? Also I'll second it, your comments are objectively xenophobic.

> never about Scots, either

Considering there are 10x less of them not particularly suprising...

> And yes, other monkeys are murderish assholes, too

Germans specifically (the British never even came close historically...). Or you won't say it?


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I think it's great you're engaging in casual anglophobia and xenophobia, it just perfectly demonstrates how xenophobic Germany is, it's such a nice example.

I have a funny story, my grandfather actually was German and fought for the Nazi German Empire in WW2 and moved to the UK afterwards. He used to cry about how much worse the English were and how unfair it all is that the Nazi German Empire (your Nazi ancestors) is vilified compared to the English. Will you bring up the Boer War now? He used to do that too. Anyway it's all very on brand for a German to give off pretty familiar national socialist vibes. Takes me right back to my childhood trying to navigate interactions with that autistic old man :')

Funnily enough, they do say that German society is like one where everyone is autistic. It all adds up!


> never about Scots, either

Scots _are_ Brits.


Actually your post is really useful, thanks. It's a perfect display of how so many Germans respond to criticism of their country by immigrants who live there.

Reader: never let anyone tell you Germans aren't nationalistic. They are as nationalistic as anyone, they are simply more subtle about it and eschew overt symbolism.

>I doubt your objectivism.

Yes, to truly understand the racism of Germany, I have to witness someone who I do not give a shit about being victimised. If I care about that person, then it doesn't count and I am not allowed to form an opinion. Lol.


Please don't respond to a bad comment by breaking the site guidelines yourself. That only makes things worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html


Sorry.


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I have a job here. The job is fun.


We Butter the Bread with Butter


Search for a partner who kicks you in the ass.

And if your memory problems do not have genetic or other physiological causes, do physical exercises and try diets. If a keto-like diet does not work, try a carbo rich one.


I do not like that Python does not allow tz-naive time to be interpreted as UTC, which does not need a timezone. So you have to waste space by using a tz-aware format or you have to add the TZ +00 manually in some way.


If an app needs a DB anyway, has ZeroMQ then advantages over a DB based MQ, like PostgreSQL LISTEN/NOTIFY or SQLite with update_hook?

Did anybody compare throughput/latency for these approaches? Edit: ... for the basic zmq patterns PUB/SUB, REQ/REP, Client/Server


My 2 €cents from a limited and outdated experience with visual programming tools:

1. Screens have limited size and resolution, and the limits get hit rather fast. The problem can be pushed away by zooming, by maybe an order of magnitude, but for a long living project growing in size and complexity, it will not be enough.

2. In text, near everything is just a grep (fzf,...) away. With the power of regex, if needed. Do the no-code folks nowadays implement a equally powerful search functionality? I had very bad experience with this.

3. Debugging: although the limited possibilities of plugging graphical items together is like an enhanced strict type safety, I'm sure that errors somehow happen. How is the debugging implemented in the visual tools?

4. To store/restore the visual model, the tool developer needs to develop a binary/textual/SQL/... representation and unique source of truth for it. I think the step from that to a good textual DSL is smaller than to a GUI. And the user can more or less effortless use all the powerful tools already developed for shells, IDEs, editors, ....

So in my opinion most of the visual programming things are wasted time and wasted effort.


Extending #2, we've developed incredibly flexible and powerful tools for editing plain text. I've found refactoring to be a breeze with Vim macros, and people swear by Sublime's multi-cursor editing. Even with a good set of hotkeys, I can't imagine a visual environment being as smooth to edit.


There’s areas it’s good for: Beaten paths, modeling time-independent structures and things that are naturally 2D. Not so great for the final solution, but handy when you need to do quick iterations. Ex. the interface builder in xcode, the node system in blender, sound synthesis…


In my body, a Benzodiazepine cessation causes a drop of the blood pressure to around 70/30 for a few days. Kept me in bed.


Just talking about the types:

I found them more helpful than the Big Five. But there is definitively missing "Type 0: Ape: I follow".

And I do not think that a person fits just one type. They are more, like the Big Five, traits with a spectrum.


I made a CLI password manager with Python.

It uses PBKDF2HMAC and Fernet to encrypt a SQLite DB.


"Something seems to have happened around 50,000 years ago, shortly after which all other species of human such as Neanderthals and the so-called Hobbit died out."

Isn't the current estimate, that Neanderhals and Danisovans died out around 45000 years ago? Or does he refer only to the region of the cave? And the Homo floresiensis died out 10000 years ago (or 100 years ago, or he still exists, if some Anthropologists are right).

And what I do not understand about the cave archeology: nobody who lives as a nomadic hunter & gatherer lives in a cave. The climate inside is near unbearable if you are accustomed to free air. Maybe one can stay a little time in the mouth of a cave. When the weather conditions outside are as ugly as they can get. Or if the population density got so bad, that an easy to defend place is necessary. The findings IMO are more probable a result of population dynamics than brain development.


Homo floriensis appears to have died out around 50k years ago: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35930979

And isn't 45k around 50k? That seems like a reasonable statement to me.


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