Today is my grandfather's 95th Birthday. He's a proud WWII veteran with a purple heart and bronze star. Let's wish him happy birthday.

Hobbsizzle · 2 months

Tell him best greetings from a German and thanks for helping to liberate Europe.

The war they were fighting back then were far more meaningful and ethical, I suppose, than the wars US soldiers today fight.

christianjb · 2 months

Or, after rereading that History Of The 20th Century book, decide the planet might be better off if we're all sent to Mars.

Sevilst · 3 months

It's not clear, however, how many of these inventions would have been possible without government funding. You may disagree with it, it may cause cognitive dissonance, it may not at all be what reddit would ever upvote, but have a look at this fascinating talk: The Myth of Science as a Public Good

ani625 · 3 months

The laws allowing this kind of case to sometimes be successful are at fault, not all the companies trying to use these laws -- change the laws to prevent this stuff from happening in the first place, then you get rid of all the symptomatic court fights at the same time.

giulivo · 3 months

Upvote, but how did this ever make the Reddit frontpage?

Apotheosis91 · 3 months

He was probably zooming in on his meme picture hoping she'd see it.

Apotheosis91 · 3 months

Indian names are SO funny.

BundesagenturFuerAr · 3 months

I can't see above poster having defined any language, so I assumed it was MakeJokeLanguage, in which this syntax is perfectly valid.

BundesagenturFuerAr · 3 months

Downvoted for putting the punchline in the comment.

BundesagenturFuerAr · 3 months

BMW

As a German, let me correct you: BMW isn't made in Germany, it's from Bavaria, a separatist quasi-independent state to the south of Germany. They're wearing Lederhosen, so it should be easy to tell us apart.

BundesagenturFuerAr · 3 months

I'm always surprised about all the stereotypes about Germans. The one I hear the most is that Germans don't have humor. Then I go to the frontpage of a US-hosted social news site, and they post GIF comics of Whose Line Is It Anyway and collect a bazillion upvotes.

tldr; Monty Python.

BundesagenturFuerAr · 3 months

I've always been very proud of Germany

Best give-away you're not German.

BundesagenturFuerAr · 3 months

public static boolean Deutschland(String Nationalsozialist, String Nachricht)
{
    Boolean Applaus;    
    Applaus = Nachricht != Nationalsozialist;
    Applaus = true; // Befehl von oben
    return Applaus;
}

HDFDK.

Sinnermario · 3 months

No offense, but I think the point is somewhat different.

At college, you learn the proper way to do things, meaningful data structures, elegant algorithms, long-term solutions, maintainable time-tested patterns.
Then, in the hectic and non-optimal real world, you'll just try to make the fricking thing work in any way possible, under extreme time pressure, with a customer who may not really understand the details.

Thing is, the best approach is probably somewhere in the middle of these two. I know as many people who are producing shitty ducttaped code too quickly, as I know people who endlessly goldcoat their programs without delivering. You really want to have a pragmatic, humble team with different people communicating together and caring deeply for the software, and enjoying the creative process of programming, and understand current customer needs as well as long-term plans of where to take the company and its apps; can't hurt at all to have some more theoretical minds as well as some more practical minds on board, and have it bashed out between those. Turns out that sometimes, a bit of paint can be the perfectly right solution for a task.

805primetime · 3 months

We need a Kickstarter-funded web comic for GAY HULK.

iamtheyou · 3 months

Sorry, but you're still missing the point. The point was not that this is an illustration by the Nazis. It does, in fact, not make a bit of a difference whether or not the image in question is Nazi paraphernalia or not, because it would be just anecdotal. You can produce any number of individual items from any number of countries supporting various beliefs, scientific theories, religions and approaches. That should be important if you want to analyze this argument to which my post is a reply to.

iamtheyou · 3 months

Christian ideas were central to the Nazis

Not at all -- they distorted and abused several fields, from religion to science to culture and art to "defensive war" (i.e. pretending Poland attacked first), all in order to control people and power the party and its dictactor. None of these ideas was truly a central motif (though perhaps the science of eugenics convinced more party leaders than ideas of religion, none of which of course should convince us that religion is thus superior, I do not at all believe that). See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Nazi_Germany#Nazi_Attitudes_towards_Christianity

Look beyond the "science vs religion" on this one and see the shades of gray -- it would be more scientific to do so.

iamtheyou · 3 months

My point wasn't that it's a German illustration... sorry, but you missed the argument.

iamtheyou · 3 months

Wikipedia's page on Eugenics.

iamtheyou · 3 months

Hence the quotation marks.

iamtheyou · 3 months

I can play your stupid game, too.

Exactly my point, thank you: http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/pislf/turns_out_the_third_reich_had_god_on_their_side/ (we should admit that the Nazis abused a whole lot of things, and try to look deeper into the argument if we want to discuss it).

clashmo · 3 months

In case you don't see the red circle, it's between doorstep and mattress.

riffraff98 · 3 months

I work mostly on my own projects from home, i.e. no team, but for each line written I ask myself: will I understand this line a year from now? This leads to a lot of verbose explanatory temporary variables which, as the OP puts it, "scream intent".

iamtheyou · 3 months

A pizza with everything on it. Everything.

Snowy_crack · 3 months

Teach English in a foreign country, perhaps somewhere in Asia.

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