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Ich kann einfach nicht verstehen, …

Diesen Satzanfang höre ich immer wieder, mit den unterschiedlichsten Fortsetzungen. Zum Beispiel:

Ich kann einfach nicht verstehen, dass manche Menschen ihre Hunde schlagen.

Ich kann einfach nicht verstehen, wenn Fans sich hämisch am Leiden von Fans anderer Vereine ergötzen.

Ich kann einfach nicht verstehen, wieso Leute Gretha Thunberg angreifen.

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My recent twitter absence

So, I have been off Twitter since September 15th. And it was mostly such a pleasant experience, that I am thinking about how to extend or repeat it.

Yes, there were several occasions in the last days were I missed Twitter, because I wanted to read others experiences or share mine. E.g. during the surprising victory of my dear FC St. Pauli over their local rival HSV. Or when we visited a mindblowing concert by Amanda Fucking Palmer in Hamburg. And the transition to a new team at Nordic Semiconductor continued, which I am really

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I want to enter a timespan from 31.12.2018 to 1.1.2019 on the iPhone. After entering the start date the app prefills 31.12.2018 also as end date. I want to change the day from 31 to 1, but the app always changes it back to 31.

Me: Huh?

So I try to change the month from 12 to 1. Again, the app reverts it back to 12.

Me: Oh, you try to be clever and disallow the end date to be for the start date.

So I first change the year, then the month and than the day and everybody works.

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When I hear a statement like “People like to improve”, I often cringe, because I hear an implicit generalisation. I assume the speaker means “All people like to improve”.

And you know how it is with generalisations: There usually are exceptions to the rule. And with a statement like this, the speaker seems to bluntly wipe out those exceptions.

But maybe I am wrong. Maybe the speaker really means “Most People like to improve”.

I want to worry less and presume more goodwill in others. By assuming, people usually do not mean “all”, but “most”.

Yes, there are cases, when the exceptions are really important and then it is valuable to question whether the speaker really has thought about them. Because the danger of forgetting exceptions lies in neglecting minorities.

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Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am datenreisender on github.
• I am datenreisender (https://keybase.io/datenreisender) on keybase.
• I have a public key whose fingerprint is 3445 F5A5 48FC 6AC4 5604 F18B DE9E 2689 7F99 E911

To claim this, I am signing this object:

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For me the SoCraTes was awesome! I am writing especially “for me” because I assume other people expect different things, e.g. less participatory, from a conference. And also for me, it took me some time to “get into” SoCraTes. What did help, was that I already knew some people (about half a dozen former colleagues were also there) and experienced other unconferences before.

Sessions

Some of the sessions I attended (beside bumblebeeing in and out of others, not mentioned here):

Career path as a developer

Only a bit interesting but my main outtake was to see – again – that others expect a lot of different things from their career and their employer. My age and having a lot of years and some “career twists” in our profession might have given me a different viewpoint here.

Introduction to FP

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using NUnit.Framework;
 
namespace Algebra
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class AlgebraTest
    {
        [Test]
        public void showsAdditionWorks()
        {

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require 'socket'

class CalcMessage
  @@operators = {
   'ADD' => :+,
   'MULTIPLY' => :*,
   'SUBTRACT' => :- }

  def initialize request
    @command, @id, *@numbers = request.split ':'

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import static org.junit.Assert.*;

public class RomanNumbersTest {

	enum Roman {
		C(100), XC(90), L(50), XL(40), X(10), IX(9), V(5), IV(4), I(1);
		final int decimal;
		Roman(int decimal) { this.decimal = decimal; }

		static String of(int n) {

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assertThat(afterScoring(3), scoreIsIncreasedBy(3));
assertThat(afterTeamAScores2(), scoreIs(0,2));
assertThat(after(Team.A).Scored(2), scoreIs(0,2));
assertThat(scorekeeper.countFor(Team.A).points(2), thenScoreIs(0,2));
assertThat(scorekeeper.countFor(Team.A, 2), thenScoreIs(0,2));
assertThat(scorekeeper.countFor(board.selectedTeam(), board.selectedPoints()), thenScoreIs(0,2));