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clupprich | 10 years ago | on: Footage of life in Nazi Austria, thanks to a new video archive

Your statement is probably true for the majority of the generation after WWII (with politicians leading the way), but definitely not for "The modern Austrian" (where I count myself in). We are well aware of what happened back then and we definitely know that Austrian people were involved of the cruelties that happened in WWII and before it.

There's also a Wikipedia entry about the Victim theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_theory. As you can read there official Austria confessed the role of Austria during WWII in 1991. That's late, I know. But also, that was nearly 30 years ago. That's what I would call "modern".

clupprich | 10 years ago | on: In need of some ideas? Here are a couple of mine

Regarding Offline bookmarks:

I'm really surprised that nobody made a product with this idea/concept already. I probably have a few hundred unread items across all ex-popular and now-popular bookmarking services (Pocket, Safari's Reading List, now-dead Google Reader, delicious). For me, the big problem always was that I bookmark interesting reads, but then I don't come back to it. Or I bookmark it, actually read it, but then never come back to it to check out what's new stories of the author.

clupprich | 10 years ago | on: Webpack and React.js starter kit

Nice! How about adding a .eslintrc with some default settings for react and es6? I find that most people starting new with these frameworks would benefit a lot from it and it would shorten their feedback cycle.

clupprich | 12 years ago | on: New Treehouse site launches

Like the redesign! Is it Bootstrap based?

Some feedback: the button hover states could be a bit more intense and some transitions would be nice (e.g. the navigation flyout on smartphones). The navigation button is also missing a cursor: pointer attribute.

clupprich | 12 years ago | on: Ship Tracking Hack Makes Tankers Vanish from View

No entirely true: A lot of information is transmitted via AIS these days. For example current water depths (St Lawrence Seaway or on the Danube in Europe) are transmitted and used for navigation on these waterways. You also have the possibility to place a distress signal with AIS, which would quite likely lead to a Search and Rescue operation, costing huge amounts of money and taking away resources from real emergencies.

AIS is directly connected to an ECDIS on a ship's bridge, which is the digital replacement for maritime paper charts. AIS targets are displayed in these ECDIS systems and (see above) in some regions of the world the information shown there is also influenced by AIS data.

Also a lot of ports are using AIS (together with radar) to keep an eye on the traffic - spamming those systems, which is easily possible, would quite likely cause severe troubles for larger ports like London or Los Angeles.

I'm honestly surprised that nobody has yet DoS'd a larger port or other infrastructure.

clupprich | 14 years ago | on: Rbenv, an unobtrusive rvm replacement

I think this quite reflects the whole evolution theory - something quite good is replaced by something a little bit better, which is again replaced by something a bit better, and so on, and so on, and so on.
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