I'm not sure in what kind of barbaric anarchy you are living to give you that perspective, but you can't be more wrong.

Again, Germany is highly individualistic. Respect for privacy is very high here. What you say is simply fictitious because most neighbors have no idea what other neighbors doing, because they do not poke nose in others affairs - not without an invitation.

But yes, if you do openly something illegal, just like in any other country, you would be reported to authorities. That's because law (which is the same literally all around the world) makes you an accomplice if you do not report crime.

If you were ever convicted in Germany, that might explain your sentiment.

Germany is highly individualistic. Yet, if you put individual over society, than it simply means that there is no cohesive society. And the society is there to deal with global problems of which there were plenty in recent times.

Mafia? Organized international crime syndicates? Fit your requirements perfectly.

I do not think it is anti-business per se.

In one German book about business, in the basics, I have read that business is like a privilege bestowed for the benefit of the society. And imagine that: there were no mention of money nowhere near the definition.

In other words, it is not seen as a device for personal enrichment. And it is handled as such, at the very least, to cause no harm to people and society.

In the end, I do not see the lack of an overcrowded tech town as a shortcoming. If a packed tech community is your thing, then there are several cities with strong tech sector - Berlin, Munich, Frankfurt, Dresden, Nuremberg, etc, their satellites - which provide enough opportunities for businesses and workers.

That is not uncommon opinion.

But IMO the opinion is biased by the human perception.

For example, some interesting areas of algebra are so weird and require such level of (let's call it) free thinking, that the normal human brains simply refuse to work with them. Or the brains simply fry after too much trying. The tales about mathematicians degenerating as human beings as they advance in the math, have unfortunately a lot of truth to them.

My personal counter-argument to the opinion: show me a "1" in the nature. Because even a singular particle isn't really "one".

And the question is much easier on normal people, compared to: show me a 0 in the nature? The very concept of the zero - of what it represents - is unnatural.

Shameless plug for Germany.

Though I do not have personal experience working/living in UK, over the years met lots of people who were simply orgasmic after the move from UK to Germany. Especially the London with its outrageous rent prices.

Munich is good place too. And if you are in the financial software, Frankfurt am Main is the place to go.

Much better living standards than the UK in general and London in particular.

The language in large cities in general is not a problem too. Some companies (esp international) require the fluent English, and often offer help to those who just move from abroad.

You have mixed up your sciences.

Div by zero is not defined in the math, in the definition of the operation division.

Div by zero is defined in the applied math.

Ah, you naive physicists. Your attempts at trying to attach the math to reality always make me smile. And your believe that the human words mean the same thing in math - that's just hilarious.

Because, it is just math. It's human invention and we can do whatever we like with it.

But to the point: division by zero is not illegal - it is simply not defined.

The usual mathematical workaround is to simply define another operation - "zivition" or whatever you like - which is just like division, but in case of X/0, it has value of X or 1 or 0 or whatever you like. Or one can even go step further and define the zivition as ternary operation: ziv(X, Y, Z) = { div(X,Y), Y!=0; Z, Y==0 }

A dangerous proposition. Some might counter it by questioning just how much the Philae's mission was really "necessary", and not just huge waste of funds and resources.

Or probably because world wants to push scientists to find alternatives?

Anyway. Nuclear power is one of those "not in my backyard" things. It's good - as long you live far enough from it. You do not "fear" it, unless it actually hits you. (And I am saying this as a person who as a child actually lived in the ex-USSR's area mildly affected by disaster of Chernobyl.)

If old KGB tales are to be believed, the secret services have subtle ways of communicating to each other such things.

The main purpose of such communication is to avoid (A) diplomatic scandals and (B) bilateral witch hunts.

In one of the documentaries about the Cold War time, a retired KGB agent was telling that one ways is to start almost openly tailing the compromised agents.

From description, it sounds like the AppArmor.

The perldelta mentions that there were a number of fixes/enhancements to floating point numbers handling implemented.

I'm not sure why the hex fp (a rather obscure feature) was singled out for the summary.

I know I'm in minority, but this is plain bullshit.

Google continuously pumping "releases" is what causes the fragmentation.

There are just too many "releases" of Android.

It is fine to pop 2-3 releases a year - if you are niche player targeted at geeks. But it is not, if you want to serve near billion users of several thousand different device types.

People who put drug dealers away might be actually enlightened. At least they deserve our thanks.

Drug dealers OTOH are definitely "clever beasts" who envision themselves "at the top of the animal kingdom".

I do think life sentence is excessive. But I think that some people have quite idealistic view on the criminals.

Women manipulate men, film at 11.

Do you even have an experience with such malware ridden installers?

The creators abuse every possible linguistic trick on the book to confuse the user about what s/he had selected and what is going to be installed. Sometimes even blatantly lying and claiming that something will not work properly if you choose not to install the optional "performance enhancer".

I had to deal once with such installer for a freebie game, which was bundled with 5(?) pieces of malware. Luckily for me it was an InstallShield which was showing a summary screen of what is going to be installed before doing anything. I had to go through the install wizard three times before the summary screen was showing that only the game itself would be installed. The last one was the trickiest: in description they used effectively triple negative and user had to actually check the box to not to install the malware.

A nifty infographic.

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