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by amm 3y ago
>AST SpaceMobile does not seem like they are operating a viable business model. They have been publicly traded for several years and the market seems to agree. Why would the stock price for a pre-revenue company with massive capex needs
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by amm 3y ago
Cool stuff, but it sure looks like they shipped a premature version asap to front-run the competition. AST SpaceMobile is getting ready for commercial ops this year with „full broadband“ 5G satellites. For the record, I am not affiliated wi
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by amm 3y ago
Back-of-the-envelope approach that should eliminate most branching: int table[256] = {0}; void
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by amm 4y ago
Let's see. ASTS claims to have solved this problem. Apparently their satellites have 30mbit+/s throughput with regular 5G smartphones at <100ms latency. If this stuff works (big if), it's going to disrupt the cell tower in
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by amm 4y ago
> What's your source for good cost of launching satellite communication networks? - falcon 9 - $2700/kg - falcon heavy - $1400/kg - ariane 5 - $9000/kg > If the current one works - why would they? This is just low
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by amm 4y ago
Too little, too expensive, too late? Once again the EU is playing catch up with last gen tech. Starlink is almost 10 years old - conceptually even older. Iridium has been around for over 25 years. If the EU was serious, it should have inves
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by amm 5y ago
CPU market fragmentation in the pro-sumer space is not necessarily a bad thing and might pave the way for RISC-V adoption in the coming years. More competition and a more diverse product landscape usually ends up benefitting the customers.
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by amm 8y ago
It depends on the project. Java is the goto language in more conservative environments (e.g. insurance, banking, government) and I never had to justify using it there. In small shops/startups it’s different. Hype is a real thing and ru
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by amm 8y ago
Vienna, Austria. It has been ranked the most liveable city in the world for some years in a row. Cost of living is low compared to the European average; you can rent a medium-sized apartment for 600-700€/month. Everyone speaks English.
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by amm 11y ago
(Global) notifications are sometimes the only sane way to deliver a message from one part of your application to another one without explicitly wiring them together. If you're working with some kind of plugin system they're also i
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by amm 11y ago
Degrees only matter for "serious companies" and are used as a filter by often clueless HR employees without technical background. As long as you can prove practical experience, you should be fine. Your network, on the other hand,
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by amm 11y ago
I don't get the point. Ad-blockers are available for Android and most non-tech people don't even know that ad-blockers exist. So for the large majority, nothing will change unless Apple ships with ad-blocking on by default (which
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by amm 11y ago
Different things work for different people, and there's a LOT of anecdotal evidence on the internet about that "one routine/diet/..." that will fix your health in a month. That's not how it works and it's
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by amm 12y ago
Never burn bridges. Keep it as formal as possible and be polite. If you have an exit interview, don't complain about former peers or managers.
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by amm 12y ago
The formal verification subject is tricky. For a lot of software (especially in the web startup world) it is often not possible to hire someone trained in formal methods to perform extensive checks/proofs on software which undergoes ra
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by amm 12y ago
We use docker extensively to ship a large and complex legacy platform that was designed to run as a hosted service, but was transformed into an on-premise product. The system is composed of several components originally designed to run on s
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by amm 14y ago
>When did you use Haskell? Roughly two years ago. >I think the silliness about PhD's is very very silly. Of course it is. I just wanted to make a point that the "average programmer" has probably never seen a single line of ML-syntax
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by amm 14y ago
For personal projects or for learning the principles of FP, there is nothing wrong with using Haskell. From personal experience however, I will not be using Haskell again for a larger professional project, because our team ran into too many
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by amm 14y ago
> I've had first-hand experience of how technology choices affect companies and it can be very painful down the road. I've had the same experience. A couple of years ago we decided to implement a rather large part of a project in JRuby
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by amm 14y ago
I am from Vienna as well and I have been working for about 5 years in this city. From my experience, almost all numbers in job adverts are merely symbolic. You are supposed to negotiate. If you have some expertise and make a good impression