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by colinjoy 3y ago
https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/20/apples-enterprise-evolutio... (2018)
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by colinjoy 3y ago
why would it make any difference for the workload of middle management if their reports are in the office or remote? are they responsible for restocking the coffee machine?
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by colinjoy 3y ago
> assuming it will work like the iPad Pro I doubt they would sneak in such a feature without at least mentioning it. I expect this to be even more limited, perhaps just tethered airplay for better resolution.
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by colinjoy 3y ago
Last time I checked, Germany was located in Europe and twitter.com is most definitely down for me.
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by colinjoy 3y ago
I am pressing the retry button as fast as I can to help with recovery. So far, no luck.
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SAP wants to invest 100M in German AI startup Aleph Alpha(marketscreener.com)
1 points by colinjoy 3y ago|0 comments
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by colinjoy 4y ago
> Like how in Germany the government guarantees every German bank balance … up to the amount of 100k per customer, so less than the FDIC guarantee. There are additional, voluntary, insurances given by groups of banks. These are also limi
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Ask HN: How to identify a good quality electronics
3 points by colinjoy 4y ago|1 comments
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by colinjoy 4y ago
As someone who dabbles in code without too much of an idea of what he is doing, using pure functions whenever possible helps me reduce cognitive complexity and makes the code more easily testable.
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by colinjoy 4y ago
Misconduct. E.g. not fulfilling your contractual duties as an employee or actively causing damage to the company. Still, a warning needs to be issued before a termination in all but the most severe cases. (Germany)
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by colinjoy 4y ago
That idea of productivity is odd to me. If I build a house for you and you build a house for me and we both compensate each other with the same $ amount for the work, is that a net productivity of 0? Two new houses got build.
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by colinjoy 4y ago
> They are not any better or worse than MS/Google/Amazon etc… You sure? I would be surprised if MS, Google and Amazon are the same when it comes to how they handle and use PII. Note that I say that "I doubt", because
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by colinjoy 4y ago
For me it’s about paying for a slightly smoother UX and for supporting the growth of the Mastodon ecosystem. I hope that good 3rd party apps will eventually also ease the onboarding of less techie audiences. I hate subs, but I might make an
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by colinjoy 4y ago
Surely nobody would use that format and allow a commit message including emojis to cause an effective DOS for a large Sonarqube project.
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by colinjoy 4y ago
Before you get bombarded with advice on how to make applications pretty, here goes my recommendation for how to get better at designing them: Read the classics: - "The Inmates are running the Asylum" (A. Cooper) - "The
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by colinjoy 4y ago
Even if that was true (which I believe it is not), wouldn't that already constitute "interest in dealing with businesses"? They want businesses to buy iDevices and use them for business purposes. Whatever you think on this, y
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by colinjoy 4y ago
I think you may be wrong here. There is a consumerisation of the enterprise IT and Apple is happy to grab a big piece of that cake (and not unsuccessful) when it comes to push their devices into the business market. If they had no interest
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by colinjoy 4y ago
While AWS, GCP and Azure are all moving towards offering more higher level services(?), I think it is fair to say that when "competing with AWS" is on the table, people associate it with IaaS/PaaS offerings. Providing more cl
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by colinjoy 4y ago
I think it is more likely that we will see an Apple Coffee Machine. I could see them utilizing their silicone expertises and some creative thinking to launch an espresso capsule subscription unlike what is currently available. This, or any
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by colinjoy 4y ago
For some reason I just had WireCard cross my mind.
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by colinjoy 4y ago
Self-hosted Drupal is an open source, community run project, that is free as in beer. A lot of headless CMS are SaaS products, it seems. Apples and oranges. Is there a good resource listing/comparing the headless CMS options that are e
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by colinjoy 4y ago
Given how subscription models are also pushed down the throat of consumers, who do not want them, I would believe that the love for ARR plays an even bigger role.
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by colinjoy 4y ago
What constitutes good quality glasses? Or rather: good quality lenses? The frames are mostly a matter of taste, but for the optical component, is a €150 piece of glass significantly better than a €100 piece of glass? Who has the lead in mat
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by colinjoy 4y ago
Probably less related to C++ as a language and more so an "embedded" issue or down to the specific industry that your friend is in. E.g., there are hundreds of C++ devs at my company that have the same work from home options and f
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by colinjoy 4y ago
s/make/keep … bad choice of words on my behalf. Argument remains the same.
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by colinjoy 4y ago
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33387047
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by colinjoy 4y ago
> pantone actually required the removal, as they want to charge customers directly. Tweet by Adobe’s CPO — https://twitter.com/scottbelsky/status/1586903756783992837 What I cannot wrap my head around is why PAN
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by colinjoy 4y ago
> Casio terrorist watch https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F-91W
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by colinjoy 4y ago
If you think that your job is to translate requirements from Jira into code that passes unit tests and ticks the functional requirements - maybe not. If you think that your job is to create interfaces that people don't hate using – may
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by colinjoy 4y ago
There is a common misconception that design is about "how it looks". Design is multidisciplinary at its core. That is not to say that there aren't mediocre designers and architects out there, but I would argue that – when tau

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