jakobegger

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by jakobegger 7y ago
Another metaphor: if someone decided not to pave their driveway, because they don't want it to get so hot in the summer, would you tell them, hey I'm not going to visit you until you pave your driveway?
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by jakobegger 7y ago
> make sure you don’t leech off of those around you I think that's a toxic attitude. Picking up the phone for someone else every now and then is really not a big of a hassle. Obviously I don't know the whole situation, but in g
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by jakobegger 7y ago
Sorry, for some reason I assumed that the question was about Vinyl vs. CD, maybe because my preference for physical media seems like something obvious that needs no explanation. Another factor is that I have the same analog hifi system sinc
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by jakobegger 7y ago
I hate everything about CDs. The flimsy jewel cases that break all the time, the tiny artwork, how easily CDs scratch, how choosing a song requires clicking stupid buttons, the delay after inserting CDs, the high pitched whine of the motor,
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by jakobegger 7y ago
So you think that companies don't care what candidates might tell their peers... But at the same time they're sponsoring meetups and conferences, hosting coding contests, sending people to career fairs, buying huge ads on job plat
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by jakobegger 7y ago
Maybe OP doesn't want to burn any bridges just because one interviewer at a big company behaved like 90% of interviewers do.
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by jakobegger 7y ago
> If you make a conclusion on made up data you get bogus conclusion No. You work with made up numbers to understand the problem. Then you can make conclusions even without knowing the precise numbers. For example, my analysis doesn'
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by jakobegger 7y ago
> The lawyers are correctly suggesting how to minimise legal risk, it's up to HR and the company if they feel like the risk is worth it. A good lawyer should also tell you how big the risk is that you are avoiding, otherwise their a
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by jakobegger 7y ago
I made them up.
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by jakobegger 7y ago
> In Germany every single lawyer or HR responsible would tell you not to send any reason at all I can't imagine that this makes any sense. Let's say you give every interviewee feedback: - 90% of candidates will be grateful - 10
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by jakobegger 7y ago
> Aesthetics matter. Everyone seems to think that, and then they produce software that looks beautiful and is horrible to use. Gray buttons and scrollbars at least make it obvious which part of the UI you can click!
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by jakobegger 7y ago
> GNSS accuracy is poor in forests, canyons, and dense urban environments I feel like this should be solvable on the software side, especially for medium or long distance runs. If I look at the traces, I can see that the recorded zig-zag
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by jakobegger 7y ago
Looks like they changed the disclosure at some point. The original version of the article is here: http://archive.is/QCmA6
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by jakobegger 7y ago
Training a junior dev is going to take a bit more than two weeks. I'm convinced that remote work is something that works only for some people and some kinds of tasks. Anything that requires a lot of coordination sucks doing remote.
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by jakobegger 7y ago
Yeah, but currently everyone seems to focus just on those few customers who like subscriptions. Nobody caters to the guys who don't like subscriptions. (Or maybe just nobody blogs about it)
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by jakobegger 7y ago
In my experience 90% of the barrel connectors use 12V and the only difference is the amp rating. And you can always use a higher rated device.
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by jakobegger 7y ago
Electrical plugs have evolved besides adding a ground wire, at least in the EU. The most recent improvement is that most new outlets are now child-save (while staying compatible with legacy plugs). And I think that it‘s a good thing that th
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by jakobegger 7y ago
The EU regulations are doing one good thing: they are giving a small competitive advantage to companies that don't track you. For example, I've stopped using Google search, because I had enough of the creepy tracking on Google. I
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by jakobegger 7y ago
> ... serious engineering challenges ... I'd say there are serious physical challenges with this problem. Wireless power transfer over distances of more than an inch without big parabolic antennas is about as realistic as hoverboard
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by jakobegger 7y ago
I bought this library a few years ago: https://www.libxl.com/purchase.html I don't know how profitable the business is, but if the problem is popular enough it should be possible to make money? Also, when you are selli
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by jakobegger 7y ago
I read your previous post about Zestful, and this years update, and I just don't understand who would buy this as a hosted API. To me, it sounds like this should be a library, not an API. For every use case that I can think of, having
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by jakobegger 7y ago
> What are they going to do all day? Be on-call. You need the sysadmins to be available to fix issues when they happen, even if the fixing itself takes little time. > ... university lab ... I developed a few web sites for universities
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by jakobegger 7y ago
I guess this also requires an organisation/business account? Because I can't get that either, because Apple doesn't allow sole proprietors like myself to get a business account. I can only get an individual account. Which mea
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by jakobegger 7y ago
If I want to add "sign in with github" I need to read some docs, get an api key, implement the feature, done. If I want to add "sign in with apple", I need to read some docs, then read a bunch of forum posts because the
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by jakobegger 7y ago
> To test I needed an Apple ID with 2FA. Apple make it such a pain in the ass to get Apple IDs. For example, they block emails from small domains. So I can't use my company email address to get an apple ID.... and I found that out b
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by jakobegger 7y ago
I've talked to a few people who were victims of burglaries, and the value of the stolen stuff never worried them. The violation of their home was what worried them. It messes with you when you know someone broke into your home. So peop
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by jakobegger 7y ago
Your argument breaks down as soon as you move away from the most abstract concepts like "fire", and start looking at slightly more concrete things like "gas stove" or "napalm bomb". One of these is not like the
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by jakobegger 7y ago
I agree that you should use care when using file. My app relied on "file" to identify file types, and in some cases it mis-identified some Microsoft Office files. The problem was that Apple ships a very old magic file with macOS,
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by jakobegger 7y ago
At least it puts a limit on how much RAM something can use. VM is always extremely slow, and once your RAM is full performance slows to a crawl...
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by jakobegger 7y ago
I think a big problem is that Apple puts all the maintenance effort on developers. On iOS, developers have to update apps at least once a year to make sure they keep working. On the Mac, as on Windows, you could just keep using an old app f

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