mindjiver

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by mindjiver 2mo ago
Wonderful read and welcome to you! I'm also a new citizen to Germany since this winter, lived here over 10 years now. It's a great place to live, at least in the north - have not tried much else, but the complaining can be a bit t
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by mindjiver 3mo ago
It is, I guess it's depending what you wish to achieve. I'm a independent software consultant based in Germany (no employees etc, also not selling any SaaS or anything) and I've got a liability insurance to cover any mess ups
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by mindjiver 11mo ago
Well, parents could also set some ground rules for iPad usage and enforce them! I don't think another screen is a good solution to get someone off a screen. You can just play a normal board game with the kids.
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by mindjiver 1y ago
Funny, since German is my third language but I guess it creeps into my second and first languages as well.
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by mindjiver 1y ago
We are talking about a splinter party (BSW) from the main left party (Die Linke) which is a kind of anti-woke- and anti-immigration-party that spouts basically the normal Kremlin propaganda lines about Ukraine. There is of course anti-US se
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by mindjiver 1y ago
Also I think the incident is over 10 years old as well, if it's the problem I think it is.
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by mindjiver 2y ago
This really took me back. Back then before Git was a big thing (2010/2011-ish) I had the misfortune to work at a very large user of IBM Rational ClearCase and it was so awful. However it was so bad and so expensive that I managed to ge
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by mindjiver 7y ago
I work remotely from Germany but I have only worked for US based companies for this reason. There a handful of German companies being remote though, Giant Swarm for example.
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by mindjiver 7y ago
I got different answers from the people I talked to, the lawyer, accountant and insurance broker all told me different things, i.e. if I was to start a GmbH, a Gewerbe or be Selbständig/Freiberufler. In the end I went the Selbständig-r
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by mindjiver 7y ago
Yeah,as someone that did the switch from employment to self-employment in Germany it was not exactly straight forward.
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by mindjiver 7y ago
I think I remember my previous employment contract here in Germany stating that talking about salary was a fireable offense. Can't remember anything similar in Sweden. Just some datapoints.
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by mindjiver 7y ago
I'm skeptical that this will turn into a conviction. The deep pockets of the auto industry takes them a long way into the different state and federal governments in Germany.
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by mindjiver 8y ago
I don't find Swedes so reluctant to speak about salaries anymore, I think it has changed the last 10 years or so. Maybe this is just my reflections as a Swede though. I mean, your income tax return is public information so if someone w
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by mindjiver 8y ago
True, it causes problems with recruitment since it is very hard to get people to drop up to a week of holiday to join us. I would love to have 28 or 30 days..
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by mindjiver 8y ago
Pretty sure I have to pay for health insurance with my actual salary in Germany, the employer does however cover half the cost of it. It does not come included (e.g. 100% payed by the employer) like with the national insurance system in Swe
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by mindjiver 8y ago
Sure, that should be enough for home user. But even in my part of the woods (Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) which is quite rural with smaller villages lacking even these type of connections. There was a story in the local newspaper of a stonemason
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by mindjiver 8y ago
As recent transplant to Germany from Sweden (moved here about 2 years ago) I observe these things daily. Cable connection being 'state-of-art' for Internet access and bad phone reception more or less everywhere. Not being able to
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by mindjiver 9y ago
A map of the new locations can be found here: https://www.thelocal.se/20170404/map-amazon-to-open-three-ne... . Seems like the one in Västerås is right next to the Westinghouse uranium fuel factory. Sadly no power plant
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by mindjiver 10y ago
I'll be working in Berlin for 3 months this summer and the company I'll be working for recommended the following sites: https://www.city-wohnen.de/ https://www.thehomelike.com/?lang=en http:&#x2
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by mindjiver 13y ago
This. I work at a big Erlang shop and the "dependency handling" is either git submodules or rebar which is glorified submodules. I think this is due to packaging not being sexy enough to work on, much more fun to think about the i
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by mindjiver 13y ago
I read somewhere(?) that they where running Perforce with some internal tooling built on top of it.
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by mindjiver 13y ago
At a previous job I migrated a quite large code base to git. IIRC it was at least 500k files and a couple of 10MLOCs. We had the same "scaling" issues Facebook mentioned here when trying to place all of this inside one repository.
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by mindjiver 13y ago
National security will always be the number 1 priority with the kind of neighbour Latvia has.
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by mindjiver 13y ago
Both TD-SCDMA and TD-LTE are standardised by 3GPP, just like WCDMA and FD-LTE. So they are not proprietary standards.
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by mindjiver 13y ago
Yes, but that normally involves lots of inline-shell-scripting and connecting a wide array of plugins together. It's not exactly a stream-lined process.
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by mindjiver 13y ago
And I agree to this as well. :) Our setup is quite special and in that case Gerrit/submodule subscription sort of works. But in hindisght we should have also tried to migrate to some generic packaging system. The reason for going with submo
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by mindjiver 13y ago
I introduced git at $DAY_JOB roughly 2 years ago and based it on submodules. We use the submodule subscription feature of Gerrit to lessen the pain [1]. So submodules are not that bad but I really believe they are trying to solve a proble
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by mindjiver 13y ago
Of course, this is France we are talking about :) So either large politically connected media companies or large state bureaucracies will benefit from this.
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by mindjiver 13y ago
Interesting how similar this is an advanced 4G cell network. In previous generations of networks there was always a "controller" node taking care of the handover between the cells. This of course didn't scale very well when there was a spik
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by mindjiver 13y ago
Man, I can list so many reasons, starting with a very risk averse society, then continuing with very bad economic policies during the period after WWII up until our big finical crisis in the 1990. Please note that I have some libertarian te

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