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by mto 5y ago
Yeah that's cynical ;). I for example am with my current startup for 5 years now and can hardly find anything to complain about. Previous job was 4 years and was also ok although there it was a bit too much management for me me ;). Be
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by mto 6y ago
True. If you got two kids (I do) one can just look for both while the other one can have their shower/toilet/sleep whatever. Actually we are often taking turns sleeping.
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by mto 6y ago
Yeah Python culture is generally pretty "direct". I did mostly python the last decade and got so used to "no problem to read the source of pytorch or whatever" that I meanwhile really feel challenged when I look at Java,
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by mto 6y ago
As I've been mostly using Python for the last 10 years I forgot how nice this dot thing can be ;). True that vscode and pycharm can give you something but I found that it's very often crap. I am writing a little bit of C# atm and
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by mto 6y ago
Good point. I have been playing with lots of niche languages but in the end I also find that focusing my learning elsewhere is usually a better idea. Even more, I don't know many of the features of the languages I use although I have b
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by mto 6y ago
Recently seen some statistics (if I could just find them) where clojure was one of those languages with more people wanting to work with it than jobs. Compared to something like Go where it was the other way round
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by mto 6y ago
Sadly true. How often do I see this bay area etc. "whining" that some house means a couple years of saving up cash. Here most people I know first save up for 10 years and then pay back 1300-2000k€ a month for 30 years for their ho
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by mto 6y ago
Teaching second semester CS students atm I unfortunately see that many students just can't handle it remotely. Although I admit that I'm skeptical if students unable to do some work independently are... a good fit. I live in a Eur
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by mto 7y ago
Well, in Austria you can get up to three years paid leave and freely choose between parents, so not sure if the article is correct. Question is how much the payment is, we get less the longer we take it. Alternatively you can also take a ye
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by mto 7y ago
Time for another round of Subnautica
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by mto 7y ago
Most I know take off 2 weeks. Many companies even Full close down for a week or two. I'm in Europe so YMMV but still I'm currently working for a US startup and will be gone for good starting now
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by mto 7y ago
I work 25 hours a week remotely as freelancer (although I'm available in slack more or less all the time) and earn nearly twice as much as during my PhD. Only that in more than 3 years I never really got into demotivated/frustrate
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by mto 7y ago
Read that article couple years ago, but still I just have to look at the quality of all the electric devices around me... It's not all bridges and hospitals. Heck, even my electric toothbrush from Philipps can't make it through a
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by mto 7y ago
Yeah in Vienna, Austria we also got a little hill (and also those holes for ages)
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by mto 8y ago
Right ;)
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by mto 8y ago
From Gavin Belson we know that you can never ever trust your blood boy.
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by mto 8y ago
Personally I liked Andrew Ng’s course much more. While fast.ai seems to have some practical gems hidden, it's just so much noise surrounding it. So much time wasted just by stating over and over again why their top down approach is so
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by mto 8y ago
Yeah especially compared to interrupting the editor, grepping code, parsing results getting back in, opening file and line number.. Find in files/project in Visual Studio makes that so much faster, also you can easily jump through all
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by mto 8y ago
2 is a really good point. It's the right wing parties here who talk most about direct democracy bla bla (but in reality only for stuff they would like to have). And present themselves as the people for the masses. Not that different to
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by mto 8y ago
Only that basically every right winger I've left didn't call himself right but center. Might be a European thing because they'll quickly call you Nazi otherwise, but still... "I'm not a racist, but...". The oth
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by mto 8y ago
Most gamers will object to the last paragraph. There are really a lot of strong friendships without ever meeting in person. Back then eben without ever hearing each other's voice. I've been working for a startup at the other end o
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by mto 8y ago
Well, I usually don't care for some time. But if you play a lot and you see this crap every evening for hours... it just starts to dampen the mood. For me at least. I can not ignore the chat, from time to time there's useful stuff
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by mto 8y ago
Agree. I think Guild Wars 2 is a good example (in stark contrast to GW1). There are a lot of people but you don't really have to bother dealing with them. But the game itself embraces anonymous "the more the merrier". You do
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by mto 9y ago
While I agree about voice (and that even though I've been working on TTS for 6 years now ;)), I don't think screens and keyboards should be the ultimate goal, but rather something like brain-computer interfaces.
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by mto 9y ago
Nice, but similar to Scandinavian countries is exaggerated. I'm from Austria and we have up to 3 years of state paid m/paternity leave, contracts must not be terminated before and after that, employers must not pay you less after
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by mto 9y ago
Right, my move-to countries are similar but our neighbors don't come first for me. More like Scotland/UK, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Germany, US. But perhaps Germany is too similar to Austria so I don't really see any real ad
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by mto 9y ago
Well, apart from the US in most western countries you have a strong social safety net so you don't have to marry because of financial worries. Actually it's sometimes shocking when you see some being better off unemployed while wo
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by mto 9y ago
Well it was up to 700 for me. At least in the first years. Also felt the questions were annoying there. Especially because it was so basic stuff you can find everywhere in the internet. In the specialized courses in the master there were o
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by mto 9y ago
Ok nevermind, seems there is the max 4 and max 5 system.
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by mto 9y ago
Well, apparently being good at college is not a requirement for becoming professor... But I don't get that US GPA system. If B is the second best grade from 5 available grades, and GPA goes from 1 to 5 with 5 best, shouldn't this

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