throwaway8291

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by throwaway8291 6y ago
My brief analysis tells me that there will be some grinding down in Q2 with a negative peak in Q3. While the virus seems to be "managed", the consequences of millions of people dropping out of the workforce in the first world is n
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by throwaway8291 6y ago
I looked at the data flow paradigm a couple of years ago. Back then I thought that the difference to just a "ordinary" functions is not that big, and for performance (which is important for my data work), you do not want to deviat
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by throwaway8291 6y ago
Thanks SAP for letting me feel like it's 2010, when everyone fell in love with REST (again).
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by throwaway8291 6y ago
I've used Eclipse on and off and always found it to be a bit clunky. Unhelpful error messages coming from the fifty layers of abstraction you did not know about before. Back in the days, I always preferred netbeans - it was just more
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by throwaway8291 6y ago
It's an artificial scarcity, though. We have the most productive technologies ever - we are just not very good to put a better part of them flow towards common good. The amount of senseless applications and waste is staggering.
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by throwaway8291 6y ago
I understand that it's a very broad spectrum. However, what I am observing is that 'capital' gets its hand in any aspect of life, the formerly family owned coffee machine maker, lingerie producer and the outdoor specialist we
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by throwaway8291 6y ago
Why pretend and cloud the idea, that the main reason a person has a "job" today is to accumulate capital for capital. As long as this notion persists (which will be for many more decades I fear) power inequalities will just mean t
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by throwaway8291 6y ago
No, not stupid. It's one scenario, but the time span is absent: do we reach 0.7 in three years or three months? At the current rate probably the latter, which might increase the 0.01 as well, because of a certain overwhelming of the he
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by throwaway8291 6y ago
Nobody knows what is coming, but I'm in the 1M+ camp as well. US is so ill-equipped plus administration is very aware, how devastating the economic consequences are even now (2T stimulus and infinite FED liquidity are already in effect
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by throwaway8291 6y ago
At current pace the whole US will be infected by May (I wonder, whether the market have priced that in already).
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
I hope for the best.
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
How true. I believe the US will see an even worse fallout than Italy - because people who can afford private medical personal tend to question whether healthcare is a business model at all ("Is curing patients a sustainable business mo
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
Spot on. As a consumer of a newer generation: I do not care about 90% of the stuff that's in a modern car. I could not care less about the manufacturer. If it drives and is relatively safe and clean, cool. Best case: I do not even need
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
I leave this here for future reference: if we paint a worst case scenario, by the end of summer 2020, we may have 1M+ casualties in Germany alone. It's hard to assess the global consequences of hundreds of thousands of flats getting va
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
Agreed. I remain amazed until today about his progression. He founded a startup to solve a white upper middle class "problem", raised millions for that, was lucky to get a little bit more when he sold out his startup's users&
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
Anecdata: A guy bought a small usb fan for his laptop, inserted it and bricked this laptop. Not worth the 50% discount in any way. As other comments mentioned, we are entering a hyperfake decade - and we are only at the beginning. I am virt
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
Investors care about making money, period. Whether you burn coal until the planet is inhabitable or John Doe data is sold and packaged up for the next couple of decades without him knowing does not matter at all. It's a strange world f
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
I'm using Firefox for years, after Chrome started to ask me for a login (at around version 40). Never looked back. One day I woke up to a chart showing browser market share of FF at around 4%, which surprised me - as I thought many peo
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
That surprised me, when I first saw it. If someone takes a minute to read the docs (e.g. Python), one would never build something knowing that order is not guaranteed (e.g. order in dictionaries). But seemingly people do.
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
In Germany there is a saying that translates to something like: "SAP sucks the blood out of the Mittelstand" - Mittelstand being the SMB up to 50M revenue p.a. There has to be yet a moment, where I hear someone emphatically speaki
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
They claim machine learning, but I'd guess their workhorse is a "grep -f badwords tweets.json | makepdf | send boss@employer" kind of thingy.
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
Related to that: On many people's mental maps, programming seems to be closeby other things like installing a driver, changing configuration and such. That it is an powerful tool for anything that you do with your mind completely escap
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
Germany.
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
I met two FB engineers a few years back. They seemed average, at most. But one quality stuck out (we spent half a day together at an event): They seemed to be excellent at following company rules.
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
The max I negotiated in Europe was $125000, an ok start up salary was maybe $80000 and I am currently - with lots of non-money benefits at around $70000. What makes me most sad is that fostering the web tracking industry - tech + marketing
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
I found a couple of old scanned mathematics books on the archive, which I could not find elsewhere. Many times a web.archive.org link cut short a journey to an old blog post, that might have been lost in the ether. Thanks archive, I'm
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
It's also the beauty of capitalism and the creation of new types of work, that can provide value. For every like factory there is a fraud detection startup, so everyone's a winner. Never mind where the "problem" came fro
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
Or become senior and apply for that Haskell job in five years.
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
I'm using paper notebooks of various kinds and I am happy with that.
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by throwaway8291 7y ago
This is great advice and would be even better, if our industry was not that hype driven. Tell someone, you are a JavaScript expert and you had great success in the past with jQuery and knockoutjs. People will reject you, you won't have

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