BjoernKW

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by BjoernKW 6y ago
That's one strangely phrased title. Intuitively, I'd agree. However, the 'correct' parse would be: "(Missions to and Sample Returns from) Nearby Interstellar Objects", i.e. the two nouns 'missions' an
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While not the original motivation for me personally it's a UX advantage: If a file I'm editing has a new line at the end I can skip to the end of file and then move upwards again line by line with the cursor ending up at a defined
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That’s a valid request. However, continued support or bug fixes in that case might require a much higher upfront price than the one you might be used to. While it’s easy to blame the developers of a product for real or perceived flaws, even
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
In my opinion, being cloud-agnostic is today’s being database-agnostic. In more than two decades of professional software development, I have only once encountered a situation where an existing application was migrated to a different RDBMS
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
While some of the arguments in favour of mobile applications apply in many cases, I'd like to consider a specific recent example: The GitHub mobile app. I have been using GitHub on mobile via its web application for years. It worked fi
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I think you could say they just tried to hit you with their best shot.
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A range of 6 octaves is positively superhuman. Even Yma Sumac, who is often cited when it comes to the widest vocal range, was just barely short of 6 octaves. Since I've just looked this up: Tim Storms ( https://en.wikipedia
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
1Password emergency kits are a way of achieving this. They allow you to provide a third party with all the details they need to access your passwords. It's therefore highly recommended to keep these kits at a safe location only trusted
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
For me, the main benefit of a VPN is security on public WiFi networks. Is it perfectly secure? No, but I trust a business I’m paying a regular amount to quite a bit more than a random free public WiFi provider, who is not only able to sipho
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
Support and advocate work-from-home / remote work. This could mean convincing your employer / your clients to switch to a permanent work-from-home policy (and helping them to implement that policy) or creating software that enable
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While Tim Berners-Lee was indeed mostly concerned with (scientific) documents, with form support HTML 2 already introduced application-like features. HyperCard, one of HTML's spiritual precursors also was very much about applications.
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It depends on your use case and usage patterns. I like Basecamp’s opinionated approach and what they’ve done with Hey.com As much as I’d like to use it as my primary email tool I depend on G Suite and Gmail for my business because of the in
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
Did Apple actually just invent webpages with App Clips? https://xkcd.com/1367/
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Unfortunately, that’s not how the EU works. Humility isn’t exactly their strong suit. Some of the most ardent proponents of GDPR have been quoted as saying that implementing its requirements is so easy that they themselves could do it and t
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Given the promising efforts so far the discovery of a vaccine is quite likely. There wasn't one for SARS because that disease simply went away by itself with not enough infected patients anymore for a vaccine to have any significant ef
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Other than repatriation or other out-of-the-ordinary circumstances: Once a vaccine has been widely applied or once treatments are available that sufficiently and consistently mitigate symptoms of COVID-19 infections. It's not a matter
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That’s a tremendously insightful statement. Engineers tend to define their value by the answers they can provide while in many situations it’s actually asking the right questions that counts.
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The legal system is different. However, copyright is the closest common law approximation.
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One way of looking at this is from an accounting perspective: Printing money is tantamount to debt (== liability). If there's sufficient corresponding economic value and future economic growth (== asset) on the other hand such debt isn
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
Under German law copyright is non-transferrable. However, the copyright holder can grant another party unlimited usage rights as well as waive the right to be mentioned as the actual copyright holder. Both of these might apply here: SAP&#x2
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
SEEKING WORK Remote-only; based in Rhine-Ruhr, Germany IT consultant, web and enterprise software developer with more than 20 years of experience. I design and develop business solutions and applications. I help companies in terms of softwa
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Yes, getting a voice teacher is both the fastest and healthiest way to go about this. While there are plenty of resources available online and there are countless self-taught singers it's easy to acquire unhealthy habits, which in turn
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JavaScript (vanilla or Angular), Bootstrap, GitHub Pages.
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Its introduction has been an unmitigated disaster in Germany (as apparently and unfortunately is wont in Germany), see https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOS-Funk#Einf%C3%BChrung_in_De... (German-only, sorry). It's sti
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WordPress (the self-hosting, WordPress.org flavour). Works like a charm. It's flexible, easy-to-use and performs very well on a mid-range virtual host. It's also reasonably secure if you apply common sense and best practices (e.g.
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Just a few years ago, paramedics in Germany were routinely (and probably not entirely legally) using WhatsApp for communicating with the hospital while en route because there wasn't (and still isn't) a reliable, secure and interop
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by BjoernKW 6y ago
Somewhat related to technical documentation, error messages translated in the user's locale are a bane in particular. Sometimes when not working on my own machines at a client the locale is set to a language other than English and some
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I like podcasts for discovering new subjects, opinions, and perspectives. I'm an avid consumer. For me they're by no means a replacement for written information, though. They're complementary. They fulfil a different purpose.
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In the future employment contracts might stipulate such compensation in order to remain competitive. Something to consider, though: Most employees today probably aren't compensated for the time and money they waste during their daily c
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6 months would be enough for the current pandemic to fizzle out. If the virus can't find susceptible hosts anymore it'll simply die. For now, that is. Until it reappears or until we have a proper vaccine, for that matter (which at

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