BjoernKW

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by BjoernKW 6y ago
From the top of my head, I'll go for the obvious companies and industries: - Amazon - remote work infrastructure: Zoom, Atlassian, Slack - pharmaceutical companies and biotech: No specific company suggestion here but the ones that will
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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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by BjoernKW 7y ago
There’s both inductive and deductive reasoning. A fact can be proven be mere logical reasoning. I don’t need a double blind study in that case because gravity has been proven before and there’s no reason to assume it doesn’t apply to everyb
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
It's still a problem, though. "Haha, told you so." is not a solution. Besides, publicly funded hospitals and healthcare systems in general need money, too. If there's hardly any tax income anymore because there's ha
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
In general: Fully digital and distributed processes. Both in terms of products and consulting services. While it might seem that we already have all the necessary tools and services at our disposal right now, in my opinion we're not ev
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
With these dedicated devices the engineers often were able to cut corners or use custom hardware. This probably wasn't the case with DVD players (because the effort wouldn't have been worth it for a mass market consumer product) b
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
The somewhat obvious ones are remote work finally becoming a mass phenomenon - with everything that entails from tools to necessary cultural changes - and a huge increase in further automation.
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Well, while I don’t disagree that the current “Whatever it takes” influx of money helps with propping up the market right now there’s nothing that inherently prevents the economy from growing again once the immediate crisis is behind us. Ma
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
The stock market is commonly considered to represent what the economy is expected to look like in 6-12 months. If we assume a sharp downturn in Q1 and Q2 of 2020 and a subsequent uptick and prolonged recovery in the second half of 2020 and
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
I don't make a living doing data visualisation but I know a few people who do (Nadieh being one of them). I don't know their rates or how exactly they've been working with clients recently. However, there's sizeable dema
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
In the appendix of the first Dune novel Frank Herbert has Liet Kynes say something along the lines of life being its own device for ever more efficiently making use of the energy available in a system, which in my opinion describes the rela
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
In a way, oil reserves (even more so with precious metal reserves, for that matter) amount to prepping at the state level, don't they? I get why in an economy that to a large extent depends on petrol having such a reserve might allevia
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by BjoernKW 7y 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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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Presenteeism and the ability to watch people doing pretend work plays a huge part in bullshit jobs. Arguably, it’s the main reason those jobs exist at all. Where’s the point in employing someone to act as if they were doing anything useful
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
About a week ago there was the #WirVsVirus ("Us vs. the virus") hackathon organised be the German federal government, which saw a massive turnout (~43k people): https://wirvsvirushackathon.org/ It still remains to
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Right now, helping as a mentor for https://wirvsvirushackathon.org/
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Fortunately, nothing like that has happened to me so far. It's definitely not legal and, in my opinion, highly unethical as well. While it's understandable that companies scramble to protect their cash flow now one still has to pa
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
That and, well, video that's on by default. I know this somewhat paradoxical because we're talking about _video_ conferencing tools but in many cases seeing the other participants isn't as important as hearing them clearly or
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disorder. The severe cases who contracted the Coronavirus seem to experience an autoimmune reaction towards otherwise healthy lung tissue.
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I'd say it's important for the reason you mentioned: Many programming constructs and metaphors are either derived from mathematical concepts or a direct implementation of these concepts. Good programmers without a formal maths edu
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
In "The Design of Everyday Things" Don Norman describes this distinction as knowledge encoded in the head versus knowledge encoded in the world. For professional tools knowledge encoded in the head supported by appropriately encod
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Automating business processes such as archiving incoming invoices or sharing blog posts on LinkedIn.
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Linux. It's a lot worse than macOS in terms of UI and UX (still better than the hotchpotch UI that is Windows, though) but I simply couldn't do without UNIX command line tools.
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You might want to have a look at Bret Victor's work: http://worrydream.com/
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> Observable pattern, decorators, typescript Neither of those is Angular-specific. In fact, of those you mentioned jQuery is the library with the unusual, idiosyncratic concepts.
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
This is simply a question of ownership and control. If you own and control your medical data you can simply share it with medical practitioners when required. With the current system on the other hand I have very limited control over my med
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
The same kind of system could be implemented with a distributed or federated EMR. The data would still be stored with the practitioner where it originated but it could be shared with third parties (i.e. other practitioners) if the patient c
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
The last time I got a PET scan (about 3 years ago) they handed me a CD with the images and an accompanying piece of paper with a summary of the results. At least that CD included a DICOM viewer for macOS as well so I could have a look at th
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In Germany, for example, medical records are scattered across medical practitioners, hospitals and health insurance providers. There's no central, distributed or federated EMR system. Each practice or hospital basically runs its own sy
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Wanting to completely own one's tools is good on principle. However, with tools such as an IDE that remains largely theoretical because very few users will actually change core IDE code. Therefore, for all practical intents and purpose

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