BjoernKW

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by BjoernKW 7y ago
> we had trouble getting monthly exports past a certain date Same here. Quite frankly, I think this is outrageous. Every ordinary company has to keep accounting records for a certain number of years (10 years in Germany, where I'm l
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I'm located in Europe. I wrote about this here in the wider context of accounting: https://bjoernkw.com/2016/04/03/accounting-in-2016/ Not much has changed since then. I still can't have my acc
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> The place I work allows to work one day a week from home. In my team of six only one person takes advantage of this policy (not I). For me, the question in that case always is: Why is that? Often, presenteeism (or put less favourably:
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Plenty: SQL databases, spreadsheet software, CRUD application builders such as Ruby on Rails, pretty much every dependency management tool and the libraries those provide through public repositories ...
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> How do you link GDP growth and population growth? GDP growth and population growth are inherently linked: In order to provide sufficient resources for a growing population resource production has to increase, either by more energy inpu
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> "There have always been paradigm shifts, therefore there will be more", isn't that the very definition of wishful thinking? It'd be wishful thinking if there was no evidence to back up that claim. However, these par
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No, that's not at all what I'm saying. I argue for people to change their inveterate, cargo cult ways of thinking about what constitutes work and the conditions required for it. We need a new mindset not new government policy. Tha
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There's a difference but even driving just 30 minutes per day in a tiny car that otherwise just sits around doing nothing is still a tremendous waste when you could just not drive at all and work from anywhere.
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> [...] long commutes in powerful cars? People in developed countries don't need that either. Commuting being a hard requirement for modern life in an industrialised country is both a fallacy and perpetuated cargo cult. Most people
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The title is misleading in that it's not exactly the conclusion the article arrives at. The article has it quite the other way round: Once energy consumption doesn't grow anymore we either need more efficient means of growth (i.e.
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Those who claim that their product is the greatest thing since sliced bread (which ironically itself wasn't the "greatest thing since sliced bread" at first) sometimes might be delusional or even just lying. I'd take an
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Given that another commenter likened CoScreen to Dropbox in that it is an "amazing idea executed brilliantly" it seems only fair that they've already got their very own Dropbox comment now. 95% isn't 100%. A mere assembl
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
That design looks like straight from the Tron movies, which perhaps is just the aesthetic and associated nostalgia Tesla is aiming for here.
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I absolutely agree. Back in 2016 I wrote a blog post about accounting being still a strangely manual process: https://bjoernkw.com/2016/04/03/accounting-in-2016/ Ultimately, I came to the conclusion that
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The core issue with evaluating progress is how to actually measure progress. More often than not, progress is measured in time wasted rather than value created. Not only is it very difficult to almost impossible to estimate work items on a
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> Some people seem to think that "busyness is next to godliness" "Idle hands are the devil's workshop." ... There are entire ideologies based on this kind of thinking. Interestingly, both Protestant work ethic (w
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When it comes to reliability, maintainability and a huge ecosystem it probably doesn't get any better than Java and the JVM. The JVM also fares great in terms of performance.
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Differentiation isn't just about the product. Marketing used to be defined as: product, price, place and promotion. Many competitors compete and differentiate on just the latter three.
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That's just the financial side of things. They'd still be tampering with the original piece of content, which most likely isn't what the artist would've wanted. Then there's the question of if it's really ethic
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Then let me define it more precisely: Ads usually are not the content a user requested or wanted to see when accessing a particular media outlet. In a way, well-designed ads are similar to a well-designed checkout process in that respect:
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Sure, everyone is fine to do as you described for his or her own private use. You might think that an otherwise good film contains gratuitous violence but the film's creators put it there for a reason. Even if that reason was a shallow
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Fast-forwarding parts of movies for your own private use is entirely different from selling an unlicensed edited version of original content, which is precisely what CleanFlicks did. Unless that content is licensed under a free licence that
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Ads are a different topic. Anyway, ads aren't content themselves but a means for paying for that content, which in itself is completely legitimate. The reason why I'm not against using ad blockers is that the way ads often are use
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When I saw the title I hoped this to be about a particular kerning issue ... This is hypocritical at best. If you don't want sexual content or profanity in your media then either create your own content or pay for the creation of such
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Flyway is free open source software (licensed under the Apache License 2.0). There are pro and enterprise licenses in case you have additional requirements. These licenses as I understand it are proprietary and hence non-free but the the co
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Piece of cake: It’s a recursive acronym.
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Three-letter acronym. Those technical acronyms CVs tend to be rife with (admittedly they come in non-three-letter varieties, too), e.g.: XML, CSS, PHP
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The key is to not hire fungible resources based on a set of TLAs but actual people instead. Unfortunately, the software industry by and large still seems to insist on continuing this backward model rooted in scientific management because it
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This reminds me of "Every OS Sucks" by Wes Borg of Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie (with Chris Smith playing the guitar). Here's the relevant part of the song about Linux: https://youtu.be/CPRvc2UMeMI?t=316
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Willingly? Probably not. One reason why Jenkins is so widely used in enterprise companies is that within traditional corporate structures person hours are readily available whereas software purchases have to be approved by someone with budg

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