BjoernKW

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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Barring some mathematical or quantum computing breakthrough the rest of the world doesn't know about: Probably not. Cryptographic hashing algorithms rely on the property that a verifying a solution is easy but finding a solution is har
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
> You are on a known-hostile network Which is precisely the use case I use a VPN for. I'd rather trust an at least somewhat trustworthy VPN provider with my data than a random coffee shop and clients who happen to be on the same net
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
German authorities unfortunately usually are of little help, especially in situations other than the default case. They usually also don't speak languages other than German - neither English nor French (which might or might not be rele
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Yes, that's possible. Technically, you're in the same situation as workers who live near the border and commute to another country every day. You'd be liable to pay income tax in France.
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Drucker also stated that the basic functions of a business are marketing and innovation because those produce results; everything else is a cost.
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
> That's a tad too nihilistic I think? Not at all. At least not how I perceive it. I'd characterise it as existentialist rather than nihilistic thinking. Knowing that death is inevitable for everyone, even god kings such as Gil
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
They might seem dark but there's also wisdom in these words and Gilgamesh's ultimately futile, yet enlightening quest. What's Gilgamesh's grandstanding attitude worth in the face of the inevitability of death?
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
The name probably means something like "weald in (or by) the dale".
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Someone lost his wallet. Finder got in touch via the guy's bank account(twitter.com)
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
It might not be Silicon Valley but the German market for software development services is very much a seller's market, too. In general, software developers have no problem at all with finding a job (or clients as a freelancer).
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Because coders are mostly considered to be line workers. They're comparatively well-paid labourers but their work more often than not is perceived as a cost centre with the actual value creation happening elsewhere (product development
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
> Everyone is looking for React or Vue or whatever developers. Have companies stopped looking for Developers who have solid grip of Javascript who can pick up any framework? That's just a symptom of the commoditisation that develope
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Time Machine to both a NAS and USB storage. I periodically switch the USB-connected devices and store one at another location. The subset of my data that's eminently relevant for my business is also stored and backed up on cloud storag
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Case in point: https://bjoernkw.github.io/hexrgb/ Zero JavaScript dependencies. The only dependency is Bootstrap and that's just used for hassle-free layout and styling. The application works just as well without
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Native speakers might not always be aware of their accent. Sometimes, there is no standard version of the language. With British English for example you used to have Received Pronunciation (RP) but nowadays it's not that widely used an
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Theoretically, yes. However, it seems to be a more or less open secret (from a friend of mine who works in the industry) that investigations won't be conducted as diligently as if the crime had happened on land. Part of the reason for
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
With capitalism the value of a product or service is equal to its value to the customer. Communism on the other hand is based on the notion that work is inherently valuable. Hence, with communism the value of a product or service isn't
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Like swedish_mafia has already stated: If you market yourself in terms of development experience you’re a commodity to these people. Market yourself in terms of the actual value you provide to customers and simply ignore those recruiters.
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Then you probably are a speaker of American English. Another meaning in AE is "a fact or question that's of little practical significance". All of these have in common that they're more less the opposite of "somethi
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
“moot” is another one. In British English it means “disputable” while in American English it means “hypothetical”.
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
You’re basically experiencing impedance mismatch first hand ;-) The term is usually applied to mapping from object-oriented to relational systems and vice versa but it’s perhaps more of or also a mismatch between imperative and declarative
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
With Jasmine tests running with "ng test" (i.e. with Karma test runner rather than Protractor) the system-under-test usually is a single component, directive or service. Therefore, conceptually these indeed are unit tests. You cou
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Usability. Just recently I went down a particularly deep rabbit hole when I tried to run Angular unit tests with a headless Chromium browser on a Jenkins CI server. Suddenly I found myself having to debug various Docker images, Jenkins file
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
> The one thing that's missing in the browser right now is an SQL database. I haven't found a way to run SQL in the browser. Actually, there's a way: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_SQL_Database (se
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
You can send scheduled emails via Google Sheets (Tools -> Macros -> Triggers). I did so for a "Your random word for today." kind of setup. It's not quite spaced repetition because the amount of time in-between repetitio
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
It watches the heartbeat, probably arrhythmias specifically. You can't monitor blood pressure with just a watch. You need a blood pressure cuff for that.
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
> we discover a new, non-electromagnetic way to communicate reliably over vast distances I was going to say that of the 4 currently known fundamental forces, only gravitational and electromagnetic interactions lend themselves to long ran
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Software developers have tremendous potential for leverage at their disposal. Some time ago I talked to a software developer who was both impressed by non-profit efforts by NGOs to combat Ebola in Sierra Leone and depressed at the same time
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
The first one is a very well-known and popular one: The Tim Ferriss Show is a long-form interview show with a single guest per episode. It provides profound insights on a wide range of topics and areas of life (given the guests' divers
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Those Matrix sequels people keep discussing must be some sort of déjà vu.

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