BjoernKW

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by BjoernKW 7y ago
> "a 15 minute fact-to-face is better than a multi-day email chain" This truism seems to never get old. It's carelessly tossed about but never proven. It's mostly just accepted as-is and hardly ever challenged: Why is
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Considering the Windrush scandal the UK doesn't exactly have the best track record with dealing with immigration issues. The authorities might - either conveniently or due to incompetence - lose relevant documents in the future, at whi
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
The “Discover more artists.” / “Fans also like.” / "Related artists" (the exact name varies depending on the version and client used) feature currently is accessible via individual artist pages. The curated playlists wer
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Spotify. Their “Discover more artists.” / “Fans also like.” feature has provided me with quite a few interesting bands I didn’t know before. Their curated genre playlists are fantastic as well. I mostly listen to progressive metal &#x2
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
This article IMO describes the concepts and what they entail pretty well: https://bigthink.com/scotty-hendricks/the-master-and-slave-m...
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> The world at large doesn't care what you need, only what you can offer. That in a nutshell is what Nietzsche's master vs. slave morality dichotomy is about. Master morality is concerned with the welfare of others and an indiv
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
This is a highly complex subject that - among other aspects - involves enterprise sales, the peculiarities that come with it and the inherent complexity and variation within larger companies and different industries. If you really want to d
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Notoriously bad? Compared to what cities? It's certainly one of the better ones in Germany, if not even the best. You can absolutely get around in Berlin without a car. The other larger cities and conglomerations in Germany don't
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
I've worked for customers in the past who did this. For the most part it was a huge hassle and didn't really help with incident response and analysis. You have to install company root certificates on clients, perhaps even merely s
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
There's a very obvious reason for why mobile Internet in Germany is flaky, slow yet at the same time ridiculously expensive: During the UMTS spectrum licence auction in 2000 the incumbents, state-owned T-Mobil and Mannesmann (later bou
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Banks unfortunately often have deplorably backward as well as arbitrary password rules such as: "Your password must not be longer than 8 characters and must not contain any of these characters '@', '&', '&#
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
I suppose there are legal constructs that allow you to do this. For example, you could set up the UG mentioned above yourself and be its only employee with all the taxes and social security costs that implies. However, that will get compli
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
It depends. Incorporating is comparatively expensive and time-consuming. Running as a sole proprietor is simple and cheap on the other hand.
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
So, if I understand you correctly you'll be working on a contractual basis for a single client, full-time for a prolonged period of time. This kind of arrangement indeed is quite likely to be classified as "bogus self-employment&q
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
#1 is a mostly Windows-related problem. You would've had similar issues with a Ruby- or JavaScript-based stack, probably much more so because Java generally is quite decent in terms of platform-independence. With other environments you
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
HTML, Bootstrap and GitHub Pages.
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Many of my customers use Confluence. If you have enterprisey requirements (SSO, user groups and permissions, needs to work well Microsoft Office files, integrations in general) it's pretty decent and certainly not as bad as its reputat
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
The arms industry and intelligence agencies because in both cases it's impossible to even fathom if the work you do for them will be used for good or for harm. I wouldn't necessarily have qualms working for the military as such (a
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
You could use Google Sheets. It supports scripts (via Google Apps Script, a JavaScript derivative), allows you to generate charts and from some quick Googling it seems like there are approaches for importing OFX data as well.
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Why do you want to invest in the European stock market specifically in the first place? There's nothing that keeps non-US citizens from investing in US market ETFs. That said, European economies are quite diverse. There are ETFs for th
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
What's the definition of an MVP, a minimum viable product? According to The Lean Startup by Eric Ries it's - and I'm paraphrasing here - the minimum set of features that allows you to validate a marketing hypothesis. An MVP t
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
Deliberately going back to a preindustrial society in the end means deciding who is going to live and who isn't (including both currently living human beings and those potentially born in the future). Who is to make that decision and o
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
What's the alternative to deliberately trying to change the environment in order to combat the effects of global warming or even reversing that process entirely? We've effectively, though inadvertently and not to our benefit, alre
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
So, they're basically hiring humans to mimic the features of an IDE? Right, sounds like solid plan ... Honestly, I have no idea why anyone would do this. What this will achieve at best is optimising for rote learning and selecting for
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
COBOL programs reside on mainframe computers, an environment that's entirely alien to someone who's used to UNIX-like environments where you have something like a pipe. I'm not sure how and on which machines COBOL code is wri
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
I'm not sure about the prevalence of this issue today but about 10 years ago I helped create a fraud protection system specifically targeted at deposit return fraud. However, at the time at least the problem apparently wasn't so m
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
No, they need a business website for marketing their services and showcasing previous work. Recruiters tend to insist on a résumé because it allows them anonymise and commoditise the resources they're selling to their clients. By sendi
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by BjoernKW 7y ago
How would you achieve that? By outrightly outlawing advertising? There absolutely are paid options on the web. It's just that they don't seem to appeal to a sufficient number of buyers so advertising could become irrelevant.
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You pay for content that's relevant to you. I pay for what's relevant to me.
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Other than a completely new approach for producing value such as the 'Freeism' one described in the article suggested in this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20282851 (which I hadn't time to read

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