BjoernKW

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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Two common recommendations are practising Stoicism and / or meditation because these approaches can help you to put things into perspective. One key insight often promoted through meditation for instance is that you’re not your thought
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Because desktop apps lack several features of web applications: - links and open interfaces to other applications. Try exchanging data between two arbitrary desktop apps, for instance. Often copying & pasting or manually re-entering dat
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SPAs are particularly useful in scenarios where you need to combine the characteristics of desktop apps (responsiveness, event-driven UI, complex interactions) with those of web apps (links, drawing upon data various sources, declarative UI
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That's certainly a good explanation. Still, for instance I wasn't able to find anything for either the French or the German authorities in their respective local languages. For Dutch government services on the other hand there&#x2
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
It's interesting that apparently it's mainly government services in the Anglosphere that use design systems. An - admittedly cursory - search for non-Anglophone governments that promote the use of a design system only brought up t
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Angular, Spring Boot and PostgreSQL, in case there aren’t any requirements that call for more specialised technologies.
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This is a previous comment of mine that I usually refer to when this question comes up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15910781 It provides a few tips and further resources. The key points are: Build a network and sta
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
I don’t have any recent examples at hand right now but there absolutely have been cases of identity theft in the UK and the US (particularly given the importance attributed to social security numbers there).
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HospitalRun: https://hospitalrun.io/ Built with the developing world in mind first its features (offline first) and its user experience aren't limited to resource-constrained environments.
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The early days of web development up to roughly the end of the 1990s technically were full stack. It's just nobody called it that at the time. It's only by the early 2000s and the advent of architecturally complex, heavily back-en
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> > In this symbiotic relationship, each party has a secure job with a well-defined role > Historically, different languages suggested different roles. Otherwise known as silos. In my experience, front-end developers and back-end d
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All in just one year? Bloody hell. Every single one of those "went well" bullet points is a major achievement, especially starting a consulting business and already making $300k in revenue. I wouldn't give up on the consultin
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Gliffy: https://www.gliffy.com/ $7.99 per month for a single user or $4.99 per user per month for small teams. It was one of the first browser-based diagram tools but it's kept up with the competition. Gliffy provides
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I've adopted profit-first accounting ( https://profitfirstbook.com/ ), which basically boils down to: For any revenue you generate set aside a fixed percentage of that revenue for both taxes and profit. It's a habit
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I like the summary given by Jeff Sussna in “Designing Delivery”. In a nutshell, Design Thinking consists of these elements: - abductive thinking - an iterative process - ethnography - empathy
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No, that's not what I'm suggesting. Migration can be economically beneficial. It's a matter of how many in what time frame.
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I'm well aware of the fact that this is an ethical dilemma and that simply by winning the birth lottery one isn't morally entitled to living at a certain place any more than everybody else is. However, an argument can be made for
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I agree that no borders at all is a desirable state. However, in order to achieve this, certain prerequisites have to be met first. Opening borders has to be accompanied and indeed preceded by economic development. The Schengen agreement fo
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Distilled water certainly is the safest way but tap water mixed with salt in countries where it's safe to drink tap water in most cases should cause no harm either. Salt works as a disinfectant when dissolved in water. When rinsing you
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Yes, the salt mainly is meant to reduce irritation. Amoeba aren't bacteria, though. Both, however should be adversely affected by saline solutions because osmosis will draw water out of the cells, effectively killing these organisms. S
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Interesting question. I'm not sure this development will be driven by AI in particular but in a way it's already happening. English is the first language in history that's spoken by more non-native speakers than native speake
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It's not there yet (so, admittedly not a particularly practical answer to your question) but what I envision it to be in the future is an expansion of the "functions as a service" paradigm: Deploying functions and building bl
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Jira is an incredibly flexible business process tool that - among other areas - lends itself particularly well to software development processes in larger organisations. With all the criticism levelled against it I have yet to see a better
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There's no such thing as guaranteed profit in a free market system, yet free markets seem to provide ample incentive for players to participate. Obviously, there's no guarantee that a former inmate won't commit another crime
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Measuring the value of something in terms of time spent for its creation or delivery rather than its actual value because defining these value metrics is too difficult is a problem with many economic transactions. However, with these instit
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I don't think immigration laws, or more specifically the restrictions on work that come with tourist visas, were designed for this case. What these laws are intended to achieve is to prevent tax evasion and a cheap short-term foreign l
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With each of these institutions it's not so much a problem of being run for profit but rather one of misaligned incentives. Commercially run prisons where the operators get paid based on a lack of recidivism in former inmates rather th
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In addition to that, using <table> gives you out-of-the-box Excel file export because .xlsx files (which are basically zipped XML files) support HTML tables.
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From their "Technologies We Use" page ( https://www.summarizebot.com/summarization_business.html#tec... ) I gather that they use a Blockchain for storing their training data and language models. In theory that mak
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"Hello world!" programs or their slightly more sophisticated variation, the to-do list app, aren't a realistic measure when it comes to actual real-world software that has to solve real-world problems.

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