BjoernKW

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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Same as with any business: By having a look at their website and other publicly available information (e.g. their GitHub profile).
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
I had a look at Sieve. I like your vision and I'm eager to see what you'll be to able to contribute to make that vision a reality. For my business in particular, such an all-in-one product doesn't make sense because I alread
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
DHH is a proponent of Stoicism. This article is an argument for the Stoic concept called "dichotomy of control", which can be summarised as: "Don't worry about things you don't have any control over. Instead, try to
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Not that new anymore (the first part of the series was published in 2011) but I can highly recommend William Hertling's Singularity Series, which starts with Avogadro Corp: http://www.williamhertling.com/books/
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
That's not a constructive attitude. While it's true that the way estimates often are treated is not particularly constructive either but rather more of a fool's errand blanket statements like "estimating software work is
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In general, I first try to find out what the solution is worth to the customer. This is not feasible in every case but often it's possible to arrive at a rough estimate as to how much additional revenue a solution could potentially gen
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> why should the place of your birth dictate the rights and opportunities accorded to you? Why should nation states claim the right to bestow and strip citizenship? These questions give rise to an ethical dilemma. On one hand you're
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I absolutely agree on the matter of nation states. Because they have been the reality for longer than any living human being can remember we usually consider them to be the natural order of things. However, on a historical scale nation stat
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Many of the current conflicts within the EU arguably originate from the EU trying to be more than an economic entity. It's true that the EU, and its antecedents the ECSC and the EC, has been a tremendous force for peace on the Europea
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
That's precisely why these full-time situations should be avoided when working as a freelancer. Freelancing is a type of self-employment. Hiring someone full-time for an extended period of time is not. Hiring freelancers just to save s
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Working directly with freelancers. Middlemen such as Upwork charge a markup for little to no benefit.
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
I'm currently using it for creating specific components for two customer projects. With Java, JavaScript, TypeScript and Ruby (for scripts) being my usual go-to languages, I'm not a huge fan of PHP but I'd say PHP 7 fares qui
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
No, skill certificates in general aren't worth the investment, both in terms of time and money. Even worse, because of their proliferation in the past in more enterprisey industries and companies they can literally signal that a candid
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Some aspects of coding as we think of it today probably will be made redundant and in fact have continuously been for quite some time now. Higher-level programming languages, abstractions, libraries, IDEs: These are all tools that automated
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I draw the line where it makes sense from a business value perspective. If the product you're working on is a mobile application then it makes sense to both know mobile and back-end development. Personally, I work on business applicati
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> I disagree. These are somewhat loose business standards that people have a general idea what they mean. The problem with these standards is that they aren't conducive to creating value. They mostly help with pigeonholing developer
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That's true but then again you don't have to be a 100% expert in a particular area to be useful. 80% often is more than enough. The remaining 20% can be researched or compensated for by an IDE if need be. There's no need for
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Front-end and back-end are pretty arbitrary labels. Labels like these first and foremost are designed to help those who try to commoditise development work (e.g. recruiters). Why should someone be able to become an expert in HTML but not, s
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
> What is the excuse for the average company to not enforce a policy? Oh, but most companies do enforce such a policy. Often, however, these policies do more harm than good such when they require passwords of a specific length and compos
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Guaranteeing work or rather forcing someone to do work even if it doesn't provide any value or serve any purpose while at the same time you could provide them with a basic income for no work at all seems downright cruel to me. Guarante
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
No, it isn't. However, there's probably no food that's safe to ingest in each and every circumstance. Even water can kill you. On the other hand, there are dishes like steak tartare, which, if not eaten too frequently, probab
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Ceviche is marinated in lime juice. The citric acid has similar effects as heat. Sushi on the other hand usually contains raw fish indeed, which is why it should only be eaten fresh. As for cooking beef, there’s certainly a reason why our a
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
If you were happy with the MacBook Pro $600 seems like a reasonable price to pay in comparison with the roughly $2000 you'd have to be for an equally powerful new machine. It's not like those $600 would be a sunk cost. If the mach
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Yes, that's an option. You need a student visa or some of type of residence permit, though. If you're eligible depends on your country of origin. You also have to prove you'll be able to sustain yourself during your stay. It&
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The main difference is that with a small business you have an established product or service and a business model that's known to be working whereas a startup is all about developing a new product or service, finding product-market fit
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
> > Think of gdpr > Yes, a highly popular measure inside Europe, even by tech people who are affected by it. I beg to differ. 'Controversial' is more like it. There are some who are in favour of GDPR but there are also th
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
> I wish I could say is the goodness of my heart, but is honestly out of guilt and boredom. It's good to be self-aware enough to recognise this. If you're privileged enough to be able to afford yourself a sabbatical or if you b
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Engineering is about solving real world problems. In order to be able to so you need to be able to communicate, as in "listen and ask good questions". Good engineering starts with accurately assessing requirements. Design and desi
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2015 MacBook Pro because of a UNIX-based operating system with a decent UI and well-designed hardware that works reliably with said OS.
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The usual criterion for distinguishing language from dialect is mutual intelligibility. Mutual intelligibility, however, is a continuum, with Scots verging towards the language end while Geordie being more on the dialect end of the spectrum

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