BjoernKW

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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Although arguably not as productive Java fares pretty well in that regard, particularly when it comes to maintainability. Still, Rails is terrific. If it wasn’t for Rails Java today wouldn’t be as productive either.
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I agree that what you describe is a huge problem. I'm not so sure though if that problem can be alleviated by additional tooling. More often than not the cause of this is defective processes and assumptions rather than deficient tools.
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My first consulting gig was mostly born out of necessity. At that time (2011), I was one of the founders of a startup, whose product was an enterprise / intranet search engine. As is common with enterprise products sales was hard. Not
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
It probably very much depends on the school and the courses you take but most will provide you with at least some foundational knowledge of computer science (e.g. data structures, complexity theory, some linear algebra, software engineering
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Yes, but that'd require a more complex process on the client. At least you'd have to send an additional request, e.g. instead of just calling https://someserviceprovider.com/serviceA you'd first have to call
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They're popular because, for better or worse, Microservices are popular. If you want to serve Microservices from a common host name as if they were a single application, e.g. for public users of an API, you need some sort of mapping be
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That depends on your requirements and constraints. "Designed with web technology" doesn't necessarily mean "designed for the public web". In many enterprise settings desktop-only is perfectly fine because applicatio
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The kind of thinking according to which this is unethical is the root of presenteeism and a butt-in-seats culture, which values time wasted over value created. Paying someone by the hour while expecting results that can't be measured i
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
I'm not worried at all about consumer-data-driven startups who are "late to the game". I'm concerned about the impact GDPR has on small businesses. GDPR applies to every business regardless of size. This is how it should
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The jury is still out on if GDPR will actually be beneficial to consumers and citizens in general or if it’ll rather end up benefiting exactly those companies that don’t respect user privacy it supposedly was targeted at. The intent behind
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The question is if technical interviews of the white-board variety usually have any value at all in determining someone's technical prowess or if they're generally just a huge waste of resources. Quite likely, there's no one-
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There's nothing that makes summer time more natural than winter time other than that winter time precedes summer time. Both essentially are societal constructs, though.
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The two don't really compare. Poetry is a form of literature. I can use Twitter as a medium for writing and publishing poetry. A poem written on Twitter and deleted the next day is no more permanent or long-lasting than a poem that&#x2
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Poems aren't transient. Oral tradition is.
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> The word is usually meant to refer to a particular format and a particular history, not just anything that uses words to tell a story. The latter definition probably is the best one can come up with without resorting to notions like &q
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Absolutely. "Use boring solutions" has become a bit of a mantra for me. Only build something yourself if it serves as a key differentiator or has the potential to do so. Otherwise, use off-the-shelf tools.
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“Leave” is a noun in this case and indeed a synonym of “permission”. I suppose it can be confusing due to being a homonym to the verb “to leave” but it’s a rather common legal term (see AWOL, for instance). English, legal English in particu
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I can't answer the question and I certainly don't want to judge someone else's family planning. However, I think this particular perk raises some interesting questions: My first thought was that this is the ultimate in deferr
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I absolutely agree. This applies to not just CRMs but almost every area of your business. 1. Start with simple, readily available tools. 2. If you outgrow those: Buy an off-the-shelf product. 3. If you also outgrow those, only then consider
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That’s exactly the point of Spring Boot. It makes an opinionated choice of libraries that work well together so you don’t have to.
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NPM Package for Generating TypeScript Declarations from Spring Data REST(github.com)
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Your last statement simply isn’t true. I’ve been using Spring Boot for years in a variety of configurations and it works absolutely fine.
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You don’t have to pay for using Java. You have to pay for continued support for a specific Java version. You can even continue using JDK 8 for free indefinitely. Just don’t expect any future updates from Oracle, security or otherwise. If yo
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Moving to something else entirely is even more costly than just moving to the next major version. The EOL for JDK 8 has been known for quite some time now. Architects who haven’t taken that into account yet have been negligent regardless of
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That headline’s sensationalist and misleading. They’re going to charge for continued JDK 8 updates. JDK (and JRE) 11 will be the latest version by then. Only companies which need or want to stay on the previous version will have to pay.
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Most of what you describe probably can be attributed to the fact that there used to be (and still are to some extent) quite a few competing identity server software providers. The enterprise world tends to move more slowly than the rest of
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I described some of the issues small businesses are faced with in this comment on an earlier article about GDPR: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17099878
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It's a problem with the implementation. I have yet to meet a small business owner who doesn't agree that people should be in control of their data.
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Writing is hard, which can make it seem daunting. The problem with this as with many skills is that you can only become a better writer by being a writer first. It also doesn't help that the kind of writing that's usually taught o
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It's both. The legislation, while based on good intentions, isn't exactly a prime example of an easy-to-implement, consistent set of rules. There's no excuse for larger players to not implement these rules. Many smaller playe

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