BjoernKW

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by BjoernKW 8y ago
I think they already did when they stated that there were flat Earth believers all around the globe.
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Value creation is not a zero-sum game. A cooperative selling the same products and services as, say, Amazon might not make the same profit. Coherent vision and leadership can contribute a lot to the value creation process.
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
39. Recently, I've read Dune again after having read it for the first time some 25 years ago. One notion I came across this time (probably did so back then, too but didn't attach much importance to it) and that particularly resona
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
HTML in my opinion indeed is both much more accessible and more inclusive than many technologies that preceded it, particularly layout tools. QuarkXPress, LaTex, visual GUI builders. These are different layout tools for very different purpo
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
"The Last Question" by Isaac Asimov is a quite literal take on this question: http://www.multivax.com/last_question.html
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
That's an American English / British English distinction. "Homely" only means "ugly" in American English and only when applied to a person. Otherwise, "homely" means something along the lines of &quot
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
I concede your point. I haven’t come across that particular pattern yet but it’s certainly valid.
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
This expression not only checks for the @ symbol but also makes sure there are no white space symbols (which is a wrong assumption as user wongarsu has pointed out). Anyway, the point is to assist the user, not to verify the email address a
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
One solution would be to be lenient as to what address patterns to accept, e.g. using a regular expression such as /\S+@\S+/ that catches common entry errors but doesn't keep the user from entering uncommon but valid patterns
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Validating email addresses with regular expressions can make sense from a UX perspective alongside sending a validation email after the address has been validated as "likely a valid email address". If for example during a typical
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
I don't endorse this behaviour at all I'm merely stating the facts (probably as outlined in the contract you've entered with Microsoft). If you feel you've been wronged you should certainly hire a lawyer. At the very lea
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
While this certainly is not exactly a decent way of dealing with people and a less than stellar customer experience, Microsoft isn't the judicial system but a private entity. This being a civil law affair there are no formal charges an
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
It depends on what an attacker is after. For the average mid-sized shop that's probably true. However, it's usually larger organizations that worry about storing data in the cloud. For these organizations and attacks specifically
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
> Compliance issues can be addressed in the cloud as well. Absolutely. Depending on how an organization manages its own IT security, data can even be more secure in the cloud than it would be on premises. Decent providers like Atlassian
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
No, this isn’t what it takes to be successful in our industry. There are plenty of successful companies and opportunities where you don’t have to work crazy hours like that. Steve Jobs was a singular character, who could pull off stunts lik
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
In my opinion your perceptions are correct. Microservices aren't a cure-all to be applied indiscriminately. They're a design pattern that's useful in some contexts and less so in others. In order to really benefit from the u
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
I prefer disposable code over reusable code [0], i.e. code that's easy to delete instead of easy to extend [1]. The nature of software development is change. Extensive use of abstractions can make your code base rigid and averse to cha
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
From those listed I’d say the Western world’s. The list doesn’t mention either common law or civil law. As different from each other as those are they’re still mutually intelligible.
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
¡Why not go for the Spanish option? Indeed, there's an inverted variant: ⸘Do Spanish speakers actually use that‽
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
I haven't written any Algol 60 code but from a cursory look it doesn't look too alien. The keywords and basic concepts look similar to those in modern procedural languages. So, depending on the complexity of the original code, per
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
A stretch indeed but interesting to think about nonetheless: 10,000 years in the future is the premise of Frank Herbert‘s Dune. The novel (or rather the series) depicts a mankind that on one hand in some ways has evolved way beyond humanity
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
The question is: What could they possibly be using instead of some sort of electromagnetic signals? There are only a limited number of fundamental forces in the known universe (unless our current understanding of physics is completely wrong
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
The price is roughly $21 per user per month, which isn't really all that enterprisey, given you have at least 10 users, that is. I don't know exactly how GitHub Enterprise and the GitLab Community Edition compare in that regard bu
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
You can self-host GitHub, too: https://enterprise.github.com/home
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
A lot. As a consultant I work with multiple clients at a time. Sometimes I have to accommodate their tools (such as Slack) and processes but email and calendar still are the lowest common denominator for communicating and staying in touch.
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Because not everyone considers these industries to be immoral. Morals - as opposed to ethics and ethical behaviour - very much depend on your personal point of view. Some people object to porn. In my opinion, there's nothing wrong with
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
It started with the C64: Games and the ability to quickly create something of your own with BASIC. Interestingly, with the web it was quite similar: "View > Page Source" and the ability to quickly learn and create something you
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
While WordPress plugins certainly differ vastly in terms of quality there's a fair number of pretty good ones for most use cases. What don't you like about WordPress? It's not perfect but as far as content management systems
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
Enterprise CRUD applications is one area where Java probably is still the most widely used language. Particularly with relatively new frameworks such as Spring Boot I don't see this changing any time soon.
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by BjoernKW 8y ago
> I don’t buy the argument that it adds overhead. In fact I’d say it explicitly reduces overhead At the very least microservices add infrastructure overhead and network latency. In terms of everyday development complexity, instead of 1 p

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