BjoernKW

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by BjoernKW 9y ago
I find this comment quite a bit disturbing. There's something wrong when people start to think that you need approval for putting something on the web. This also sounds like something sinister from the 'well-intentioned' but
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Yes, that’s the problem with Brexit, isn’t it? No one seems to have an actual plan of how it’s supposed to be in the end. Moving to and founding a company in a country that might expel you in a few years if you’re not a citizen seems a bit
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Well, it takes two to tango. This is not so much about the EU blocking the UK from the common market (there are clear rules for access to that market after all) but the UK not wanting to be part of that market anymore.
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
I’d wait till the dust around Brexit settles. There’s really no way to tell before the final deal is agreed upon.
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Same here. My company is a lot smaller (at least from the sound of it) but GDPR made me review my processes as well. There were still a few processes that I could simplify and automate.
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Well, they didn't really get away with it. Perl isn't as widely used as it used to be. Besides, in spite of the name Perl6 isn't compatible with Perl5 but rather a completely new language.
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
The problem with that average probably is that the countries for which it's more difficult to reach these goals usually are also those countries that account for most of the energy consumption. If Portugal reaches 27% of energy consump
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
> This doesn't really surprise me, it's a natural consequence of the cloud era. Not necessarily. As you mentioned yourself the cloud era just exposed existing bad practices. Perhaps over time that's even a net positive bec
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
The rule of thumb with these regulations unfortunately for the most part is: Better safe than sorry. These regulations tend to get abused by shady lawyers who specifically target small business that supposedly don't comply with the rul
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
There are usually some red flags: - the language used during the sales process points to an employee-employer type relationship - conditions like full-time and having to work at the client's office all the time - the sales process itse
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Spamming is illegal already. The people and organisations doing this don't care about the law. So, no additional EU regulation will achieve anything in terms of email spam. Due to inherent limitations of the protocols used for email it
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Freakonomics Radio recently had an interesting episode on this: http://freakonomics.com/podcast/demonization-gluten/
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
LAMP and WordPress.
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Apart from those already mentioned ("The Design of Everyday Things" and "Don't make me think") I can recommend this online course about various aspects of design: https://hackdesign.org/ While not a
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
If that US company wants to do business with people or businesses located in the EU GDPR rules absolutely do apply. Yes, providing a free website can qualify as "doing business", too, for example if the company running the website
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Apart from search engines and directories such as AltaVista and Yahoo and later obviously Google, bulletin board systems and Usenet were popular ways of getting and recommending new content on the Internet. Another - somewhat quirky - conce
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Rhine-Ruhr, Germany, remote or Europe preferred. Remote: Yes IT consultant, web and enterprise software developer with more than 15 years of experience. I'm experienced in JavaScript, HTML5 (AngularJS / Angu
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Classic example: IBM vs. Apple The pre-90s IBM was the epitome of a non-diverse and uniform work-environment. The latter is to be taken quite literally, these were people wearing uniform suits and ties and singing company songs: https:&#x2
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
The codecs and sampling rates used for phone communication are optimised for the usual range (E2 to C4 depending on voice type) and overtones of the human speaking voice. The usual sampling rate for phone lines is 8 kHz, which means that on
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
First, everyone's different. There's no single optimal workload that applies to everyone. That said, 8 hours of real, intense, mentally challenging work per day probably is more than enough for most people. The problem is that whe
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
WordPress works very well with high loads if you use proper caching (via WP Super Cache, for instance) so the database doesn’t get hit for every page hit. You don’t need containers or in fact anything fancy for that. With WordPress in parti
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
The way I see it you have two options: 1. Make what you're working on explicit and transparent in the contract you draw up with that startup. This has to be made / checked by lawyer in order to avoid any ambiguity. 2. Don't w
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Because recognising faces is an innate human ability while calculating eigenvectors is not.
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
In modern linguistics grammar is used descriptively rather than prescriptively, i.e. it's about describing how speakers actually use language rather than being about telling them how to use language 'properly'. If there'
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Isn't it obvious? So their heads are closer to the Sun and don't freeze up ;-) Regarding skin tones: What often registers simply as 'black' or 'Asian' from a predominantly white perspective comprises a wide var
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
You don't even need experience with designing protocols to understand that. Real-life experience with how law is practised in some EU member countries is enough. There are law firms whose sole business model is targeting small companie
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Since when has the BBC become squeamish about "unprintable" (which itself is a strange choice of word on the web, by a non-print publisher like the BBC no less) words like 'fuck'? It's not like the haven't been
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Reading this on a mobile device at first I thought: “Why? It’s not that bad.” Then I scrolled down to the bottom and now I agree.
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
At an early stage startup titles for the most part are meaningless. CTO in those cases is synonymous to "the one putting our ideas into code".
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
Have you read Avogadro Corp ( http://avogadrocorp.com/ )? That novel is based on the premise of a tool that is intended to help you write well-crafted emails yet quickly gets out of hand. I'm not suggesting at all this

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