BjoernKW

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by BjoernKW 9y ago
I disagree with the often-heard premise that HTML is a somehow inferior tool for creating GUIs that we somehow ended up with despite better choices beings available. Yes, native GUI frameworks and widget toolkits like Swing, Qt, Cocoa and M
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The problem lies with the "just needs to dockerize his application" part. These days I see many developers regularly servicing Docker containers where they rather should be adding value to the product they're creating. It alm
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I don't regularly use Windows as a development environment so I'm no expert on that matter but whenever I occasionally have to use Windows the solution for the most part is: Create some sort of UNIX-like environment for example by
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I completely get the purpose and benefit of Docker. More and more though I'm becoming convinced that for many settings and problems Docker actually creates more problems and meaningless ritual because Docker rapidly is becoming the sta
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I don't think that natural language is a useful interface for tools like Git. Natural language is inherently verbose and ambiguous. That's precisely what you don't want when using tools like that. Natural language has a low s
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Java EE is no less or more pure than Spring. It's just an alternative set of libraries and frameworks for roughly the same purposes. Everything else is just marketing by Oracle. The statement that Spring is obsolete is plainly wrong. J
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I haven't used it myself because I'm mostly dealing with Spring applications but from a cursory look this seems like good place to start: https://javaee.github.io/tutorial/
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As with any business the first aspect to think about is your market and the niche in that market you want to address. Software training comes in many flavours some of which are: - teaching CS and programming basics to children - the same fo
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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
Apart from the resources already mentioned (the official Spring guide in particular alongside the tutorials) Mkyong.com is a terrific tutorial site for everything Java and Spring Boot: https://www.mkyong.com/
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> Programming languages are not like your Word or Excel where more features is better. I‘d contest that even for those categories adding more features is necessarily better. In fact, Word in particular is an excellent example of how addi
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On the contrary, software should rarely ever be rewritten from scratch. Rewriting existing software both is incredibly risky from a business perspective and potentially jeopardises the hard-won knowledge from years of working on and working
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There is absolutely still a host of problems like this and no, there are still many inefficiencies waiting to be poached. Often these are internal, sometimes highly customer-specific products though. In many cases writing a simple interface
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Could be but then machine learning doesn't help either. There's still a lot to fix and automate though with a significant ROI. Did you know for example that the paperwork required for sending a shipping container from Shanghai to
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> Can you imagine the traffic relief not to mention the stress relief (and health benefits of this) if this was common? Indeed, traffic is a major aspect of this. Remote work is the key to solving the traffic problems in large cities aro
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I'd say that by far the greatest potential in process optimization still lies with improvements in areas that don't require machine learning, such as: - fully or partially paper-based processes - digital systems that can't ea
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Because I'm firmly in the remote-first camp from my point of view remote should never be considered a perk or something that's graciously granted to you but rather the default case while on-premise work should only be required if
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by BjoernKW 9y ago
My general advice from these previous comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15910781 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15921156 In a nutshell: Find a niche. Solve business problems rather techni
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Neither are callbacks just functions nor are they necessarily asynchronous, that’s just how they work in JavaScript for example. Callbacks - or closures, to use the more general mathematical term - allow you to delegate behaviour.
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Data structures come out on top for me as well. Other than that, I'd say loops and callbacks.
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It's about becoming a better person, the best version of yourself. Lodge meetings, which usually take place once a week, are the main component of Freemasonry. These meetings consist of open discussions (excluding arguments about party
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Not the OP but I'm a Freemason, too. Anything in particular you'd like to know? There's nothing secret about Freemasonry anymore today. All the rituals are available for everyone to see and for the most part have been since
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(Disclaimer: I'm a freemason. I wrote a few lines here about what it's like to be a freemason today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16153129 If you have any questions please ask.) Now that's one convolu
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So was the Iron Curtain. Arguments like that don't necessarily keep governments from embarking on foolish projects. Sustainability in this case also is a question of scale and the particular design and purpose. Both Hadrian's Wall
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For those here into German wheat / Hefeweizen beers: Schneider Weisse offer a range of excellent regular Hefeweizen beers as well as an annual special limited edition (named TAPX). While the regular TAP7 (a Hefeweizen Dunkel) and TAP5
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In a way we already have Star Trek-style computers today. Many of the commands heard in Next Generation era series can be represented as SQL SELECT commands. The voice recognition is an only slightly more sophisticated Siri / Ok Google
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"Modern Information Retrieval" by Baeza-Yates / Ribeireo Neto a few years ago used to be a good standard work. I'm not sure though how well it's kept up in terms of aspects like real-time search and graph search, bo
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This won’t answer all of questions but the measures you’re looking for are called ‘recall’ and ‘precision‘: - recall: number of relevant documents retrieved / number of relevant documents - precision: number of relevant documents in re
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There are perhaps as many specific answers to this question as there are freemasons. In a nutshell, being a freemason is about trying to become a better person as well as trying to help others to do so as well. Lodges usually meet once a we
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Freemasonry, which I'd describe as a sort of meta-framework for living a good, ethical and worthwhile life. Freemasonry among many other aspects can serve as constant reminder to behave ethically and make the most of your life. It also

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