JAlexoid

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by JAlexoid 3y ago
Agreed. And every software engineer writing code should pay 10% of their salary to the publishers of the books that they learned their programming skills from.
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
>The GPL is only relevant because it’s enforceable in court. The irony of GPL, is that it's validity with respect to users is only now tested in court. https://www.dlapiper.com/en/insights/publications&#x2F
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
> To the best of my knowledge, there's no particular law that says a human brain is exempt from copyright, but it empirically is, because the alternative would be utterly unreasonable. Human brain most definitely is not exempt. If y
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
> What's being copied is _look and feel_, which is very much protected by copyright. If that were the case, no one would be able to paint any cubist paintings. (Picasso estate would own the copyright, to this day) It's not that
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
You're trying to use words without the legal context here. The legal definition of words isn't 1-1 wit our colloquial usage. Translation of a book is non-transformative and retains the original author's artistic expression. A
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
> make software piracy a case of 'fair use' That's not a good example. Making a copy of a record you own(as an example ripping a audio CD to MP3) is absolutely fair use. Giving your video game to your neighbor to play - th
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
It would be interesting to see if courts agree that training+transforming = copying. If I paint a picture inspired by Starry Night(Van Gogh) - does that inherently infringe on the original? I looked at that painting, learned the characteris
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
> Salary is absolutely the key factor when people pick jobs. For people with poor reasoning - yes. Most people think of ROI, especially after COVID. A finish carpenter runs at $150 per hour, but your career is limited by your physical ab
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
This is "trickle down economics" you're repeating. That theory has failed to provide any empirical evidence. 1. Inflation is good, deflation is bad and out of order high inflation is bad. Unless you literally store cash, you&
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
How much would be pissed away on duplicating DBMS administration work? Are we that far removed from reality to forget that one small team of DB admins can handle literally thousands of instances? We use AWS because collectively paying AWS 2
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
I mostly hear German, so I don't know what you're talking about.
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
Berlin is cosmopolitan, not "Expat enclave". Berlin attracts people from all over Europe and the common language is English.
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
It's a single market, not a single country. There are plenty of companies in Germany that have English as a working language, but even then local teams are better served by people with good local language proficiency.
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
That's quite a stretch. I have experienced breakdown in communications due to English not being good enough many, many times. There's plenty of stories in comments here, about how bad offshore teams are. In most cases it's ju
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
> DE currently require good knowledge of German That's quite reasonable. No matter how good you're at a certain skill, most jobs will require an advanced level of communication. Imagine if you hired a builder and the person wou
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
Take note, that in some countries the employer is reimbursed for prolonged employee absence due to illness or similar. Germans are also often paid less, which in many cases is a result of employer taking into account PTO and other absences.
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
Assembly is a language, that can be extended. Assembly++? But at some point doing simple C makes more sense, than adding syntactic sugar to Assembly.
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
I was replying to "Torque wrenches don't need a computer at all." Yes, torque wrenches benefit a lot from a "computer". Neither did the GP say anything about network.
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
Long story short - I would advise to not go into debt for a top tier CS degree, unless truly passionate. I am fortunate enough to have been educated in Europe and without any student debt. I can switch careers, without needing to keep incom
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
It's their own fault for driving CS grad salaries so high. They are literally the cause why fresh CS grad with 1 year of experience says no to a 140k salary in NYC/Boston. (at least before the first wave of layoffs)
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
> Loyalty is dead. Something that has never existed cannot die. But the myth, and the brainwashing, of "employee loyalty" is still very much alive. Some even buy that crap.
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
I wouldn't say that people higher up can't be your friends, but when their office and them personally aren't the same thing. I've seen family members fire other close family members, because a business is a business. Not
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
Have you ever held a modern power tool?.. Because I very much appreciate the fact that some of my tools will not break my wrist, like the old dumb high power tools like to do.
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
This is before EV charging becomes a commodity or a public utility... Though public utilities are typically even worse, than the current landscape of charging apps :(
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
German "Sunday is rest day" at it's best. If fuel stations are essential(as in allowed to be open on Sundays), then with the EVs becoming the norm so should be the support for these stations.
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
The ATC should have just told them that, from the get go. They know exactly how many aircraft are headed their way, the pilot doesn't
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
The fuel emergency would have been literally a result of the ATC staff. Instead of this back and forth, the answer should have been - we cannot take you on ILS in the next X time, consider diverting. Giving the sense of "we'll tak
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
Then it's literally ATCs responsibility to inform the incoming aircraft of that. That's why there's a diversion airport.
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
When flying and being responsible for an aircraft full of people - estimates take a very different meaning.
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by JAlexoid 3y ago
> Usually salaries cost more than offices. Yes, they do. But productivity is not linear. > Show the data. I don't have the data, but the reasons behind agile are exactly that - extremely collaborative environment.

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