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by JanSt 9y ago
In highschool, I always got to hear that I'm a "loser computer nerd" while the cool girls wanted to do media, social and similar stuff. I studied CS (95% male students). How can anyone be surprised by men being the majority.
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by JanSt 9y ago
The thing is that the conditions have changed considerably. In earlier times there were 3-4 people working for every retired person and the average retirement span was ~5 years. Now it's 2:1 and ~15 years in retirement. Something has t
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by JanSt 9y ago
> All the Hartz reforms did was suppress wages and make the average German poorer. That's exactly what I'm saying. (edit: on the wages and poorer part; it's of course _NOT_ everything they did) > Germany's industri
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by JanSt 9y ago
You are right on the structural reform part, you should not be downvoted! There were massive changes in Germany (Hartz IV Reformen)
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by JanSt 9y ago
He is right in some way, but he also misses that german workers had to take a lot of cuts in pay, benefits and working conditions. While french workers only have a 35 hours work week and greece workers get to enjoy a long pension, germans
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by JanSt 9y ago
You are right and wrong at the same time. The DM was pretty strong and was used as a reserve currency in many european countries, that regularly devalued their respective currency. The current german export strength is based (at least, ther
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by JanSt 9y ago
Nearly none - most are family-owned.
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by JanSt 9y ago
Which german company? That sounds stupid. I think no company profited from that over the long term, ever. Management must be stupid to think 90% of costs can be cut... if anything, costs may go up
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by JanSt 9y ago
Yes, nearly everyone in Germany either has a university degree or a so called "Berufsausbildung". The Berufsausbildung is a specific training to do a certain kind of occupation (craftsman, computer programmer, carpenter) and is ba
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by JanSt 10y ago
The idea is, that we mostly only consume new content, but the golden nuggets are often hidden on page 153, where most people don't find them anymore. The backend + Crawler is written in Elixir / Phoenix and the frontend is simple
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by JanSt 10y ago
Amazon really is like the amazon river, branching out in so many areas that are still related with it, all the while improving the found methods and technology.
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by JanSt 10y ago
I put them on https://www.lastchallenge.com . Nice work!
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by JanSt 13y ago
> The German Chancellor is not a US Citizen and we have every reason to spy on her, the same goes for every other country in the world. This is so wrong.
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by JanSt 13y ago
Yeah I'm not that much of an electronics guy.. ;-)
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Yup - sorry, i'm not a native english speaker :)
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by JanSt 13y ago
Mine burnt through last year (after three years) and i didn't review it. A friend of mine has got her third in two years and didn't review either. This is exactly what happens: "I've had two adapters break on me, the wir
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by JanSt 13y ago
For anyone interested in CV: http://szeliski.org/Book/drafts/SzeliskiBook_20100903_draft....
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by JanSt 13y ago
Canny edge detection uses Sobel in most cases as a first or second step (after blurring) and adds a non-maximum suppression + hysteresis thresholding - You do most probably know that, just wanted to clarify that it's not really "i
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by JanSt 13y ago
Same here. I've been 17 when my mother died of cancer. Reading this, I'm happy to live in Germany.