Kurtz79

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by Kurtz79 12y ago
I'm working as a SW Engineer in Spain. None of my acquaintances in the sector (with relevant experience) have any problems in finding a job. Even people that got laid off were able to secure a new position in a relatively short time. M
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Yup. IEEE 1558-2004. I might be wrong, but I believe "Software Engineering" is a more common concept in Europe than US, since many "Computer Science" degrees are actually part of Engineering Universities curricula. That
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Agreed. Yet, the parent is talking about "programming", that is still the most important part (although still a part) of a Software Engineering project. Software Engineering is a recognized discipline, and although I do work in an
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Same here. I´m still unsure if it's a path I want to follow indefinitely, but I agree with the parent that going out of your comfort zone presents you with a whole new set of challenges, which are not necessarily easier or more boring
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
"There is no engineering in programming." It really depends on the industry and context. Part of me really envies you if you can say that much and that reflects your experience. I spent most of today making sure that my SPMP, SQAP
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
I find much harder to justify Apple (as an Apple user) then Ubuntu for doing this. Ubuntu is free (technically also Yosemite is, but it´s part of the Apple HW/SW package), and what it does it´s not so different than a Laptop manufactur
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
I think that it´s an easy position to take. If the government sides with Uber it loses the money he get from the (outrageously expensive, like you said) licenses, and has a lot of unhappy voters (taxi drivers). What would it gain ? Better s
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
The parent post was challenging the definition of "mediocre". Given that such "mediocre" universities are able to sustain one of the most powerful economies in the world, they must not be so mediocre.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
I think it also depends on the degree. How many graduates in Political Sciences and Literature are there ? How many job openings that require this specific knowledge ? Most of my collegues graduating with me in Electronics were working in I
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Your analysis is very black and white, and reality is probably more nuanced, but I generally agree that Europeans tend to be more risk averse than Americans. It is also true that something as "simple" as starting your own company
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Very low compared to what ? I would say that is lower compared to Scandinavian countries but generally high. From Wikipedia: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6c/Soc...
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
I wonder if it really makes sense comparing a language that is less than one year old to others that have decades of improvements and fine tuning behind them . If there was a perfect language, all of us would be using it: each one is the re
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Completely agree. But they took this decision because they saw that the superior quality of their product(which having owned older Thinkpads I can say it's true) wasn't profitable enough when competing with lower cost "good e
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
And yet, eventually IBM pulled out of the consumer PC business.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
I was wondering if you can actually find flats that small. While I was looking here in Madrid, the least I could find were 20/25 m2 flats. Regardless, as someone that has shared the author's pains multiple times, kudos to him for
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
"Reasonnable means that the rent doesn’t exceed 800€ for a 15m² flat" Is living in 15 m² reasonable ? I live in a studio of about 30 m² and I find it claustrophobic at times.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
I don't think he is blaming Debian in any way.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Regardless whether is legal or not (I guess not), I´m sure is fairly common in the US as well. The strength of Netflix (and Spotify, Steam...) is that they offer a service that is more convenient, and offers more value, than just downloadin
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
It's about Ubuntu, but using this I was able to create a bootable USB drive with rEFIt, and then booting a FreeBSD live CD image on another stick for installing. http://www.michaelevans.org/blog/2013/01/1
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Probably the truth lies somewhere in between.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
I think one of the defining features of HN is its lack of advanced features. Considering who´s behind the site, if they thought HN needed more features there would be more than enough financial and technical resources to do so. It´s simple,
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
So it should work with Chrome and Firefox, correct ? But I though webrtc still needed dedicated servers to punch through NAT ? http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/webrtc/infrastructure...
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Also,I just found this, by looking at an old HN thread about BizSpark: http://aws.amazon.com/activate/
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
I think the value of the platform lies in the fact that the time you spend in implementing a lot of the features needed for a large traffic/heavy load application (caching, load balancing, replication, storage, queries) is mostly saved
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Remember that you can start using the platform for free, today. They have free daily quotas (I know for certain in the case of GAE, but I believe for the other services as well), which are kind of low, but good enough for proofs of concept
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
You realize that you are writing in a news site hosted by a startup accelerator, right ? I can´t think of many other places where it would be more relevant.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Of Cloud Platform credit. Still it could mean quite a bit for storage/bandwidth/instance intensive apps.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Tim Cook has a company with a decades long track record of successes behind. A startup, by definition, does not.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
It was not a direct response to the "rational" bit.
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by Kurtz79 12y ago
Celsius used two very reproducible tresholds (freezing and boiling points of water), associated them to two very easy to remember values (0 and 100), and defined his scale according to them. The way Farenheit got to his scale seems really l

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