MrKurtHaeusler

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by MrKurtHaeusler 13y ago
I thought restaurants make more money from drinks (and deserts) than actual meals.
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by MrKurtHaeusler 13y ago
It is a sign that you are a knowledge hoarder, happy that others are dependant on you. There is a lot of job security in that I guess. If you want to do yourself and others a favour, instead of giving your fellow co-workers fish, teach them
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by MrKurtHaeusler 13y ago
I stopped reading when I realised it was an ad for snake oil, but lots of people feel like Drew at work. And they are all justified, even when working together. Drew IS the smartest guy at his job, when it comes to the things he cares about
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by MrKurtHaeusler 13y ago
We just set up a third gmail. Use it for all family rather than individual stuff. Typically my email clients just check it alongside all my other accounts, and my wife gets an auto-forwarded copy. But this is just as good.
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by MrKurtHaeusler 14y ago
I agree that they are not sexist. However I don't think diversity needs to be an explicit goal of choosing a speaker lineup. Having said that, being aware of the diversity in software development, if I were to organise a conference, and onl
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by MrKurtHaeusler 14y ago
If I organised a conference, and failed to attract a single female speaker, especially in a community where sexism is a sensitive issue, I would immediately decide to cancel it of my own volition. I don't want to contribute to the type of t
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by MrKurtHaeusler 14y ago
That last line is interesting. You lead up to presenting a scenario where one might rightfully expect a conference to naturally reflect a diverse speaker lineup, reflecting the diversity in the industry overall. I agree with that. But I am
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by MrKurtHaeusler 14y ago
As a white guy, I think any conference struggling to attract female speakers, probably should be canceled. It doesn't mean the conference itself or its organisers are explicitly racist or sexist, but there has to be some reason why either t
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New reality TV show about startups: "Start-Ups: Silicon Valley"(bravotv.com)
2 points by MrKurtHaeusler 14y ago|1 comments
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by MrKurtHaeusler 14y ago
It's useless in Germany. It is just the same overdubbed stuff you can see on TV, several months too late.
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by MrKurtHaeusler 14y ago
Hold on, people can see if you have a profile or not, but it is not like they can see any of the information you have marked as not-public or friends only. I don't see how this is a privacy issue. People can just google a name and get strai
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by MrKurtHaeusler 14y ago
Good post. For me the first 3 tips, about having management backing, the right culture and the right people made me smile a bit. An analogy would be like "Here are 3 tips for being successful in business: Have a lot of capital, have a great
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by MrKurtHaeusler 14y ago
I don't think they are going for the HN type programmer market, but other types of programmers will not see anything wrong with it. I am thinking more hobbyist programmers and enterprise programmers etc. The closest they get to an online co
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by MrKurtHaeusler 14y ago
Or just sign up for a distance learning course from a UK university. Aberdeen gives you a proxy, the OU as far as I know, doesn't.
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by MrKurtHaeusler 14y ago
I am not an enterprise thinker, but I have developed enterprise salary expectations. One of my current areas of interest is helping slow old large businesses be more effective by using e.g. Lean startup ideas. To be honest though I am not a
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by MrKurtHaeusler 14y ago
I am a foreigner who has been working as a developer or manager in the software sector in Germany for around 10 years. For a couple of years I have been trying to move towards self-employment, with some ups and downs, but I am making progre
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by MrKurtHaeusler 14y ago
I saw it on Reddit a few days ago.
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by MrKurtHaeusler 14y ago
After the first sprint, I mean, after you have validated your first MMF, it is all maintenance anyway.
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by MrKurtHaeusler 14y ago
This video just shows how necessary it is to beat that drum.
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by MrKurtHaeusler 14y ago
I find it especially offensive to women and feminists in the developer community. People watching it and saying, "OMG what a crap song, and such old-school dance moves. Don't they know developers are too cool for this?", as if that is what
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The latest sexist debacle. This time from Microsoft at the NDC(youtube.com)
3 points by MrKurtHaeusler 14y ago|0 comments
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by MrKurtHaeusler 14y ago
Rather than average investors, he seems to be targeting risk-averse older investors. Picking individual stocks is riskier, and more volatile sure, but even average investors can leverage that.,
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by MrKurtHaeusler 14y ago
Well obviously they should work less then. Most people I know who spend less time working tend to enjoy life more, look better, have more money and live longer. Oh and they are more austere.
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by MrKurtHaeusler 14y ago
That's ok for a starting salary.
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by MrKurtHaeusler 14y ago
Surprised most are concerned on privacy grounds. My first thought was, wow this could chew up many users monthly bandwidth quotas.
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Looking for Github's (or similar) crappiest project.
1 points by MrKurtHaeusler 14y ago|0 comments
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
I have used XeLaTeX for a while because of the support for freetype fonts and better support for unicode. Linux Libertine is my favorite font for XeLaTeX because it has better ligatures than any of the computer modern etc. fonts.
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
I haven't heard that argument before. Interesting. For me, big-A Agile refers to the Agile Manifesto for Software Development, and is the Agile that people are talking about in posts like this. It may be a software development buzzword, and
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
Who watches SD anymore anyway? Although I can just imagine all the pirates whining about "h.264 (or mkv as they call it) doesn't play on my dvd player, bring avi (as they call xvid) back". I can't believe pirates are still burning crappy SD
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
I had 10 hours last night. 8 til 6

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