MrKurtHaeusler

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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
" "Agile" -- the term is just too slippery". Well you can point to the manifesto. A statement of 4 core values. That is all it really is. I agree with you on the "Agile adoption sucks" bit. I think the coders and even managers have abandone
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
None of this is really specific to India. The same observations can be made anywhere. The fact is, most enterprise software development doesn't require much in the way of thinking, the challenges are cultural or organisational rather than t
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
That is an easy one. Scientists are good at objective truth, facts, etc. Most political decisions are however highly subjective, and based on values, principles and opinions. Scientists are great for advising politicians on things that are
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
I think you are doing it right, with different levels of conviction. If you give a really stern "no" just for something harmless like opening the pantry door, she might not react when you really mean it. In fact it might even be better just
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
Hacktivism is still a fairly big part of "the hacker way", and so it should be. I think the concept of wreaking havoc on fortune 500 companies is actually a fair representation of the hacker spirit, whether it is done by damaging their webs
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
My advice is make it something fun to do every now and then rather than a job. If you don't feel like blogging then absolutely don't. (Forcing it results in crap articles) Don't go setting any schedule or minimum number of posts per month o
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
Just tested on o2 Germany, and no such header was inserted. It would probably be illegal here anyway.
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
Saw a chick on the train today with book 12 on patent law (can't remember if it was Germant or EU). It was about 7 cm thick, and the pages were real thin. Bureaucrats (the EU fuckers don't even pay tax), lawyers and politicians are just tak
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
Life is far too short to take time away from things we want to, or like doing, to waste on things we are merely willing, or able to do.
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
Anyone interested in what its really all about should read the book: http://www.amazon.com/Software-Craftsmanship-Imperative-Pete... Uncle Bob seems to have hijacked the term to relabel XP after Scrum got all the Agile glory. Or better ye
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Hackers are vital to the university culture of openness and innovation(guardian.co.uk)
5 points by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago|0 comments
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
Awesome, missed the last one but I can hopefully make it this time.
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
What about any actual pictures of the designs?
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
They won't even know it is a LaTeX CV, to them it will just be another PDF, except a bit better looking.
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
I would be interested too, some ideas: Less appetite for risk, less imagination, lack of critical mass for innovation, less cultural diversity, smaller language sphere. Much harder to go without income because of prevalence of longer termin
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
For me it is the same, except swap facebook for twitter.
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
Oh well, I am always looking for excuses to drive to the Netherlands anyway. Sheiß Apple
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
Wow where do you live?
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
The description doesn't match the poll options. Or perhaps the term "first person" is ambiguous. I think you mean the "last" person, as in most recent right? As in looking for the smallest number of generations back before one ancestor immi
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
Hmm he seems to have left out the unit tests.
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
Yeah but not because they are multi-national corporations.
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
I still wonder if I could have made more money back by spending more effort on selling them. I probably could have, but it would have taken longer. But you get some freedom in return for your capital assets, that is how I rationalize it.
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
I agree with that aspect, however I dd not throw them away, I gave most of the technical ones away at user groups and conferences, and the novels to a second hand shop. No I couldn't destroy them either. Also you have to separate the actual
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
My wife and I are making steps towards minimalism, mostly motivated by having to move to different cities more often than makes sense given hiring a moving company to move a whole house worth of gear has blown a significant chunk of savings
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
Another LinkedIn alternative worth mentioning is Xing: https://www.xing.com/ No affiliation, I have an account, and use it more than LinkedIn.
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
34, married, male, no money, one and a half kids, I rent. However, the next best thing applies. I live in Germany. They pay me to be unemployed. In terms of total wealth, including time with kids, leisure, time to learn things, follow my in
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
It is a pretty one-sided negative article. I always enjoyed being jobless, I finally get the time to catch up on things I want to do, and it is a good time to reflect and make life changes. The general perception out there is that being job
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
"The mathematical rigor of a pure functional language like Haskell allows deeper reasoning to be done, and thus more powerful abstractions to be introduced." Allows or requires? I guess I never really understood the difference between reaso
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
Common Lisp at least has full support for object-orientation. You don't have to roll it yourself like with C.
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by MrKurtHaeusler 15y ago
I think it generally tends to reduce the amount of surfing around for information, as the chances of one of two people knowing what to do or where to look are twice as great. Also a huge benefit is learning. In that second example there is

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