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by dakna 6y ago
You might want to check what a "Fachhochschule" (University of Applied Sciences) actually is. It is not a vocational school in the way the US understands it. You can get accredited Master's degrees there, but usually no PHDs.
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by dakna 6y ago
Take a look at the recently introduced minimum instances setting : https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/serverless/cloud-run-...
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by dakna 6y ago
Nice work combining the two sources, saved!
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by dakna 6y ago
> The first thing I did was to read the entire Wikipedia page on UNIX. I also read this original paper written by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson from 1974 We need more people like you. Kudos for having the attention span to do this. Enj
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Ford says millions of its vehicles will run on Google’s Android starting in 2023(theverge.com)
4 points by dakna 6y ago|3 comments
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by dakna 6y ago
Words matter, especially when you are the so called leader of the free world. It is not the responsibility of the media to make sure every interpretation of meaning and context is as close as possible to the intention (which is unknown anyw
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by dakna 6y ago
Which newspaper would you give money to?
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by dakna 6y ago
I think the term is just fine. For me it doesn't mean that there is no server involved to run the app, it means I'm not involved to run the server.
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by dakna 6y ago
World Education Services (and others) evaluate foreign degrees and determine the US equivalent, the Central Office for Foreign Education in Germany does the same for US degrees and determines the German equivalent. The equivalence of creden
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by dakna 6y ago
> the equivalent for Fachhochschule in the United States are called Trade Schools This is not true. Students can get accredited Master's degrees at a University of Applied Science. Some of the Universities even do research. https:&
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by dakna 6y ago
> The issue is that the root topic is so sensational–probably the most sensational of all topics right now Agreed. It is incredibly hard to have a discourse about this. Thanks for the clarification, and also for all your excellent modera
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by dakna 6y ago
I don't think "sensationalistic post" is an appropriate label for a guest editorial by Heiko Maas, Germany's Foreign Minister, published in one of the largest news magazines in Europe with a distinctive reputation for re
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German Foreign Minister: Those Who Incite Bear Responsibility(spiegel.de)
67 points by dakna 6y ago|8 comments
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by dakna 6y ago
Please optimize your website for mobile use. I visited your main landing page on my phone and was not able to read anything but the larger headlines without zooming in. In my opinion this adds friction and increases bounce rate a lot. Depen
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Electric Monarch tractor can plow a field without a driver and run for ten hours(thedrive.com)
239 points by dakna 6y ago|155 comments
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by dakna 6y ago
Wearing a mask is the only halfway feasible change that has an effect on virus spread that enough people are willing to do in the US. The virus is largely under control in other countries, but they were able to enforce much more draconian m
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by dakna 6y ago
There is a significant difference in effectiveness between cloth masks, surgical masks and n95 masks. You might want to read up on it at the CDC: https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/10/20-0948_article
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by dakna 6y ago
It seems to work in other countries. Neither CNN nor Fox is quality journalism, "quality" being the adjective you left out. The NYT also issued an apology for their coverage about WMD which was not rigorously fact checked. One of
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by dakna 6y ago
I think what we see here is the result of social media A/B testing on how to get votes, and this playbook is now followed by the rest of the world. In a democratic society, you have to influence the public opinion to stay/get in p
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by dakna 6y ago
> Regulations require keeping records Who decided to be compliant at this stage of the company, you or whoever is in charge of business operations? > I felt responsibility to make the product as solid and maintainable as possible Was
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by dakna 6y ago
> noticed that they even have some kind of built-in HTTP client abstraction It goes one step further, you can have platform-neutral code to parse the API returns into Kotlin models. https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/
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by dakna 6y ago
No, they are not supposed to get things right. They are supposed to evaluate scientific theories by checking testable predictions to find out if the theory is the correct explanation about how things work in our universe. Which means that s
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by dakna 6y ago
> But this is fully automated bureaucracy. Except instead of having well known rules or human bureaucrats we can confront Reminds me of a novel that was written over 100 years ago: > The Trial (German: Der Process,[1] later Der Proceß
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by dakna 6y ago
What you describe is basically an intentional community with a revenue stream from a software product. Something I'm interested in, but unsure how to make it work. There are intentional communities that support themselves with their ow
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by dakna 6y ago
My personal opinion: There is no inside-the-US view on that, it changes based on the filter bubble you and your peers live in. The party in power is still in power and did a pretty good job making it harder to find out what is an actual fac
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by dakna 6y ago
Depending on where you drill, you might end up in a situation where some layers come into contact with high-pressure water and start swelling, resulting in raised surface levels. Most prominent example I know of, is the city of Staufen in G
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Covid Forecasts What the Pandemic Has in Store for the World(spiegel.de)
1 points by dakna 6y ago|0 comments
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Lots of Work but Little Utility Germans Disappointed by Coronavirus Tracking App(spiegel.de)
2 points by dakna 6y ago|0 comments
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by dakna 6y ago
I thought you meant native desktop apps, not web apps. I remember when ExtJS was positioned in the late 2000s to mimik rich desktop UIs and I think there are still lots of component based frameworks to use and pay for, if Bootstrap doesn&#x
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by dakna 6y ago
> Businesses really want cheap rich desktop-like GUI's for productivity software Can I ask where you you see this demand, is it industry specific? I was under the impression that the benefits (easy deployment to a known runtime aka

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