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by gyulai 5y ago
Sounds very wishy-washy. The action verbs here are "recognize the [...] role played", "promoting the sharing of [...] solutions created/used", "promoting a fair redistribution of the value created [...]".
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Ah, that's interesting about the Netherlands. I didn't know that. I know a lot of German programmers, as I am one myself and I work a fair amount in German companies, and I never knew a single one who used US-International (apart
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Hmm. Yeah. Come to think of it, it may be worth another round of experimentation. Does anyone have experience with using stickers? Can anyone recommend a good product there? -- maybe that would help with the awkwardness of internal lap
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I did have a phase where I was using US layout over German, because I do agree that US layout is just more suitable for programming. But training my muscle memory that way turned out to be more of a pain than a gain. As a freelancer, I&#x27
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By negating the cloud model, I'm not saying I want to do stuff "myself" at all. I just want the delegation to work differently. By "offline", I mean "offline" w.r.t. their servers. The point is: I have s
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"The cloud" is not one thing. Each additional company in "the cloud" that gets to see your data increases the attack surface.
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What I wanted to say was: "PDF processing is something where I wouldn't want to rely on an online API over something local. And it's also something where I wouldn't want to rely on a small commercial company over an op
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So what exactly does that leave? A wrapper that you've created around weasyprint, pandoc, latex, ghostscript, imagemagick, and stuff like that? Sounds to me like an unnecessary extra expense for an unnecessary extra layer of abstracti
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Not a good usecase for an online API. To the extent that those PDFs could include sensitive information, there's a huge security/privacy headache there, with no real benefit when compared to performing these functions offline. I
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I think that's a perfectly valid appeal to altruism in a tech-savvy audience. It makes sense to take a hit on your individual needs and wants as a user in the short term, if it helps with keeping the tech ecosystem which we collective
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I've heard it discussed quite seriously in an Economics 101 lecture (can't remember which. It was on a "Great Courses" audiobook). It was discussed in the same category of economics problems as reducing wasteful govern
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I feel your pain, and am feeling very disconcerted on my own behalf too, having Win 10 and no plans of upgrading until network externalities positively force me to stop using it (at which point I'll probably give Linux on the Desktop a
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Some assignment clauses are absurdly wide like "any IP you create belongs to us". This would imply absurd outcomes like when a software engineer signed that clause as part of their work contract for software company X, but also r
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"It’s just that all of us have so little agency in this world now." ...made my day.
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...oh, sheesh. Should have realized. Seemed totally believable.
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There's a similar thing in Germany with the Landrover Defender: Apparently there are plans of bringing it back, in collaboration between Landrover and Fendt, a company that produces and markets land machines. In order to get the Defe
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by gyulai 5y ago
That's a prejudice that you're supporting with anecdata. Saying "PhDs make bad programmers" is not any different in that regard from saying "women make bad programmers". But at least you're agreeing with
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Just because that correlated in time doesn't mean it's what the law actually implies. Informed consent about cookies was a law that predated the GDPR. The consent boxes only got worse because, with GDPR, you suddenly have regulato
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I wish people would stop confusing cookie-consent laws and GDPR. They are quite distinct laws and are giving GDPR a bad rap for wholly the wrong reasons.
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> The idea that I can take 4 hours of your time for a half-day whiteboard interview but not a "do a simple task that should take 30 minutes at your leisure" is weird. It's really not that weird at all. If you give me 4 ho
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> resumes are very nearly worthless Sorry for being incendiary, but this hits me as a recent trend that is nothing short of insane. I went to a top-ranked university on the highest-paid scholarship I was eligible for, got a Ph. D. there
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I believe, for some people, personal networking truly isn't an option. For example, I work remotely for U.S.-based companies while living in a rural area of Germany. There simply aren't any professionals around here who do thing
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I've recently been doing a fair amount of reading about how craftsmanship worked in late medieval and renaissance Europe -- think crafts guilds of Florence, which were the societal context where the Medici happened and Leonardo da Vinc
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Cryptocurrency is really something you don't need to hear anything about to be able to start your day.
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What is a "staff-plus" role?
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I thought that's what I was implying, although my choice of words was probably clumsy. I guess it's a sort of chicken-and-egg relationship. If it was more socially acceptable for women to be housewives, they would admit to it mo
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...yeah, misrepresentation of the odds of success is actually an interesting part of the whole dynamic: I think many women sort of fall into this without intending it. Their peers suddenly all seem to be super-successful yoga solopreneurs
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> It took me some time to figure out that they were not successful entrepreneurs, but that these were fronts to cover for rich parents. "Housewife jobs" are structurally similar. I'm based in Europe and work U.S. hours, so
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taxable? bug or feature?
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That's why I set up the thought experiment, somewhat unnaturally, by saying: Assume that this is what everyone's secret motivation is... But I perfectly agree, that the motives could be completely non-threatening. For example, if

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