hobofan

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by hobofan 7y ago
I agree that it doesn't really force you to have a null. I found that line on reasoning especially surprising, as Rust also gets around this with sum types and does have a `Default` trait in the standard library. I do however think tha
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by hobofan 7y ago
> Sparkasse is big, slow, and burocratic. Maybe that is just the size though. It's not just the size, but also it's decentralized governance and high turnover. A friend of mine who worked for them as an independent project mana
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by hobofan 7y ago
The builder pattern works just as well in Rust, and is in fact used pretty commonly in the ecosystem whenever you want to create a struct that has quite a few configuration options, but you don't want to specify all of them (Rust doesn
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by hobofan 7y ago
> you'd see fewer mentions of spaced repetition over time, rather than more Only if they start learning the meaning behind it by using it ;) As long as they ignore it, it will just reappear in a fixed interval.
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by hobofan 7y ago
> terrible working culture Might be true for some of them, but for the ones on the list where I know people that work there, it sounded pretty good. In the end good working culture is one of many axis to optimize on.
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by hobofan 7y ago
Just from the top of my head, you could probably earn well at: Zalando, HERE, Mozilla, EyeEm, Blacklane, MongoDB, Zeitgold, Talon.one, Infarm (just raised a juicy funding round) + a boatload of blockchain startups On top of that, a lot of t
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by hobofan 7y ago
ML/automation for manual processes?
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by hobofan 7y ago
I'm not sure what the social aspects in Britain and Switzerland are like, but in Germany, working for the BND or other governmental cyber security institutions is frowned upon in the cyber-security circles (at least that's my view
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by hobofan 7y ago
If you are looking at SMBs that treat you as a "IT guy", sure. If you are looking at more "modern" tech companies in Berlin or well-funded startups it's definitely possible. The last 3 job offers I had were in the 9
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by hobofan 7y ago
<cynical-response> So you are telling me by adding a simple email tool, I can make the customer happy because I'm giving them what they want and not have to set up 5 tools and continue to pay them monthly? </cynical-respo
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by hobofan 7y ago
> There was a bunch of hubbub around a preemptive promotion of the `pipenv` package to be _the_ package for managing dependencies in python. AFAIK that never happened, and was only marketing from his side, and never an official stance fr
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by hobofan 7y ago
Munich is switching away from Limux towards Windows 10, which I assume also includes workstations that handle PII.
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by hobofan 7y ago
IOPs is one of the main pitfalls of cloud platforms and I'm baffled that neither GCP nor AWS make it easier to detect that you are hitting a limit there. I've had multiple gigs where I was tasked with solving performance pitfalls,
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by hobofan 7y ago
Is having multiple (non-company) Google accounts allowed per their TOC?
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by hobofan 7y ago
And even apart from that, it's really hard to make deterministic build processes for docker images without something like Nix.
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by hobofan 7y ago
Every program has a inputs, and with that some more ore less direct version of a user interface. You define the acceptable input values and then define what happens with unacceptable ones (and same for combinations). If that were not verifi
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by hobofan 7y ago
> Because it is impossible to formally specify all possibilities that can happen, and noone can forecast all the desired specs before the thing is built and tested in real. Is that so? Wouldn't it be in theory possible to verify it
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by hobofan 7y ago
> and didn't want to mention that their technology could be compatible with the existing one Really curious for the reason behind that. If they would've mentioned it there probably would have been quite a bit less of lock-in cr
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by hobofan 7y ago
It may raise living conditions, but the point about "human rights abuses" still stands.
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by hobofan 7y ago
> Stop(reduce.) the "there is no way we're going to be sued for that" by the company's managers I was thinking the opposite. The fines listed are so low, that from a purely financial perspective complying doesn't
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by hobofan 7y ago
Same here. Though I find it almost equally commendable how much effort they put into applying their infrastructure know-how into making IPFS, Ethereum etc. accessible lately, and with that help pave a way for a more decentralized internet a
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by hobofan 7y ago
Probably not worse than the one that already exists. There are a lot of people illegally subletting their apartments for 2-3x their original rent.
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by hobofan 7y ago
> In Libra's case...why should I ever use it instead of sticking with credit cards? Given that both VISA and Mastercard are on board, I assume that you might not have a choice in the long run.
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by hobofan 7y ago
I mean technically sharing the data between the validators _for free_ doesn't count as selling.
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by hobofan 7y ago
Because the barrier to entry is still quite low. While maybe not "Anyone who could spell HTML could get a job" low, as said in another comment here, it's still so low that I'd wager a decently clever person with a good 3
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by hobofan 7y ago
Yes, changing the registry model is key. I'm not quite convinced by their federated approach though. It feels like its just spreading out the problems, and not really preventing them from happening, and in the worst case even creating
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by hobofan 7y ago
That's a fault of npm - _the registry_'s policies, not of the package manager. You could do the same with most other popular package managers if you have control over the registry.
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by hobofan 7y ago
The mood lighting is not the main problem, cutting back and forth between two completely different viewpoints (feet- and eye-level) is. Especially in a 360 video where you are trying to transport the feeling that the driver is basically sit
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by hobofan 7y ago
That makes sense! Thanks for the insight!
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by hobofan 7y ago
Is that a big risk though? I imagine that for a patient (and with that a specific genome with specific editing errors) you could extract some cells, grow an in vitro culture, and test the CRISPR on that? You could then sequence the altered

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