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by ido 2y ago
the performance boost also made a significant difference in how well the game played: i remembered when the voodoo 1 came out i had a 100mhz pentium and running quake (in low resolution) was "fine" but ran at like 20-25fps. With a
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by ido 2y ago
A junior developer cost about €300 per workday (fully loaded & location dependent) and often achieves far less than that per day.
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by ido 2y ago
Can you give us some of these tips?
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by ido 2y ago
EMEA means "Europe, Middle-East & Africa" I believe? Why would that imply the author is particularly familiar with British idioms? I'm from that region and have never heard of that until now.
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by ido 2y ago
I believe you are thinking about Yeltsin (unless both visited a Texas supermarket and were surprised to discover how well stocked it was). https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/trending...
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by ido 2y ago
I'm not arguing about where to get the best döner kebab in Europe. Just saying it's sad that the best we can get is this mediocre. Shawarma is basically a variation of the same dish: "The shawarma technique—grilling a v
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by ido 2y ago
Yeah I can't really tell why it's so challenging to find good levantine and Middle Eastern food in Europe (even in places with lots of Turkish and Arab immigrants). Turkish döner vs Arab shawarma is more of a matter of taste (the
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by ido 2y ago
"Least disappointing experience" is how I would put the better kebab places in Berlin! Shawarma in Tel Aviv is not exactly the same but similar and so much better (of course there's a lot of variability in quality there too,
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by ido 2y ago
As someone whose been living in Berlin for the last 11 years I'm always horrified to read people say they wish the had high quality kebabs "like in Berlin" - the average kebab here is atrocious (obviously optimized for pric
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by ido 2y ago
In other words you’re saying it would have been even worse without it (I agree to that). However I claim it didn’t really solve the problem, it just alleviated it - when I moved to Vienna in early 2005 finding an apartment was easy and the
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by ido 2y ago
€480 was in December 2012 when we left (I remember the date because we flew out Christmas eve ‘12). It was cheaper in 2005.
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by ido 2y ago
Did it solve it? I used to live in Vienna for 8 years (2005-2013). Looking at https://www.immobilienscout24.at/regional/wien/wien/wohnung-... the prices per square meter are a lot higher than I paid at the ti
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by ido 2y ago
Where in Eastern Europe? At least from my perspective (I've done hiring at several companies, albeit just hiring individual remote workers rather than open a local office) developers in Poland and Czechia are still very competitively p
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by ido 2y ago
Are North and South Korea ethnically distinct?
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by ido 2y ago
Berlin is filthy and seems to have only gotten more so in recent decades.
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by ido 2y ago
I've lived in Austria and Germany for almost 20 years now and this is a pretty common question here.
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by ido 2y ago
I have an even more topical analogy! Using different languages for different tasks. When I need some one off script do automate some drudgery (take all files with certain pattern in their name, for each do some search and replace in the tex
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by ido 2y ago
And not just that, but even if AI's future is indeed as bright as the hype says (i.e. that NVIDIA's fundamentals are solid & that the market will eventually acknowledgment that after the fluctuations) they may still be wrong a
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by ido 2y ago
while 3% might sound like a drop in the bucket, there isn't any single specific chunk of the rest of the 97% that will immediately cut, say, 30-40% of emissions (also remember that 2-3% is the super specific "Americans not driving
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by ido 2y ago
Smoking, drinking - both on the decline for the last decades.
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by ido 2y ago
There's less extreme government action possible: tax meat & dairy higher. There are already precedents for that, for example here in Germany cigarettes are taxed to about 70% and hard-liquor (altho it's more complicated to cal
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by ido 2y ago
Because all Israelis are the same? A right extremist assassin murdered Rabin. Even among the right he was almost universally condemned. Keep in mind Rabin was democratically elected on the promise of Peace.
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by ido 2y ago
I worked for an Australian company from Germany and did similarly (I worked German work days but would start early ~5:30-6am to have some overlap with the Australians - they never expected me to work "core hours", just to have som
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by ido 2y ago
I would argue the main reason is that Make is just bad. There are easier to use alternatives such as scons or rake that don't have this effect applied to them.
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by ido 2y ago
You might potentially be a great manager and you'd never know it until you tried!
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by ido 2y ago
While the US is extrem, the “obesity epidemic” affects pretty much all countries as they become richer. I wonder if recent developments in obesity drugs like ozempic will have a significant impact there in the coming decades.
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by ido 2y ago
I got my first job in 2001, it was like that then as well (maybe even worse). It got better when the market picked up again. I’m confident there still won’t be “enough developers” when then happens just like there’s never “enough electricit
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by ido 2y ago
When the market heats up again companies will bite the bullet and hire juniors when they can’t get enough seniors.
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by ido 2y ago
I'm only 41 but that's long enough to have also seen this happen a few times (got my first job as a professional developer at age 18). I've also dabbled in using copilot and chatgpt and I find at most they're a boost to
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by ido 2y ago
Sorry, I misunderstood then!

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