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by inflagranti 11y ago
What's happening with Fresh looks to me like nothing was learned from the Fire phone fiasco. Amazon became big as a low-price, low-margin online retail company providing a near endless selection of products. Fresh however already now h
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by inflagranti 11y ago
Agreed, but it's still frustrating that we live in a world like this. Though something important to point out: This ability to just sue people or smaller companies to bankruptcy is something very American, that's not as easily pos
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by inflagranti 11y ago
I so hate this attitude about people acting in good faith doing 'rookie mistakes'. I'm just answering to this post, but it's by far not the only one along those lines. Why does everything have to be done on explicit cont
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by inflagranti 11y ago
Some anecdotal evidence in support of this claim that such craftsman title might give you better prospects than certain university degrees: A friend of mine learned mill-working directly after secondary education in Switzerland an apprentic
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by inflagranti 11y ago
The friends part I admit I have heard many times and can completely understand. Cost of living however is offset by the high salaries. Take home pay is one of the highest in the world, definitely you will have hard time finding comparative
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by inflagranti 11y ago
I might be biased being Swiss, albeit from the German speaking part, but the French part of Switzerland seems like perfect fit for your requirements. You both speak French, your kids will get high quality education for free and eventually a
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by inflagranti 11y ago
So you registered to HN just to spew your hatred? And you blame people for being to PC and not doing proper discussion but all you are doing is throw around racist rants without any substance? If you actually had a bit of sense what's
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by inflagranti 11y ago
An the only conclusion we can draw from this data is that black people and immigrants are intellectually inferior, right (and how are black people and immigrant one entity you can just lump together like this btw)? It can't be that the
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by inflagranti 11y ago
Lets further constrain it then to singing or painting, both areas where I was always horrible (and my guess would be a lot of people in tech are). I just don't see myself getting good enough at those to be anywhere competitive with oth
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by inflagranti 11y ago
That is a valid point and definitely we can acquire a lot of skills. Still there is natural ability and personal preferences and I would think a society where everyone can learn and do what they feel like they are good and and would enjoy -
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by inflagranti 11y ago
First of, that's a false dichotomy. The choice is not between expensive liberal art colleges and cheap CS universities. The outcome of a guy going to a cheap liberal arts college would still have been much worse than yours! Yes, there
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by inflagranti 11y ago
You mean like physical ability is ridiculously overcompensated in sports? Yeah we really need to make sure to foster those people with obviously better genetics and weed out the inferior ones...
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by inflagranti 11y ago
That sounds about right (right in the sense as that probably how it is and right in the sense that IMHO that's a fair difference). Now would be really interesting to see the same numbers for the US and also have not just the salary but
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by inflagranti 11y ago
Exactly! This sounds to me like way back when Galileo Galilei was criticized for writing in Italian instead of Latin...
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by inflagranti 12y ago
This is a very unjustified and overly harsh criticism. The article clearly presents real world confusion that can arise from not understanding that Java is not pass by reference. This can easily lead to wrong code. So it's not just ped
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by inflagranti 12y ago
I know I'll go of a on a tangent here, too, and won't directly address the PG posting, but it really saddens me that every time there is discussion about immigration on HN, it always degenerates into an us vs them argumentation be
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by inflagranti 12y ago
> What makes you so special versus someone from Asia with better skills? I'm supposed to hire you because ... what? We share the same passport and so I owe you some special heightened loyalty beyond what I owe any human being born o
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by inflagranti 12y ago
Worst comment ever. Why is it so hard to grasp that most people don't want to be homeless or out of s work and hang around all day? Why do we bail out banks and governments in order to bootstrap them but not people!?
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by inflagranti 12y ago
To me this is the same question whether we need directories or not in a file system. Ideally, your file system is a flat database and files are indexes by a vast array of automatic and manually added metadata that allows to easily retrieve
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by inflagranti 12y ago
But isn't one huge issue here also that the way the airbus flight controls are designed it made it very hard for the experienced pilots to realize the wrong inputs the 'unskilled' pilot made and essentially allowed him to sil
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by inflagranti 12y ago
But fly-by-wire does not preclude the sticks being mechanically or electronically (force-feedback anyone?) linked together. This would seem to me a much better design choice which gives immediate tangible and visual feedback to the other pi
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by inflagranti 12y ago
AFAIK you can embed images in CSS using data URIs, so there goes that argument and only the show-off one remains ;)
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by inflagranti 12y ago
I see this explicitly argument being made more and more recently. A language is better because it’s more explicit and hence easier for people to understand. I think it’s completely wrong. If you want to be really explicit, use assembler.
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by inflagranti 12y ago
So in order to not drag HN into this your second sentence is some provocative claim about your view on the truth? Very dishonest, IMHO.
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by inflagranti 13y ago
The nice thing with materialized views in DB2 for instance (don't know about oracle) is that they are automatically picked by the optimizer to replace a join. So your logical query is - as it should be - completely exasperated from the
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by inflagranti 13y ago
The Muslim integration might be real issue, but it's also to a large part fear-based; that was definitely the impression I had back then from the advertisements and the media. In any case, I don't think laws should be enacted just
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by inflagranti 13y ago
"This is my biggest concern with the idea, which I don't see being addressed (checked the entire conversation on this post to date). I don't think having the vote and having the basic income is compatible with each other.&quo