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by jaabe 7y ago
Oh, I think it’s unfair. I probably could have added a little context, but I was stating a fact, not my opinion on it. The guy I mentioned is 30, and in 20 years when both apartments are paid out, he’ll be a multimillionaire (in Danish kron
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by jaabe 7y ago
I live in a 3 room 90m^2 apartment in central Aarhus in the middle of the university. It’s worth $350,000, but and you can rent out each room for $700-$800 a month, to an endless stream of students. The guy who was elected head of our owner
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by jaabe 7y ago
We’ve seen a couple of examples with BI and analytics, I think you can put them into two categories. Prediction and automation. Prediction simply isn’t good enough. It may work well for google and Facebook, but that’s because failure is rel
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by jaabe 7y ago
We knew upfront that ML was going to be a proof of concept and that the job was going to be done manually either way. We are many things in the public sector, but we’re not big risk takers, and this was a job that had to be done as fast as
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by jaabe 7y ago
I think ML has potential that Blockchain doesn’t, but not in all the areas that are being hyped. I work in the public sector of Denmark, and we’re targeted by a lot of the hype. Which is worrisome, because it might actually lead to stupid p
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by jaabe 7y ago
I think social media does far better when it isn’t political media. One of the reasons HN and LinkedIn are the only two forms of social media I personally use today is exactly the fact that the absence of politics on both platforms make the
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by jaabe 7y ago
Did it really die though? It seem to live on well enough in enterprise. Less popular now that Microservices are back in fashion, but still lurking around waiting for the pendulum to swing back in 2-8 years when we have had enough of microse
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by jaabe 7y ago
Are you saying that the Roman Empire, was at any point, lead by someone self-sacrificing and honest who was focusing on the greater good? Because that’s really not what I took away from classical history.
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by jaabe 7y ago
I work in a Danish municipality with 7000 employees where we replace around 2000 people each year of which half are education-interns[0]. So I think it’s fair to say that we have a good deal of experience with hiring people. I’ve been invol
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by jaabe 7y ago
Which society has collapsed because of this? I minored in history, and I can’t think of a single one. Even modern America was largely born out of giants of industry serving their own self interest and fucking everyone else including the cli
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by jaabe 7y ago
I don’t agree. I work in the Danish public sector, which means we handle healthcare related software that could potentially lead to deaths. Our managers aren’t technical wizards, and especially not in the field of healthcare. They are mostl
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by jaabe 7y ago
We have them in the supermarket where I shop, and I detest them. If I want to use my own bags, I’ll need to have each signed in as legal extra weight by the clerk. If I want to buy alcohol, I need to be verified as over 18 by the clerk. The
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by jaabe 7y ago
Yes you are right, ours too are for protection, not fighting off an invasion. I should have made that more clear.
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by jaabe 7y ago
We still have them in Denmark too, I can see two from my apartment. For a long time, and possibly even today. You were required to build bunkers if you build an apartment building. Sometimes that was done by building the basement in such a
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by jaabe 7y ago
I work in the European public sector, I can name you a few reasons to pick Azure over AWS. None of them are technical though, so you certainly have a point. Microsoft is just better at selling the whole package to enterprise where your prim
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by jaabe 7y ago
I think the hype is really, really dangerous. I work as an external examiner for CS students at an academy and bachelor level. 10 years ago, maybe 20 students would finish from a single school, in 2019 that number is in the several hundreds
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by jaabe 7y ago
I miss IRC, for a lot of the same reasons the author misses Facebook. Being above 35 like the author, I think it’s more the fact that people just aren’t chatty anymore. It’s anecdotal of course, but if I look at myself, I’m really not that
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by jaabe 7y ago
It’s probably because I know very little about how Hollywood works, and I’m definitely coloured by how much of HR departments we seem to be able to automate and digitise these years. But why do writers need agents? Why does anyone really ne
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by jaabe 7y ago
I minored in history, reminding myself how things always go in the grand scheme of things, has been a tremendously efficient way of keeping myself optimistic about our future. At least in terms of our civilisation, because the climate is fu
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by jaabe 7y ago
I work for a Danish municipality, we’ve bought a few SaaS products in recent years. The fastest implement was two days, and we had a working product before we were even done with the contract. We bought it from a local software house, that
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by jaabe 8y ago
I subscribe to a paper that comes out each Friday, called weekendavisen. Until May last year it didn’t have news on the web, they do have an electronic paper now but I’ve never visited. It’s high quality news in lengthy articles, in fact I’
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by jaabe 8y ago
The thing with web-development is that you don’t actually have to follow the trends to be productive. A few years ago I read an article on LinkedIn, about how a local development company he helped our neighbouring municipality switch from A
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by jaabe 8y ago
I think it’s more interesting that if I load up a job-index site or search for techs on linked in, you get a significantly different picture of what is actually “wanted”. Maybe that’s from being Scandinavian but 90% of our jobmarket is stil
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by jaabe 8y ago
I think Python is trending up because it’s a general purpose language that’s easy to learn. Django basically does what Ruby on Rails does, not exactly but close enough. Flask does what Node.JS does, to the extend that we’re talking about bu
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by jaabe 8y ago
The city isn’t responsible for what gets thrown on its streets, we still sweep them. I think the time for platforms and major tech companies to dodge their responsibility has passed. At least in large parts of the western world and I person
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by jaabe 8y ago
I’ve been involved with hiring and I do part time work as an examiner for CS students, both those who go straight through their education, but also on diploma degrees where people upskill after having worked for a while. Kind of like a mast
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by jaabe 8y ago
That is exactly how I would define the reverse.
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by jaabe 8y ago
I’ve seen philosophy, English and history majors work in tech, I’ve never seen the reversal. Personally I’m a little worried about ageism, something that doesn’t even enter the mind space of any of my friends with degrees in the humanities.
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by jaabe 8y ago
I actually think it’s the opposite. On traditional social media a mediocre post will still get a few likes. On 4chan a new thread needs to achieve quick popularity or it’ll get deleted within 5 minutes. I think that is part of what fules th
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by jaabe 8y ago
Inheritance isn’t an anti-pattern in academia. I do part time work as an examiners for CS students, and I see their car/animal examples everywhere in introductionary courses. When we have interns, they’ll sometimes build things with in

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