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by jaabe 8y ago
How can you be unemployable if you know php or .net? If you look up job postings for plain software development in Denmark right now, 35% of it is JAVA, 35% of it is C# and 15% of it is PHP while the remaining 15% is split between every oth
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In my experience IBM is one of the worst companies to do business with in Denmark, if your requirements and needs end up being different from what was specified in the original contract. That’s not what I meant though, IBM is an American co
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by jaabe 8y ago
I don’t follow anything that isn’t people I know and meet at least semi-regularly in the real world. I’ve actively unfollowed a few of them (shhh), but my feed can go a few days with no updates from the 90 people I’m down to. But of course
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by jaabe 8y ago
For some weird reason Suse sees a lot of use in European countries with less English influence, but I haven’t seen any exact numbers in years. In my country (Denmark), most enterprise runs Redhat, but my personal opinion is that Suse would
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by jaabe 8y ago
I guess I do, in Denmark they came in the same book called the yellow pages (de gule sider). I guess that was because we’re a tiny nation, but now that you mention it the “people” pages were indeed white.
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The Facebook news feed is dead to anyone but trolls, at least in my anecdotal experience. Facebook is only useful for its yellow pages function. Unfortunately that alone is enough to keep my social circle on Facebook. It’s just really hard
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by jaabe 8y ago
I installed signal, only three of my contacts use it. One is a journalist, one is an artist/designer who does a lot in the crypto space and the last is a fellow enterprise architect. The first two are also active WhatsApp users. I’m as
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by jaabe 8y ago
I recently saw the he head of Google’s Nordic cloud division give a keynote speech at an event for the public digitisation in Denmark called Offentlig Digitalisering. She talked about Google’s mission to democratise data. It probably would’
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by jaabe 8y ago
It often amazes me how little Snowden changed. I mean, surveillance and targeted misinformation campaigns is worse than our worst dystopian fiction ever imagined, but no one really cares. It’s getting worse too with more and more anti-encry
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by jaabe 8y ago
I work in public digitisation in Denmark where we do digital elections. We’ve digitised voter registration, not the actual voting part. That bit is still done with paper, and will continue to be that way for a long time. Basically every adu
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by jaabe 8y ago
Oh absolutely, and couldn’t you add C# and Unity to that list or am I remembering wrong? A lot of those things leave Denmark though. We don’t have that many interesting tech houses that actually stick around. I think there is an important d
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I think it’s more interesting than that, because unless you do robotics (which requires skills in electrical engineering) then banks are our leading tech companies in Denmark. The most impactful piece of Danish software in recent years, t
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In our case it’s the compromise between developers and a operations department which has 5 technicians to support the infrastructure of a municipality with 7000 employees and around 300 IT-systems. To manage our IT had to make certain infra
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We find you. It’s much cheaper to pay a hiring agency than to sit through hundreds of applicants who aren’t what we’re looking for.
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It depends on what you deploy to. If it’s AWS or Azure web-app type stuff, then maybe not, but if it’s your own infrastructure in anyway then fuck yes. Ten years ago we build things in C#, used MSSQL and deployed to IIS. All Microsoft tech,
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by jaabe 8y ago
Management is a trade, just like engineering, so you pick it up like you picked up engineering, with education and practice. I’ve spend two years learning leadership skills and I’m still often stuck on the technical details. Because technic
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I work with digitisation in the public sector of Denmark. We’ve digitised our elections, but we’ve digitised the part that makes sense, the registration you do before you’re handed you ballot. In the old days, we used to have big books wher
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by jaabe 8y ago
We keep a large part of our stack secret. Not for competitive reasons, but because people around here assumes the only two “serious” programming languages are JAVA and C#. We did use C# for two decades so it’s not completely a lie when we t
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by jaabe 8y ago
Yes and no, the EU is more concerned with intrusion into citizen privacy from the private sector than any other large player. As far as the public sector goes, however, the GDPR is mainly meant to increase security surrounding citizen priva
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I think the sharing economy works well, but I also agree with the article. I just don’t think AirBNB, Uber and the others are the sharing economy. They are platform economies where the platform wins and it’s workers are at a race for the bo
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by jaabe 8y ago
The thing about people is an excellent point. The ability to work in teams would be on my personal list, but the author seemed to direct it at patience with a technical focus.
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I agree with the author on patience, but I wonder if you can become a software developer without it. Sure some people will have more than others, but learning how to make code work is a terrible, terrible process and I’m not sure you can go
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by jaabe 8y ago
I think the news feed sucks even if it’s a picture of current contacts. It probably always has, I mean, there must be a reason Facebook wanted news, brands and whatever else there. I just never followed things, so right now the most excitin
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Fair enough, but the majority of students, examinators and teachers aren’t asking for it. I’m an examinator myself, and we have zero members on STEM educations who think their return are a good idea. We discussied it at our summit earlier t
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We changed our educational grading scale a few years back to make it comparable to the international scale. One of the huge problems was that we had a top-grade for people who went “beyond” expectations for the course. Because “beyond” is u
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Norwegians are in a league of their own, that’s true, though it’s more their society that had money and not private citizens as such. They generally also have rather high prices on everything. I’m Danish though.
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by jaabe 8y ago
How is the middle class in the US in general? This is completely anecdotal and based on random strangers on the internet, so it may be wrong, but Americans seem more careful with their money today than they did 15 years ago. I buy a lot of
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We buy software from a lot of different companies, sometimes we own the codebase but hire software companies to build, expand and maintain it, we also benchmark performance. We have a lot of data that explicitly shows that automated unit-te
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New public management and low taxation of the wealthy has been the bane of western society for almost 50 years.
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I think it’s because FOMO is rampant in tech and HN is the most relevant source for it. It offers the best of all the technology, programming and science subreddits combined with high quality news outlets, and it does so with better moderat

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