jlangenauer

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by jlangenauer 6y ago
Why is it unfair? No-one is forcing anyone to accept development work for 50k per year, yet there are plenty of people happy to do it.
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by jlangenauer 6y ago
Or even better, push the liability for this clean-up onto the investors. This sort of environmental vandalism is an abuse of limited liability.
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by jlangenauer 6y ago
I built a new PC about a month ago, and installed it to dual-boot between Pop OS and Windows - this after almost a decade of OSX. I had intended to make Pop OS my primary workspace, but it's now been 3 weeks since I've even loaded
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by jlangenauer 6y ago
Maybe. I was the CTO of a startup in Berlin until about 18 months ago, and built a engineering team of 13 people. There was certainly competition for engineers, but it never took 6 months to get someone on board[1]. That said, there was def
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by jlangenauer 6y ago
Be careful what you wish for: if we move towards a genuine globally-integrated tech market, where work can be done from anywhere, then companies might start asking the complementary question: "why would I, as a company, pay US-level (o
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by jlangenauer 6y ago
Despite what you may think, there isn't some nefarious conspiracy keeping tech salaries low in Europe. It's that this is where the market is, an equilibrium between supply and demand for engineers. It's precisely the same rea
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by jlangenauer 6y ago
One thing to note is that this article quotes one doctor and one nurse at a single hospital. They have obviously seen more suicide attempts than usual, but we must remember this is a single data point and could just be a statistical anomaly
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
Why is "overall efficiency" in any way important? As compared to people having stable livelihoods, diverse and wonderful local businesses instead of "efficient" and monotonous chains. The obsession with efficiency at the
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Debugging a Live Saturn V(zamiang.com)
123 points by jlangenauer 7y ago|35 comments
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
Atlassian products aren’t popular with developers. They’re popular with managers who don’t understand yet need to control developers.
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
What you're really saying is that you don't pay the external costs of these things, and you don't care that anyone else has to either - people in poorer countries who will be affected by new and dangerous weather, or even you
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
Not many at all. Wind turbines pose a negligible risk to birds: http://theconversation.com/wind-farms-are-hardly-the-bird-sl...
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
Wait, you have to pay income tax on income you could theoretically receive? I'm fascinated to know what possible justification there is for this? (Genuine, not rhetorical question.)
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
A common weakness (and one I sometimes share) is looking for exciting, new, and intellectually stimulating things to do, when seemingly boring, repetitive and hard work is actually called for. A common example: startup founders who'd p
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
If I ever get rich enough to do so, I'm going to buy some land somewhere - perhaps old farming land that's no longer profitable, and just let it return to nature. Let the trees and bushes grow, let the insects, birds and whatever
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
I’ll add my recommendation for “Poverty Safari”, it’s an eye-opening read.
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
For me. I'd love to see open borders, where everyone has the freedom to move to where they can achieve their goals and dreams, rather than being restricted to the country where they happened to be born. How many Einsteins have been bor
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
Well, our Austrian friend had long moved to Germany by 1930.
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
The problem Jira solves is giving a useless, parasitic class of managers visibility and control of what teams of developers do, because the managers cannot and will not learn what the developers actually do. This is done even at the expense
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
The get a new doctor, one who values your health more than their antiquated morals.
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
WHAT!? Here in Germany, my PrEP costs me €40 per month, and I only have to pay that because it’s one of the rare things that insurance doesn’t cover here.
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
You have to remember that of the $2.5 billion, almost all of that was spent on materials and labour building the new trains. 5% of the total cost as a performance guarantee will be a very significant, or perhaps even total part of the profi
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
Germany is a reasonably high-taxing country, but their obsession with using cash borders on the infuriating.
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
Why must “social housing” be temporary? I have no problem with people living the entire lives in social housing if they do wish, as it’s a good way of distributing the wealth of countries, and the state can provide secure, affordable housin
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
It can be. Certainly for me, the joy I got from experimenting with tech pretty much declined in the decade or so since I started working full time with computers. Now, after the working day, I try to avoid computers, preferring instead thin
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Indoor carbon dioxide levels could be a health hazard(theguardian.com)
24 points by jlangenauer 7y ago|13 comments
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
I am reminded of Thoreau's quote: "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." The root of the problem is not that we have bots, but that we have normalised lying and deception as
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
So you have a moral question: Is it more important that you save a few euros, or that future generations and people in poor countries (who, let's be honest, will bear the brunt of climate change) will suffer?
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
Rubbish. I've travelled Berlin to Brussels (and then London) by train. It was very pleasant.
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by jlangenauer 7y ago
Brexit consumed the last Prime Minister of the UK, it has consumed the current one, and it will almost certainly consume the next one too. What happens to a society when its political institutions are in such a state that they can no longer

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