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by kayoone 9y ago
The US industry has always been on the forefront of trying to convince people that they can afford stuff they actually can't and came up with a lot of creative ways to do this. The best example of course is the recent housing crisis. I
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The Gospel of Hard Work, According to Silicon Valley(wired.com)
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Almost perfect replicas of human faces from reading brain waves(theguardian.com)
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by kayoone 9y ago
your 100k+ for a Senior developer are US only though. In Europe or Canada only very very few developers without management responsibility make that kind of money. Typical senior salaries are between 60-80k.
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by kayoone 9y ago
since the sites content was originally a wikipedia article which got deleted, i think this is a good choice to preserve the articles in the form they have been linked too. Archive.org is so amazing, but it is sad that it does not work for a
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by kayoone 9y ago
Neither the Surface Pro i7 nor the XPS13 (not talking about the 1 in 2 XPS13) are fanless. Its the same class as the Macbook Pro 13 but Kaby Lake as opposed to Skylake allows for a fanless i5 Surface Pro.
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by kayoone 9y ago
Maybe because its not easy todo with current technology ? Size, heat and power consumption all have to be balanced carefully, so you can not just stuff an i7 quad core with 32GB RAM in a tiny package and expect it to be great. Compromises h
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by kayoone 9y ago
i use my SP2 primarily in tablet mode for note taking in onenote. I study part-time and all my writing and notes go in there, which are auto synced to my Desktop and Macbook. In theory i could use the Surface for everything, but then i woul
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by kayoone 9y ago
I don't know too much about Blockchains, but wouldn't Ethereum be a better choice for something like this?
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by kayoone 9y ago
12" Macbook only comes with a Core M CPU and 8GB Ram max, the Surface Pro is much more capable than that, basically on Macbook Pro levels.
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by kayoone 9y ago
I still value the comments here more than anywhere else on the internet honestly. So i don't really mind the occasional off-topic post.
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by kayoone 9y ago
Thats a matter of definition. Surface Pro originally was to distinguish against the Surface RT, where it made sense. Same goes for iPad Pro which is clearly not meant in the same way you are suggesting, Macbook Pro is the same. The PRO labe
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by kayoone 9y ago
I love my SP2, but i only use it for note taking in onenote for all my study related stuff and its amazing for that. Syncs to my Windows Desktop and Macbook in a few seconds. The whole note taking experience still has some small issues, but
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by kayoone 9y ago
if you need to work on assets that won't work well with 16GB of RAM then the Surface Pro is probably not the right choice.. It competes with an iPad Pro etc which don't even offer a full desktop. The surface runs a full Windows wi
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by kayoone 9y ago
the surface pro is more comparable to the XPS 13, which does not come with 32GB either.
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by kayoone 9y ago
But are they ultrabooks and 13" or lower ? I can't think of any ultrabook with those dimensions and 32GB RAM.
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by kayoone 9y ago
But that is probably not the usecase most people who will buy a Surface Pro for. It's a very portable device and 32GB would consume more power and probably be only bought by a very small amount of users.
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by kayoone 9y ago
How long have you been here? I would be very surprised if the weather was considerably worse than NY and especially London. Current 7 day forecast looks pretty comparable :)
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by kayoone 9y ago
The benefits of physical activity far outweigh the increased longterm risk from air pollution. Also the pollution might be high compared to the best cities, but its still far from places like Beijing were the air is downright toxic, and sti
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by kayoone 9y ago
The thing is, BCN is mostly as expensive as Berlin, but salaries seem considerably lower for developers. I love BCN, but prefer to work and live in Berlin and visit BCN once or twice a year. Berlin has a lot to offer as well, certainly no b
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by kayoone 9y ago
Engineering managers that also code a lot usually fall short on the managing part, at least in my experience. Imo it's better if they focus on building a great team, guiding the team in the right direction by doing code reviews and mak
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by kayoone 9y ago
technically they have to adhere to EU laws because all of them have EU subsidiaries (mostly in Ireland) through which they act in Europe. But the irish government is obviously happy about all the jobs and taxes they bring to a small country
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by kayoone 9y ago
> but Google and FB should offer a way to opt out of being tracked around on the web In Europe, this is even regulated in the EU data privacy directive, the problem is that FB et al just do not care because there are hardly any consequen
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by kayoone 9y ago
> Make a set of basic EU user terms and privacy policy The problem is that they just won't care, the same as they don't care about the EU data privacy directives. All lawsuits end up at their irish subsidiaries who of course do
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by kayoone 9y ago
These TPUs are not made by Nvidia but Google themselves.
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by kayoone 9y ago
imagine a mobile app that parents can use to identify what their angry new born needs, brilliant :)
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by kayoone 9y ago
ah got it, i thought you were implying my parents were paying the taxes so i can have free education, which is right to some degree (i didn't downvote you btw)
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by kayoone 9y ago
And how many PMs get into one of those companies and make it long enough to receive that kind of compensation ? People studying in a country where education is free and go to one of the top schools, can still go to the US and do the same, i
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by kayoone 9y ago
Ive been paying my taxes as an employee for 12 years. Did i mention that we have free healthcare too ?
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by kayoone 9y ago
As a resident of a country where education of all levels is basically free, this always sounds so unreal to me. I would never even think about it, how would you make that kind of money back in a reasonable amount of time to be worth it ?

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