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by kpil 10y ago
Oh god no, the world do not need more http, html and javascript.
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by kpil 10y ago
Add just a tiniest of a hint of nice personality, and then this is a description of a extremely valued team member :-)
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by kpil 10y ago
I think you will find [y] in most Germanic languages, including German, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, (most likely) Icelandic, and Dutch, so probably not. But it is a very "Finnish" vowel though... Hyyvää! Besides, Widenius is Swedi
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by kpil 10y ago
As there is a bank in every corner, I would guess yes...
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by kpil 10y ago
They do actually, in many places. At least if you are 'rightsized' and not fired for misconduct.
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by kpil 10y ago
Oh, I usually save my emails as drafts after office hour, and send them during the day, in order to not encourage others to work late. A culture were you arrive at work and find a 20+ emails back and forth from the previous night is not goo
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by kpil 10y ago
True, but it must go down or we will never have functional antibiotics. It seems to be possible, in Italy they use 50 times more antibiotics per pig than here in Sweden, due to the stricter regulation. Denmark is doing good but still uses t
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by kpil 10y ago
Apparently, the car is oblivious to trailers parked across the road, so it seems unlikely that there are "other ways."
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by kpil 10y ago
It's clear to me that the auto steer technology is pretty far from an "auto pilot", but the drivers are not making the distinction. I think that semi-automatic systems like this are fundamentally broken due to unrealistic exp
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by kpil 10y ago
'Addiction' kind of wraps it up.
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by kpil 10y ago
One peculiar thing in the last few years of the VHS era, was that they were really cheap. They were so much more mechanically complex than DVD players, but still as cheap as the cheap no name DVD players - although they must have been much
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by kpil 10y ago
The answer to the rhetoric question is probably to invest every earned dollar into Kodak2.0 for 10 or more years, and then hope that "digital" takes off. As you probably already know, most people would probably rather take the mon
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by kpil 10y ago
But "traditional" quarter-tone music typically does not use much harmonics, right? I think you need to practice to appreciate music - some people get just stressed by listening to a complex Bach fugue, and some get equally stresse
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by kpil 10y ago
I guess we have to wait and see if this goes pear shaped. There have not exactly been rejoicing in European media. Not sure if that is a good sign, but I take it as there is little propaganda going on, so this might have been planned primar
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by kpil 10y ago
As far as I see it, they have to spend shitloads of money sometimes, but there is no incentive to spend money on improving and adding features to the core systems such as the ledgers, as it is very hard to get a return on the money that w
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by kpil 10y ago
Yes? A rather large telecom company for example. I guess there are some stools and tables available somewhere, and technically you can sit on the floor I suppose, but people that are late more or less have to go home again. They are kind o
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by kpil 10y ago
The developers in a tech-company are working at a profit-centre, generating income. In a non-tech company, they are working in a cost-centre. Ironically, a lot of non-tech companies have not yet realized that the services they provide are a
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by kpil 10y ago
I guess it depends. The pay is ok, the domain is interesting, and the work load is manageable. When I look at some friends doing game development, they seem to work a lot more for a lot less. They have a cooler office though... But I think
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by kpil 10y ago
I don't particularly mind that people see my monitors. If you work in a decent place, no one would care if you read some news once in a while. If someone spends the day idling, then it's noticed anyway. Once in a while I get a sen
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by kpil 10y ago
I think that this test is only indicative, and the long time real world ratio is much higher. Inefficient and complicated solutions build up and the mediocre developer ends up fixing old problems. (slow is just an indication of mediocre) Un
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by kpil 10y ago
The banks have had zero incentive on spending money on their systems. From a bankers perspective, it's a cost centre, that you need to have since it's cheaper than people doing manual stuff. It's just until recently that some
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by kpil 10y ago
I've worked on a project that migrated an old cobol system and it went fine although everyone said it would not. But it's not easy and not cheap. The problem for the banks is that they have so many systems, typically thousands, an
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by kpil 10y ago
It's just IBM marketing :-) To the extent it's true, it's because the people that have built these systems are experienced and have a lot of business knowledge, and know how to reuse and tweak their systems while not trying t
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by kpil 10y ago
Yes. All current "direct transfer" solutions, more or less requires that you keep a rather large sum of money in a common pool (at the 3rd party) to cover for the event that you run out of money and have to close the bank, to guar
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by kpil 10y ago
I thing you are right. Everyone should learn some basics, just to get a sense of what is possible to automate and what is hard. Being a professional developer is another thing. To be happy and not feel miserable at work, you actually need t
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by kpil 10y ago
What is the reason for counting? Is it to detect that a train has passed and not just stopped on top of the sensor?
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by kpil 10y ago
I, for one, welcome our new corporate overlords.
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by kpil 10y ago
I think my consumer-grade Intel S3500 SSD have some kind of power-loss protection. I don't think that professional devices are 100% fail-proof either. I vaguely remember some test where they setup a test with forced power failures duri
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by kpil 10y ago
I don't quite get why quantum effects are required, and the determinism have to be removed to explain "free will". The deterministic effects in the brain must be negligible, as you can't reasonably reproduce the internal
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by kpil 10y ago
Exactly. The whole concept is flawed. The brain computes an abstraction of the reality (or most likely multiple competing abstractions) and decides on actions. There's the free will. There is some kind of idea that the consciousness &q

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